In today’s digital landscape, many business processes involve interacting with web-based applications, portals, and services. From data entry on customer portals to extracting information from websites, automating these repetitive web-based tasks can significantly improve efficiency, accuracy, and user satisfaction. SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP Intelligent RPA) offers robust capabilities to automate web activities, enabling organizations to streamline their operations within SAP landscapes and beyond.
Web automation refers to the use of software bots to mimic human interactions with web applications. This includes navigating web pages, filling forms, clicking buttons, scraping data, and integrating web-based services into larger automated workflows.
SAP Intelligent RPA provides built-in tools and components designed specifically for web automation, enabling easy recording, scripting, and execution of web tasks.
SAP Intelligent RPA’s desktop studio includes a Web Recorder tool that allows developers to capture user interactions with web pages. This visual approach simplifies creating automation scripts by recording clicks, inputs, navigation, and validations directly from the browser.
Bots developed using SAP Intelligent RPA support automation across major browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, ensuring flexibility and broad applicability.
Web pages often contain dynamic elements that change their structure or identifiers. SAP Intelligent RPA supports resilient selectors and smart element identification techniques, such as XPath and CSS selectors, to ensure bots reliably interact with web elements even as the UI changes.
Bots can extract structured and unstructured data from web pages, including tables, lists, and forms. Extracted data can then be processed, transformed, or integrated into SAP systems or other business applications.
Web automation bots can serve as bridges between web applications and SAP backend systems, enabling end-to-end automation of complex business processes involving multiple platforms.
Web automation with SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation empowers businesses to digitize and optimize a wide array of web-based activities seamlessly. By leveraging SAP IRPA’s advanced tools for web interaction, organizations can reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and accelerate business processes that span multiple platforms. As web applications continue to proliferate, mastering web automation is a key skill for unlocking the full potential of intelligent automation in SAP ecosystems.