Details about few path breaking RPA tools that are redefining the industry.
When it comes to using RPA tools, there are ample number of players to select from. While selecting the right software, there are various things industry experts look for, such as – ease of use, flexible, scalable and budget-friendly. There are few RPA tools for small and medium businesses that seems to be viable options. These are listed below:
1. UiPath
UiPath is the leading solution in the RPA market and can be used to automate any desktop or web application. It can support multiple languages including English, French, Japanese and Russian.
UiPath provides both types of bots – attended as well as unattended. The attended ones are triggered when the users are engaged in certain tasks while the unattended ones run in the background where there is no requirement of supervision. It is available on 60-day trial period post which users can reach out to company for subscription.
UiPath also has a community version, which is a fully featured version of UiPath tool for individual and developers. With two different flavors of development environment – Studio and StudioX, UiPath leads the RPA market. StudioX helps people with no coding background to develop automation process from the scratch while UiPath Studio is meant for developers to build more complex automation. Thus, with these two important elements, UiPath is the most preferred RPA tool in the market. Moreover, UiPath offers free training along with imparting digital skills to the youth around the world.
2. BluePrism
BluePrism helps automate repetitive tasks which helps employees to free up their time. Employees can then use this time to do more productive tasks. The software comes up with an easy drag and drop feature which helps designers to design automation with ease. The tool can be used in any platform and it provides a trial period of 60 days for its users. It helps enterprise to automate the business in an agile and cost-effective manner.
3. Pega
Pega is an American software that help enterprise make better decisions. The company develops softwares for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Digital Process Automation (DPA) and Business Process Automation (BPA) that consolidate architecture which is based on business rule management. The unified platform helps to deliver all the solutions needed to bridge gaps between the front and back office.
4. Robocorp
Another potent RPA technology that is very new to the market is called Robocorp. This startup is developing open source, cloud-based RPA tools. Users can enter your email address to receive early access even though it is still in its early stages. Additionally, they have a library of resources called “Robohub” for developers. The framework used by Robocorp and the Robot Framework Foundation is comparable.
5. Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere is the global RPA leader that offers industry’s web and cloud based intelligent automation platform. It combines RPA, AL, ML and analytics to scale Business Process Automation. The bot store provided by the platform is the world’s largest and stores more than 1000 in-built automation solution. This tool is capable to distribute complex tasks to multiple computers without using a script. It provides three types of automation products – Community edition, IQ Bot, Bot Insight.
6. NICE Systems
It is a virtual RPA tool that contains software bots that automate end-to-end processes in a holistic manner. The software houses a unique automation finder called NEVA which is used for desktop process mining. It incorporates machine learning and pinpoints optimal business processes which can be used in automation with a precision.
7. Power Automate
Power automate is relatively new player in the market but it is picking up rapidly. It provides all RPA capabilities which help employees automate their routine tasks. The tool comes up with a scriptless UI. It is easier to operate and allows user to add more features to add scale as we move up the enterprise landscape. Power automate is easily integrated with Microsoft ecosystem as it is developed by Microsoft.
It comes with three pricing plans – 15$, 40$ and 100$ per user per month. In the 15$ plan, users have access to automate cloud apps, services, and data with Digital Process Automation (DPA). Users can create and run unlimited flows using this plan. The 40$ plan allows same capabilities as the base user plan, plus the ability to automate legacy apps on a desktop via robotic process automation (RPA) in attended mode whereas the 100$ plan allow unlimited users within an organization to run Digital Process automation (DPA) from the same flow.
8. OpenBots
OpenBots is the first enterprise RPA platform which doesn’t have any cost associated with licensing. It has least running operational costs. It has three components – OpenBots Studio, OpenBots Server and Openbots Agent.
The platform provides elastic ramp up and ramp down flexibility to allow for on demand bots needed for changes in business transaction volumes.
Conclusion
These open source software are leading the industry as they allow the source code to remain public and is freely available for possible modification and redistribution. These softwares offer three key benefits – low cost, flexibility and security, which makes them worth using.
RPA tools enables employees and other important stakeholders in any organization to get rid of duplicate tasks such as data entry, data collection. Although, these software come with a cost but if chosen wisely, it could be proven as beneficial to the users upto a large extent.
Although every tool has its pros and cons, each one can be used in any context and has variety of application. No tool is perfect for one type of application and hence users have a variety to choose from.
At EmergeFlow, we are committed to giving our clients the finest service possible. We offer services at every stage of automation, including advising, developing bots, deploying bots, and bot maintenance. In the end, what counts to us is creating pure value for the clients and observably better productivity, efficiency and high derived value.
