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.
"The overall usefulness of Automation Anywhere is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The solution is easy to learn and with it, it's easy to replicate knowledge."
"The Bot Store is an online library where anybody can find variously developed, production-ready bots."
"The code automation platform is the most valuable feature."
"I think that one of the coolest features that what Automation Anywhere has come up with is AI Sense. I see an immense potential there. Using AI Sense, we can automate outside Citrix. That's going to remove the client dependency or overall automation journey, and that can give lot of optimization, cost saving, and the time to market."
"The bot creation process is simple and useful. Whatever you need to do, it is there. If there is something else, there are the MetaBot functions."
"The insights provided by the dashboard are excellent."
"It is easy and simple to use with its drag and drop functionality."
"Blue Prism has a lot of flexibility to integrate with other enterprise applications"
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the design studio and its ease of use."
"Although the solution may look complicated it actually has a lot of features and user space to work out of."
"Blue Prism takes good security measures and is user friendly."
"Blue Prism is a mature, stable product with lots of built-in features."
"It's quite easy to use and easy to understand the process studio."
"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."
"Automation Anywhere should have more Excel-related functionality."
"We could use more accuracy with IQ Bot."
"AA has many features but the issue is with the loss of overhead on computing resources. For example, if the bot is encrypted, the bot should decrypt it first then act accordingly. If there are issues with the logic in the bot, there will be a lot of computer memory overload. There should be an additional feature for cloud functionality."
"The REST API could be improved."
"Another feature that would be cool to see in Automation Anywhere is more use of artificial intelligence. Right now, RPA is basically limited to a bot which is simply following the instructions that it was given. However, what would be really useful is if a bot was able to more flexibly respond to issues. For example, sometimes there are erroneous errors and pop ups. With good code, you can certainly build your bots to be able to handle that. However, it does take time and a bit of technical know-how to be able to do that."
"They are working on scalability, but I'm expecting them maybe a faster pace for the thing already in place. They need to improve the extraction and accuracy. It's a sort of a journey that we started with a few fears that may end up with a 100 or 200 fears. These are our expectations from IQ Bot. We are quite hopeful that a future release will solve this problem."
"The product needs improvements in dealing with remote servers and providing more APIs that will be used with other systems."
"I am looking for artificial intelligence and machine learning. I hope that they introduce them in A2019. I'm looking forward to what will be there in A2019 because that's the area that we need to go forward. We are looking for Automation Anywhere to put up their efforts to make it easier by incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning. Along with RPA, this would make our automation journey very easy. We can bring more processes into automation, that's where I am looking for automation to focus on."
"They can add a reporting feature."
"Blue Prism is lagging in terms of artificial intelligence. There is no artificial intelligence in version 4 or 5, which most people are still using as far as I'm aware. To be fair, they do have AI in version 6. Still, it's lagging terribly. Blue Prism is the inventor of the name of the term "RPA," and it's disappointing to see they are sitting around... Cognitive learning, for example, where it can actually follow your movements on the screen, is not there in Blue Prism."
"This solution is lacking attended automation, which is the worst thing about this solution."
"Lotus Notes automation should be easier to understand."
"Navigation within the UI could be improved."
"Emerging technologies adoption is a challenge for every organization, especially the products which address productivity/automation."
"They have OCR technology, but it's not that great."
"Blue Prism is a little behind Automation Anywhere in the topics related to maintenance and report building."
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, Tricentis Tosca, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) 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.