Business process automation is here to stay. Whether the business process is an information technology, finance, sales, or any other area, business processes are increasingly being automated through software automation. But how is software automation simplified? How are broad populations of business users of technologies able to access it? More and more, the rising technology of robotic process automation or RPA is the best tool for the task. Welcome to this specialization on implementing RPA with Cognitive Solution Analytics. I'm Jon Stueve, Senior Product Trainer, Facilitator, and Coach at Automation Anywhere. I've dedicated the last 25 years of my life to the development implementation of technical training solutions. Impressive growth of RPA in the past few years has created a tremendous demand to learn this exciting technology. So if you're interested in starting a career in automation or boosting your profile on it, now's the time. So I'm glad to present to you today the first course in this specialization, RPA Lifecycle Introduction, Discovery, and Design. In this course, you'll be introduced to RPA, and you will learn about the first two phases of the RPA implementation lifecycle; discovery and design. In discovery phase, you will take a set of business processes and identify those that are suitable and beneficial for automation. In the design phase, you will create a plan for your RPA project. As you start this course, you will gain a better understanding of RPA in comparison to more traditional types of business process automation or BPA. You'll also learn how RPA is combined with cognitive solutions and analytics to enable organizations to adopt the model of a digital workforce, and help them transform the nature of their work. Then you'll explore the RPA implementation lifecycle, with the focus on various processes involved in discovery and design phases. Under discovery, you will learn to use the Process Assessment Template to build an automation pipeline of business processes that need to be automated. Under design, you'll learn to use the feasibility matrix to analyze the feasibility of automating the processes. Additionally, you will learn to use a complexity calculator to determine the complexity of automating each business process, and the ROI calculator to compute the return on investment or ROI. Finally, you'll learn to use the Process Design Template to create a plan for automating all of these processes. So make sure you watch the upcoming videos carefully, and complete the periodic questions and hands-on exercises to reinforce what you will learn. Also check your understanding by completing the assessment as they appear. Now let's get up and running with RPA.