October 12 2021 0comment

Top Success Criteria for Choosing the Right RPA Solution

Robotic Process Automation can have many benefits for businesses both large and small and across any number of industries.

However, it is still unknown to many organizations what are its features, framework, deployment models among other things. Before RPA implementation, the company should know which is the best RPA tool that suits their automation requirements.

A guiding principal for the evaluation of the right RPA solution is that the RPA solution should not only execute repetitive, rules-based, processes at a fraction of historical costs, it should also be capable of rapid implementation and smooth integration with other systems and applications – keeping organizational and technological disruption to a minimum.

We have put together an exhaustive checklist for choosing the right RPA solution for your business:

Extensive Features: The right RPA platform should have inbuilt features that can pace up the editing and configuration process while keeping it uncomplicated. Look for an RPA solution with such solid key features – one that has built-in extendable commands, wizards, and GUIs; and supports extensible or add-on features. Other factors to consider while choosing a solution are flexibility, wide scope, and easy and seamless availability.

Seamless Usability: The chosen tool should be easy to work on, flexible enough to accommodate basic automation processes, require less training, can be controlled easily, and should be user-friendly.

Users should be able to graphically create process automation with a toolset that works with seamless integration, allowing business users to intuitively and graphically capture process steps without a hint of coding.

Prominent Developer Experience: While the business user may able to configure automation without using code, the configuration itself is based upon code and a good RPA product essentially runs complex codes behind the scenes and provides back-end developers with core competencies likeability to integrate seamlessly with other major platforms, out-of-the-box functionality, extensive range of supported inputs and outputs (text, email, Xls files etc.)

Easy Scalability: RPA Automation can provide an organization to effectively adapt to the changing needs of their workforce. Hence organizations should look for a product that can easily scale up and down based on the requirement.

After the robotic software has been deployed, it should support a rapid replication of the configuration across other machines as well. In certain operational situations, business units have met process volume requirements by deploying up to hundreds of robots – then going back down to dozens.

Training: Good RPA solutions should come with a broad choice of training options including computer-based (e.g. webinars, one-on-one demos, videos) training, classroom training, and online documentation (e.g. tutorials, best practices, release notes, testing guides).

Cost of Ownership: Evaluating the total cost of ownership is essential before zeroing in on the right RPA tool. Various determining factors like implementation cost, license fees, vendor fees, maintenance costs etc. should be taken into consideration. Estimating the cost of the RPA tool keeping in mind the organization’s growth along with the roadmap and how it impacts the profitability, in the long run, is an essential and absolutely necessary step while selecting the right RPA tool to suit your needs.