"Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the use of software to automate operations software that organisations use to run their business processes. Deploying RPA brings the associated business processes more efficiency, consistency and improves processing speed and quality, delivering Business Process Optimisation (BPO) through the stages involved in its application, implementation and use. The aim of the Allegro project is to simplify, significantly, the process by which RPA can be deployed. This will be achieved through the application of computer-based image and voice processing and machine learning to capture and understand how a business process is completed by a human operator. The resulting representation of the business process will then be automated using one or more of the available RPA products. The main objective of the project is to create several proof-of-concept and prototype demonstrators of the new business process capture approach and evaluate these to confirm that the image and voice processing and machine-learning techniques can be used appropriately. The initial set of business processes to be captured will be focused on financial record keeping and human resources record keeping. The key benefits accrued from this new approach are: * The human effort required to capture the definition of a business process will be reduced significantly (a reduction of over 75% is a long-term objective). This makes the deployment of this system available to SMEs as well as the current target market of large enterprises; * For customers of this system the time to achieve return on investment will be significantly reduced. Alternatively, this product will become available to SMEs who traditionally cannot make use of RPA tools due to their cost of deployment. * Customers will be able to build solutions that make use of best-of-breed RPA solutions without being vulnerable to supplier lock-in."