DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RPA Vs BPM

INTRODUCTION

RPA and BPM are more similar and as such are often confused with each other respectively. The confusion can be well explained as these are from the same family of applications but can never be mentioned as identical twins because of their obvious differences. With no further delay, let us get going with the differences between a RPA system and a BPM system in the section below.

Screen Scraping or Screen Capturing

Tools as like these are specifically designed to focus on certain areas of a web page or a form and get the details from specific fields using coordinates on the screen, giving necessary instructions to move the mouse pointer to a specific positon and then to ‘click’. These works until and unless there are any changes to the coordinates of the specific fields or buttons.

Business Process Automation (BPA) / Business Process Management (BPM) platforms on the other hand, allows individuals to create the necessary process automation workflows that have the capability to integrate with various systems to exchange information and also to handle situations that involves automating some of the necessary human interaction tasks. One of the major disadvantage to such a system is that these require APIs and also database access for various requirements, requires coding, development which can sometimes be very time consuming for Organizations. Situations gets even worse if the Customers deny to provide any access to their Application databases or if the application doesn’t support any further API integration that is well required.

Robotic Process Automation


Definition
RPA system can be defined as the use of software with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and also Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to handle high volume repeatable tasks which would have previously required an individual to perform these tasks.

Business Goal
RPA systems help reduce the headcount involved with the effective use of “software robots.”

Core Activity
Most of the repetitive tasks can be automated completely in a non-programmatic manner by training the robots to complete all such activities.

Technical Approach
The approach is completely simple and does not involve much of technicalities to be worried about. The changes that are made, can easily be applied without making any changes to the existing applications and also to the underlying systems.

Time and Impact
Implementation of any changes to the application can be completed within days and this might not necessarily make any changes to the existing User Interfaces that are used to drive these applications.

Business Process Management

BPM system can be defined as the systematic approach to make an Organization’s workflow more effective, efficient and capable of adapting to the ever changing environments.

Business Goal
BPM systems on the other hand, would require spending time on reengineering the processes that are underlying in order to drive the central tools.

Core Activity
BPM systems might have to define and also implement the whole process of management model for the enterprise as such.

Technical Approach
BPM systems might have to bring in a new application definition and also might have to work on a comprehensive integration into the underlying systems to the single process model.

Time and Impact
Implementation can go into a huge scale investment in time and effort, thus impacting the business on the whole. Not just the development that requires the time but also to test all the specific business scenarios might eat up precious business time until these changes are made available for the Organizations to consume them.

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