Key Concepts

This section describes the key concepts shared across Infor RPA application. You must understand these concepts before using the product:

• Robots or Bots: The entities mimicking human actions.
• Processes: A sequence of steps that lead to meaningful activity. For example, the process of employee onboarding, data entry, and report generation.
• Automation: A process that is performed by a robot without human intervention.
• Modes of execution: The methods through which process is executed to perform tasks. Possible values:
  • Attended: This execution requires user intervention. Process can be triggered to run from the RPA assistant. The RPA flows run in the user session of the existing windows and are visible to the user.
  • Unattended: This execution runs without user intervention. The process automation is configured in Mastermind through RPA Management application and runs on remote devices for a selected schedule.
• RPA Flow: The sequence of steps or actions that a bot follows to automate a specific business process. The flow in RPA involves creating a set of instructions, using the RPA tools or software to mimic the actions a user takes to complete a task within a computer system.