Blue Prism Valuable Features

Mohamed Salah Baccouche - PeerSpot reviewer
Robotic Process Automation Consultant at Ernst & Young

The solution is way more efficient for debugging than other tools. 

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SZ
Department Chief at IBA Group

It's hard to make a definitive statement as we work with the tools available to us. While I haven't had much exposure to the latest version of WorkFusion, I've heard good things about it. 

I switched from another RPA platform to Blue Prism, and I personally appreciate the way they handle queues and their overall approach.

Blue Prism is a typical RPA platform that uses a low-code approach with its own strengths and weaknesses. I don't have any specific details to share about Blue Prism at the moment.

I find Blue Prism's debugging functionality to be quite useful.

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Ajay Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at Baxter International Inc.

The advantage of the solution is the automation we can do with the solution. We are saving a few dollars by automating tasks that we used to complete manually by allocating two or three resources in front of the system. Also, by automating, the margin of error becomes very low. The security feature of the solution is also quite good. 

Blue Prism provides both on-premises and cloud versions. We are quite happy with the Blue Prism solution. 

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Blue Prism
April 2024
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Renjith Raghunathan - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Team Lead Developer at Standard Chartered Bank

The most valuable feature of Blue Prism is its very strong focus on documentation. They have documents for everything, which include documents for each component, documents for each action, and documents on how to defend the process.

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Gul Ansari - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect-Intelligent Automation at Kone Oyj

I like the solution’s simplicity in process and objects. The solution has very clear guidelines and demarcation on processes and objects which is not present in other tools. The tool’s architecture is also very simple and clear. The product’s licensing model is also very simple. Other tools do not have such a simple licensing model.

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SV
Assistant Vice President at Barclays Capital

We find all features valuable.

I like the error handling, it's very good. The reuseable components are very helpful.

I am now analyzing the Decipher components, which is a new feature for me to use and utilize.

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YZ
Business Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Its ability to talk to different systems that we have is a valuable feature. We use Pega, which is like a credit card processing system. We also use a Debit Process Manager, which is like the Visa debit application. In the bank, we have credit card and debit card sections, and we need to kind of investigate some of the transactions when customers are complaining about the charges. Blue Prism can log in to a different system to perform the exact actions that the agents are doing. This feature has been very helpful.

Its ability to engage with external systems and websites is also very valuable. Each of our RPA projects could go across different systems. We have an in-house banking system. We also use the Visa network, and we have to go to different sites to do a lot of data scraping to ensure the data in our system matches the data in the Visa systems, and we just deal with some of the charges.

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Amin Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Intelligent Automation Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Blue Prism is a mature, stable product with lots of built-in features. 

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Somasundaram N. - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Finixel Technologies Private Limited

We found the unassisted bots very useful because they can program a variety of different processes. This is a valuable feature of Blue Prism, especially when compared to other tools on the market.

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Sarath Gopinathan Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Developer at DigiStaff

Although the solution may look complicated it actually has a lot of features and user space to work out of.

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Zameer Shaik - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Lead at Aithinkers

The most valuable feature is that it is more secure and reliable. It is also why big companies such as banks mainly use Blue Prism.

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Abhimanyu Thite - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Globant

This is a good solution. I like working with multi-bot architecture, it's very flexible. 

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AS
Lead RPA at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use Blue Prism's automation features for any activity that is repetitive and has to be done repeatedly.  We have implemented this solution for our existing processes where the management transformation team has conducted a proper investigation and proper methodology.  All of the processes that we've automated have been completed successfully, and the bots are able to process them as expected.

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SP
Senior Member Technical at Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
  • Automating: Blue prism helps in reducing manual operation and manpower.
  • Reporting: As cases are handled by Blue Prism we can extract all the logs and provide reports and analyze reports as per the need. We can use the reporting and dashboard feature of Blue Prism. And if the business needs a separated report we can create a separate report for such cases also by creating a process.
  • Higher Productivity: Blue Prism can run in unattended mode for 27*7. No manual person needed other than Support.
  • Cost-effective: As manpower is reduced.
  • Higher Security: Blue Prism has inbuilt security features.
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AY
RPA Developer at Wonderbot

The most valuable feature of Blue Prism is the control and development of the processes from one location.

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Roshan James - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Leader - Software Engineering at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

For one, it's easy to set up, and once it gets running it can handle multiple processes in an efficient manner. It's a very robust system.

Another nice thing is that, due to Blue Prism being a market leader in its industry, we often get people who are already highly familiar with it compared to other products. This was one of the main reasons why we went for it in the first place. 

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it_user973275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Innovation at Quantum AI

The feature of Blue Prism that I find most valuable is the ability to build my own custom objects or use custom logic for doing the particular task. If there is a task that Blue Prism cannot do out of the box, Blue Prism provides me the facility of designing one and integrating it into the application. 

This process is called Visual Basic Objects. I can do all I like because I can add to the functionality of the Blue Prism tool as and when I require it.

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RS
Ops Innovation Platform Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The core strength of the product is the database schema, reflected in its UI behavior and strength. 

From a leadership point of view, integrating the DB into any of your analytics/visualization tools can give you every insight into your program's health in terms of license utilization, ROI, support landscape, current scope, and future backlog capacity. 

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.

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PA
Project Manager

The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is systematic. It's a very systematic tool. We can do all these things like array and cache. It's very useful.

We were able to create a few new processes which we automated. 

The mapping is very good. On mapping, we can order the tools required for automation.

The analysis itself is very good. We're able to say which areas can be improved and which are the easiest areas to automate. Typically, it's good at revealing which decision-making areas could be automated effectively.

The tool is very technically sound.

The product is very secure. 

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NS
Process Automation Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The ease of use is quite good. We have some internal developers so some of our training is more an introduction to robotics. The second module of training is more delivery-related, using the robotic operating model. The last one is Blue Prism-related training and that phase is already available via the Blue Prism portal. We have access to the portal with Blueprism. if somebody is interested in developing, they can learn that via the portal. I make the environment available to them. But the ease of use is really good because a lot of business people, who have some idea about logic and who can think in logic, can configure things, because there is no coding.

The other features are quite comparable to what is in the market right now. There's nothing special about them. But ease of use is important because the business can also handle it.

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BK
Tech Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We like the reliability and robustness of Blue Prism. The object design way of implementing things actually brings a lot of reusability for us because you can design your objects once and leverage them in multiple automations. So, we use this extensively.

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OL
DevOps Specialist at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The solution's most valuable features are RPA automation, auditing, and validation of metrics in web applications.

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Alin Mistode - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

We find the stability and the ease of reusing code design valuable.

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AG
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

It works very well for batch processing at the backend. Scalability-wise, it is very robust. It is also stable.

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RR
Senior SAP Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The solution has cross-application features where it can be set up with SAP, email, or SharePoint.

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Srikanth RB - PeerSpot reviewer
BA Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution offers very good accuracy.

The automation on offer is great.

Whenever we used to have issues, the developers used to follow up with the technical team. They're good.

The initial setup is simple and straightforward. 

The solution can scale.

We have found the product to be stable. 

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AS
Vice President at YASH Technologies

From technical perspective, Blue Prism is pretty good.

Overall, it's a stable and scalable solution. Installation is straightforward as well. 

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QW
GRC Analyst at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ease of development is the most valuable. Standard VBOs are pretty useful there with Excel and different things. Our custom developments for SAP and things like that are pretty easy to set up and quick to get going.

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MT
Project Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is good for transactions that are very straightforward. It works very nicely with the structured data. 

It is user-friendly. It is easy to implement and easy to understand.

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AN
Solutions Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The studio is very easy to use. It is not just for coders, as you can have a diagrammatic representation of the process.

The debugging is great because you can step into the code during the process, and you can also re-step, which means returning to a previous one. You can also change the code while the process is running and see the effect without having to stop the execution.

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RR
Senior SAP Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is simple. The deployment is pretty fast.

The stability is good. 

We've found the solution to be scalable. 

Technical support has been responsive when we have needed their assistance.

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KG
Senior Manager , Digital Transformation, Strategy & Transformation at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Mostly we use the Design Studio to develop the automation. It's great. We put them into deployment and have the automated process running. It's essentially the Design Studio for Blue Prism and the entire methodology of delivery that is the most useful or valuable to us.

The solution can scale. 

Technical support is very helpful.

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MM
RPA Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I love the development phase of Blue Prism because there are simple things you can put in place that help you understand workflow and how implementation acts. I love how Blue Prism can use the same variables and objects used on other processes, the really key value is the object sharing. I like that you can forward so you can speed up the process while it's executing which you can do on other RPA tools, but you can also simulate the feed tool from two to four and reach the output quite nicely.

For me, a web application that can improve the connection between robot and human, and share information simply without any file sharing, without any access from the machine, that has the tower controlling it, is the easiest way to share information.

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SM
Sr Mrg, IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
RP
Senior Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The automation in version 6 seems to be a lot better than it was in previous versions. In my opinion, that is great. 

The matrix in terms of reporting is becoming more friendly. It can be used with other analytics tools and that too is a great thing. You can pull stuff into stats, you can pull stuff into any kind of data analytics tool, like Tableau for example.

You can easily see where all your problems lie, in a visual way. It's always nice to have a visual representation of things, whether you're a kid in school or whether you're a professor at a university. Seeing things at one glance makes a lot of difference, instead of having to read through the fine print and see where the issues are.

Another feature I like about Blue Prism is the Control Room and how easy it is to find exceptions, to find common issues, and to troubleshoot your exceptions. Your Control Room person, without any development skills, can easily pick up what the problem is, with the exceptions, especially when there are a lot of exceptions related to one use case or process.

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Debharshi Bhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at a performing arts with 51-200 employees

The tool's user interface is very intuitive. 

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MC
Head of Transformation at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Blue Prism is a great enterprise and it has offered the solutions that I have been needing in order to give my organization an RPA.

The most valuable features of Blue Prism are the Control Room, autonomous bot, unattended, attended bot, and Decipher. I have been using the decipher functionality recently, and I want to explore the Capture functionality in other works that I have.

Blue Prism has given me the features that I need.

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HH
Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The solution has been quite stable so far.

The new features that have come out have been great.

So far, the solution has been faultless. We've been very happy with it.

The solution has been very good in terms of helping us automate processes.

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JG
Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The development interface is quite easy to work with.

The deployment is easy.

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ML
Partner Technology Consulting at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The overall package from Blue Prism is valuable. I cannot pinpoint one certain part.

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FM
Technical and ROM Architect at PROA IA

One of the most powerful features in Blue Prism is exception handling. It's one of the features that really differentiates it from other platforms.

It is really easy to use; it's user-friendly. 

Also, you only have one database and can consolidate everything, database per environment. I think that helps to have more control, to trace all the data and all the loss, and scale in an easier way.

It is stable and easy to scale.

It is easy to set up as well.

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KR
Bank Employee at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Blue Prism is very good at doing background processing. 

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WL
Technology Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The only good thing about Blue Prism is the execution speed.

The interface is okay; it is like drawing a workflow map, which some people prefer.

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VM
Senior Business Analyst and Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The entire tool is valuable because it is an enterprise tool. It is on par with other tools like Automation Anywhere or UiPath with the OCR/ICR facilities, analytics, and the entire package for enterprise-level security. It has the highest level of security as compared to any other tool. 

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SC
Lead Project Engineer at Peristent Systems

Blue Prism takes good security measures and is user friendly.

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AY
Director, Km & Bpo Innovation at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is that you can create automations without coding.

The web-based designer is very user-friendly and easy to use.

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RP
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution's most valuable feature is optical character recognition.

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WF
ROM Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The product is pretty good so far.

The initial setup is not complex.

It's not too difficult to configure everything.

It's fast to get up and running if you use a cloud deployment.

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RN
Manager, Information Technology Automation Delivery at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We've started to use some of the new features such as translation, cognitive, and we are finding them useful. We are also finding API integrations very useful.

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GR
Senior Planning and Control Analyst at a translation and localization position with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use the basic features that are very useful.

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BO
Doctoral Researcher at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Although it's very simple to work with, it's a bit limited in terms of capability compared to similar solutions. 

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VT
Head of Strategic Alliances at Zensar Technologies

It has a centrally managed infrastructure, and it is secure. Our client was using it because of its ease of use. They had already identified some workflows that were trained on Blue Prism RPAs. It was much more convenient for them to preselect Blue Prism as compared to other vendors.

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AI
Head of Process automation at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature for us is that our developers find it quite simple to develop processes, and they like to use this solution.

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AT
Development Lead For RI DMV Modernization at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The only feature that stands out in Blue Prism, as compared to other tools, is security. This is the only reason for still having Blue Prism in our bucket. It is very secure and reliable, and it has also been in the market for a very long time. We automated a lot of federal and government automation processes very recently with this solution.

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LS
Sr. Project Manager, Automation at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to do surface automation, allowing interaction with legacy systems where terminal emulation is still in use.

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SN
Senior Vice President at Maybank Singapore

The most valuable features are the exception handling and versatility with interfacing to existing systems.

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GT
Solutions Architect at ValueMomentum

The most valuable feature for us was the orchestration of the workflow. The way you design the flow and configure the activities for the bot is very useful if you are working with any of the BPM or local platforms. It made it very easy for the developers to work with assets.

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MP
Head of Intelligent Automation at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

The object modeling is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's been quite helpful for our organization. The reusability of it has been great. Being able to create an object and use it for multiple processes has been very useful for us.

The initial setup is straightforward.

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ME
Senior IT Architekt at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

RPA processes are helpful when we need interaction with different applications and close the technical gaps between them. In one of the use cases that we evaluated, there was a single Excel template from a vendor. The Excel file has 7,000 objects, and it included information about the part numbers, prices, and some of the details about each object of a complex maschine. This file had to be input to SAP, so a human had to enter these 7,000 objects one by one, which is a pretty mechanical and uninteresting task. The RPA bot was easily able to import this file. Without RPA, this import had to be done by a person who had to do the same task 7,000 times just to import one contract. This is where RPA processes and RPA tools are very helpful. RPA tools have the possibility to close media gaps. RPA tools are like macros on steroids. They now have got the maturity level for big data centers.

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AW
Executive Manager: Shared and Support Services at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the design studio and its ease of use. The security and control room features are also very good.

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Emeka Uchendi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at ITwize Technology Limited

The performance is very good and it is a valuable feature.

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SB
Chief Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Blue Prism is quite stable. It has the interactive client that is really good. The licensing model is very simple as well.

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it_user1383903 - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable feature are for sure the modelers. They are quite easy to understand and use. I think they are what people mean when they say Blue Prism is a bit easier than UiPath. Whereas I definitely like the ease of use, this comes at a cost. In direct comparison to UiPath, the Studios feel like Kindergarden to me. Trying to make robot development accessible to people with limited technical understanding, they are taking away the endless possibilities resulting from the fact that a software robot is still a mature computer program. Not being able to insert code - or even complex expressions - is not a feature to me. Summing up, I like the ease of use of BP but to me, the sacrifice is too high.

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KD
RPA Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The credential manager and logs are most valuable. We are using Blue Prism for complex processes because it is easier to troubleshoot in Blue Prism, and the logs are very accurate. It provides the ability to create smaller tasks, which makes it easier to troubleshoot.

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SK
RPA Developer at SDLC Partners

The most valuable feature is that people with zero coding knowledge can use Blue Prism very well.

The user interface is good.

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KF
Specialist-Configurator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

As a developer, I liked the layout and UI, specifically when it came to testing. Dragging and dropping stages and actions made development quick and easy to learn. The UI, allows you to watch as the bot moves through each step of the process at the same time it launches, interacts and closes applications, which really aids development and troubleshooting, unlike with AA and UiPath.  

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PL
RPA Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Blue Prism supports the multi-bot architecture, which is really good. It is also really good at OCR. Blue Prism is integrated with Abbey OCR, and it provides at least 90% right information on period documents. This is something that is really good in Blue Prism.

Blue Prism can deal with a huge amount of data. We can track each and every record, and then we can see the data. If you don't have much coding experience, it makes it easy to build automations and deploy them. It is also easy to learn and easy to work with. It has a lot of features, which makes it reliable for any sort of automation.

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JM
Lead RPA Developer at eclair Group

The most valuable features are the exception handling and embedded control room.

This is an all-in-one product, so you don't need to have another application.

The debugging in Blue Prism is very nice.

They introduced AI and machine learning capabilities in-house, rather than third-party.

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AT
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the work queue. This helps the user to create a workflow, and it is a very powerful tool for generating management reports.

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AmitDasgupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

One key feature is the workflow design is able to be customized according to the way that you want the automation to work.

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DB
Managing Director of Automation at Foundry4

I like the cloud features such as IADA and Decipher.

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MK
Works
  • It is easy to automate complex business processes and can be highly robust. 
  • It can be easily integrated with new technologies. 
  • Since the processes can be reused, the time to market is less, and the possibility of human error is reduced drastically.
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RM
Business Head at a consumer goods company with 1-10 employees

I think Blue Prism is a wonderful product. It compliments each client as to what best suits them — budget and implementation-wise. Last year was not exactly a great year for many of these things. 

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AH
RPA Solution Architect - Lead Developer Individual Contributor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's beneficial that the solution is object oriented so you can create objects. In larger projects, where multiple developers are involved, it's hard to develop tasks and RPA platforms. With Blue Prism you can create a process. For example, automating data validation, which would be a framework where you can assign an object developer so they can work in parallel, enabling project completion in a shorter space of time.

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Richa Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional 1 Application Designer at DXC Technology

Blue Prism MAPIEx and the Java Bridge are really great features provided for automating Java-based applications and for allowing mail to send and receive smoothly.

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it_user865017 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead RPA Engineer at Auxillium

Access to the SQL database allows for extra capabilities.

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KK
Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The flexibility is not that great, but it's a stable product.

The integration has improved a lot in terms of SAP, and other screens.

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TS
RPA/IA Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a very stable tool that allows very complex automations.

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BabjeeVangipurapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at WonderBotz

We've automated web applications in the banking domain using Blue Prism. This involved automating long and complex banking processes. Every action we automate with the tool generates an audit log, which is safe within the LogRhythm environment. I do find the Decipher feature very useful when it comes to document automation. 

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Buyer's Guide
Blue Prism
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Blue Prism. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.