In what situation would you go for RPA instead of an API?

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Those two things are for totally different use cases. RPA processes don’t necessarily expose any of their outputs to other processes. You can have an RPA process run on your local machine without an internet connection. An API is used to expose a service or some kind of data to a consumer in a standard format. An API is also stateless, whereas an RPA process very well could carry state. So you’re talking about two totally different things

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My SM would always call RPA as “the poor man’s API”. When u can use an API, use it.

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Depends on a number of things. Volume, concurrency, how many API calls you need to make to get the job done, development effort, error handling with the API vs. the bot, and the maintenance cost. For example, if you have to build 3 different API calls to make through possibly a middleware or ESB to get something done whereas it is just few screens through a bot, I'll go for a bot. Remember, depending on which RPA tool you use, it may not be poor man's API as they could be expensive. Plus, whatever you build in a bot can be exposed as an API too for reuse.

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Not too familiar with api, but manufacturing companies use RPA quite frequently. Think automobile assembly lines

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