Blueprism: Important Elements of Blue Prism
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BLUEPRISM
PROs
1 Good workflow/flowchart designer - enables better traceability of automation with process and
ease of maintenance.
2 Business objects are reusable by design
3 Supports distributed development. True enterprise level centralized Architecture.
4 In built reporting module with lowest level of granularity and strong analytical engine.
5 Detailed transaction log available
6 Supports Role based access control, Active Directory (AD) integration
7 Tool can get Control room data through query
8 Centralized secured credential storage and HIPPA, PCI compliant security standard.
9 Ability to provide BP components as web service - provide greater flexibility in designing
enterprise level solution.
10 Runtime execution is fast, but slower than AA
11 Good all-round functionality with a proven track record of deployment at many enterprises
12 OCR support (Tesseract)
Cons
1 "Record and Play" feature not available
2 Windows 10 not supported
3 Limited browser support beyond IE
4 Version control management tool not available
5 Product Licence is costly. Need to have minimum licences.
6 Windows based control room as opposed to web based control room from compatatiors.
7 Mainly used for Backoffice (unassisted automation). RDA / assisted automation is supported
through surface automation (double check) using events like button click event.
Important Elements of Blue Prism:
Process studio
Object studio
Control room
System manager and Release manager
Application Modeller
2. Pega Robotics / Openspan:
PROs
1 Great RPA tool for both RDA and RPA. RDA is assisted automation where Agent an Bot work
together. It requires a design of user interface.
2 Integrated with Visual studio and great if you have DotNet/C# experience.
3 Framework components like Logging, runtime configuration (read dynamic values from xml)
can be built as C# DLL / custom conrols and import it to openspan studio.
5 Text adapter/Emulator for mainframe support
6 TFS integration
Cons
1 Non Visual studio .Net developers find it difficult.
2 Localized credential staorage in flat file.
3 Inbuilt work queues not available
Important Elements of PegaRobotics/Openspan
1 Robotic Desktop Automation (RDA) support by adding windows forms
2 Adapters (Web, Desktop, Text and Citrix)
3 Global Container, Activities and Interaction manager to pass data back and forth between
projects
4 Entry and Exit points
3. Automation Anywhere:
PROs
1 "Record and Play" feature available making development easy and faster
2 Supports MODI, TOCR and external OCR Engines (Accuracy is very good)
3 Built in Software version control (SVN) available
4 Centralized web based dash board for runtime Bot monitoring
5 Good analytical feature plug-in (Bot Insight) for business and operational data
6 Metabot feature available to integrate DLLs, create re-usable components and perform offline
development
7 Supports Role based access control
8 Ease of deployment. Offers flexibility and ease of doing business
9 Runtime execution is fast
10 Desktop automation as well as enterprise capabilities
11 Web based control room that allows to access it from mobile
Cons
1 Inbuilt work queues not available
2 AA has localized credential staorage in flat file. Credential vault is not secured for users
3 Need minimum programming experience
4 AA only has task level reporting capability
5 AA has procedural approach towards exposing AA components.
6 AA fails to create a complete Virtual workforce concept by not allowing to share same
workstation with Agent/user.
7 Exposing web service not supported in AA
8 Limited features for data driven backend operations, compare to its competators. For ex, excel
automation or file automation.
Elements of AA
1 TaskBot - Basic Automation License, used to automate rule based transactional processes
2 MetaBot - Advanced features for large deployments, Offline app automation and consuming
objects.
3 IQBot - For Cognitive RPA.
4 BotFarm - For cloud deployment
5 BotInsight - For business and operational analytics
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4. UiPath
PROs
1 Has robust workflow designer and recording feature
2 Efficient image recognition
3 Feature available to record Citrix processes
4 Business objects are re-usable (Sequences, flowcharts)
5 Native support to OCR and various Cloud options (Average accuracy)
6 In-built software version control (TFS, SVN)
7 Supports Role based access control
8 Elastic search / indexer server available for operational and historical data of the robots
9 Multi-tenancy – you can separate control room into several areas e.g. per department or DEV
and QA
10 Supports both front and back office automation
Cons
1 Overall runtime performance is slow
2 Requires 8 GB RAM
3 Java code not supported whereas VBA, C# are supported
4 Able to extract PDF data but extracting tabular data from PDF is lengthy process
Elements of UiPath:
1 UiPath robots - Enterprise ready Front and Back office robot
2 UiPath Studio -
3 UiPath Orchestrator - Enables the Orchestration and management of thousands of robots from a
single command centre
