Not as straightforward as some like to think…
Many friends and colleagues know that I am working on RPA projects these days and I get a lot of questions from the uninitiated or the newly aware observers. Questions tend to follow certain themes, “Do you have to be programmer to create robots? Could I learn how to do it?” “What does it cost?” “Are robots AIs?” “Is one RPA platform better than the others?”
Of course there are no black and white answers to any of these questions. The variables that affect your approach are all about context: your own application development experience, your vision, your company’s appetite for or ambition to use these technologies, the strength of the executive sponsorship, an allocated budget, IT support to some degree (infrastructure), a clear roadmap (is it just RPA or is there an intention to grow into ML, AI, NLP, chatbots, etc)…