-With Functions Added to Enhance Scenario Creation Productivity, New Version 
Supports "New Work Styles" in COVID-19 Era-

NTT Advanced Technology Corporation will launch the latest version(Ver.7) of 
its robotic process automation(RPA) tool, "WinActor," overseas on October 1, 
2020, satisfying users from beginners to advanced programmers in accordance 
with its nature of being "people-centered."

As the infection of COVID-19 spreads, many companies are searching for a "new 
work styles," and RPA is drawing attention as one of the promising means of 
realizing it. The RPA tool WinActor provided by the company headquartered in 
Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, has received the best reputation in Japan 
and has been introduced to more than 5,300 companies.

WinActor Ver.7 will help customers to pursue digital transformation, adopting a 
new work style appropriate for the COVID-19 era, and enhancing their business 
efficiency. The main functions of Ver.7 are as follows.

1. People-centered functions
-By taking advantage of the increased processing speed, the user interface has
 been revamped, making it more refined and easy to use.
-A tutorial is provided to enable users to learn all key processes, from the
 basics for scenario creation to practical and application-oriented operations.

2. Functions effective for enterprise use
-Users can edit multiple scenarios simultaneously on the same screen, enabling
 them to copy and paste parts of a scenario from one to another while viewing
 several scenarios.
-WinActor Scenario Script, a scenario editor for advanced programmers, 
 enables them to develop a scenario using a programming language with which they
 are sure to be familiar.

3. Support for scenario creation
-OCR-based image matching will make it easier to record and execute operations
 related to character strings on the screen.
-The table scraping function extracts table information from a Web page. If a
 table spans a number of pages, WinActor accesses them one by one and outputs 
 the obtained table information in a single CSV file.

4. Dual-language capability
-Users can switch languages to suit particular execution environments. In
 addition, scenarios developed in Japanese can be used in English without
 modification and vice versa.

Official website: https://www.ntt-at.com/news/2020/detail/release200930.html


Source: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation