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."IQ Bots are extremely powerful. We are using them increasingly more where we're about to look through a lot unstructured sources, like PDF documents, scanned images, contracts, etc. We are able to take the data out, then use that toward processing structured data and creating insights for our clients."
"It eliminates redundant work from our offshore team to free up FTEs."
"There are many features that are valuable including Whatsapp messages, OCR, and image recognization, but I have not tried all of them."
"Automation Anywhere has improved our company a lot. The SLA of some tasks that we need to deliver to some clients has improved greatly."
"The whole suite of RPA modules that they have is very good. They have three environments in which you can do your automation. You have development, staging, and production environments. These are run by licenses as well, which is very good. There are a lot of ways of automating processes with this application."
"We had some business users who created their first bot four weeks back, and they were thrilled. It was very easy for them because of the drag and drag. They understood the process very well."
"The features like IQ Bot and Metabot have helped our organization to gain business trust and provide a greater number of unique solutions to our clients for complex projects."
"The universal recorder is a kind of hybrid recorder that enables the user to record the data across devices."
"The use cases range from document ingestion, process enablement, and data management, including financial records cleanup."
"The overall package from Blue Prism is valuable. I cannot pinpoint one certain part."
"Although the solution may look complicated it actually has a lot of features and user space to work out of."
"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."
"As a developer, I liked the layout and UI, specifically referring to testing. I was able to watch the process through stages."
"Blue Prism currently supports SQL Servers and structured data."
"The most valuable feature is that people with zero coding knowledge can use Blue Prism very well."
"The support is good."
"I would like for AA to add an inbuilt debug log that has functionalities to view the values of variables during run time in order to have a point-to-point debugging in case of an error."
"The overall product in Automation Anywhere is good, but they need to improve a little bit on the overall architecture side."
"When we need to upgrade the bot version for various applications like SAP, the compatibility issues could be easier to resolve. The financial team is using version 5 or 6, but the automation engineer recommends only version 6 because it is more compatible. I think Automation Anywhere could handle these compatibility issues better."
"We could use more accuracy with IQ Bot."
"Configuring A2019 and using it is getting a little difficult because of frequent errors of compatibility. It is not so user friendly like the enterprise desktop version."
"MetaBot still needs to be optimized, though Version 11.3 did integrate all the commands into it. We are not able to see all the lines of code which are executed in MetaBot."
"The initial setup was a bit difficult and took more time than expected."
"It should have more commands, which should remove the dependency on MetaBots or other scripts so that everything is available in the tool itself."
"A feature that I would like to see in the next release is the ability to easily call on the robots to fulfill part of the process, and be run by the users in the business, where the robot can simply be activated rather than running mass processes from a control room."
"This solution is lacking attended automation, which is the worst thing about this solution."
"Blue Prism could improve by having better integration with Computer Vision."
"I would like to see wider integration with other products."
"They should add more OCR engines to it."
"The control room is still the desktop version, which restricts access. You can't really access it from anywhere."
"User interface could be improved and a web interface included for easy access to robot information."
"Blue Prism needs to work in a web-based account. I think that the Blue Prism will need to have the main features be web-based so that you can control the box in a web-based environment and not in a client's environment."
Automation Anywhere (AA) is ranked 3rd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 80 reviews while Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 21 reviews. Automation Anywhere (AA) is rated 8.4, while Blue Prism is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Automation Anywhere (AA) writes "Provides a lot of ways to automate processes and integrates well with our applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Blue Prism writes "Easy to use, low -code platform that is highly scalable". Automation Anywhere (AA) is most compared with UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tricentis Tosca and Pega Robotic Process Automation, 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.