What is UiPath – UiPath is a leading RPA tool for Windows desktop automation. It is used to automate repetitive mundane tasks to reduce human intervention. It converts tedious tasks into complete UI automation, thus, making your work easier and faster. The Uipath platform is very simple to use as it has a very user-friendly GUI.
History - According to Wikipedia, UiPath was founded in 2005 by the Romanian entrepreneurs, Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca. The company started in Bucharest, Romania, and later opened offices in London, New York, Bengaluru, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington DC. In 2017, the company reported 590 employees and moved its headquarters to New York to be closer to its international customer base. In 2016, the company had 100 customers which rose to 700 customers in 2017.
Why Learn UiPath – Uipath is one of the leading RPA tools in the market, the interface is beautiful and easy to understand and it’s pretty easy to learn as it needs no to little knowledge of coding, I must tell you that you will need to do some coding at some point, but you can just learn some basic VB.net for that on the go, that’s what I did! Here are some things you might consider on why you should choose UiPath as your RPA tool:
- Free community version
- It’s easy to use
- Has own learning platform – Uipath academy
- No to little knowledge of coding
- Great community of people
- Customizable
In Addition to that, The 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation has been published and UiPath has once again placed in the Leaders’ quadrant with the highest placement for the ability to execute. Sixteen vendors were evaluated by Gartner for this year’s report, including some exciting newcomers, which we believe show the enduring strength of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market.
Also, UiPath has been recognized as the leading RPA tool in 2020 according to google trends:
Prerequisites to learn Uipath – Many people have this confusion if they need to be good at coding in order to learn Uipath?
The answer to that is NO, You don't need to be a pro coder to learn Uipath.
But YES, You need to have a good grip on the OOP concept with a basic understanding of any kind of programming language. :)
Uipath Installation - To start with the development, You need to install the Uipath studio on your system first. UiPath provides 2 types of licenses:
Enterprise version – with a 60 day free trial period, need to buy a license after.
Community Edition - Free for a lifetime
I would suggest you download & install the Uipath community edition for free here
and start learning, right away. I have put a video on the Uipath community version here
on our YouTube channel Project RPA, Please check it out!
Before installing the Uipath studio, please do check out the Hardware requirements & Software requirements on the official Uipath page.
UiPath Platforms - To understand how Uipath operates, Let's start with the 3 main components/products Uipath features:
1. UiPath Studio - It is an advanced visual tool that enables you to design automation processes in the Uipath Platform. This is the workspace where the actual development is done. The studio is the starting point of any automation project in the Uipath tool. Here we can create the automation projects that will power the robots to carry out any task. This is a complete solution for app integration, automating third-party applications and business processes. I have explained this in more detail here. This is how it looks like:
2. UiPath Robots(Known as UiPath Assistant now) - Robots are the real workforce, who execute the processes that are built in the Uipath studio. these are the actual workforce that carries out the instructions given in the RPA workflow designed in UiPath Studio. From the point of view of human intervention, UiPath offers 2 types of Robots:
Attended robots - Attended robots work side by side with the human agents, require some human intervention. In business scenarios that require input or decision making from the human user, or when a well-defined schedule cannot be applied due to the volatility of the process.
Unattended robots - Unattended robots work on their own independent of any kind of human interaction. In manual, repetitive, highly rule-based back-office activities, which do not require any human intervention.
3. UiPath Orchestrator - A web-based application that enables you to deploy, schedule, monitor and manage Robots and processes. The Orchestrator controls, manages & monitors the entire virtual robot workforce securely in one place.
It has a web-based interface that enables the orchestration and the management of multiple robots with a click. You can navigate to the Uipath portal & signup here.
Where to start learning RPA UiPath –
Uipath does provide certifications on their own learning platform - Uipath Academy. Register yourself on this link provided, Choose your learning path & start learning right away!
You can also visit our YouTube channel Project RPA & learn from the videos.
That’s the end of this article. Look around for more learning articles on the leading RPA tools!
Thanks a ton for stopping by! :)
Puja :)