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."MetaBot is the most valuable feature. Other products have robotic functionality but MetaBot is a kind of functionality by which code is created... so business users who do not have coding knowledge can drag and drop."
"One thing I really like is the the recorder where you can connect with multiple systems. The OCR is also good."
"All the data that comes in has to be QC'd. Automation Anywhere helps us by automating the QC part."
"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."
"Earlier users were converting the unstructured data from the PDF into the structured format to process the task but now, this activity is replaced by IQ Bot."
"The technical support is fine. As soon as we raise an issue, we can get the technical support that we need. They provide the solutions to our issues."
"The recording feature accelerates the timeline of your implementation."
"It is also easy to design and implement, even for business users who don't have technical skills. A little bit of training is required, about five to seven days, and then they can start. The learning curve is low."
"Blue Prism takes good security measures and is user friendly."
"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."
"The tool is very technically sound."
"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 solution has cross-application features where it can be setup with SAP, email, or SharePoint."
"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."
"This solution has increased the speed, accuracy, and happiness of staff involved in the activities for which RPA has been deployed."
"It is not just for coders, as you can have a diagrammatic representation of the process."
"The dashboard has room for improvement."
"I would like to see web and cloud-based platforms for future releases."
"Queues are great but need improvement. They are helpful because most of the automations are transaction-based."
"It would be better to make it more user-friendly so that individuals with no experience can pick it up pretty quickly."
"It needs stability improvements. Sometimes, it becomes unstable."
"The marketing for Automation Anywhere has room for improvement."
"Room for improvement is more on the IQ Bot side: How quickly we can adopt and deploy it?"
"IQ Bot should have an easier way to tag the document's source after extracting information from the document. (Which group does the document or a transaction belong to)."
"Blue Prism could be compatible with Oracle's suite of ERPs. We have seen some issues related to this. They could do much better with their intelligent document processing solution. They're pretty behind and don't have attended bots."
"It lacks integration with proper AI, and it is a very complex tool to use in general."
"I don't like that it is so limited, anything that you do feels limited in your capabilities."
"Blue Prism can improve on the ease of use of its graphic user interface(GUI)."
"They should add more OCR engines to it."
"I have found that community support is lacking for this solution compared to competitors."
"The domain in regards to cognitive abilities and the use of processing activity needs improvement. They have added this capability, but that's not really big in the public. It is more also available for gold partners. So they should improve the user activity for the public or even the regular customer."
"Blue Prism develops its own tools and process automation, but the documentation is unclear and incomplete."
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.