What does RPA actually do?
An RPA robot is not a machine. It is a script of recorded or configured steps that works on the screens of programs and web pages: it clicks buttons, types into fields, reads values and moves them between systems. It is used for rule-based, repetitive work such as data entry, copying values between systems and filling the same report again and again.
Does RPA need coding?
Large RPA suites usually need trained specialists and run on servers across many programs. Smaller tools work only in the browser and need no code: you do the task once and a table repeats it. They cannot reach desktop programs, run on a schedule or run unattended. See RPA for small business without a developer for a checklist.
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Record it once and let the guide write itself
With Izly you do the task once in the browser. Clicks and screenshots become a step-by-step guide that you edit, share, turn into a narrated video or run again for every row of a table.