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Integration with API less Systems – Leveraging RPA – Definitive Tip #10 by Phil Wilkins

Blog: PaaS Community

Traditionally integrating with systems that don’t offer APIs or a shared storage mechanism (such as open tables) has been something of a headache often resulting in the ‘last mile’ of the integration process being manual. The manual steps often come because the cost of building and maintaining the means to integrate has not been cost effective or even an option (vendor has end of lifted a product, and not willing to add an integration mechanism).

The idea of ‘screen scraping’ isn’t new, but the cost of implementing such mechanisms has dropped and the new generation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools such those provided by UiPath have made it significantly easier to integrate and automate UI driven processes. Whilst UI based integration isn’t recommended as a first option for integration, it shouldn’t be ruled out particularly as it gets easier and easier to generate and maintain the UI automation. There are several factors that need to be considered as to whether such an approach is appropriate, for example:

• the ability to run a robot to execute the UI interaction,
• the volume of data needing to be moved through the UI – you wont escape the latency issues that may exist with UI steps,
• is the UI being automated changing rapidly (is there enough cost benefit for automating). Read the complete article here.

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