Let take a brief introduction of trio.
Blue prism
Blue prism was formed in 2001,
and follows a top-down approach. This tool holds the capability of virtual
workforce powered by software robots. This helps the enterprises to automate
the business operations in an agile and cost effective manner. This tool based
on C# programming language and offers a visual designer with drag and drop
functionalities. Also let me tell you that blue prism offers a visual designer
with no recorders, scripts or any intervention.
Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere is a RPA tool
whose motive is to provide its user scalable, secure and resilient services. This
will let you explore the tool and automate tasks, and then provides you with an
enterprise service. Automation Anywhere offers better performance as it has the
ability to integrate to different platforms and also scale simultaneously. Well
this tool is meant to be used in the enterprise level and is mainly designed
for solving complexity issues.
Ui-Path
Ui-Path is a robotic process
automation tool which is used to automate repetitive tasks and eliminate human
interventions. Now this tool is simple to use and has a drag and drop
functionality of activities.
Let us now see how these tools
stand out against each other. In this face off we will compare all three tools
on the basis of following grounds:
1. Market trend
Now according to Google trend
Ui-Path emerges as clear winner out of the trio while other tools have almost
similar trend and are going hand in hand with others. Ui-Path seems to be giving
a tough competition to two other tools. Also the search volume of Ui-Path is
large.
2. Based technology
All the three tools are based on
different technologies while blue prism is based on C#, Automation Anywhere is
based on Microsoft technology, Ui-Path on the other hand is based on numerous
technologies like sharepoint, kibana & elasticsearch. While all the three
technologies are based on different technologies Ui-Path, blue prism and
Automation anywhere aim to cater need of the enterprises with similar
functionalities.
3. Architecture type
There are mainly two types of architecture we
will be focusing on that is client based architecture and web based
orchestrator. Now let me explain you these terms first. Client based
architecture is a network architecture in which each computer or process on the
network either a client or server, so basically you can see multiple client
connected to a single server and performing various number of tasks. Now coming
to web based orchestrator, it connects automated tasks to a cohesive workflow
to accomplish a goal with permissions oversight and policy enforcements. So
blue prism and automation anywhere have client based architecture while ui-path
have web based orchestrator.
4. Process designer
Process designer or a visual
designer. Now visual designer refers to the dashboard of the tools through
which you can define your automation tasks. Now we are comparing blue prism,
ui-path and automation anywhere based on this parameter. Ui-Path emerges as
clear winner. This is because Ui-Path is user friendly and offers dashboard
with simple drag and drop functionalities whereas automation anywhere is
developer friendly and is completely script based. Now coming to blue prism, it
is easier to use than automation anywhere but it is not easy to overtake
Ui-Path.
5. Programming skill
Before I start comparing these
tools on the basis of programming skills let me tell you that when you are
working on automation tool it is obvious that our aim is to reduce coding yet
if you are looking forward to up skill yourself in RPA then knowing dot net
will definite be an advantage. Now comparing these tools on the basis of
programming you do require programming for blue prism to manage business
objective. Well for automation anywhere you do require a little knowledge of
coding to use activities. Now coming to ui-path you don’t require programming
skill as ui-path offers a simple dashboard with basic functionality. So anyone
who can understand and analyze the business problem to design automation to
benefit an enterprise can go with either of the tools.
6. Accessibility
Accessibility of blue prism and
automation anywhere stands the same that is both of them can be accessed
through apps but when it comes to ui-path it has mobile and browser
accessibility now it is completely based on scenario which tool you want to use
and which tool will need cater best.
7. Reusability
When we compare these tools on
this parameter we will observe that all the three tools offer various options
to cater reusability of processes or the designed automations. While blue prism
offers libraries which can be reused with other process, coming to automation
anywhere, blocks are created using smart adapters and in ui-path projects are
grouped together as library.
8. Recorders
Next point of comparison we have is recorders,
recorders are features provided by tools through which we record various types of
actions, in large scale industries recorders are mainly used to record few
important and repetitive actions so that manual workforce doesn’t have to spend
a more time in implementing action again and eventually waste time. Blue prism
doesn’t provide this feature while automation anywhere and ui-path provides
basic and macro recorders.
9. Robots
Robots provided by the tools are responsible
to cater your requirements and provide either front and back office automation
or both of them. When it is front office automation it means all those kind of
tasks which operational activity that directly affects customers such as
customer sales, services markets and websites. Now back office refers to that
activities that take place behind the scenes and serves as more supportive
function such as IT, HR, inventory, management etc., now you can use anyone of
tools to reduce cost and maximize efficiency. You can cater with only back
office automation with blue prism while ui-path and automation anywhere caters
both front and back office automations.
10. Accuracy
Now moving on next parameter which
is accuracy, now term accuracy is to define how accurately designed automation
works to deliver the desired result within allotted production time. Now comparing
blue prism, automation anywhere and ui-path on this factor, blue prism performs
well in the sector of desktop web and citrix automation. Now desktop automation
mainly refers to activities automated in single PC, web automation refers to
action performed on web browser and citrix automation refers to actions
automated to virtual environment. Also let me tell you that ui-path shines in
citrix automation designed for business processing outsourcing. Now coming to
last tool which is automation anywhere, it performs reasonable across mediums.
11. Operational scalability
Blue prism clearly wins as it
offers good and high execution speed, while automation anywhere offers limited
large scale robot deployment on the other hand ui-path tends to crash in medium
level projects.
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