Abstract

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) will have a profound effect on the way businesses are run. The task-centric “bot” is the basic building block. Automation Anywhere builds “Digital Workers” by combining bots with cognitive automation and analytics to augment human workers by performing complete business functions from start to finish. Automation Anywhere commissioned Tolly to analyze key elements of RPA offerings to help provide a structured approach for buyers to evaluate various solutions on the market.

With groundbreaking, new technologies like RPA, the critical buying decision needs to be made without the benefit of long experience. The offerings are so leading edge that few have years of experience and it is easy to make a mis-step with only glitzy marketing to go by.

In this guide, we’ll introduce you to what we see as the four pillars of any RPA offering: AI/Cognitive, Security, Scalability & Analytics. In this section we’ll summarize each of the areas and provide an overview of what Automation Anywhere Enterprise (AAE) offers in each area. In the body of the paper, we’ll drill down into additional details of each area. We’ll provide you with specific and important capabilities that can form the basis of an informed buying decision. This can provide a template for comparison with other RPA offerings.