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    Robotics process automation : customer contact centre email management utilising uipath
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12) Khasoane, Paballo Joyce; Visser, Alwyn; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Accountancy.
    ENGLISH SUMMARY: Customer contact centres have become at the forefront because of inevitable technological advancements, making many customers prefer to access services from the comfort of their own homes over travelling to do the work. The result has burdened contact centres with calls and emails that pile up and cause backlogs that are more difficult to manage with continuous inflow, as well as pressures to attract customers, sell services and products and provide the best customer experience in the process of retaining clients. This study considers the Robotics Process Automation (RPA) software implementation governance through the establishment of the framework with a clear cascade of governance on technological solutions adopted by organisations. The approaches considered for this study range from an Information Technology (IT) perspective to RPA application software, informed by governance standards and control frameworks adopted. Employing RPA technology, the study tackles challenges facing governance, including initiative-taking steps that warrant implementation of measures to ensure regulatory compliance, scalability, and auditability. The administration and deployment of RPA technology entails a complex network of relationships with various stakeholders, each of which has functions and interests, structures, and direction, thus necessitating comprehensive guidance. The desirable structures and directions were attained through an integrated RPA governance framework using the constructed RPA UiPath application software. RPA implementations and usage have been established to address the customer contact centre challenges with UiPath application software. According to the literature studied, UiPath is a leader in automation, providing solutions for harvesting processes, assuring process efficiency, and effectiveness. UiPath does not require programming capabilities, which is advantageous for resources management. UiPath major offering, Studio, and its elements, along with innovative technologies, have demonstrated that organizations' strategic objectives may be realized with their diverse robot offerings. Because of UiPath's unattended and hybrid robots, resources can be deployed to different roles, risk on daily duties can be mitigated through controlled access that UiPath robots are given, ensuring that they complete tasks that they are configured to do, and deliver around-the-clock service because robots do not tire. The systematic literature review technique, including a design science research strategy, have been used to categorise, identify, and separate contributors of a complete RPA governance framework in the context of customer contact centre email management from relevant literature. Also considered are the procedures required to create an adaptable, useable framework that mitigates RPA technology governance constraints. The rewards of an adaptable framework were discovered to be enabled by a well-defined implementation plan and appropriate alignment between business and IT operations, informed by Control Objectives for Information Technology (COBIT 19) and ISO/IEC 38500:2015 as governance standards. Because RPA technology requires no new infrastructure, though running on legacy systems managed by IT, and the technology's end-users are business operations personnel, clearly defined work processes, roles, and duties, need to be established and followed from the time RPA UiPath application software is acquired until it is decommissioned to ensure conformity by the whole organisation.