Blue Prism Automation Lifecycle Suite

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2020: Availability of a packet of Automation Lifecycle Suite

On November 17, 2020 the Blue Prism company announced availability of a packet of Automation Lifecycle Suite including several updated tools which will allow the enterprises to realize the potential of intellectual digital workers at any stage of their way to automation. This packet, the including Automation Lifecycle Management (ALM), Process Assessment Tool (PAT) and Capture: Process Modeller, optimizes identification, deployment and scaling of automation and also reduces standard time of planning and design for 70% that allows to benefit more from digital employees.

Automation Lifecycle Suite

According to the company, researches show that for November, 2020 66% of IT heads around the world defined investments into automation as priority after COVID-19, and transition to remote work forces the enterprises to look for ways of process optimization and performance. But it is not always easy to realize all potential of automation of the enterprise. In the same way as for effective deployment of human labor power, time can be required to define the best tasks for robots and to be convinced that they are effective in the role. Users say that for November, 2020 it is often difficult for them to define what processes they should automate how to place priorities for ways to automation how to design and then how to manage the projects on automation.

Blue Prism Automation Lifecycle Management (ALM) (Management of lifecycle of automation) is a tool kit which help the enterprises to optimize the projects on automation. It includes simple interfaces in use with the managed masters and also in advance developed workflows, such as development of Process Definition (Process determinations) that allows the enterprises to document the steps necessary for completion of business process. The requirements crucial for corporate management, such as identification of those to whom certain tasks and who has the right to sign them can be appointed are built also already in a system.

Blue Prism Process Assessment Tool (PAT) (The instrument of process evaluation) helps to construct complete idea of a flow of automation of business with accurate recommendations of how to develop digital workers, using the necessary processes, in due time, in the right place of business. It is often difficult to pass from automation of several initial processes to obtaining real benefit from automation of several processes into the organizations. PAT gives to users an opportunity even more to optimize efficiency, providing information on cost reduction and saving of time, simplicity of assessment of implementation and the recommendation about arrangement of priorities. Such prioritizing helps users to use digital personnel for achievement of the general business objectives and tasks, providing at the same time the maximum investment payback in each project of automation.

Blue Prism Capture: Process Modeller (Modeller of processes) automates the labor-consuming manual tasks connected with business process display before it can be automated. The correct accomplishment of this work is a basis for final success of any automation and usually includes display of different process steps - collecting of reference documents, viewing screenshots of the screen of the computer of the employee, the number of necessary clicking of the keys showing the different performed operations - which in total become the final document of determination of process (Process Definition Document, PDD). Capture: Process Modeller uses the equipment of artificial intelligence and computer vision for recognition and interpretation of these screenshots, video and data, and their consolidation in a form which then if necessary can be checked and rebuilt by the analyst. The final output can be exported to MS-Word or other formats of the software easily. Time which occupies process from the beginning of determination of process before signing of PDD can vary from several days to several weeks, depending on opportunities of the person who is responsible for process. Automation of tasks is available to everyone at the enterprise now that reduces time from the beginning of determination of process to signing of PDD up to several days.

These offers are directed to optimization of operational flexibility. Tools will help users of Blue Prism to define the optimal action plan on the way to intellectual automation and to provide steady and effective management of automation process. David Moore, the senior vice president for strategy and product management of Blue Prism told

Perspectives of automation of robotic processes (RPA) consist in the speed and speed, but the organizations can cope with an assigned task hardly. The tools helping teams to optimize and manage lifecycle of automation are crucial for accomplishment of programs of automation in scale with proper quality, saving at the same time the main promises of RPA. Neil Ward-Dutton, the vice president for practice of automation of artificial intelligence and intellectual processes in IDC Europe told

Available at the end of this November, 2020 via the Blue Prism portal, these offers support complete idea of a potential flow of automation of the organization, saving at the same time critical aspects of ensuring proper supervision and control over a robotic operational model of Blue Prism (ROM).