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2019 : Intelligent RPA 1.0 (IRPA 1) was released, as the first Process Classes 1 Cloud Foundry 1
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2020 : Intelligent RPA 2.0 (IRPA 2) was released, with a full web based Confluent 1
designer (Cloud Studio) avoiding any on-premise installation for the project
Customer COE Basics and… 1
design, and a low code / no code (LCNC) approach making it quite easier to
use and accessible to non-developers. Customer COE Latest and Greatest 3

Customer Data Browser app 1

2022 : Intelligent RPA 2.0 was merged into SAP Build Process Automation
(SBPA) product, providing a platform combining Workflows, Rules, Forms, Data Analysis Tool 1
Task automations, … in a fully integrated approach,
Data Migration 1 data transfer 1

Faster execution, improved feature set (Office 365 activities, Google Databricks 1 datasphere 2
activities, offline mode, …),2022 : Agent 3 was released, as an alternative
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to Agent 2 for SBPA platform, with the key assets:
Easy deployment ("Smart upgrade") allowing installation and upgrade Event Information 214 Events 1
without admin. rights, managed from the Cloud side,
Expert 1 Expert Insights 179
See this blog for an overview : SAP Process Automation “Agent 3” Now
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2023 : We are happy to announce the soon coming MacOS version for Agent
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Agent 3 is mainly developed with electron technology, and SDK packages are
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rendering, is used in many modern applications (eg. : VSCode, Postman, Figma,
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Signal, Slack , …). It is natively designed to support multi-platform, as well as node
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MacOS Agent 3 is not yet generally available, it's only accessible to a limited set of
early adopter customers, for field test and feedback. Official release is planned for SAP Datasphere 2
beginning of 2024, for SBPA subscribers (not available for Intelligent RPA
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subscribers).
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If you had opportunity to use the Windows Agent 3, then you won't be disoriented, SAP MDG DQM 1
because the user experience and capabilities are extremely close, considering Agent
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PDF call
in Technology Q&A yesterday
Office Desktop (Excel, Outlook,
Word, Powerpoint)
"What's New in Q4 2024 - Using
Excel as files ("Excel without Excel") RFCs and BAPIs in SAP Build
Process Automation"
365 Online (Sharepoint/OneDrive,
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Sheets, Mails, …)
(Q1 Custom API based on BO with
Google Workspace, AI ( )
24) custom (read) logic
in Technology Q&A yesterday
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( ) : limited support, corrective maintenance only, no evolution

NA : not applicable

MacOS Agent deployment

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MacOS Agent is still limited to a few early adopter customers. If the christine_donato
feature is enabled on your tenant, Windows and MacOS available Active Participant
versions are displayed in the "Agent Update" page,
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Open the download page by clicking on "Go to Download Page" :

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Click on the "Download..." button :

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When download is complete, execute the setup from the Finder :

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Just click on "Continue" to launch installation (ensure destination "Install

for me only" is selected to allow installation and upgrade without elevated
rights) :

Installation should take a few tens of seconds, without requiring specific

rights :
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When installation is complete, reopen your browser to ensure Chrome /

Edge extension is installed, check in the extensions

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("chrome://extensions/") that "SAP Build Process Automation extension" is

present and activated :

Now, you can automate tenant registration by clicking on "Register Agent",

on the download page :

On the Agent side, just confirm the registration on this tenant :

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Your agent is ready for use ! You can create and run your first
automations…

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Demo and tutorial

Now, your Agent is installed, let's build our first automation.

As I am a lazy guy ( ), I suggest to reuse an existing project built a long time ago to
introduce Intelligent RPA 2.0 with Agent 2 : RPA Challenge

To see how to design it, refer to this blog : RPA Challenge with SAP Intelligent RPA
2.0 : build it in one hour, run it in one second!

This project was built 3 years ago using Intelligent RPA 2.0 and Agent 2 on Windows,

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but the concepts and experience remain similar on SAP Build Process Automation
with Agent 3 on MacOS :

Create a new "Automated Process" project, with "Task Automation" :

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To ensure your project runs on MacOS Agent, you need some pre-
requisites,

Select recent versions of your SDK extensions (minimum 1.43.x) :

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Select minimum version for Agent : 3.20 or more,

Check "Mac" platform to allow project distribution to MacOS Agents :

Add an application, capture application screens, declare items you'll need

to automate :

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Test application declarations using "Screen Tester" :

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(for more details on Screen Tester, refer to this blog : Introducing the new
Screen Tester) :
You'll see on Agent 3, "Application Tester" has been replaced with "Screen
Tester" which provides a more powerful experience,

This automation requires to read an Excel file, but automating Office Excel
desktop application is not supported on MacOS,Create automation to execute :

Especially, the "Excel Cloud Link" activity is usable in both modes

To use with Excel application, use activities "Open Excel Instance",
"Excel Cloud Link", "Close Excel Instance"

The good news is that we have added new activities in Excel SDK
(irpa_excel, min. version 1.43.x) which allow to read/write Excel
documents without requiring to install Excel application.

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Advanced activities (like pivot tables, cell formatting, macro

running, …) are not available, but most common use cases will
be possible : reading / writing cell ranges, adding worksheets,
…

The usage is quite similar to existing Activities, which makes it easy to

adapt from one approach to the other,

To use without Excel application, don't use the "Open Excel instance" and
"Close Excel Instance" activities, only keep "Excel Cloud Link"

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Except this minor adaptation to read the Excel file, updating Agent and
SDK versions, the existing "Run RPA Challenge" can be reused. To make
it more explicit, it is split into 3 parts :

Part 1 : Start page, download and read Excel :

Part 2 :Fill fields :

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Part 3 : Get result and close page if unattended :

Execute the automation for testing

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You can visualize job execution (steps with inputs/outputs) in Cloud

Studio timeline

You can also display the "Screen Tester" and visualize job execution

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Project deployment and execution in standalone

mode

When your project is finalized and properly tested, you can deploy it.

Deploy project :

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Create Attended / Scheduled / … triggers for your projects to be

distributed :

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Then, your project is distributed to attended Agents, it can be activated

and available automations are ready for execution :

The RPA Challenge itself takes less than 1 s,You can then execute the
"RPA Challenge" automation, and you will appreciate the performances :
The complete job execution should take less than 4 s (including file
downloading and reading the Excel file) :

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I hope you enjoyed this blog, and you will soon have the opportunity to evaluate and
use the MacOS Agent.

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Christophe

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8 Comments

00022111734 
Participant ‎2023 Nov 11 3:40 PM

 1 Kudo

Thanks for sharing insights

PierreCol 
Product and Topic Expert ‎2023 Nov 13 7:14 AM

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Great news, well done cpuget and the team!

Let me share an anecdote with you: when we launched SAP Intelligent RPA at SAP
Sapphire 2019 in Orlando, Apple’s CIO came to our booth. We did a demo for him, he
looked very interested and right after he asked: "you showed me a demo on a
Windows desktop, but do you have a Mac version?"... We were so sorry to explain
him that we were only supporting Windows for the Agent running the automations
and the visual Studio to create them… But finally Apple could start using use SAP
Build Process Automation soon!

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cpuget 
Product and Topic Expert ‎2023 Nov 13 7:18 AM

 3 Kudos

Thanks for the anecdote Pierre, indeed it has been a request since 2019 to have a
MacOS product, I was far to believe we could have it in 2023 !

erickgomez-tech 
Participant ‎2023 Nov 29 3:59 PM

 0 Kudos

Hi Chris,

I use SBPA a lot with SAP Business One, it is really extraordinary, I am going to wait
very carefully for the Linux and cloud version.

Best regards,

Erick

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sherry_qiao 
Product and Topic Expert ‎2024 Jul 01 9:06 AM

 1 Kudo

Hi Christophe,

Awesome blog!

Is MacOS Agent available now?

Best Regards,

Sherry

pieterjanssens 
Active Participant ‎2024 Jul 18 11:43 AM

 1 Kudo

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@sherry_qiao From SAP support, just now: "We are still validating the MacOS
support internally and for now it's not supported.".

This is not 'soon' @cpuget - do you have any further details?

Ahmed_Waseem 
Newcomer Thursday

 0 Kudos

Hi,

Is MacOS Agent available now?

Best Regards,
Waseem

rosa-limardo 
Explorer 18 hours ago

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Hi Experts!,

I was trying to get my first automation project on my trial btp subaccount, and SAP
BPA, I go to the Update Agent and then to the Download Page, but it's not showing
the button to download the Agent (image attached). Can anyone help me to
understand what is missing in order to download the Agent? Thanks a lot. Best

regards.

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