Blue Prism - Experts & Thought Leaders

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SSNC) has announced the launch of SS&C Blue Prism Desktop (‘Blue Prism Desktop’), a desktop automation solution. Blue Prism Desktop helps guard against operational vulnerabilities resulting from human interaction, including governance and security risks. Blue Prism Desktop The Blue Prism Desktop platform helps users to: Reduce desktop processing risks, including human interactions, such as log-ins, task initiation, and user-specific applications. Create transparency and trusted audit trails. Organisations gain visibility over centrally controlled processes with strict user-access controls, multi-level change approvals and intelligent automation software automatically logging every action. Automate high-volume, time-consuming and often data-sensitive tasks at scale. The user-friendly interface and centrally governed platform allow businesses to achieve higher output securely. Comply with various IT and security standards and regional regulatory guidelines. SS&C Blue Prism partners with top-tier security technology providers worldwide. Desktop automation Enterprises need reliable automation solutions to securely address tasks and use cases" Danny Major, the Senior Vice President (SVP) Product, SS&C Blue Prism, said “Enterprises need reliable automation solutions to securely address tasks and use cases across the entire business. Blue Prism Desktop will enable organisations to capitalise on the full potential of desktop automation without compromising on governance or compliance.” Danny Major adds, “In addition, their centrally developed and validated processes give organisations the peace of mind and confidence they need, in order to operate at their full capacity and potential.” Leverage a systematic approach to co-innovation Bernhard Schaffrik, the Principal Analyst at Forrester, said “Innovation platforms can accelerate your innovation activity, as they help connect the right people to work on the right ideas. Enterprises cannot tackle innovation in isolation and need to leverage a systematic approach to co-innovation.” Bernhard Schaffrik adds, “Understanding the dynamics and different roles of innovation networks becomes a critical capability for differentiation and growth.” Digitisation of operations More than 2,800 customers globally run their operations on SS&C Blue Prism and SS&C Chorus, digitising operations across financial services, insurance, health and pharmaceuticals, banking and more.

SS&C Blue Prism has been recognised as a pioneer! It has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the pioneers quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This is the fourth year in a row that SS&C Blue Prism has been named in the pioneers quadrant. In the 2022 report, the Gartner evaluation was based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Position as a pioneer SS&C Blue Prism believes its positioning in the pioneer’s quadrant by Gartner demonstrates its ability to deliver exceptional value to the customers. SS&C Blue Prism is committed in supporting enterprises to harness the power of intelligent automation by seamlessly connecting people and digital workers to deliver the right outcomes for their business. With a comprehensive intelligent automation offering, a strong focus on continual innovation, and a deep understanding of how to create value for many different types of organisations, SS&C Blue Prism is very excited about what it can achieve alongside its partners and customers both today and in the future. Enterprise-grade intelligent automation SS&C Blue Prism provides enterprise-grade intelligent automation technology worldwide SS&C Blue Prism provides enterprise-grade intelligent automation technology worldwide, empowering customers to reimagine how work gets done with a secure and scalable intelligent digital workforce. Companies are able to transform their customer, employee, and user journeys and achieve their key business objectives. The company has a proven track record of helping organisations scale their intelligent automation efforts across the entire enterprise, providing the visibility, orchestration, and control, across the whole business to manage the entire workforce and end to end journeys. All of this is underpinned with the enterprise-grade resilience, scalability, security, and governance that organisations have come to depend on SS&C Blue Prism for. In the fourth year as a pioneer in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, the company is excited about building upon this recognition by continuing to innovate and serving our customers to the fullest.

In order to address spiraling cost pressures caused by surging inflation and commodity prices, business leaders are looking towards automation solutions. The recent geo-political conflict in Eastern Europe has significantly disrupted commodities markets, compounding already heightened inflation levels and seeing price-points rise in 2022 and beyond. To understand the true impact for businesses, SS&C Blue Prism (Blue Prism) commissioned a study of business leaders, which found that 73% of enterprise organisations have seen significant cost increases in the last year, with manufacturing hit the hardest. ‘Productivity Squared’ research The ‘Productivity Squared’ research interviewed over 1,000 business decision-makers and found that over the past 12 months, the average cost of doing business has risen by 9%. However, the study also found that these economic shifts are heralding a new era of work. Industries are re-shaping operations and are looking for alternatives to protect their futures Industries are re-shaping operations and are looking for alternatives to protect their futures and those of their employees and customers. In the face of drastically reduced margins, 78% of business leaders are turning to the power of advanced technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI) and IA, to help address the rising costs of business operations, talent shortage issues and economic shocks. Despite almost half of businesses surveyed (47%) predicting that geo-political events will negatively impact their growth, organisations remain positive and financially healthy, with the overwhelming majority (88%) expecting growth in 2022 and 2023. Digital transformation helps enterprises maintain growth Digital transformation helped many businesses maintain growth during the COVID-19 pandemic-induced remote working model, with two-thirds (67%) reporting productivity increases in the last 12 to 18 months. Still, half of companies (50%) say maintaining current productivity levels are an issue and 71% are struggling with talent attraction and retention as the labour market continues to reel from the ‘Great Resignation’. Utilising IA strategies to relieve productivity pain points In the face of such conditions, decision-makers (69%) are planning to utilise IA strategies to relieve productivity pain points and find opportunity amidst strife. However, only 11% are certain about their organisation’s strategy, showing concerns about poor implementation (59%), coordination strategy (40%) and legacy technologies (27%). Eric Tyree, the Senior Vice President (SVP) of AI and Innovation at Blue Prism, said “This study shows the importance of automation to the future of industry. It’s not only about achieving competitive edge, but also about long-term viability. It’s about automating what you can and using people where you should – embracing the ‘power of two’ to bring about your organization’s goals and deliver the best to your employees, customers and stakeholders.” Collaboration between human and digital workers The future of work is collaboration between human workers and digital workers" Eric Tyree adds, “The future of work is collaboration between human workers and digital workers, leveraging the power of IA to drive innovation, growth and fulfillment. This study is just further evidence that what’s coming is not just an incremental increase in productivity, its productivity squared.” For those companies that do put in place a successful strategy, the rewards of IA implementation can be significant. Santander Group is just one example of an organisation that was able to reduce its employee onboarding process – from six weeks to only two days. This saved the company countless hours and improved employee satisfaction, which boosted talent retention and attraction. Global dairy company - Fonterra also found success when it automated 38 dairy inventory checks, reducing the process time by 92% and addressing the company’s supply chain waste issues due to long inventory checks. IA - a launch pad for innovation and unification With the right automation partner, IA can be a launch pad for innovation and unification. It can facilitate employee up-skilling, while promoting process efficiencies – addressing talent barriers without holding up progress. As human workers are up-skilled, automation can be more deeply integrated. This empowers human employees to focus increasingly on fulfilling work, driving productivity gains as digital and human workers deliver on company goals and aspirations. The agility that gives an organisation means it can be prepared to face any challenges or changes.