With RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology, creative business leaders are stimulating customer-impacting enhancements without affecting the digital transformational roadmaps. If your enterprise possesses a high volume of mundane processes or tasks in Microsoft, Java or web-based application, you have an opportunity to incorporate RPA tool to automate these processes, increasing business progress and customer experience while slashing operating costs. This blog presents how theBlue Prism tool supports you to achieve the same with its impressive features.
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About Blue PrismSoftware
Blue Prism RPA offers the workplace with an elastic, multi-talented and multi-faced digital workforce, supporting enterprise automate as well as scale business processes through machine learning, AI, sentiment analysis and intelligent automation. This RPA tool is being used by more than 1000 enterprises worldwide. This highly scalable digital workforce can be deployed in on-premise and cloud environments. This platform also enables intense performance, high availability, failover, and disaster recovery states and addresses potentially significant variations in operational demand.
The architecture of the Blue Prism involves four main software elements. They are:
- Object Studio – Enables you to create a reusable Visual Business Object (VBO) for your business process.
- Process Studio – Enables you to design, create, edit as well as test business process, developed from reusable VBO.
- Control Room – Enables you to schedule, run and handle processes
- Release Manager – Streamlines and automates release as well as change management functions within the platform
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Six Intelligence Automation Skills
Blue Prism extends the potential of robotic process automation by introducing powerful six intelligence automation skills and delivers expressive AI capabilities. As such, an organization can easily leverage the RPA technology and deliver true operational agility. Blue Prism V6.4 is integrated with these skills and they are as follows:
Key Features of Blue Prism Robotic Automation
Blue Prism offers the most demanding users with scalability, flexibility, and governance requirements needed a planned application. Let’s explore the features of this RPA platform that supports you to transform your existing business processes and cause the differentiated customer as well as front-line experiences:
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- Plug &Play Access
The technology ecosystem of Blue Prism RPA offers a plug and play access without any code or development to your business functions like process mining, document management, workflow, analytics, OCR/ICR, AI, chat, cognitive and natural language processing. Thereby it delivers a best-in-class digital operating system for your business process.
- Work Queues
With the queue-centric approach, Blue Prism tool dynamically controls the number of robots or resources, functioning on a given queue at a certain time. It provides you with the maximum flexibility to regulate the number of robots assigned to function in the queue based on your business demands.
- Digital Exchange
Blue Prism digital exchange organizes an ecosystem of best-in-class AI technologies from enterprises you trust to make your RPA bot smarter. It offers you direct access to the innovative, pre-built solutions and functions through downloadable resources. This drag-and-drop functionality eliminates the coding & development actions and offers hassle-free experience.
- Dependency Tracking
With the Blue Prism RPA, you can get an interactive view of the design process to track how a component is referenced in the process. So that you can boost development, support maintenance, and promote re-use.
- Multi-Team Environments
This environment enables you to control your process of business units and digital workers within in a single environment. This unique feature of Blue-Prism RPA allows you to mix and match the different processes, resources, and objects for large extension of RPA in any organization incorporating a true digital transformation approach. Significantly, this feature enables a new level of scalability and security. With the revised and more granular control, it ensures that only the user with a certain level of permissions can build as well as access processes, ensuring compliance.
- Web API
The Blue Prism software offers a graphical user interface to configure Artificial Intelligence Solutions from its technology ecosystem partners. The platform achieves this by supporting the configuration of 3rd party connection with Visual Business Objects. Then, you can drag and drop the VBO into business processes.
- Chrome Support
With the Blue Prism Chrome extension, the Blue Prism V6.4 offers the native support to automate web pages as well as applications in Chrome. As it interacts with web apps and pages that are displayed in Chrome, the business processes that depend on these apps can easily be developed. This RPA platform updates the Blue Prism Application Modeller wizard with an additional Browser-based Application (Chrome) mode to examine the Chrome elements and utilize them within Business Objects.
- Firefox Browser Plug-in
In addition to Chrome support, the Blue Prism V6.4 automates web pages as well as applications in Firefox through Blue Prism Firefox extension. This feature ensures the accelerated development of your objects and processes as it allows RPA to automate the web apps and pages that are designed to work in Firefox.
- New Outlook Email VBO
The Blue Prism tool presents a new MS Outlook Email VBO to automate any email process that employs Outlook as its base. This feature supports various actions to process emails in Outlook like sending, retrieving, deleting and saving attachments & emails. With this new VBO, you can use email automation as the action of drag and drop.
- Tesseract OCR
Blue Prism V6 equipped with Tesseract OCR V3.05.01. This option offers the pattern matching as well as complicated language-based text recognition. It is dedicated to a situation where it is unsuitable to apply the native character recognition engine to contact with on-screen text.
- Non-invasive Technology
To implement Blue Prism robotic automation, you no need to have application development, APIs and SOA. This tool enables to model and retrospectively componentize the existing apps without accessing underlying code structures or data, but just wrapping the presentation layer with robust and reusable service.
- Advanced Scheduler
Advanced Scheduler is one of the powerful features in the Blue Prism Product architecture, which relies on a resource pooling. This option simply groups the modes in the system, which identifies their routine as well as schedule. This architecture allows you to independently create as many pools as needed, and the entire schedules remain current in the same.
- Out of the Box API Integration
With this new cloud integration, customers can obtain access to key automation software, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), translation as well as visual recognition through RESTful APIs. This APIs integration enables you to process unstructured data like an email from any source. The newly added features with the API integration with Google, AWS, IBM, and Microsoft are as follows:
Google Cloud Platform:
- Cloud TranslationAPI: Language detection & translation
- Cloud Natural Language API - Entity Recognition, Syntax analysis, Content Classification
- Cloud Vision API: Extract text (OCR), Detect objects, Inappropriate content, Landmark detection, Label detection, Log detection, Image attributes
Amazon Web Services
- Recognition Service: Video & Image analysis, Detect faces, objects, people & unsafe contents, Extract text (OCR)
- Comprehend: Extract topics key phrases, and sentiments across domains like Telecom, Health, Finance, and Education
IBM Watson
- Language Translator API: Detect & translate the text.
- Visual Recognition API: Analyze images for faces, scenes, objects, colors or unsafe contents, Extract text (OCR).
- Natural Language Understanding API: Extract keywords, entities, categories, relations, concepts and semantic roles, Multi-language support, Sentiment Analysis
Microsoft Cognitive Services
- Computer Vision API: Handwriting Recognition (English only), Extract Text (OCR), Landmark Recognition
- Translator Text API: Language Detection & Translation
- Text Analytics API: Key Phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Language Detection
- Robot Screen Capture
Using Remote Visualization Technology, you can capture the robot screen in the Central Control Room. This screen capture can drive faster development, test, and deployment of processes. This feature also supports troubleshoot and address resource-processing problems in a timely and secure manner.
- TAP MAGI-C Cloud Reference Architecture
With this feature, the Blue Prism V6 highlights the instant Cloud Deployment Capabilities for IBM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Google. This facilitation of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) server interaction method enables the Robot deployment on Cloud easier and scalable.
- Enhanced Security and Regulatory Compliant
The Blue Prism automation tool has been configured to meet the demanding security needs. It catches entire configuration changes as well as support enterprise audit & system management disciplines. It manages and controls processes and components centrally around server-based architecture using object-oriented principles – avoids duplications and supports object inheritance to your business scenarios.
The RPA tool also involves multi-tiered encryption algorithms to ensure secure data storage, connectivity as well as access. It supports Enterprise-wide Password Vaults using certified CyberArk Credential Management to ensure consistent credentials across the enterprise. Further, with Custom Permissions, you can enable user-specific access to robots, objects, processes and robot groups for more focused and secure robotic automation. Blue Prism can also support compliant processes like PCI-DSS, SOX and HIPAA.
- Reporting & Analytics
The new Analytics capability of Blue Prism RPA provides the enhanced metrics and the competence to build Dashboards as well as session information to be headed to external Analytics & Monitoring system. In addition, the RPA solution drives meaningful Machine Learning and Business Intelligence reporting to identify both real-time operational analytics and inline process statistics by recording each step.
- Monitoring & Referrals
Blue Prism’s monitoring capability intends to maintain high availability of platform’s technical aspect and includes the process of referring work items for further processing. The server components and system monitoring of Blue Prism are fully integrated with MS Windows monitoring and event logging solutions. Thereby it enables seamless integration into available IT support procedures and infrastructures.
- Web Service Support
You can invoke your existing web services with the Blue Prism automation tool. This tool can use the WSDL to represent the web services as the Blue Prism object within its Process Studio and Object Studio. It supports web services like RPC/Encoded, RPC/Literal, and Document/Literal. This tool also supports both simple and complex data types using mapping to its data items and collections, which supports nesting.
- Capitalizing on Incidental Opportunities
It is common to have some issues with some data on the back office operation on an incidental basis. However, laziness or other factors might create a barrier to the manual workforce for intervention when the remediation is lengthy. However, Blue Prism robotic automation can take an intervention in such situations. The robot can create an alert to an appropriate agent where the issues are likely to obtain a human judgment. Similarly, if the issue is low in priority or time-consuming to address instantly, the Blue Prism RPA can add the issue to its queue for later remediation.
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Other Prominent Features
- Region Editor – Supports to locate regions and therefore enhance region selection and flexibility
- Multi-Language Interface – This multilingual UI of Blue Prism expands its usability worldwide as the key screen are displayed in local languages other than English
- Double-byte Character Set – Supports to extend robotic automation support to processes and systems that demand double-byte like Asian Languages
- Adaptive Positioning Technology – Supports to automate application fields and controls irrespective of their onscreen position to enhance RPA bot speed
- Published Dashboards– Provides unprecedented insights using packaging & externalizing analytics data to ensure visibility within 3rd party tools together with Analytics UI
- Intelligent Surface Automation – Compensate system and color variation with computer vision and increases effectiveness and productivity
- Enterprise-class Agility Platform – Produces a centrally managed platform to accommodate agile needs – combines enterprise methodologies and technologies to facilitate fast configuration of IT resources into rapidly collected business process setups
Conclusion
We can conclude that Blue Prism robotic process automation provides operational flexibility using integrated skilled digital workforce. Undeniably, the combination of the capable RPA platform with these features enables the enterprise to accelerate the business improvement further and faster than ever before.
