Leverage the low-code/no-code approach in IBM Cloud Pak for business automation to accelerate your organization's digital transformation
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Key Features
Get a comprehensive understanding of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Take a deep dive into insights on RPA, workflow automation, and automated decisions
Deploy and manage production-grade automated solutions for scalability, stability, and performance
Book DescriptionCOVID-19 has made many businesses change how they work, change how they engage their customers, and even change their products. Several of these businesses have also recognized the need to make these changes within days as opposed to months or weeks. This has resulted in an unprecedented pace of digital transformation; and success, in many cases, depends on how quickly an organization can react to real-time decisions.
This book begins by introducing you to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, providing a hands-on approach to project implementation. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn to take on business problems and identify the relevant technology and starting point. Next, you'll find out how to engage both the business and IT community to better understand business problems, as well as explore practical ways to start implementing your first automation project. In addition, the book will show you how to create task automation, interactive chatbots, workflow automation, and document processing. Finally, you'll discover deployment best practices that'll help you support highly available and resilient solutions.
By the end of this book, you'll have a firm grasp on the types of business problems that can be solved with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.
What you will learn
Understand key IBM automation technologies and learn how to apply them
Cover the end-to-end journey of creating an automation solution from concept to deployment
Understand the features and capabilities of workflow, decisions, RPA, business applications, and document processing with AI
Analyze your business processes and discover automation opportunities with process mining
Set up content management solutions that meet business, regulatory, and compliance needs
Understand deployment environments supported by IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Who this book is forThis book is for robotic process automation (RPA) professionals and automation consultants who want to accelerate the digital transformation of their businesses using IBM automation. This book is also useful for solutions architects or enterprise architects looking for best practices to build resilient and scalable AI-driven automation solutions. A basic understanding of business processes, low-code visual modeling techniques, RPA, and AI concepts is assumed.
Author Biography:
Allen Chan works as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Business Automation. He is responsible for defining and directing the technical strategy of IBM CloudPak for Business Automation. His educational background includes B.Sc., Computer and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, United States and M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, Canada.
Kevin Trinh works as the Chief Architect for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Adoption and Deployment. He is a member of the IBM Business Automation CTO Office and is responsible for defining the cloud adoption strategy for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. His work experience includes 3 years as cloud integration architect and 18 years in FileNet development. His educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Accounting, University of the Pacific, United States.
Guilhem Molines works as the Chief Architect for IBM Decision Services and is a member of the IBM Business Automation CTO Office. He has been working in the Automation/Decision industry for the last 15 years. His educational background includes M.Sc, Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, University of Paris VI, France.
Suzette Samoojh works as an IBM Architect and is a member of the IBM Business Automation CTO Office. She leads the architecture for IBM Blueworks Live and is helping to define the SaaS onboarding strategy for IBM Watson Orchestrate. Her educational background includes B. Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada.
Stephen Kinder works as a RPA Architect and is a member of IBM Business Automation CTO office. His work experience includes WebSphere Architecture, IBM SOA Foundation, WebSphere as a Service SaaS Architect. His educational background includes B.S. Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, United States.
