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IntelliBuddies - Architecture

Overview#

IntelliBuddies® is an RPA platform that comes bundled with all the essential tools and technologies to automate your front and back-office operations. IntelliBuddies® comes with a large set of handy activity libraries with a built-in intelligent automation framework along with AI and machine learning capabilities to achieve your intelligent automation goals. Overall, IntelliBuddies would help enterprises in automating both rule-based and knowledge-based tasks and thereby reducing cost, improving response time, facilitating business growth, and at the same time achieving compliance.

IntelliBuddies® can help organizations create, deploy, manage, and analyze business processes through intelligent robots called Buddies. IntelliBuddies®' flexible and scalable architecture allows you to work with your existing infrastructure and processes seamlessly. IntelliBuddies® will help you deliver faster automation goals with fewer errors and minimal disruptions to your existing infrastructure. Our Buddies can be trained to operate on all your existing applications. They can read, write, see, extract and load data, receive and respond to events, learn, think, and provide data for your analytics.

Component Architecture#

IntelliBuddies® automation platform features following components:

Process Designer#

It all starts with our Process Designer. IntelliBuddies® Process Designer is a tool to digitize your existing processes. It is a visual development environment where you can create or define a task for our Buddies. It comes with a rich set of activity libraries to build your workflows. These activities enable you to interact with web browsers, desktop applications, PDFs, images, databases, spreadsheets, emails, web services, and many others. It provides an intuitive drag and drop interface to define the workflow. Anyone with minimal coding understanding can quickly start automating the processes by connecting individual activities to build a sequence.

Control Room#

IntelliBuddies® Control Room is a web application that enables you to deploy, schedule, manage and monitor Buddies and Processes. It is a central place where an organization can manage its automation. Processes designed through Process Designer can be published to the Control Room. Buddy, when deployed, will register itself with the Control Room. From here, you start executing either on-demand or based on a customized schedule.

IntelliBuddies® Control Room also has Job Queues to distribute and prioritize jobs picked by Buddies based on the schedule. You can also audit your Buddies in Control Room to check whether they could complete a job or not. You can add users either by explicitly adding them into the Control Room or by importing them from your organization's active directory and manage their roles and licenses. Overall, Control Room is where you can control all your automation in one place.

Buddies#

IntelliBuddies® Buddy is the basic unit of automation. Buddy executes the processes that were built by our Process Designer the way a human would do. There are two types of buddies:

Assistant Buddy#

Assistant Buddy executes a process triggered by humans. It is used for assisted automation. In general, we believe that in the future, every employee of your organization should be provided with one Assistant Buddy so that they can automate all the mundane, repetitive tasks and make their Assistant buddy perform them. This way, employees could focus more on business and customer-centric tasks. Assistant Buddy could be triggered to execute a process either through certain events such as creating a file/folder or could be activated directly by humans from selecting the process from the list.

Smart Buddy#

Smart Buddy does not need any human assistance to execute a process. They pick up the process from the Queue and run them according to their schedule. Smart Buddy could be infused with artificial intelligence to perform complete end-to-end automation.

Trainer Buddy#

Trainer Buddy is one of the components of IntelliBuddies. You can use Trainer Buddy to create document processing models from document templates. The trained document processing models can then be used as part of our process automation so that our Buddies can recognize and extract data from the documents automatically.

Application Architecture#

IntelliBuddies is an Enterprise RPA platform for process automation. The IntelliBuddies Architecture is set up by combining its components and database servers along with the communication channels. The block diagram below depicts IntelliBuddies architecture.

As depicted in the above diagram, all the components of IntelliBuddies will be deployed in your local network or your private cloud. It ensures that all the data lies within your IT control. The only time our Control Room might need to talk to our Account Manager / License Manager is on license activation.

Note: The license activation can also happen in a disconnected mode. You can download the license file by logging into our Account Manager and activate the licenses through your Control Room. It enables you to have the Control Room behind your firewall and with no internet connectivity.

Network Architecture#

There is a Client Side and Server Side in IntelliBuddies. The client-side components are the ones that the user or developer can directly access. The Process Designer, Assistant Buddy, and Trainer Buddy are all client-side components. All the backend operations of IntelliBuddies are handled by the server-side. The processes created by the users are saved in the database. All the client components register themselves with the server-side. Buddies pick the process definitions from the server-side and execute them according to their definition. All the logs are saved as part of the server-side.