Introducing Zoho RPA The New Robotic Process Automation Tool From Zoho

Zoho has just released the beta version of its most recent addition to the Zoho world; the Zoho RPA or Robotic Process Automation Tool. A fascinating update that promises to automate repetitive and rule-based processes easily and efficiently.

Say goodbye to the time and effort wasted on dummy work and free yourself up to think about big ideas and focus on strategy. Let’s dive into what makes Zoho RPA great.

First of all, what is RPA?

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a type of automation that utilizes bots to automate repetitive, rule-based tasks like data entry, extraction and manipulation. Those tasks are traditionally performed by humans and take up entirely too much time and energy, so RPA helps automate them in order to streamline workflows, enhance operational efficiency, and save a significant amount of your costs.

The benefits of RPA:

There’s a variety of benefits to implementing RPA in your organization, including:

Enhanced resource allocation and productivity: You can free up employees from mundane tasks (dummy work) and enable them to focus their efforts on higher-value work. That way, you’ll increase productivity & employee satisfaction, while ensuring the most optimal utilization of resources.

Accuracy Improvement: As you well know, human error is inevitable, especially when it comes to repetitive tasks that may lead to the mind straying from the task at hand. RPA reduces your reliance on the human factor, or manual labor, ensuring precision, improving data accuracy, and enhancing compliance & quality control.

Cost-Effectiveness: As we mentioned earlier, RPA reduces your reliance on labor, so you can reduce organizational costs, and reallocate resources to strategic tasks, have your workflows streamlined, and greatly increase efficiency.

Scalability & Flexibility: RPA enables your business to quickly scale operations as it allows for the accommodation of increased workloads and market demands. It also allows you to adapt better and faster to changing business needs. This gives you agility and a significant competitive advantage.

Better customer experience: Through faster response times, personalized interactions and and streamlined workflows, you can deliver superior customer experience. Automating your customer service tasks like chatbot replies and email responses helps you easily provide the best level of support possible to your customers.

Now that you’ve gotten an idea of the benefits, you may wonder, what exactly does Zoho RPA help you with?

Let’s dive in

Zoho RPA offers you various types of automation, including:

Automation of web applications and website interactions through clicks, navigation, data extraction, and form filling. You also have the capability of recording these web interactions.

Automation of any windows application built on Win32, WinForms, WPF, and UWP as well as record their interactions. You can drag and drop tasks, choose the elements of UI that will interact via automation, mimic human interactions and automate legacy applications.

In addition, for all of you out there sick and tired of spending your lives on Excel sheets, you now have the ability to automatically create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) Excel records. Not only that, but also record and automate at the granular task level in workflows.

What do the Zoho RPA granular capabilities include exactly?

Well, those capabilities offer: configuration of conditional logic & error handling, toggling delay and wait times, debugging workflows and setting up email notifications. They also include implementing custom programmable functions.

Workflows can be invoked in Zoho RPA via triggers, like scheduled triggers, webhook triggers and desktop triggers.

The possibilities with Zoho RPA are endless, they range from automating data entry to extracting data from emails and automating legacy applications.

So why Zoho RPA specifically?

Zoho RPA integrates with 800+ cloud apps, supports multiple trigger types as mentioned earlier and offers you Zoho RPA orchestrator: A dashboard that’s unified and centralized where you can manage all your automations.

Stay tuned for a detailed overview of Zoho RPA soon, meanwhile, reach out to our team if you’re considering freeing yourself from mundane, repetitive tasks and switching to the world of automation.