NOTE: This article applies to the Aura Digital Workforce product. |
What are Work Units? and how are they applied?
A Work Unit (Work Unit credit) is a measure of ‘work’ performed by the Aura Digital Worker bot.
Work Unit credits are applied (allocated) to your license on the date of purchase (or date of download for Community Edition). Additional Work Units can be purchased at any time to increase work allowances for the Aura Digital Worker Bots and Drones.
1 Work Unit is used for every UI (User Interface) screen that needs detection.
Example: Entering values into a screen with 1 or more textboxes and buttons uses 1 Work Unit credit by default.
Depending on changes in the screen, this value may increase from 1 Work Unit to 2 or more.
1 or more Work Units are used for every file that is extracted from.
If a command is used to explicitly extract from a file, such as a PDF or image, then Work Unit credits are used.
Example: Extracting content and values from a image or PDF file will use at least 1 credit. If the image or PDF file has many pages or the automation uses a command to auto-generate field values, additional Work Units are applied (on average +3 to +5 Work Units per PDF).
1 or more Work Units are used for every Web Page that is extracted from.
If a command is used to explicitly extract from a website page, then Work Unit credits are used.
Example: Extracting text and table data from a web page will use 1 Work Unit credits.
1 or more Work Units are used for every Datatable that is extracted from.
If a command is used to explicitly extract from a datatable in a web or non-web application, then 1+ Work Unit credits are used.
Example: Extracting table data from a User Interface will use 1 Work Unit credits.
You can significantly reduce the number of Work Unit credits used by purchasing the Professional or Enterprise versions of the Aura Digital Workforce product, and configuring to use an on-premises deployment, or a customer hosted cloud deployment.
Once you have deployed the Aura Digital Workforce bots on-premises or to your cloud environment (such as Azure tenant), you need to configure the Aura Digital Worker settings to point to your on-premises or cloud hosted server(s).
Typically this will reduce the number of Work Unit credits used by about 30-50% to give you more usage out of your Aura Digital Workers.
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