Robotic Process Automation
A macro cross section relative to PA Sport & Racing Data business processes.
Automator
implements point-and-click (or drag-and-drop) creation of workflows for automating repetitive tasks. Automator enables the repetition of tasks across a wide variety of programs. PA use Automator on a day-to-day basis to process content such as French Cards and silks to an area that makes the content available to a long list of clients, and this is repeated at a similar time of day by a human operator.
RPA
Automate repetitive, time-intensive manual processes, for fast error-free resolution. Despite its name, RPA has nothing at all to do with physical robots. It refers to "software robots" which are programmed to use computer programs in the same way as a human operator would.
RPA explained
Save the transmissions team time by effortlessly and routinely populating silks for racehorses and sending them out to 100s of clients worldwide.
It is often the case that no two French Racecards are the same. The Racecards also go down two different routes - Legacy and NRP.
Approx three hours per day
Approx three hours per day
Case 1: Silks
Case 2: French Racing
IMPROVE POC CASE STUDIES
NEW PROCESS POC CASE STUDIES
Replace the manual interactions involved in processing the Greyhounds cards. Some oversight would be retained for interactions with GBGB.
Approx 9.6 hours per day
Case 3: Greyhound Cards
Replace the manual interactions involved in processing the Greyhounds cards. Some oversight would be retained for interactions with GBGB.
23 hours per day of coverage
Case 3: Greyhound Cards
Short term
- POC - Silks, French Cards
- Greyhounds pre-processing
Long term
- Automated Advisories
- Automated ingestion from data suppliers i.e. Weatherbys
- Automated processing of full race results
- CS Connection Failure emails
- Full Greyhound Results Only monitoring
AMBITION CASE STUDIES
Example of RPA Product - T-Plan Robot
There are two components to T-Plan Robot licensing:
1. Development licenses - Development licenses are used for developing the scripts for automation.
2. Execution licenses - Execution licenses are used to execute the automated scripts.
T-Plan Robot Enterprise is a platform agnostic Java application, sold per license on an annual subscription
SUBSCRIPTION LICENSE
1 x Development License = £3,500
annually, access to the Robot UI
1 x Execution License = £1,750
annually, headless execution cmd line
(£5250 for 1 process, min 1 development license)
Example
Grehound's pre-process; 67.5 Hours a week saved, 3510 hours per year = £35,705
Racing Processes which could benefit from RPA:
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Checking Greyhound results in the live system, updating full results and publishing to clients (this process takes place from 11am until 11pm everyday)
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Checking Racing results in the live systems, ensuring all data is present and correct following ‘Weighed In’ status of each race (this process takes place 22 hours a day
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Racing Silk generation and publication (process takes 3 hours everyday)
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Generating and publishing International Greyhound cards (process takes upto 90 minutes everyday)
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RDCS Data feed connection issues, RPA could mail clients when there is an issue connecting and delivering data via XML (RDCS mail clients everyday regarding these issues).
RPA - Racing Sport Data
By Richard Duncan
