Antworks: A tool for high end business automation
March 30, 2019
Antworks: A tool for high end business automation
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AntWorks ANTstein
We used to have ANTstein tool installed. I worked as an Intern at the company. ANTstein is RPA based automation tool which has a large data type knowledge within itself. A non-coder can easily learn this technology. The ants/bots can be made without coding and allow automation for repeated processes. The self-ruling technique of bots makes it suitable for Machine Learning and Analytics.
- First: Being accoladed by infomationweek.com as a cognitive tool for machine learning and analytics, challenges repeated tasks to complete within no time, thus called AI based RPA.
- It understands the category of data and segregates the data into structured and semi-unstructured. Thus, it helps in achieving cognitive tasks in Image and pattern recognition. OCR capabilities make it compete with other RPA in the market.
- Its business pillars lie in Business Process as a Service (BPAAS) and Technology as a Service (TAAS). I used to integrate Zoho CRM, SugarCRM and FreshSales CRM with YellowAnt bot. Oauth 2.0 and token management play an important role in Antworks.
- The best part of the Antworks is that they have queenbot™ which makes colonies and give birth to threads to work on different computers and machines to automate a single and repetitive task.
- Most of the times when performing a task on a remote machine, we have to deploy a screen recorder so that we can debug the process bu actually visualizing the workflow. There should be a remote monitoring tool on the Queen machine.
- When automating Google spreadsheets to plot regression graphs, there are cases when some cell has NaN values. ANTstein always sends an error log in the admin machine. It skips the row and we end up with a smaller amount of data. We have also made a logic for predicting the NaN values by finding the median and fillna pandas-python library. Thus, improvement in flexibility is needed.
- One should have to be familiar with the user experience of the technology or get certified to work upon. Because the tool is not so easy to learn at one go.
- The self-learning mechanism makes it so powerful that all the business tasks get completed with no time. It handles the new data automatically without any human workforce behind it.
- It has various ML models which makes it unique in performing repetitive tasks with learning from previous mistakes.
- Generating Industry insights and market analysis is a key application of ANTstein.
- A separate business goal we have achieved using Antworks. A slack platform is integrated with various chat-ops, for example, integrating google drive, GitHub, Gmail at one place and getting all of the information just by asking a query to the ANT. Example query—"New mails", "Updates in XYZ spreadsheet"
Mostly we use data scraping tools and then take deep insights from the extracted data. Till now, we were unable to perform automation after scraping the data with the above-mentioned tools. But using ANTworks, we can automate the complete process. Our mainstream work process looks like: Twitter Hashtag extraction > Saving the scraped data to CSV > Importing the CSV in Python > Natural Language Understanding / NLTK in python > Creating pos/neg columns > giving positive and negative insights using analysis.