Major RPA tools

In an earlier post I brought forth the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) terminology. Most of us know that it's a buzz word these days and could (' ') (probably be) in demand in near future. Continuing the previous post, here will talk about the various major Robotic automation tool vendors viz.

1) UiPath: UiPath has three main products

• UiPath Studio: Enables a user to visualize a process diagrammatically.
• UiPath Robot: Robot will execute the processes established by the studio. The execution can be initiated manually or be scheduled.     
• UiPath Orchestrator: Orchestrator enables a robot to be deployed,scheduled,monitored and managed along with the attached processes.

UiPath enabled you to automate workflows related to Excel, Citrix, User Interface(Desktop/Web), Email, PDF, SAP among others.It is available for trial for 60 days, which is enough to get hang of the tool and assess whether it suits your requirement. 
A robot can either run unattended in a VM on a datacentre (Back Office Robots) or share the same desktop with a human agent (Front Office Robots).

2) Blue Prism: Most of the documentation and user guides are available once a license is bought.  Blue Prism is built on the established and proven Microsoft .NET Framework, automates any application and supports any platform (mainframe, windows, WPF, java, web, etc.) presented in a variety of ways (terminal emulator, thick client, thin client, web browser, Citrix and web services). And it provides a single capability for automating all of the applications used within an organization. Blue Prism is highly scalable and can be provisioned in the cloud or as an on-premise enterprise deployment. And the grid based architecture enables high availability, high performance, failover and disaster recovery scenarios to be provided as well as addressing potentially significant seasonal variations in operational demand.

3) Automation Anywhere: AA claim to have automated over 2 million manual hours. An insight is available with a live demo.AA offers BotFarm, which is integrated with the Automation Anywhere Enterprise Control Room to centrally schedule bots to run at specified times and frequencies.Bot Insight, captures unprecedented content-level information–that means every action of every bot–to yield real-time process statistics and operational analytics for your digital workforce. Rely on operational analytics to drive optimized processes, robots, and machines as well as RPA reporting that quantifies program effectiveness and productivity gains.