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    AntWorks RPA (discontinued)

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AAntWorks RPA, ANTstein, was a robotic automation platform (RPA) that featured a machine learning platform built on fractal science to deploy AntWorks Bots, including QueenBot, processes which perform the automation. The product has been discontinued and is no longer available for sale.N/A

    SS&C Blue Prism

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASS&C Blue Prism provides a combination of technologies that offer intelligent automation to deliver transformational business value.N/A
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    AntWorks RPA (discontinued)SS&C Blue Prism
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Robotic Process Automation
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IBM Robotic Process Automation
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    UiPath Automation Platform
    Score8.8 out of 10
    UiPath Automation Platform
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    User Ratings
    AntWorks RPA (discontinued)SS&C Blue Prism
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    7.5
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    User Testimonials
    AntWorks RPA (discontinued)SS&C Blue Prism
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AntWorks
    ANTstein needs no code or minimal programming. This makes the assigning tasks to bots much easier without wasting time. ANTstein in very useful in performing rule-based tasks. For some tasks and special cases, human assistance is still needed to make decisions.
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    SS&C Technologies
    Blue Prism Cloud is an ideal cloud automation solution for organizations with a significant number of remote workers or geographically disparate teams since its accessible from any web browser. It is also beneficial for organizations that need to quickly outsource part of their process automation without having to purchase additional software licenses and equipment.

    However, Blue Prism Cloud is less suited for companies that have large volume data processing needs as its base cost may quickly become prohibitive in those situations. Additionally, this solution may not be suitable for organizations that need more complex solution-specific configurations since its integration options are limited.
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    Pros
    AntWorks
    • First: Being accoladed by infomationweek.com as a cognitive tool for machine learning and analytics, challenges repeated tasks to complete within no time, thus called AI based RPA.
    • It understands the category of data and segregates the data into structured and semi-unstructured. Thus, it helps in achieving cognitive tasks in Image and pattern recognition. OCR capabilities make it compete with other RPA in the market.
    • Its business pillars lie in Business Process as a Service (BPAAS) and Technology as a Service (TAAS). I used to integrate Zoho CRM, SugarCRM and FreshSales CRM with YellowAnt bot. Oauth 2.0 and token management play an important role in Antworks.
    • The best part of the Antworks is that they have queenbot™ which makes colonies and give birth to threads to work on different computers and machines to automate a single and repetitive task.
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    SS&C Technologies
    • Storing information from email in a standard data set
    • Auto reply to emails tailored to the email so that it doesn't feel like a robotic or generalized response
    • Workflow creation is simple and easy, the flow structure is easy to read and can be directly used in presentation to customers and management
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    Cons
    AntWorks
    • The OCR tool can be improved for multiple languages so as to recognize local fonts and for faster processing.
    • Screen scraping is not accurate. Sometimes it shows special characters for unrecognized fonts.
    • Computer Vision and Machine learning could be more accurate with training data and adaptive models.
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    SS&C Technologies
    • Surface Automation - The tool is not working well with certain applications hosted on Citrix
    • Provide more integrations with excel as majority of the business process use excel
    • Community Support- unlike other development tools we do not have a lot of help topics available on Google.
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    Usability
    AntWorks
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    SS&C Technologies
    Usability wise the Blue Prism tool can be utilized to its 100% which include the control room, schedulers, work queues, Release managers, studio for process and object development, we use all the features in blue prism and is well suitable for the development and deployment, All the system are wisely controlled and connected the same SQL database and all the data can be accessed with ease and all the things can achieve in the systematic order.
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    Support Rating
    AntWorks
    ANTstein is designed to automate the entire business process rather than merely a single
    discrete task. Leveraging fractal networks, rather than neural network technology, ANTstein is able to use relatively small data sets to train the engine thus enabling faster training, testing, deployment and execution of business processes.
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    SS&C Technologies
    Support is good and now with time online support in other forums is becoming available as well. Blue Prism support in itself is also good. Documents and blogs can help to find the solution. Since it's relatively new, sometimes if I'm stuck it can take time to find the solution or connect to their team.
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    Alternatives Considered
    AntWorks
    Mostly we use data scraping tools and then take deep insights from the extracted data. Till now, we were unable to perform automation after scraping the data with the above-mentioned tools. But using ANTworks, we can automate the complete process. Our mainstream work process looks like: Twitter Hashtag extraction > Saving the scraped data to CSV > Importing the CSV in Python > Natural Language Understanding / NLTK in python > Creating pos/neg columns > giving positive and negative insights using analysis.
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    SS&C Technologies
    Better User Interface.Better customer service.Easier to learn and use. But has greater risk compliances. Less preloaded automation. Less editing features and a big no while working on big projects. Fluidmesh is better in pricing and better management of multiple projects but I believe Blue Prism is perfect for beginners and small-scale companies.
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    Return on Investment
    AntWorks
    • Positive: Robotics Process Automation with AI and self-learning eases repeated tasks. Even when data structure changes, ANTstein handles by itself
    • Negative: It shoes special characters when input fonts are not available in the system. Sometimes it becomes difficult to handle local language fonts.
    • Positive: Detect text and non-text content in screen scraping, and web scraping with replication accuracy using OCR and Data Scraping.
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    SS&C Technologies
    • For a level of medium projects, Blue Prism performs well, and the speed of execution is good. In our organization, we are applying for medium projects, where we can increase the workforce of our employees.
    • Blue Prism's Client Server Architecture is good, because we need such a feature to implement automation.
    • When it comes to pricing, I personally feel that it is costlier.
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