RedPeg:
How to automate user allocation to multiple poker rooms on Zoom and help raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts
Location:
United States
Technology:
UiPath
40
hours of work
Client
RedPeg Marketing is a marketing company providing digital advertising and social media services.
The Challenge
After the COVID-19 pandemic stroke, lots of people got stuck in their homes, and many of them lost their source of income. This period of time has changed our lives drastically.
We met RedPeg Marketing because they organized poker tournaments to help raise money for people struggling with COVID-19.
They organized poker tournaments and mimicked the tables in breakout rooms in Zoom at home while raising money for the noble cause.
From an organizational point of view, it was quite a challenge, as the process was manual and required the assistance of a real human being. When a new player signed in, the RedPeg employee had to connect them to Zoom and move to the correct rooms to play.
It was extremely time-consuming, and their employees had to always be online to support Zoom rooms.
This created a dire need for automation.
The Solution
We decided to use UiPath because of its easiness, speed, and scalability.
We built two bots:
- The task of the first bot was to check the table order and create a number table corresponding to the poker table in Zoom.
- The second bot had to follow the players and move them around as tables condensed throughout the tournament.
The purpose of the automation was to mirror the tables in the poker game to breakout tables in Zoom.
So, for example, if there were 8 tables, the robot would make 8 breakout rooms in Zoom with the correct people so they could talk to each other while they were playing.
When the tables got shuffled or reduced to fewer tables, the robot would also mimic all of this in Zoom.
The Outcome
The company had a pretty cumbersome way of managing the platform before our engagement. By implementing bots:
- We cut the whole process down from 30 minutes to only a couple of minutes
- The bot worked throughout the whole tournament, letting RedPeg employees focus on more critical tasks
Developing the whole automation took 40 working hours – not a significant investment for such an important task!
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40
hours of work