SS&C Blue Prism

Avantages

Blue prism stands out in two things from other RPA tools in the automation market. Namely
a) Security - Having windows control room is much safe than having web based control room/ orchestrator.

b) Work Queues:- Best queue functionality and volume handelling.

Apart from this its much easier to setup this tool from infrastructure point of view.

Inconvénients

OCR and image readings needs to be enganced more.

Avantages

Things I liked the most are :
- Very reliable and secure. My organisation is satisfied with sharing it's data with Blueprism.
- Simple and easy to learn and use. A low-code, no-code approach to Automation is awesome!
- Probably the best RPA tool in market for Very Complex Process Automations.

Inconvénients

Things I liked least are :
- It is very costly and can only be bought and used by Rich Organisations.
- It is not very feature-rich in terms of Intelligent Services. However, other third-party services are there but they are paid which again adds to the overall cost of the tool.
- While doing development you can't edit an object while debugging. One of the most demanded feature from developers and they still haven't taken any action.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à SS&C Blue Prism

Avantages

A lot of support by forums and community. Good overall view about process and object.

Inconvénients

Not very good application modeller, very difficult to use Surface Automation image recognition.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

The Best part is the backend Automation capability, we have used it for Finance Processes, and it worked really well- Scalability is no challenge at all & our process flow needed customization which is readily available in the Interface with .NET integration. Integration with multiple application is also good and overall works well for some legacy applications.

Inconvénients

Well the worst part is the Training + License cost which is a known problem in RPA community- even the resource availability is a challenge if you are looking for Certified resource (high training cost). Secondly - At the programming level exception handling and debugging is a great challenge - complete code needs to be debugged to look out for exact problem area (product architecture is like that)

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à SS&C Blue Prism

Avantages

I like that it is a software that improves our project management, since we can program it to perform simple tasks, we integrate it with many departments, it has a clear user interface, good process monitoring and good bot flow.

Inconvénients

It is a leading software in the field of process automation, no errors have appeared, we have had good experiences and results that we have not achieved with other automation software.

Avantages

If you use this solution on your digital transformation journey, you may safely adapt your operations without jeopardizing your compliance or security standards. The product's UI is highly accessible and easy to use for people of varying skill levels. It's designed to be accessible to people with varying levels of coding expertise with a "pro code" and "no code" interface. It uses state-of-the-art technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence to make automation of a wide variety of tasks simpler and more effective. The solution's prefabricated automation makes implementation quick and painless. The help given is outstanding and expertly done.

Inconvénients

A minor complaint I have is the lack of search capabilities when using the credentials feature. This causes frequent problems when there are numerous credential items and you're trying to pull one out by searching for a specific label, or in my case, an environment variable that may be hidden under another heading. One way to resolve this issue would be to allow developers to expand the user interface components, thereby allowing users to sort through items in a more time-efficient manner.

Avantages

We are deeply in love with the ecosystem of Blue Prism Digital Exchange, Enabling us to ensure the quality and the capabilities of automations delivered to avoid any struggles in the future, We also love their highly advanced intelligent automation skills (Digital Workforce), for seamless insightful reporting and actionable metrics, machine learning, problem solving for predictions and decision making for turning unstructured data into valuable informational insights to discover automations and process opportunities

Inconvénients

We face some instability, freezing or crashes when it comes to big data everything goes slow (Sometimes) and not most of the times. They need to work more on improving the debugging tool and enhancing the speed and stability of the cloud. They also need to take another look at the documentation and improve it with more visual tutorials.

Avantages

I like the most is code free. even non technical background also can easily learn the blue prism. by using this tool can reduce the errors and time for daily task. the design of the module is very secure and easily learn.
the best architecture blue prism has and very good database modeling.

Inconvénients

I don't see any concern here but we can improve the OCR functionality to automate the pdf and image kind of inputs.

Avantages

It is very robust software with powerful capabilities like screen scrapping using Application Modeler. We can perform the web & windows automation using the Process Studio and Object Studio. We can perform the Multi-bot architecture using the in-built features of work queues.

Inconvénients

It is one of the best RPA software which can automate any business use cases where RPA deployment is feasible.

Avantages

Back office automation is amazing with superb integration

Inconvénients

Development is not that easy compared to Automation Anywhere and UiPath

Avantages

I prefer Blue Prism's workflow-style development over other similar products. Blue Prism makes it much easier to develop and investigate processes and objects. Once I become accustomed to Blue Prism, I find it difficult to use any other products

Inconvénients

Not only Blue Prism, but also RPA product licenses are not reasonable for small companies

Avantages

The best thing I like about blueprism is the debugging part, which is very crucial during development. None of the other tools that I know has the flexibility of debugging that Blueprism provides. The stages that are available in both Process and Object studio does most of the Jobs at ease. The flowchart kind of development makes the developer and others understands the code/script easily. This is one of the most stable RPA tool available in market.

Inconvénients

Mainly because of its pricing, many customers are migrating to other RPA tools.

Avantages

Blue Prism integrates well with APIs to perform AI/ML operations. It is easy to install and has very helpful tutorials to understand the workings of the tool. The 6-month trial version has all its functionalities enabled to work in an isolated environment.

Inconvénients

Blue Prism provides full-fledged customer support only to their licensed partners. Since this tool has been recently launched, there are not many support communities or YouTube solution videos to provide instant solutions to our needs.

Avantages

Their fully-managed intelligent platform provides us with a team of experts handling infrastructure and the operational requirements, and their assistance is one of the greatest features in Blue Prism, like no other platform. and beside this real-human assistance, it comes with a powerful AI-powered digital assistant (IADA) to help you supervise the flow between the team and the to-dos to keep the performance boosted with the highest productivity possible Loads of preconfigured cognitive services that are ready-to-work with no manual efforts, also their control room provides us with a great flexibility in controlling the process scheduling with an ease of use.

Inconvénients

when dealing with the computation portion of the string-related processes it might make sense to use VB directives instead of programming and native techniques to save time in development while also providing ease of implementation, Also the lack of the capabilities and accuracy in the exisiting OCR functionalities needs to be enhanced with some improvements and to update it with the latest OCR technologies.

Avantages

I like the ease with which the business processes can be automated this reducing manual efforts by the Users, also the software is very easy to learn as its a low code/ no code software.

Inconvénients

Nothing to dislike at the moment but if the licensing costs can be reduced than it would be a great help

Avantages

With the help of Blue Prism we were able to deploy bots effortlessly. The bots were highly efficient and helped us in converting our manual repetitive tasks into automated ones scheduled as per our preference thereby helping us cut costs and utilize our workforce elsewhere.

Inconvénients

A few third party tools are not officially supported by Blue Prism and hence the integration of application based on these tools is a bit tricky. The error logs sent to the user when a bot fails or a failure event is detected, is a bit too complex and hard to understand.

Avantages

has many core .net concept directly implemented
workflow style of coding is very helpful
has mimimum deployment architecture

Inconvénients

it is moving away from low code platform

Avantages

integration with other applications is easier. we can easily segregate the business layer and functional layer. we can easily schedule the bot.

Inconvénients

So far I don't see any cons for this product.

Avantages

Possibility to have just an user with license animating a session with several people

Inconvénients

Differences between desktop and web versions
Difficulty to manage external content

Avantages

1)It is easier to debug the code as we can go step by step in BP
2) It is easier to showcase the code directly has a flowchart view

Inconvénients

1) No search button to search for already built bots in the repository
2) No local machine concept everything is saved in the repository

Avantages

It has the highest level of security as compared to any other tool.
The analysis itself is very good.
The mapping is very good.

Inconvénients

I think chat bot is not good with blue prism.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

The possibility to integrate it with many market solutions and the abundance of elements of interaction already available for the most common target applications

Inconvénients

The very high rigidity of the software, that impose to write commands in speficic sintaxes (global send keys, global send keys event, ...) instead of being able to converti it from plain text.

In addition, the process are not quite stable and require continous adjustments in order to mantain developed functionalities.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à SS&C Blue Prism

Avantages

The most impactful feature I like about blue prism is its flow diagram. I like how easy it is to design (visually) workflows and use them. Its UI is quite good and sometimes attractive when colours are applied. And yes, Debugging in this RPA tool is way easier than in other RPA tools.

Inconvénients

As the world is moving to cloud platforms, not having a web-based control room and a recorder is a little drawback. Otherwise, it is a good RPA tool to work on.

Avantages

The one thing that I like about this product is the ease of integration with the enterprise. It is also very secure and robust , and its ability of inbuilt analytics are some things I really like about this product. The product also has a great 24*7 customer care support that is very helpful. It is very accurate too.

Inconvénients

The visual designer can be made more user friendly and easier to automate tasks.

Avantages

Easy to build large and complex process,
Easy to learn,
Clean UI,
Very good debugging options as compared to other tools,
Fast and secure for clients

Inconvénients

They can grow more on Attended Automation area. Also they should create ready made ML AI bots to make intelligent automation easy.