Agrawal Ambuj - Enterprise Automation with Python

My beloved Parents:

Anil Agrawal & Saroj Agrawal

Ambuj Agrawal is an industry expert in Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Automation. He has received numerous innovation awards from Citibank, Imperial College London, Ministry of Justice UK, Bristol University, among others. He is also one of the youngest recipients of the "Exceptional Talent Visa in Digital Technology" by the UK Government for expertise in Compiler Design and Machine Learning.

He has been one of the youngest Speakers at the Money2020 Europe, Fin.Techsummit Europe, Future of Work Summit London and Automation Summit Paris on the topic Automation and Future of Work.

Akanksha Sinha is an Architect in Intelligent Process Automation team with 8 years of Automation experience out of her 15 years of journey in various progressive roles of Software Development in Cognizant. She is extensively involved in digital transformation of client's landscapes through automations in domains of Digital Marketing and Technology. Her area of work revolves in exploring automation potential, identifying automation use cases, solutioning and developing a suite of bots along with her team in close collaboration of multiple client stakeholders and eventually providing digital experience to her clients through a suite of automation solutions.

She has worked with clients like Google, Twitter and Hartford Life. Her skills are in Javascript, Google Apps Script, Google Cloud, web development, Unix, NLP, Python, Chatbots, Open Source RPA. Open Source RPAs and NLP are her areas of interest where she has worked on several prototypes.

She was one of the founding members of the Tools & Automation team in Cognizant for Operation Teams working for Tech giants.

She is Google Cloud certified associate and Kore.AI certified Virtual Assistant developer.

She has a B.E in E&E from RTM Nagpur University, and is working with Cognizant.

First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who continuously encouraged me to write this book I could have never completed this book without their support.

I would also like to thank my family and friends who provided me with the continued support during my writing of this book.

I am also grateful to the team at BPB Publications, who provided me the opportunity to publish this book and for providing valuable feedback throughout the process of writing this book.

This book takes the reader through different examples and code samples to automate repetitive work tasks. This book also gives solutions to common automation requirements and repetitive tasks faced during the day to day work environment. After reading this book you will be able to create automations for business processes using Python. You will also be able to identify the most common business process for automation.

This book will equip you with the knowledge of creating, reading, modifying and extract data from Excel documents using Python programs. You will also be able to extract data from websites, PDF documents and send and read messages using Gmail, Outlook and WhatsApp. This book will help readers to create automations to automate their boring work and increase the efficiency of their organizations by 500%.

This book is divided into 11 chapters. The details are listed below.

In , you will be introduced to the installation steps and setting up the development environment for Python. We will also cover the installation of Python packages and libraries required for building automations.

In , you will be introduced to the installation steps and setting up the development environment for Python. We will also cover the installation of Python packages and libraries required for building automations.

In , we will discuss the mindset needed to be successful in implementation of automations within your organizations. We will go through the process of identifying and prioritizing automation opportunities. We will also discuss the ways to share the developed automations with the wider organization once they are created.

In , we will discuss ways to automate Excel workflows including creating, writing, and updating the Excel documents. We will also discuss the data manipulation techniques with Excel and CSV documents.

, we will go through automation for websites and web-based tasks. We will look at how to download data from websites and automate data extraction from websites by parsing HTML documents. We will also look at the Selenium framework to automate web actions such as mouse click and keyboard actions on different websites.

In , we will look at various file-based automations for different file types in Python. We will discuss some of the Python libraries that are used to automate different file types. We will also look at ways to extract data from PDF documents and Word documents type file structure.

In , we would learn to automate email-based tasks using Gmail, Outlook and other SMTP clients. We will also look at Text message and WhatsApp automation using the Twilio API.