IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere overview
IBM® Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation solution that mimics the behavior of a human business user to perform repetitive tasks. Use IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere to create a digital workforce. By automating tasks with software-based labor, your human workforce becomes more productive allowing you to rethink who performs which tasks within the organization.
You can capture work interactions, for example, the tasks someone does to process an order, and then play them back by using a software robot, called a bot. A bot is software that performs work that humans would otherwise perform.
IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere is part of the IBM Digital Business Automation platform. The platform augments task automation by adding workflow, data capture, content, and decision automation to bots.
Available editions
- IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere Express
- Provides an affordable entry point for task automation. You're also entitled to use IBM Business Automation Workflow Express so you can deploy bots within an orchestrated workflow.
- IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere Enterprise
- Extends the value of standalone robotic process automation by allowing you to integrate your bots with other offerings in IBM Digital Business Automation platform. You're also entitled to use IBM Digital Business Automation (Express or Enterprise) so you can automate a broad range of processes to improve business outcomes.
Key capabilities
- Control Room for managing and controlling your environment. The centralized bot repository provides role-based user access control, bot scheduling, and a credential vault locker for managing bot credentials with clear separation of user responsibilities.
- A web-based Bot Workbench that provides a low-code authoring environment for creating and testing bots. It includes a screen recorder, many easy-to-configure application-specific and system actions, and powerful scripting tools for IT developers.
- Attended and unattended bot runners for scheduling and running batches of jobs automatically or triggering bots on a user's desktop to assist them with their day-to-day activities.
- Bot Insight for gaining insights into the performance of your business operations and your IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere environment by using dashboards to view data collected by your bots.
- Workflow
- Orchestrate your human and digital workforce. Bots and people collaborate to execute end-to-end business processes, case management solutions, and straight-through processing to increase operational efficiency.
- Content
- Share and manage enterprise content. Provide highly secure and compliant management of most types of content, support instant access to content, connect content to digital business applications, and help manage governance and compliance.
- Data capture
- Capture, classify, and extract data from content. Digitize business documents so you can classify those documents and extract important data from them, reduce or eliminate manual entry and errors, increase efficiency and productivity, and automate the extraction of insights from unstructured data.
- Decisions
- Automate decisions with business rules. Capture, automate, and manage business rules to encourage rapid adaptation to change, increase the consistency and auditability of decisions, and detect problem situations in real time.