Blue Prism Cloud vs Ephesoft Transact comparison

SS&C Blue Prism and Ephesoft are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. Additionally, 97% of SS&C Blue Prism users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Ephesoft users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Blue Prism Cloud and Ephesoft Transact based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Automation Anywhere

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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AyanBanerjee

Cloud & AI Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Automation and AI integration enhance performance and user experience

The improvements or enhancements I would like to see in Blue Prism Cloud revolve around further developing server-client architecture, focusing on centralized control for remote agents. I believe more capabilities in that area could be beneficial. At the moment, I don't recall any specific features or functionalities missing from Blue Prism Cloud that come to mind. In terms of complexity, I find that Blue Prism Cloud is somewhat straightforward to use. Flexibility-wise, it engages well with Microsoft-based technologies. However, there are challenges with OCR capabilities that remain an issue. While there are readily available features that work well, the effectiveness does depend significantly on the type of use case I am implementing.

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it_user1648179

OCR Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

A stable and scalable smart content acquisition and data classification solution with a useful inject feature

I would advise potential users that Ephesoft Transact is an easy tool to handle. The UI isn't complex, and even if everything isn't handled at the UI level, they can work with the script. You can also handle issues with scripts. I believe Ephesoft Transact is one of the best tools because the UI is an easy one. The UI-level design makes it easy to handle the development and the superior Ephesoft support system. They will give you quick support to resolve issues and provide training materials. They will train the developer, and after training the developers, they will also support them. That's a good good thing that I saw. Initially, when I joined this project, I also had less knowledge. But with the help of this support system and the training material, I now have superior knowledge. On a scale from one to ten, I would give Ephesoft Transact a nine.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It helps increase productivity by 20% to 30%."

"The Visual Studio integration is smooth and user-friendly."

"Since it is AI-powered, it automates our work; initially, we had many manual interventions, but now with the AI-powered capabilities, we are saving time and our productivity has increased."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. It's very user-friendly."

"It's really easy to use. We have a number of people at our firm who are now certified RPA developers that had no development background. They did that just by the online training in some cases. In some cases, it was the online training, as well as a three day class that we brought in-house and had taught."

"Toward this life cycle, we have a very structured approach of governing, monitoring, and tracking, that's the approach we have taken. Insights we gain from this governance, we apply towards automation strategy and implementations. We've done this for many clients across the globe. We are happy to share those experiences with some of you as well."

"The scalability of Automation Anywhere, the framework, and user interface are particularly impressive."

"The most valuable feature in this solution is the IQ Bot."

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"The ease of building automation and the development environment"

"We can save on staff costs by automating processes."

"The tool saves us from repetitive and mundane tasks. We don’t have to write, record or copy data from Excel. The product helps us save time. We save money as well since people doing this task are on various other automation tasks. The chance for repetitive entries is also reduced because the tool helps us make one-time entries."

"There is no latency in the product."

"The most valuable feature is the customizability."

"At this point, I haven't found anything that I can't do with this platform."

"The corporate leverage is better with Blue Prism. They just present better in a large corporation. It's easier to sell suits and ties than it is sneakers and jeans in financial institutions. That's not really about the application per se; it's the perception."

"One of the most valuable features is automating manual and repetitive business processes, streamlining operations and reducing manual labour."

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"I have found the keyword extraction to be helpful."

"I believe Ephesoft Transact is one of the best tools because the UI is an easy one."

"Transact's best feature is its ease of customization."

"I like the inject feature. With desktop injects, we're doing all these things and extracting these things. Its stable, scalable, and technical support is good."

Cons

"The Automation Anywhere calibrating needs to be more user-friendly to avoid human error."

"I don't use the technical support a lot. It feels like a lot of time that they will ask us to check the user manual."

"We have HTML mode and Window mode, but Automation Anywhere is limited in this. It would be better if they were able to provide different specification modes."

"I believe Automation Anywhere needs to improve on product quality. Sometimes it has intermittent issues."

"Automation Anywhere is troublesome for some people because of the way it is organized."

"It would be great if they provide installation documents that are easier to understand, place more focus on capturing the fields, and most importantly, concentrate more on the OCR capability."

"I would like to see improvement in its scalability."

"As a developer or user, I feel that the performance of the overall package could be made a little better or reliable."

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"The solution is unable to read some UI components in legacy systems."

"The product could be improved by including advance features like OCR - optical character recognition - which are currently not native to the product."

"The solution needs to simplify the user interface. It could be much better and much more appealing."

"Blue Prism Cloud is a solid product that fulfils its intended functions well. Although there is room for improvement, it has integrated various cognitive and intelligent document processing features into a single product. But needs to effectively automate RPA processes despite some initial challenges addressed through product updates and new features."

"Lacking advance features like CIO and optical character recognition"

"Edge browser extensions could be made slightly more resilient. It would be nice if they could package new libraries for end users rather than have them search for libraries."

"There's a need to deal with unstructured input with RPA."

"The tool’s customer support should improve. There were instances where I tried to call them up and was put on hold. However, they do revert back through emails once a ticket has been issued. They should be quick with their responses on calls."

More Blue Prism Cloud cons

"Their email service and extraction could be better. We get the input via email, and these emails contain different types of documents like Excel, PDF, or they may contain different content in the email body. Due to this variation, sometimes the email service crashes, and emails aren't redirected to Ephesoft Transact. Ephesoft has provided us with new hotfixes. Whatever flaws we found in the 2019.2 version, they have already updated it in the new version, 20.1.05, and it's already released. Drawbacks like not capturing the handwritten fields are now sorted."

"It's not easy to train."

"Transact could be improved by removing Java and making its pricing more accessible for smaller customers."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of Automation Anywhere is high in Turkey due to the weak economy."

"If I compare it with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere is cheaper. Blue Prism is very costly. Automation Anywhere's pricing follows the market, not less and not more."

"Our annual licensing costs are around $100,000 a year."

"We have reduced our headcount, approximately 200 to 300 employees, by eliminating manual, repetitive work. It provides profit to the business."

"I've seen the price vary by whether the client is going to scale and adopt a tool."

"One of the key features that we chose, the bot as a service or the BotFarm, when they launched version 11.3, they decided not to have the BotFarm anymore. This put us in a situation because we expected to have bots on demand, just like our cloud software. This would have been cost efficient for us to use. We hope to see this again being realized with A2019. I hope the scalability from an on demand basis improves."

"We have a three-year contract with Automation Anywhere."

"It is one of the most affordable RPA solutions, and as for licensing, they offer a community edition that greatly helps anyone who aspires to learn about the product before buying the enterprise solution."

More Automation Anywhere pricing and cost advice

"Blue Prism comes at a higher price point compared to other solutions on the market."

"This solution comes at a medium to high price point. They need to work on their pricing to enable smaller enterprises to get the benefit of using the product."

"The default configuration does not include large-scale log injection, but if you require, such integration, it may incur additional costs per gigabyte. I don't have the exact pricing information for log injection, but it is possible that it varies depending on the volume of data. While there may be a basic service included, additional features might come at an extra cost. When working with cloud environments like VMs, calculating costs involves considering factors such as usage duration, network traffic, inbound and outbound data transfer, as well as network access control. The pricing structure for cloud coverage solutions follows a similar pattern, although specific pricing details would need to be obtained separately."

"There are costs for the machine to run the robots."

"There are many RPA solutions available from different vendors and the pricing for Blue Prism is competitive."

"We found the pricing reasonable, and it aligned with our budgetary requirements."

"The licensing structure is complex and the minimum contract length is three years."

"Blue Prism Cloud’s pricing is fine for commercial usage."

More Blue Prism Cloud pricing and cost advice

"Transact's pricing could be better for smaller customers."

"Initially, when I got a licensed copy of Ephesoft Transact, it was for one year. After one year, we had to send an email to the Ephesoft team informing them that our license was going to expire. They updated it and provided one license in our file, and we had to update and install the folder. They have versions for one year and lifelong as well."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

14%

Marketing Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Insurance Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	157
Midsize Enterprise	83
Large Enterprise	552

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Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	22

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Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Blue Prism Cloud?

Concerning pricing, it's moderate now, but when it comes to the cloud, it is a bit expensive.

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What needs improvement with Blue Prism Cloud?

The area for improvement in Blue Prism Cloud is the support component. Whenever I reach out to the Blue Prism communi...

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What is your primary use case for Blue Prism Cloud?

My use case for Blue Prism Cloud is for automation.

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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

Blue Prism Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce, Blue Prism Virtual Workforce, Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce

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Ephesoft

Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

Automation Anywhere

Blue Prism Cloud offers robust automation capabilities for backend office operations with a user-friendly, no-code interface, enhancing security and cloud integration for organizational efficiency.

Blue Prism Cloud, a comprehensive automation platform, provides efficient process automation, leveraging features like Object Studio and flow design for ease of use and reusability. Non-programmers benefit from its intuitive interface, allowing for quick project turnaround with low-code development. Key features include seamless integration with cloud technologies and advanced AI functionalities, strengthening the automation of tasks. It's designed to enhance control and efficiency by enabling unattended automation, supported by solid security measures such as CyberArk. The platform's dashboard and analytics tools assist businesses in monitoring and management, making it a reliable choice for enhancing operations.

What are Blue Prism Cloud's features?

Process Automation: Automates backend processes with ease.
Object Studio: Facilitates flow design for streamlined automation.
No-Code Interface: Accessible to non-programmers for rapid deployment.
Security: Integrates with CyberArk for robust protection.
Advanced AI: Enhances automation with intelligent features.
Analytics: Offers tools for effective monitoring and management.

What benefits should users consider?

Speed in Execution: Reduces project turnaround time.
Customizability: Adapts to specific business needs.
Integration: Seamless with cloud platforms and applications.
Reliability: Ensures consistent operational performance.
User Engagement: Intuitive tools enhance user interaction.
Support Responsiveness: Access to timely and effective support.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, Blue Prism Cloud transforms operations by automating tasks such as test evaluation, process automation, and data integration across applications. Organizations automate accounting, CRM, and reporting functions while leveraging AI for document processing. The platform supports unattended automation, enabling businesses to craft tailored infrastructures to fulfill precise client needs.

SS&C Blue Prism

Ephesoft Transact is a modern, intelligent document processing tool designed to streamline data capture and extraction for businesses seeking efficiency and accuracy in handling high volumes of incoming documents.

Ephesoft Transact caters to businesses that require streamlined document processing by automating the capture, extraction, and analysis of data. It leverages AI-driven technologies to enhance document workflows, significantly reducing manual efforts. This platform supports seamless integration with existing systems and ensures data accessibility and accuracy, helping organizations manage and process documents swiftly.

What are the standout features of Ephesoft Transact?

Smart Capture: Uses AI to accurately capture and extract data from documents.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing enterprise applications.
High Scalability: Adapts to changing volumes of document processing needs.
Advanced Analytics: Provides insights and manages workflows effectively.
Cloud and On-Premise Deployment: Flexibility in deployment options to suit infrastructure needs.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Increased Efficiency: Automates tasks, freeing up human resources for other priorities.
Cost Savings: Reduces expenses associated with manual document processing.
Improved Accuracy: Minimizes errors in data extraction and entry.
Faster Turnaround: Speeds up document handling and related processes.
Enhanced Data Security: Offers robust protection for sensitive information.

Ephesoft Transact is widely implemented across industries such as finance, healthcare, and government. In finance, it accelerates invoice processing and compliance documentation. Healthcare organizations utilize it to manage patient records and streamline billing processes. Government agencies benefit by automating document governance and improving service delivery. This versatile application effectively handles diverse document-intensive scenarios.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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Honda Logistics, Washington State Health Care Authority

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