Women in Automation: Exploring RPA - Part 1 of 3

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Women in Automation Series
A touch of inspiration from
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Women in Automation: Exploring RPA
Part 1 of 3
November 1, 2022
Cynthia Libby
Consulting Director, UiPath

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• What is RPA?
• Who is UiPath?
• RPA Job Market Overview
• How can RPA work for you?
• How do I learn RPA?
Agenda

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I’ve worked in about every area of Software starting with a high school
internship in 1980 working on Dr Pepper bottling reports. One of the
things I hated as an intern was when I had to look up bottler numbers
and write them on a sheet of paper.
I quickly decided that I hated doing repetitive tasks and started
automating anything that I could.
For many years I traveled as a consultant and got to see some cool
places.
I was in automated testing prior to doing RPA. I have worked with
several different RPA tools.
Today I work for UiPath – an RPA software company.
Who am I?
www.linkedin.com/in/cynthialibby

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What is
Robotic Process
Automation
(RPA)?
Robotic Process Automation allows
anyone to configure computer
software, or a “robot” to emulate and
integrate the actions of a human
interacting within digital systems to
execute a business process.
RPA robots utilize the user interface to
capture data and manipulate
applications just like humans do.
They interpret, trigger responses, and
communicate with other systems in
order to perform a vast variety of
repetitive tasks.

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Work processes move across
and within multiple apps, systems
of record, and data repositories…
Linkage Burden
Average large
organization:
175+
Enterprise
Applications

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Inputting data
Copy & pasting
Combining data
sources
People carry much of this burden:
frustrating for them, inefficient for
the enterprise

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So What is Automation / RPA?
See
Read the screen
Think
Understand and
decide what to do
Do
Interact with
applications and data
With AI Computer Vision, Document Understanding, and AI-powered skills,
robots can interact with screens, systems, and data like people do

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What can software robots do?
Here are some of the tasks that can be easily handed over to Robots
Look at That Robot Go!
Connect to system APIs
Move files and folders
Open emails and attachments
Make calculations
Log in to any application
Extract content from documents,
PDFs, emails and forms
Read and write to databases
Scrape data from the web

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Automation layer
Robots Sit on Top of An Organizations Existing
Applications

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Identify
Business unit
reviews processes
for the following criteria
• Highly manual
• Repetitive process
• Rules based
• High volume/frequency
• Structured input
• Standard inputs
• Low exception rate
• Stable process/system
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Evaluate
Evaluate for automation
benefits
• Cost Savings
• Revenue Generation
• Improved Customer
Experience
• Volume / Frequency
• Speed Sensitivity
Prioritize
Prioritize using the
following criteria through
the COE
• Alignment of benefits to Goals /
Objectives
• Process complexity
• Imminent change to Process or
Application involved
The more of this criteria that a process meets,
the most benefit that can be achieved.
RPA Process Selection
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A Leader in the 2020 Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Robotic
Process Automation
This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated
in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from UiPath.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not
advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner
research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be
construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
For the second consecutive year,
UiPath is placed highest for its
ability to execute
“In the second year of this Magic Quadrant, the bar
has been raised for market viability, relevance,
growth, revenue and how vendors set the vision for
their RPA offerings in a fluid market.”*
*Source: Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation,” Saikat Ray,
Arthur Villa, Cathy Tornbohm, Naved Rashid, Melanie Alexander, July 27, 2020

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Attended Robot Unattended Robot
Attended,
In Tandem
Human on computer with
Robot process in
background
Examples:
HR Robot works with
onboarding team to
provision a new employee
No Robots Hybrid
Attended process uses
human’s computer to
kick off unattended
background process
Examples:
Service Rep turns on Robot
to delete customer data
from multiple databases as
part of a GDPR "right to
forget" request
Examples:
Brainstorm with your team
Fully
Unattended
100% automation
Examples:
Robot processes
invoices
Robot loads data into a
system like SAP
100% human
You decide how your robots work for you...
Robots are your digital
helpers.
UiPath software robots are
intelligent, reliable, flexible,
and eager to take on
a huge range of tedious
tasks.
Choose attended,
unattended, or a bit of both
(hybrid model).

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RPA Developers and Citizen Developers
Govern and determine
distribution for automations
(if applicable)
Use robots and apps
in day-to-day work
COE Automation Users
RPA Developers
Assesses & prioritizes
automation—including
employee suggestions
Build automations
COE RPA Developers
Create task automations
for themselves based
on governance rules
Create digital assistants
for team usage based
on governance rules
Self Users Power Users
Citizen Developers

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Where professional RPA Developers design automations visually, building any kind of automation
from simple tasks to robots enhanced with AI skills.

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Employees chip in as Citizen Developers by automating their own Excel and Outlook tasks
in a simplified canvas.

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Manage, monitor, optimize, and secure your robots
On-Premises
Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
UiPath
Automation
Cloud
Back to Platform

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COVID-19 is pushing companies

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*Research conducted in 29 countries, representing 80% of the world’s GDP
Growing job demand:
1. Data Analysts and Scientists
2. AI and Machine Learning Specialists
3. Big Data Specialists
4. Digital Marketing and Strategy Specialists
5. Process Automation Specialists
6. Business Development Professionals
7. Digital Transformation Specialists
8. Information Security Analysts
9. Software and Applications Developers
10. Internet of Things Specialists
Decreasing job demand:
1. Data Entry Clerks
2. Administrative and Executive Secretaries
3. Accounting, Bookkeeping and Payroll Clerks
4. Accountants and Auditors
5. Assembly and Factory Workers
6. Business Services and Administration Managers
7. Client Information and Customer Service Workers
8. General and Operations Managers
9. Mechanics and Machinery Repairs
10. Material-Recording and Stock-keeping Clerks
Source: Future of Jobs Report 2020, World Economic Forum.
By 2025, new jobs will
emerge, and others will be
displaced by a shift in the
division of labor between
humans and machines.
Future of Jobs Report 2020*, World Economic Forum

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The majority of RPA salaries in the U.S. range
between $94,000 to $131,500, with the average
annual salary being $114,000. The starting salary
in RPA is at $63,000.
www.ziprecruiter.com
Well Paying Jobs
$114,000
per year
Robotic Process Automation - Growth & Opportunities
The global RPA market size was valued at USD
1.4 billion in 2019 and is anticipated to exhibit a
CAGR of 40.6% from 2020 to 2027.
www.grandviewresearch.com
RPA market size growth
40.6%
CAGR
Future of work
97
million
By 2025, 85 million jobs may be replaced by 97
million new roles with new division between
humans, machines, and algorithms
Future of work Report 2020– WEF
84% Eighty-four percent of employers are set to rapidly
digitalize working processes.
Future of work Report 2020– WEF
Rapid Business Transformation
Robotics Engineer #2 emerging job in the U.S”,
with 40% annual growth.
LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Report
Increasing Job Demand
40%
Growth/
Annum
5,000+ active UiPath RPA Developer job
postings in the US and only 1 out of 8 are being
filled.
EMSI-2020
Daily active RPA job postings
5,000+
openings

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United States
Country profile according to the World Economic Forum – Future of Jobs 2020 Report
69.40%
96%
64.50%
45.20%
70.50%
69.70%
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EDUCATION & SKILLS
90%
82%
93%
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TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
Emerging and redundant job roles
Role identified as being in high demand or increasingly redundant
within their organization, ordered by frequency.
(only relevant selected)
Emerging
1. AI and Machine Learning Specialists
2. Data Analysts and Scientists
5. Digital Transformation Specialists
6. Process Automation Specialists
Redundant
1. Data Entry Clerks
2. Accounting, Bookkeeping and Payroll Clerks
3. Administrative and Executive Secretaries
5. Accountants and Auditors
6. Client Information and Customer Service Workers
7. Business Services and Administration Managers
8. General and Operations Managers
10. Human Resources Specialists
Emerging skills
Skills identified as being in high demand within their organization,
ordered by frequency. (only relevant selected)
1. Analytical thinking and innovation
3. Complex problem-solving
4. Critical thinking and analysis
6. Creativity, originality and initiative
8. Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation
10. Technology design and programming
11. Technology use, monitoring and control
12. Systems analysis and evaluation
Current skills in focus of
existing reskilling/upskilling
programs
Share of companies surveyed identifying this skill as being
in focus across their reskilling or upskilling programs.
(only relevant selected)
1. Analytical thinking and innovation
2. Leadership and social influence
3. Active learning and learning strategies
4. Critical thinking and analysis
5. Technology design and programming
6. Complex problem-solving
7. Technology use, monitoring and control
8. Creativity, originality and initiative
9. Emotional intelligence
10. Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation.
95%
93%
91%
85%
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RESPONSE TO SHIFTING
SKILLS NEEDS

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Emerging jobs in the
‘automation first’
economy
RPA Developers RPA Citizen Developers RPA Users
RPA Business Analysts RPA Solution Architects RPA Infrastructure Engineers
RPA Educators RPA Project Managers RPA Consultants

How can RPA work for you?
A Robot for Every Person

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Book Review Extractor
My aunt ran a bookstore and wrote book reviews for her local newspaper. I wrote an
automation that would:
• Search through the newspaper’s archive site for any occurrence of her name
• Download the referenced pages as JPEG
Email Organizer
My personal email is full of messages from stores. I wrote an automation that identifies
these senders and creates a rule to push those messages to a specific folder.
Timecard Helper
My manager expects us to track time spent with each customer. Our group wrote an
automation that pulls calendar/meetings and emails to pre-populate the timecard
system for us.
Sample personal uses of RPA

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Freely available software and training
UiPath Studio Community Edition allows you to download and use UiPath in the Automation Cloud.
The web interface is available for any machine. However, Studio is for Windows only at this point.
This will give you everything you need to learn and explore RPA. There are restrictions on the some
of the features.
Get started at the link below:
How to start using UiPath (how to download Studio and configure your robot)
The Community edition is constantly updated. This gives UiPath lots of beta testers.

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Measure and Govern
Discover Build Manage Run Engage
Automation Hub
• Overview course
• Deep Dive course
• For Citizens
Task Capture
Training course
Process Mining
• Process Analysis Fundamentals
• AppOne Training course
Task Mining
Training course
StudioX
• Citizen Developer Foundation
• Get Started with StudioX
Studio
• RPA Developer Foundation
• RPA Developer Advanced
• Attended Automation
Document Understanding
• Training course
• Tutorial – Process Invoices
Integration Service
Training course
UiPath Marketplace
Automation Cloud
Training course
Orchestrator
• Orchestrator for Developers
• Infrastructure Engineer
Foundation
AI Center
Training course
Test Suite
• Training course
• Application Testing
• RPA Testing
Data Service
Training course
Robots – Attended and
Unattended
Training course
Apps
Training course
Assistant
Training course
Action Center
• Training course
• Orchestration Process
Insights
• Training course (on-premise)
• Training course (cloud)
UiPath Academy – Free Learning Platform
Workflow Analyzer
Training course
Automation Ops
Training course

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Role Based Training Recommendation
RPA Business
Analyst Foundation
•Required
Automation Hub
Overview
• Recommended
Task Capture
• Recommended
Business Analysts &
Project Managers
RPA Developer
Foundation
•Required
RPA Developer
Advanced
• Required. Preferably
in Instructor-led
classroom setting
RPA Developer
Continuous Learning
• Recommended
Platform Updates
•Recommended
RPA Developers
RPA Citizen
Developer Foundation
•Required
Automation Hub for
Citizen Developers
• Recommended
Task Capture
• Recommended
Citizen Developers
Solution Architect
Developer Foundation
•Required
RPA Developer
Continuous Learning
• Recommended
Platform Updates
• Recommended
Solution Architects
Clicking on Course Name will take you to relevant page on UiPath Academy.

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Role Based Training Recommendation (continued)
RPA Business
Analyst Foundation
•Required
Automation Operating
Model Foundations
• Required
Automation Hub
Overview
• Recommended
COE Leaders &
Champions
RPA Infrastructure
Engineer Foundation
•Required
Platform Updates
• Recommended
Infrastructure Engineers
Clicking on Course Name will take you to relevant page on UiPath Academy.

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Non-UiPath sponsored training
Search for “RPA Training videos” and you will see over a million results. Topics range
from RPA beginning concepts that aren’t based on a specific tool, to detailed tool help.
• YouTube
• Anders Jensen https://www.youtube.com/c/AndersJensenorg
• LinkedIn Learning
• https://www.linkedin.com/learning/introducing-robotic-process-automation
• Udemy
• UiPath With Azure DevOps https://www.udemy.com/course/uipath-with-azure-devops/
Partially due to UiPath Studio Community Edition being available there are lots of
people using the tool and posting to YouTube.

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• Market demand for RPA professionals is growing by 100% every year
• Increase employability, marketability and recognition
• ‘RPA Design & Development’ Course is aligned with RPA Associate (UiRPA) Exam
• Suitable for students with technical or semi-technical background
• Certified Professionals:
• Reduce time to credibility
• Enjoy faster career growth and higher earnings
• Increase efficiency and demonstrate greater confidence
Learn more: www.uipath.com/learning/certification
UiPath Certified Professional (UCP)
Industry recognized, highly credible, high-stakes Certification

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UiPath RPA Certification Journey
Associate-level training
Advanced Training
New/Junior Technical/
Semi-technical
RPA Professional
Advanced/Senior
RPA Developer
Associate
Certification Exam
Practice
Test
Hands on
Experience
• Involved in end-to-end process development
• Performing UiPath code reviews
• Providing project support; i.e., Hypercare
• Providing maintenance and support
• Creating and reviewing project specifications
• Debugging and fixing production bugs
• Adding features to existing automation processes
• Developing an attended process (i.e., workflow)
• Developing an unattended process (i.e., workflow)
• Proof of Concept – creating and/or demonstrating
• Experience resolving application changes and/or code changes
• Peer code reviews
* self-paced learning on UiPath Academy
** instructor-led or online course delivered by UiPath Services, UiPath Learning Partners, Academic Alliance institutions, and others
Step into RPA** / RPA Starter Course* (4 hrs.)
RPA Developer Foundation
Learning Plan (40 hrs.)*
Automation Version Control
Systems course (45 min)*
RPA Developer Advanced
Learning Plan (40 hrs.)*
Introduction to Logging
(2.5 hrs.)*
Invoke Method & Invoke
Code (1.5 hrs.)*
Practice
Test
Hands on
Experience
(3-6 months)
Advanced
Certification Exam
or
RPA Advanced
Design & Development
Course
(50 hrs.)**
or equivalent
RPA Design &
Development Course
(60 hrs.)**
or equivalent
or

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Europe, Middle East, Africa AMER
Academic Alliance Partners – At a Glance
North America Asia-Pacific & India
… along with other 100s of institutions globally

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Recommendations / What I Wish I Would
Have Known
• Be diligent with your Work/Personal life balance.
• Value your skills and experience – keep adding to your toolbox. You never know when an
“old skill” will prove helpful.
• Don’t panic if you get laid off. If you take something below your skills/salary it takes a long
time to recover.
• The best computer/software/company may not last – don’t stay tied to one too long
• Keep up with your contacts - Cynthia Libby LinkedIn
• Always keep backups!

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Links
Look at That Robot Go!
How to start using UiPath (how to download Studio and configure your robot)
UiPath Academy – Free Learning Platform
UiPath Certified Professional
Anders Jensen https://www.youtube.com/c/AndersJensenorg
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/introducing-robotic-process-automation
UiPath With Azure DevOps https://www.udemy.com/course/uipath-with-azure-devops/
Cynthia Libby LinkedIn

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