What can we do with UiPath or Blue Prism beyond our existing robots?

UiPath and SS&C Blue Prism offer capabilities beyond running RPA robots. Depending on your products and deployment, you can connect automation with AI, document processing and human tasks to support a broader business process.

Relevant opportunities include:

• Processing documents and requests. Extract and interpret information from documents or messages, validate it and pass it to downstream automation.
• Introducing AI agents. Use agents for tasks that require interpreting context or selecting actions within defined limits.
• Giving employees an interface. Let people submit requests, provide missing information and review results. UiPath Apps supports application interfaces; Blue Prism WorkHQ includes interaction forms.
• Coordinating complete processes. UiPath Maestro and Blue Prism WorkHQ provide orchestration capabilities to coordinate agents, robots, systems and people.
• Improving operational visibility. Use the monitoring capabilities available in your platform to understand progress, failures and outstanding work.

For example, an onboarding process could combine an employee request form, document checks, an approval step and an existing robot that creates records in a business application.

These capabilities are not necessarily included in your current licences or available in every deployment. Some require additional products, configuration or changes to your architecture.

RoboRana starts with your existing environment and a concrete process to identify which extensions are useful, what they require and whether the expected value justifies the investment.