We performed a comparison between Blue Prism and Pega Robotic Process Automation 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."Technical support has been responsive when we have needed their assistance."
"A 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."
"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."
"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."
"Blue Prism currently supports SQL Servers and structured data."
"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."
"It's fast to get up and running if you use a cloud deployment."
"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."
"We have a very large operational team and we are able to avoid mistakes and ensure accuracy and speed using Pega."
"If you want to make any kind of base automation, you can easily code exactly what you want."
"Pega is also broadening its landscape by building on top of PRPC (CRM, EPC, etc.), and with a cloud offering available, it is a genuine contender to compete with Salesforce."
"I am impressed with the tool's recording feature."
"The solution's ability to create adapters quickly is its most valuable feature."
"The feature I like best in Pega Robotic Process Automation is that I'm able to add external DLL section codes. I can inject the JavaScript, and I can write VB.NET, C#.NET, and DLL codes, then inject those codes into the existing process. Mainly, from a development perspective, I like that feature a lot, so if anything is not supported by Pega Robotic Process Automation, then I can build that either in JavaScript or in .NET, then use those functions within the IP."
"It was very smooth and very seamless to create automations."
"The most valuable feature of Pega Robotic Process Automation is the technique: you can create a user interface that can interact with a human being for attended robots."
"It's not very easy to use. There is some learning curve that you need to manage as an individual."
"The solution can be improved by switching off data DB and including a report section."
"This solution is lacking attended automation, which is the worst thing about this solution."
"The upgrades could be managed better. I would also like to see more true AI development and machine learning."
"As a user, I cannot directly work with the bot. On a daily basis, I use and do some work in Microsoft Excel, which cannot be directly taken into Blue Prism. Our company majorly runs on Microsoft Excel. Everybody has Excel sheets as their working sheets. Therefore, we need a kind of automation to be able to do things with this program. This bot is almost like an invisible staff that works between the servers but not with the users. This bot works well with SAP and things like that, but it doesn't work with Excel sheets. It doesn't work with the bots that we have, and I cannot invoke an RPA right now as a user. It has to be done by an administrator who has better control than me. It needs better integration with Microsoft Excel. Its price can be improved. It is expensive for us. It should be cheaper for a market like ours. We are based in India."
"I would like to see wider integration with other products."
"We didn't find it much useful for unstructured data. It is not easy to do the automation with Blue Prism if you have unstructured data. It should have better automation processes or connectors for unstructured data such as PDFs or pictures. It has a connector for different applications, such as SAP, but we use a few other applications for which it doesn't have a connector. It should have a more comprehensive dashboard that we can use to see the processes that are running and control the parameters."
"The UI is more complicated than other tools."
"Pega Robotic Process Automation scalability is too low."
"They have tied the deployment with the Pega BPM product, the robot manager. You need to have the BPM installed."
"I would like to improve the tool's integration features and stability."
"In this modern world, in this automation space, if Pega could provide more options that are user-friendly and provide a way to quickly develop an automation solution that is drag-and-drop with a minimal coding approach, then it would be great for automation."
"Pega has a no-code low-code environment. We do everything based on established rules. You kind-of have to learn how all their rules work and how it works for robotics before you can use the solution effectively."
"It's difficult not knowing when alerts will arrive."
"There have been some scenarios where the bot was not able to replace some of the controls and could not recognize and personalize the task we wanted to automate."
"The OCR capabilities of the solution could be improved."
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Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 86 reviews while Pega Robotic Process Automation is ranked 9th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 22 reviews. Blue Prism is rated 7.8, while Pega Robotic Process Automation is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Blue Prism writes "Way more efficient for debugging than other tools but the UI is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega Robotic Process Automation writes "Great for UI creation, helpful support services, and reliable". Blue Prism is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism Cloud and Tungsten RPA, whereas Pega Robotic Process Automation is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Microsoft Power Automate, Pega CRM and WorkFusion. See our Blue Prism vs. Pega Robotic Process Automation report.
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