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How to combine Camunda with RPA
Michael Ferber

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RPA is a hype topic

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RPA can help, if you don’t have an API
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Legacy Application
User Interface
RPA Product

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Example: Let’s integrate RPA with Camunda

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Legacy Application

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UIPath Flow

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UIPath Orchestrator: New Camunda request in queue

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Cockpit: Waiting for the robot to finish

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UI Path Orchestrator: Robot execution finished

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Cockpit: Message from robot received

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RPA can make sense, if part of an integrated business process
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https://blog.camunda.com/post/2018/08/workfusion-rpa-with-external-tasks/

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Use the full feature set of BPMN with RPA

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Example: Let’s integrate RPA with Camunda

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Workfusion Studio

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Workfusion Control Tower
No REST-API
available

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External task worker in Workfusion

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Cockpit: External task finished

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Summary
What RPA is
• Software tools for automating the
interaction with user interfaces.
• A solution for integrating legacy
applications without any API.
Integration of RPA with Camunda
• is possible
• Either via technical API of the RPA
solution
• or as external client if RPA solution has
no own technical API
The value of integrating RPA & Camunda
• Full automation for workflows that have to integrate closed legacy apps
• Increased reliability of RPA flow by using the power of BPMN