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- Is robotic automation
like screen scraping?
In some ways. Screen
scraping mostly talks about
the old green screen
applications, mainframe ones,
where you basically capture the screen.
You process it based on its content and
information that you have.
- From a technology
perspective the RPA tools
that are out there in the market today are
very very different from
screen scraping or macros.
Much more intelligent. Much
more capable. Much more robust.
- It actually connects to the elements.
Whether they are Windows applications,
Java applications, Web applications.
It does use screen
scraping when talking about
automation of mainframe
but that's only part of it.
- I'll provide an example.
If you were doing your
classic screen scraping
or macro there will be
a situation where you're
pre-determining your
clicks on the screen on
a certain application
and you're really
dependent on an application
staying the same.
From a resolution perspective,
from an overall layout perspective.
RPA and tools that we
have today enable a much
more robust integration into the UI layer
in such a way that it can tolerate
screen resolution changes, layout changes.
So for example you can
move a button from point A
to point B on the screen
but the way in which
the RPA tool locates,
identifies, binds, and eventually
clicks that button in
the automation process is
robust enough and smart
enough to be able to
adjust and still be able to function.
So really from a
functionality perspective,
a macro and screen scraping
provided kind of the
early days of automation,
but the way our tools
work today is very different from a
technology perspective and from
a capabilities perspective.
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