Case Study
The Practice
Robotic Process Automation
The Client
A NCAA D3 athletics program in the Northeastern U.S.
The Challenge
Each year coaches and assistants comb through thousands of records on a high school athletic reporting system to identify a pool of potential candidates they would like to recruit. This is a time consuming and laborious task that takes away from time that could be better spent actually recruiting.
The Solution
We deployed a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution. RPA is an advanced form of business process automation where bots (digital robots) mimic tasks performed by a human on their computer with or without human intervention. We created an attended bot, which relies on human intervention for some steps, that would allow the assistant coach to quickly and easily search through a nationwide database to find high school students that met the team’s desired qualifications for recruitment.
The Impact
By utilizing the bot, the college was able to expand their search for potential athletes from regional to nationwide. Our solution also reduced the time to build the pool of candidates from two months to just a couple of hours. The coaches can now reach out to their pool of athletes that meet their parameters faster than their competitors and focus their energies on a more personal reach to the athletes.
