1. What is Blue Prism’s rapid business process development environment?

Blue Prism has developed a methodology and associated technology designed to support the process of designing, building, testing and deploying new business processes.  This is done by bringing together systems, processes and people without changing the underlying systems in order to either automate, integrate or improve an existing process or build totally new ones.  As Blue Prism software supports re-useable process objects and non-invasive data management methods, it can truly deliver integration at the speed of business.

2. What systems can Blue Prism integrate?

Blue Prism has incorporated many years of experience of integration and numerous technologies into its software. The technologies used are secure, reliable and robust. This coupled with a wide range of dedicated tools that have  been developed means that we are confident in being able to link the vast majority of systems with the click of a button. This proven data and process integration capability ensures that new processes can be rapidly designed, built and tested without any impact on existing systems.

3. What hardware infrastructure do I need to run Blue Prism?

Blue Prism has been designed for flexibility and to meet the most robust IT standards for IT operational integrity, security and supportability. The software can be deployed either as a front office or back office process, running quite happily on a standard desktop in the front office or on any scale of systems for back office processing.

4. Will you be modifying my existing systems?

It is a key design point of Blue Prism that we don't change any of your underlying systems, as this is often complex and expensive to perform.

Blue Prism gathers data and integrates processes at an abstracted level using a variety of techniques and interfaces that ensures underlying systems are not impacted.

5. Is Blue Prism secure and auditable?

Security and auditability are built into the Blue Prism product at several levels.  The runtime environment is completely separate to the process editing environment.

Permissions to design, create, edit and run processes and business objects are specific to each authorised user.

A full audit trail of changes to any process is kept, and comparisons of the before and after effect of changes are provided.

The log created at run-time for each process provides a detailed, time-stamped history of every action and decision taken within an automated process.

Our clients tend to find that running a process with Blue Prism gives them a lot more control than a manual process, and from a compliance point of view assures that processes are run consistently, in line with the process definition.

6. How are process changes controlled and monitored?

Blue Prism can easily track and report changes to processes.

Our audit viewer allows users to track the details of who, when, why and exactly how a process was changed.

In addition, detailed logs are held of every step taken during execution, providing a robust and detailed audit trail.