Today, more and more organizations are relying on Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to develop their digital and intelligent workforces. These tools use software bots to automate repetitive business processes. Automation Anywhere is the world’s largest provider of RPA. Their offerings include Artificial Intelligence and predictive analytics technologies to add greater value to your business.

Here are some of the standout tools from Automation Anywhere:

 

What is Automation Anywhere?

Automation Anywhere provides user-friendly Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities to automate business processes. It is a web-based system that offers comprehensive control over all automated tasks within a company. The tool enables the creation of scripts to handle repetitive tasks, eliminating the need for manual coding. This allows for the automation of straightforward tasks, from configuring an operating system to managing remote networks or databases.

These are the three main components of its architecture:

1. Bot creator: Permite a los desarrolladores crear bots para automatizar las aplicaciones de escritorio.
2. Control room: Una aplicación que funciona como un control para gestionar a los clientes, scripts, credenciales, roles, seguridad, etc.
3. Bot runner: Una máquina que permite correr los bots. El estado de estos últimos se reporta en el cuarto de control.

 

Digital Transformation products

• Automation Anywhere Enterprise RPA: Tailored for business users, this product features advanced capabilities with an intuitive interface, bot development, and automation management. It is a user-friendly platform that ensures rapid deployment and adoption, evolving alongside business needs.
  
  
• IQBots: Cognitive bots designed to support and learn from business users while providing a comprehensive experience with the power of Artificial Intelligence technology. Integrated with the previous tool, IQBots can enhance productivity by automating complex tasks related to unstructured data.
  
  
• Bot Insights: This platform provides relevant data and charts to analyze bot performance within the system. It also calculates the time saved by each automated process. Bot Insights closely integrates real-time business information with the performance of the digital workforce.
  
  
• Bot Farm: An on-demand enterprise platform for RPA (Robotic Process Automation) bots. It scales digital workforce capacity by deploying bots at any time with a simple click. It allows for the creation, deployment, and management of thousands of software bots, ensuring resilience, elasticity, and scalability.
  
  
• Bot Store: An online store for bots dedicated to business automation initiatives. It enables the discovery and deployment of new bots in just a few seconds.

 

Features of Automation Anywhere

 

1. Task editor

Tasks are created by dragging and dropping items from the toolbox. With the editor, users can break down and enhance their tasks. Some of its features include:

• Keyboard and Mouse
• Windows
• Database
• Files
• Internet

 

2. Workflow designer

This feature enables the creation of graphical representations of business processes that are easy to understand. It also automates processes involving multiple tasks, providing alternatives if a step fails.

 

3. Report designer

This feature allows users to generate and print customized reports with the execution history of specific tasks.

 

4. Executor management

Facilitates the execution of workloads and tasks based on events such as process initiation or completion, file changes, or system performance alterations.

 

5. Workload management

This tool includes prioritization management of queues to meet business SLAs. Workload management allows for the prioritization of high-value transactions within the queue model. When integrated with BotFarm, Automation Anywhere Enterprise RPA provides SLA calculators and Robotic Process Automation as a Service (RPaaS), enabling the activation of thousands of bots to achieve objectives. Ultimately, its purpose is to optimize processes.

 

6. Lifecycle Automation Management

This feature issues commands to streamline the process of building Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in large organizations. It empowers bots to advance through all stages of the software lifecycle. It also incorporates best practices in software development to ensure that everything can be successfully replicated.

 

7. High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR)

HA/DR addresses disaster recovey by ensuring that recovery is not an issue. While typical business continuity solutions only offer server-level recovery, HA/DR guarantees bot-level restoration across multiple locations in the event of an interruption.

 

8. Operational predictive analytics

Predictive analytics in Robotic Process Automation includes actionable data, such as bots at risk of failure or those delivering the highest return on investment. Additionally, its reporting capabilities provide business intelligence on bot performance and their impact on the company.

 

9. Inbox notifications and numeric alerts

The control room is updated with inbox notifications and numeric alerts, which notify users of issues that require immediate resolution

 

10. Cloud-ready architecture

El Automation Anywhere Enterprise RPA can be installed and deployed both on-premises and on external cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS. This cloud-ready architecture offers infinite scalability and flexibility, providing optimal solutions to meet the deployment needs of large organizations.

 

11. Citrix automation with AISense

**Citrix Automation with AISense**

Some secure environments, such as Citrix, are image-based systems that are challenging to automate. In these systems, bots can only press keys and click, limiting their options to coordinated automation. AISense features apply Artificial Intelligence to the automation of any dataset; it scans the application’s image to detect UI elements and automatically construct the corresponding objects.

 

12. Recorders

These tools allow users to record and replay all their test actions, making it the easiest way to create a bot without writing code. The recording options include:

• Smart Recording: Captures entire activity by cloning objects. It provides greater flexibility when recording tasks related to technologies like Java, HTML, and Flex.
• Screen Recording: Captures mouse and keyboard activities, as well as operating system windows.
• Web Recording: Used for data extraction. This option records and automates web-oriented tasks without programming logic.

 

13. Visualization technology

VB script visualization technology facilitates a pictorial view of automated tasks. It can be used in the task editor to capture image recognition.

 

14. Image recognition and OCR

This command enables the detection of parts of an image from any document or an entire webpage. Similarly, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is invaluable when image recognition becomes complex, as it converts text and images into characters.

 

15. Web data extraction

This tool allows for the extraction of both structured and unstructured data spread across web pages. Additionally, all these actions are saved and can be automated for later playback.

 

16. Centralized backup, security, and disaster recovery

With this feature, users no longer need to access each system on the network individually, as they can centralize their work so that backups and updates are done in one place. Likewise, with advanced security protocols, Automation Anywhere Enterprise RPA ensures that sensitive information remains well protected.

 

17. Process inVision

With this solution, users can record their processes once, convert them, and share them as files. Process inVision offers instant recording, extensive collaboration, agility in automation, and editing of available automated processes.

 

18. Snap Point Icon

Although tasks are executed automatically, it is important to monitor their behavior. Snap Point Icon provides on-demand screenshots of steps to diagnose potential failures.

 

19. ROI calculator

With the ROI calculator, businesses can assign financial values to tasks to calculate the savings resulting from robotic process automation.

 

Source: Automation Anywhere

This article was translated using AI and may contain errors.