Introduction to Process Automation › Phase I: Requirements Analysis › Identify Processes to Automate

Identify Processes to Automate

The first step in the CA Process Automation development process is to identify processes for automation. A process typically consists of multiple subprocesses.

Follow these steps:

1. Identify the primary task or use case, such as move data from distributed transactional databases to a single data warehouse.
2. Identify subprocesses for subordinate tasks, such as:
   1. Extract data from different sources
   2. Transform extracted data
   3. Load the transformed data
3. Separate the components that are common to multiple processes into modular subprocesses. Similar to code reuse, modularization of shared subprocesses saves development and maintenance time.

Note: Later in this guide, you will learn that subprocesses correspond to separate process objects in the Library Browser.