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Web Services allied with RPA Conventional approach Vs Re-imagined approach Conventional Web Automation Approach 1.   Generally all automation tools provide web connectors to integrate web applications, here we need to capture individual web pages, web controls and object in a fixed sequence as mentioned in the requirement documents 2.   Development efforts are required (~2-3 days, depends on requirements) 3.   Automation flows or steps are then created post all the required web pages and web controls are captured or created alongside 4.   Developers are required to set correct matching rules set to identify individual web components within automation development environment 5.   Web connectors has few other explicit settings as well and same needs to be set prior to the above steps 6.   Automation execution speed depends on the base application’s behavior and its response Re-imagined Approach – Using Web Services 1.   Instead of using GUI automation

Every system has an input and output and so does every business process powered by Robotics Automation. It becomes crucial to identify what will be fed to a robot for processing and get the desired result out of it. “Healthy eating is good for Health” The above phrase is applicable here also; robots will be efficient if we feed them well. A leading industry analyst stated that, “80% of business relevant information originates in unstructured form, primarily text”. So let us take a deep dive and understand the nature of input data to business process. We can classify the input as Structured and Unstructured. Structured Data: - A well organised form of data or data with defined schema/structure. E.g. Database, Excel, Csv, Text files, XML etc. Unstructured Data: - As the name suggests it is a data without a proper schema/structured or unorganised form of data. E.g. Emails, PDF, Scanned Images, Free flow text etc. Automation tools are well equipped to deal with