Challenge
Since 2018, Nornickel has been using software robots to improve the efficiency of internal business processes. In total, the company has automated more than 100 business processes with the UiPath platform in such areas as HR Management, NSI Management, Accounting and Tax Accounting, Procurement Management, and Document Management.
The employees of Nornickel's RPA Competence Center faced the task of migrating robots to another software. The transition had to be made as quickly as possible - the UiPath license expired in 2023.
Solution
The company decided in favor of PIX RPA, with First Bit acting as the integrator. In preparation for the migration, the RPA CC team migrated more than 20 reused components (scripts for logging into systems and applications, scripts for uploading and saving data, custom libraries), which were used in 90% of robots, to the new environment.
At the first stage of the project, employees of Nornickel's RPA Competence Center received basic training on the new platform at the PIX Academy.
At the next stage, they conducted a quality control testing process for the development and commissioning of the robots, which was built up during the work.
Further, during the migration, close cooperation between three teams - Nornickel's RPA Competence Center, First Bit and the PIX Robotics vendor - enabled more than 100 processes to be migrated to PIX RPA.
Result
As a result, 102 robots were replaced without loss of functionality in accounting, HR, treasury, logistics, procurement, security and IT.
A unique framework for PIX RPA was developed by Nornickel's RPA Competence Center team together with the project team of First Bit. The plan is to upload the joint development to the PIX RPA Marketplace for use by the community and third-party teams.