refers to the suite of tools and capabilities within the UiPath Business Automation Platform designed specifically to automate tasks on personal computers running Windows (and to a lesser extent, Mac and Linux). It is the foundational layer of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), allowing "robots" to mimic human interactions with software applications that lack an API (Application Programming Interface) or direct database access.
VDI environments (Citrix, RDP, AWS AppStream) are notorious automation killers because the OS is remote and images are rendered as bitmaps. UiPath’s and native Citrix support allow robots to "see" the screen and click based on image recognition or OCR, bypassing the lack of underlying UI selectors. uipath desktop
Banks, insurers, and manufacturers run on mainframes (via terminal emulators like IBM EHLLAPI) and legacy ERP systems (SAP GUI, Oracle Forms). These systems have no REST APIs. UiPath Desktop acts as a digital adapter, reading from and writing to these screens as if a human operator were typing. refers to the suite of tools and capabilities
UiPath Desktop provides a range of data types and variables that you can use to store and manipulate data in your workflows. Some common data types and variables include: UiPath’s and native Citrix support allow robots to
Not all processes should run overnight. In attended automation, a user triggers a robot on their own desktop to assist with repetitive steps. For example: