Robotic Process Automation

RPA is the common Technologie to automate digital processes by using a robot, who adopt human activities (click, copy, paste).

Is RPA a Macro - no it's not. The robot can use all kind of software, extract data and files from different sources like Webpages, Software, Excel and combine all the information to use it somewhere else (Excel, Software, etc)

In audit and tax daily business, there are a lot of activities who only take some minutes, but overall you have to spend a lot of time to do all of them like - rolling forward of the client, Import balance list, select debtors for confirmation letters and so on. Automation has a huge benefit to safe time that can be used for higher value activities and customer relationship.

Automation is like LEGO, you have to combine different bricks - the activities - to build step by step your robot. It all beginns with a single sequenz and ends with an end-to end process, where different robots are involved. Best practise to build a robot - keep it small and simple but modular, so they can work together.

Some benefits of RPA - all people in the company can have a virtual assistant to safe time and focus on relevant tasks, ReThinking and ReDesign of processes so the robot can do his job in a strait line reduces complexity and risks, daily business tasks can be done by robots.