The article substantiates the opportunity of increasing business process efficiency due to the solutions in the industry of robotization. These solutions are described as the alternative for the classic automatization (transfer of business task to specialized software). Technical abilities and feature of this technology are described. This technology allows to automate standard user activities performed in the Graphical User Interface. This issue describes prerequisites to the development of this technology such as the needs of rest and breaks, mistakes caused by tiredness and lack of concentration, low productivity and so on. Technical aspects of this type of products like architecture and requirements to software and hardware are also described in the article. Special attention is paid to the existing solution in the industry, three biggest vendors (Automation Anywhere, UiPath, BluePrism) are described with their products. The article describes main parts of these platforms, main requirements and scopes of application. In the conclusion of the article author briefly describes future perspectives of RPA technology.
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