Bay Area Digital Transformation Meetup Group: Best Practices for combining DPA and RPA for Digital Transformation. Held February 2020 in partnership with AXON Ivy and InnoVelocity
2. Agenda & Introductions
1. Introductions - 10min
2. Main presentation - 20min
3. Group Discussion - 30min
4. Networking – Open Until 8
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3. ENGINEERED IN SWITZERLAND, DEPLOYED GLOBALLY
About AXON Ivy
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COUNTRIES
20 YEARS
PROCESSAPPS EXPERIENCE
SWITZERLAND | GERMANY
AUSTRIA | USA
SINGAPORE |VIETNAM
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PARTNERS
500+
EMPLOYEES
(AXON Group)
250K
USERS
> 2,000
CUSTOMERS
4. Verticals/Selected Success Stories
Company Overview
• Founded in 2007
• HQ in San Francisco with local presence in
OR, WA, NV, CO
• 11 deeply-trained expert consultants with
strong business domain and technical
expertise – complete solutions orientation
Service Options
• Quick-Start technical coaching and support
for AXON Ivy, Bizagi, Nintex and UIPath
• Program Partnership including business
process modeling, analysis, improvement
and technical project execution.
InnoVelocity – your trusted digital transformation partner
Technologies/Certifications
• Modelling – BPMN
• Audit/Improvement – ISO,
Lean Six Sigma
• Automation – AXON.Ivy,
Bizagi, Nintex
• Integration – WS, DB,
Custom
• Robotics/RPA – UIPath,
Nintex RPA
• Reporting – Tableau, Jasper
Manufacturing:
Healthcare:
Finance:
5. 72%
organizations forecasted to be
evaluating/working with RPA
Source: Gartner
$6.76 bn
Size of the Digital Process
Automation Market in 2020
Source: Think Automation
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6. While both technologies have their own
strengths, combining RPA and DPA can help
to deliver deep end-to-end automation
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7. ✓ Improve movement and tracking of work through
defined route/s of review or approval.
+ automating work or automatically applying rules
✓ Coordinate different information systems with a
common user interface and unified process.
✓ Collect data and performance measurements to
drive process improvement.
Digital Process Automation
(DPA)
Workflow Automation in DPA vs Task Automation in RPA
✓ Replace repetitive tasks performed by a single
work performer.
✓ Can run application software in the same way as
a human.
✓ Can include business rules to make decisions and
handle exceptions.
Robotic Process Automation
(RPA)
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8. Elements of a DPA Solution
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Designs Process Maps:
Used by Process
Analysts to define the
steps, performers and
logic of a process.
Builds Process Apps:
Used by Developer,
imports process maps
and builds applications
using wizards.
Runs Apps: Provide
processes to the whole
enterprise, with a web
portal and reporting &
admin capabilities.
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10. Good Candidates for DPA
• Many processing steps or
stakeholders
• Long throughput time
• Mistakes expensive or have
legal / contractual impact
Good Candidates for RPA
• Highly Manual and Repetitive
• High Volumes
• Predictable/Rule Based
• Readable input types
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Approvals Processes
Employee Onboarding/Offboarding
Contracts Management
Data Migration and Data Entry
Issue Resolution/Helpdesk System integration without an API
Invoice Processing
Price Comparison
11. DPA + RPA = Better Together
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DPA gives
Safety net
for RPA
RPA gives
DPA more
integration
options
DPA gives
structure for
multiple
bots
12. Technology in Action - Demo
• DPA Purchasing Approval Workflow
• RPA Back Office Robot
• Combined: Parse PDFs and Create DPA Cases
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13. Key Lessons Learned
• Use process maps to model and optimize an entire process involving robot workers
• Use DPA to orchestrate multiple robot workers along with human workers and API calls
• Use DPA to create tasks for human workers to intervene when a robot fails
• Use RPA as a temporary method of system connectivity until an API can be developed
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14. Discussion
• Use Cases for DPA
• Use Cases for RPA
• Where they could be used together
• Challenges
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