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AntWorks RPA (discontinued)

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What is AntWorks RPA (discontinued)?

AntWorks 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.

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Full Stack Enterprise Automation with Cognitive Machine Reading

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Professional Services (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • ANTstein processes unstructured data , which constitutes 80% of the data in enterprises in various industries. It addresses the limitations of RPA by processing various types of data including structured, unstructured, image, and inferred data accurately and fast.
  • AntWorks combines data curation and digital workforce management to enable end-to-end process automation capabilities for higher straight through processing (STP).
  • AntWorks offers multi-tenancy in which multiple bots and human to work on same machine.
  • Within just 3 months of training, ANTstein is able to deliver 85%+ data accuracy.

Cons

  • Some of the tasks still needs human intervention. The level of complexity of autonomous tasks handling without human intervention is needed to be improved.

Return on Investment

  • With minimal or no coding, AntWorks saves tremendous cost in staffs training in coding. In addition, the deployment of bots are done fast and easily.
  • Multi-tenancy feature which enables workers and bots to work together on the same machine prevents the idle time of workers and this in turn increases the productivity of companies. This feature lacks in other Robotic Process Automation providers.
  • ANTstein's bots are intelligent that they can learn over time with pattern recognition and improves the data processing accuracy fast and thus accelerates the ROI of companies.

Other Software Used

Concur Expense, HCL Sametime (formerly from IBM), GlobalMeet Collaboration

Antworks: A tool for high end business automation

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used to have ANTstein tool installed. I worked as an Intern at the company. ANTstein is RPA based automation tool which has a large data type knowledge within itself. A non-coder can easily learn this technology. The ants/bots can be made without coding and allow automation for repeated processes. The self-ruling technique of bots makes it suitable for Machine Learning and Analytics.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Most of the times when performing a task on a remote machine, we have to deploy a screen recorder so that we can debug the process bu actually visualizing the workflow. There should be a remote monitoring tool on the Queen machine.
  • When automating Google spreadsheets to plot regression graphs, there are cases when some cell has NaN values. ANTstein always sends an error log in the admin machine. It skips the row and we end up with a smaller amount of data. We have also made a logic for predicting the NaN values by finding the median and fillna pandas-python library. Thus, improvement in flexibility is needed.
  • One should have to be familiar with the user experience of the technology or get certified to work upon. Because the tool is not so easy to learn at one go.

Return on Investment

  • The self-learning mechanism makes it so powerful that all the business tasks get completed with no time. It handles the new data automatically without any human workforce behind it.
  • It has various ML models which makes it unique in performing repetitive tasks with learning from previous mistakes.
  • Generating Industry insights and market analysis is a key application of ANTstein.
  • A separate business goal we have achieved using Antworks. A slack platform is integrated with various chat-ops, for example, integrating google drive, GitHub, Gmail at one place and getting all of the information just by asking a query to the ANT. Example query—"New mails", "Updates in XYZ spreadsheet"

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform and Selenium

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Selenium

ANTstein -- an Intelligent RPA with an ANT army!

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Product Management (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Ai enabled RPA: unique in the market. Most of the RPA tools do not provide Ai in RPA. A.I. in RPA means making an intelligent and self-monitoring robot army.
  • It creates numerous ants when the task is overloaded. Most of the time in Big Data Analytics, unstructured and semi-structured data comes in a pipeline. ANTstein knows very well how to channelize the data.
  • Automated Data analytics and code free automation. This supports all formats like PDF, digital data, and spreadsheets.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Selenium