We performed a comparison between Automation Anywhere (AA) and Blue Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"We found that RPA with additional AI capabilities, such as machine learning and Computer Vision, can enable the organization to augment existing business operations by creating efficiencies and improving the accuracy of data to be processed, without changing too much of the existing system."
"We have used support a few times for one of our customers, and they respond quickly. If the issue involves a critical production system, they respond to the request on the same day."
"We have automated that complete process of code review. The bot is solving the problem of ensuring the compliance of reviewing code. People use to generally skip the code review process, because it was exhaustive. Bots can review the complete standards of the code, whatever is there, ensuring the compliance and eventually saving time."
"On the server-side, multiple developers working on a single project can save their individual works and have them stored in a single repository."
"We have seen AA bringing immense value to the clients once operational. Bot deployment is easy and controlling Access is easy with RBAC With Recent additions. User groups and user management is on par with tools like Blue Prism & UiPath."
"For most of the cases that we have worked on, the application has been stable."
"There are quite a few very strong features available to users."
"Automation Anywhere includes IQ Bots. So, IQ Bots is the key part of Automation Anywhere. You can work on any type of PDF, images, invoices, or billing things in any company. You can just upload it and extract the data, then use it as you require. It is a key part of Automation Anywhere: the best part."
"Blue Prism takes good security measures and is user friendly."
"It works very well for batch processing at the backend. Scalability-wise, it is very robust. It is also stable."
"It is a very stable tool that allows very complex automations."
"The most valuable feature of Blue Prism is the control and development of the processes from one location."
"We have integrated the product with our centralized infra-monitoring tool, which gives us real-time insights into BOT health and also the health of the underlying resources."
"The tool's user interface is very intuitive."
"The tool is very technically sound."
"We find the stability and the ease of reusing code design valuable."
"Training is good and interactive but the final certification exam is very tough and it requires in-depth practical knowledge."
"I would like to see them expand the service catalog with RCA add-ons to the current RPA package."
"I would like to see a built-in read-only role for the control room so that the bot creators can log in and monitor the production environment without any auditing concerns."
"For the short term, in this pandemic era, they should have a feature to write and save directly into Word documents, Office 365, or Google Docs."
"I would like to leverage the AI component without the requirement to know a coding language, such as Python."
"There are a number of current tools which can be improved because they have many limitations. Like some better controls in emails, and better support for features in Excel and PDF."
"They do not include the basic functionality of column headers in Excel worksheets. This is missing, and we need it."
"As a business user, I would like to have a feature wherein the bot is run on demand, whenever an email with a specific keyword or whenever a specific pers sends an email to the bot's email address."
"They can add a reporting feature."
"The OCR capability, along with the connectivity with some of the legacy tools, needs to be improved."
"We would like to see intelligent process automation that integrates RPA and machine learning."
"They should incorporate more functionalities in the analytics tool."
"For developers, they should have some kind of recording feature."
"Though Blue Prism has now come up with features like decipher and computer vision, it is still not able to address most of the issues, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"All of the processes that we've automated have been completed successfully, and the bots are able to process them as expected."
"Emerging technologies adoption is a challenge for every organization, especially the products which address productivity/automation."
Automation Anywhere (AA) is ranked 3rd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 491 reviews while Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 86 reviews. Automation Anywhere (AA) is rated 8.4, while Blue Prism is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Automation Anywhere (AA) writes "Automation Co-Pilot enables us to present details from CRM for business management on one page". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Blue Prism writes "Way more efficient for debugging than other tools but the UI is complicated". Automation Anywhere (AA) is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tricentis Tosca and AutomationEdge, whereas Blue Prism is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath, Pega Robotic Process Automation, Tungsten RPA and Blue Prism Cloud. See our Automation Anywhere (AA) vs. Blue Prism report.
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For any RPA tool it required have a generic /universal governance model where
1. sponsor or Head of RPA implementation
2. Business analysts
3.Architects(solution/technical)
4.Developers ( Full stack - Build, Test and SIT)
5.Scrum master or Sprints head or Project manager
6. QA ( Test automation) - optional
Above generic governance model/structure roles for handling any kind of RPA process.
One proven way to implement centralized automation management is via a CoE. The best practices of Robotic Process Automation states that the use of bots doesn’t increase negative risks for the organization in the development of reusable solutions. The responsibilities of a Centre of Excellence will depend on the exact governance model used. The most common activities include the following:
Business Continuity Requirements:
To have backup or disaster recovery machines for the critical RPA processes with load balancing using central orchestration in different clusters.
For any of the RPA there is orchestration tool which handles all the initiation and processing from one location have it maintained well from risks and disasters with load balancing.
This will helps in business continuity.