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We performed a comparison between Blue Prism Cloud and OpenText Robotic Process Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"I would say that the stability of Blue Prism is superior to any of the competing products because of the maintainability of the features and the openness of the tool.""This product has additional functionality over Blue Prism Cloud Enterprise.""It is more secure for complex implementations.""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.""Decipher has been a valuable feature that many of our clients use to extract information from documents.""The solution works well overall.""The product itself is quite mature.""Blue Prism Cloud is a stable solution."

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"It lets us automate almost anything, even with the legacy tools. It is very easy for us now to automate with legacy tools, which used to be difficult earlier. We work with a lot of other automation tools from Micro Focus, such as Operation Orchestration, but these tools can only connect to the API. So, there was a gap when we wanted to automate older and legacy tools that didn't have any API to connect to. We can now also automate without any changes in the customer environment. We don't need to change anything in the way that the customer environment works."

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"The product’s pricing needs improvement.""It takes a while to get up and running.""The vendor does not make their pricing clear when you are searching for it, which is something that needs to be improved.""There's a need to deal with unstructured input with RPA.""Blue Prism should adopt a low-code approach. Most RPA vendors only provide what they call a "form builder." A low-code designer would enable us to build a custom UI.""The product’s licensing cost is expensive compared to other tools in the market.""Lacking advance features like CIO and optical character recognition""There are a few smart services that are not available in Blue Prism. For example, Excel sheets that are converted into a CS sheet have limitations with the number of columns when imported. This could be improved."

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"It currently supports only on-premises deployments. They can include support for cloud deployments. It should provide us the ability to choose a robot for executing a workflow. We want to control which robot executes a certain workflow. Right now, it automatically chooses the robot that is going to execute our workflow. It should also provide the ability to get filters on the outputs of the steps. We have each workflow as a step, and each step has some output. We would like to have the functionality to execute some script or some logic on these outputs to format the tests directly on the variables."

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  • "Pricing can be negotiated in situations where there will be heavy usage."
  • "The licensing structure is complex and the minimum contract length is three years."
  • "We pay about $15,000 per quarter in licensing costs. We don't have to pay for any other extra costs. There isn't, for example, an extra cost for technical support. We just pay the licensing."
  • "There are many RPA solutions available from different vendors and the pricing for Blue Prism is competitive."
  • "Annual licensing costs were somewhere between $5,000 - $10,000 for the development tool. For the control tower, I think fees were about $50,000 annually."
  • "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."
  • "When compared with UiPath, I believe it will be difficult for Blue Prism to maintain its market share."
  • "Blue Prism comes at a higher price point compared to other solutions on the market."
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  • "The pricing model is very straightforward. You can have a one-year or three-year subscription. You pay for each robot that you want to use simultaneously. If you want, you can install 50 robots and get 50 licenses. If you want to use only one robot at a time, you just need one license. For each license, you pay around 10% or 15% to support. You pay for the license, and you pay a small percentage of the cost of the license for support. This is their licensing model, which is very easy to understand."
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    Also Known As
    Blue Prism Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce, Blue Prism Virtual Workforce, Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce
    Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation, Micro Focus RPA
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    Overview

    The Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce is a highly flexible intelligent automation platform. It uses software to replicate the way people work in existing applications and systems, the processes they follow, and the decisions they make, to deliver automation without disruption.

    Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology creates digital factories to automate and integrate any repetitive administrative task in order to take the mundane out of work. Micro Focus test automation solutions offer tools that allow companies to easily create bots to automate rule-driven business processes.

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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Energy/Utilities Company21%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider5%
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise45%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Blue Prism Cloud is ranked 7th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 38 reviews while OpenText Robotic Process Automation is ranked 35th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Blue Prism Cloud is rated 8.0, while OpenText Robotic Process Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Blue Prism Cloud writes "It helps us save on staff costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Robotic Process Automation writes "It lets us automate almost anything and is very easy to work with". Blue Prism Cloud is most compared with Blue Prism, UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, Robocorp and SAP Intelligent RPA, whereas OpenText Robotic Process Automation is most compared with UiPath and Blue Prism.

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