TechPeople has helped the client develop a robotic process automation (RPA) solution powered by Automation Anywhere – one of the leading and most widely-used RPA technologies on the market. The RPA bots can be launched by any business user and do not require assistance from AQA engineers. As a result, the client was able to reduce the maintenance overhead and the total cost of ownership for SAP testing automation.
As an official partner of Automation Anywhere and SAP, TECHPEOPLE has significant experience in implementing various enterprise platforms for businesses worldwide. We used our expertise to integrate Automation Anywhere with SAP ERP and introduce RPA bots into various processes associated with the client’s SAP system. While the client mainly needed to automate their various SAP software testing activities (unit testing, integration testing, etc.), these bots are also capable of automating almost any other business process, for example, creating and blocking invoices, or executing business scenarios in SAP GUI and web-based SAP applications.
Since our client works in the financial industry with strict data protection requirements, we have used on-premises SAP ERP and on-premises Automation Anywhere 360. In the scope of this solution, TECHPEOPLE team has developed a connector to SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), and enabled bots to do various operations on SAP documents if the acceptance criteria are met, such as managing invoices. This can substantially reduce the amount of manual work that includes routine tasks where no decision-making is required.
The primary purpose of the solution was to enable the client’s software developers and users of the SAP ERP system to launch bots powered by automated scripts on the Automation Anywhere platform using a low-code and no-code approach. These bots are used for testing software development changes and changes to the system’s settings. In particular, the bots connect to the client’s environment, launch automatic scripts, and repeat script execution. This determines the performance of SAP transactions and enables users to monitor average transaction executions, issue types, etc.
The results of automation testing allow users to determine areas of improvement. The information about the results of automated testing is gathered in the Bot Insight analytics platform, which is a part of Automation Anywhere. Testing results can also be provided in the custom software solution per client’s request.
Value delivered by TECHPEOPLE: reducing the cost of ownership for software testing automation
The TECHPEOPLE team has developed a solution that integrates Automation Anywhere with SAP ERP, which can be used for SAP automation testing. Additionally, these bots can be used for automating almost any other manual business process associated with SAP. The solution is capable of bringing a wide range of benefits to our client, including: