SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation RPA & Intelligent Automation (IA) platform
SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation software emulates how humans use existing applications and systems to automate a wide range of operational and business processes through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Automation. The solution utilises a hybrid model with all services hosted in our AWS cloud whilst processing happens locally.
Features
- Frictionless Automation of IT & Business Process
- On Demand Hosted Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (iRPA)
- Infrastructure, Application and Process Agnostic
- Scalable and Secure Cloud Control Center with on Premise Processing
- Flexible commercial models
- Integrated Web Initiation Portal, Autonomic Scheduling and Digital Service Catalogue
- Integrated Intelligent Orchestration, Scheduling and Management
- Automation Component Library with access to Distributed Digital Objects
- Extensible functionality for OCR, ICR, Cognitive, Machine Learning & NLP
- Complete Intelligent Robotic Process Automation for Hyper Automation
Benefits
- Reduces operating costs
- Increases efficiency
- 100% accuracy & consistency
- Industry leading productivity 24x7x365
- Accelerated digital transformation
- Improved customer experience/enhanced citizen/patient outcomes
- Optimised shared virtual resource
- Faster process & task execution
- Security, auditory and regulatory compliance (ISO27001 and SOC2 II Accredited)
- Instantly Scalable Resource on Demand
Pricing
£7,850 to £18,897 a licence a year
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
7 8 0 6 0 7 5 4 8 0 4 0 2 0 8
Contact
Robiquity Limited
James Procter
Telephone: 07741326345
Email: frameworks@robiquity.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
-
BPM, ERP, ITSM, CRM and multiple Clinical Systems such as EMR
and EHR - Cloud deployment model
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- None.
- System requirements
-
- Operational Machine to host each Runtime Resource
- Windows 10/11 OS, minimum of 2 vCPU & 8GB RAM
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
-
Priority 1 Response within one hour. Blue Prism will use Continuous
Effort, within Service Hours, to resolve the Fault within 12 Service
Hours. Priority 2 Response within four hours. Fault resolved by the end of the following three Business Days. Priority 3 Response within one Business Day. Bug fix scheduled for the next available release. Priority 4 Blue Prism shall consider such issues or requests in the light of other Customer requirements and will advise what action will be taken to address the issue. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- Via creation of a support ticket.
- Web chat accessibility testing
- None.
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
SS&C Blue Prism customers are supported by all in-house resources.
Production Support is included in the annual license for no additional
fee. Production Support: All customers have access to our full database
of online troubleshooting and training resources and can open cases
using the customer web portal. It includes authorisation for up to 10
contacts to open support tickets and guaranteed email support during
normal business hours for the country of purchase. For urgent issues
(P1), our support staff will respond within one hour. You will also receive
access to our online support resources and community forums.
Business Critical Support: This is designed to meet the needs of
customers who have deployed mission-critical automations,
guaranteeing 24x7 support and availability and prompt response time
and resolutions. In addition to quarterly meetings and regular reviews of
support cases, you will benefit from a designated support team who will
be familiar with the specifics of your deployment and can quickly provide
customised support to ensure that you are receiving the maximum
benefit and success from your Blue Prism investment. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
-
Blue Prism University contains free training curriculum available to
anyone who registers. Available courses include Product Induction,
Foundation and more. These courses are offered online (CBT) via Blue Prism Portal. Robiquity also offer online, on-site and in-person training. In addition to this, comprehensive documentation covering all aspects of Blue Prism is provided electronically via the Blue Prism customer portal. Blue Prism also provides a customer forum and knowledge base to encourage collaboration, support and idea sharing. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
-
- HTML
- Other
- Other documentation formats
-
- Searchable Knowledgebase accessible via internet using web browser.
- Online Customer forum accessible via internet using web browser.
- End-of-contract data extraction
-
SS&C Blue Prism does not pertain or archive data used by automations
during processing. Audit logs are exportable as .CSV SS&C Blue Prism
Automation process designs are exportable as XML based export
formats. - End-of-contract process
- SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation is hosted in AWS. At the end of any contract term, the Client’s subscription within the SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation tenant will be deleted and SS&C Blue Prism will purge any remaining data from the SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation Service. In addition, all backups will be deleted once they exceed the configured retention period. Any configuration information or log requests will be shared at the end of the contract. For all deployment options, access to support services and updates ceases on end of contract.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
-
- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
- Windows
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Description of service interface
- SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation contains two components. The Next Generation Cloud hosts the technology required to carry out the automations and is accessed via a web browser. Next Generation Design Studio is installed locally on a user machine and is where design and build of the automations takes places. The Digital Workers carry out the processing of automations and require their own machine with access to all relevant line of business applications.
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- SS&C Blue Prism is committed to making all software accessible for users. The following functionality is available: - Keyboard navigation (Movement of existing stages within the design canvas, Zooming in/out on the design canvas) - Configurable text sizing and colour (Adjustable font size for all stage text, Adjustable text colour of text in design studio canvas) Within our Next Generation Cloud Service, user interfaces provide larger fonts by default and interfaces that can be tabbed through more easily for more effective keyboard navigation.
- Accessibility testing
- User interfaces have been designed to be intuitive and easy to use. The component library that we utilize to build our browser-based interfaces is being constantly enhanced based on user feedback and improving accessibility toward recognized guidelines (such as WCAG 2.1 AA) is part of our ongoing product roadmap. SS&C are committed to making our technology as accessible as possible, and it’s our ambition to expand the number of accessibility features as we continue to deliver future updates to our browser-based products.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
-
SS&C Blue Prism can expose any object or process via SOAP/REST
requests to enable external applications to call automations, and can
interact with existing applications and services API in various manners, including a built in REST capability. SS&C Blue Prism digital workers are not limited to interacting with target applications via the GUI, and can also interact via API. The Blue Prism Digital Exchange (DX) provides an online "marketplace" of prebuilt API integrations; these cover a variety of intelligent automation skills (learning, vision, problem solving, collaboration, planning & sequencing, and knowledge & insight) and enable drag-and-drop integration into ML/AI APIs offered by the likes of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and even custom-built solutions. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
-
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
-
SS&C Blue Prism allows appropriately permissioned users to create
custom automations suitable to the buyers needs as well as provide a host of administrative and operational functions to configure the
environment specifically to the buyers needs. Examples include (but are not limited to) - Custom Process Discovery, Capture and Design -
User/Group/Role configuration - Configure Operational and Business
reporting - Environment Configuration and Management SS&C Blue
Prism provides a variety of methods to do this suitable to the role and
needs of the users or groups involved.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation is provisioned to our customers on AWS to provide a unlimited scalability and performance regardless of customer demand, growth or operational pattern. Blue Prism's operations team monitor the solution continuously to proactively manage and resolve any service issues.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
-
SS&C Blue Prism provides a number of options for reporting metrics, KPIs and analytics. Dashboard: An information dashboard is presented to each user. Its configurable and enables
users to define and present role-specific graphical reports. System MI: Provides the capability to analyse process execution data and return valuable insights regarding the process. The output can take various forms including XLS, DOCX, PDF, CSV, etc and external BI tools In process reporting: possible to use automation processes themselves to generate reports allowing the automatic generation of relevant information.
Reporting types:
• Through an API
• Real-time dashboards
• Regular reports - Reporting types
-
- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Blue Prism
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
-
- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
-
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
-
Appropriately permissioned users can export log and process data via
Secure Remote Desktop connection to the platform. Blue Prism
Automations can also provide data exports as part of their operation in a
number of formats and delivery mechanisms (such as as operational
reports via email). - Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
-
- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
-
- XML
- Tab Delimited
- Excel
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
-
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks.
- Data protection within supplier network
-
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
-
Service Level Standard SS&C Blue Prism Cloud Services will be
available to Customer for normal use no less than 99.9% of the
Scheduled Uptime. Calculation a. (Actual Uptime / Scheduled Uptime) *
100 = Percentage Uptime (as calculated by rounding to the second
decimal point) Performance Credit a. Where Percentage Uptime is
equal to or greater than 99.9%, no service credit will be due to
Customer. b. Where Percentage Uptime is less than 99.9%, Customer
shall be due a service credit. c. The service credit shall be in the amount
of 5% of the monthly subscription fee (if the subscription fee is invoiced
annually, the monthly fee is calculated by dividing the annual fee by
twelve; the service credit is as calculated on a monthly basis for the
reporting month). d. The service credit shall increase by a further 5% for
each full 1% reduction in Percentage Uptime, up to a maximum of 15%. - Approach to resilience
- Both SS&C Blue Prism Cloud and On Premise versions are designed, architected, delivered and managed as Enterprise class applications. Further information on exactly how this is achieved is available from Blue Prism on request.
- Outage reporting
-
SS&C Blue Prism Cloud provides a service status page as well as
proactive service notifications via email to nominated customer
contacts. SS&C Blue Prism solutions provide various web based UI's to
allow appropriately permissioned users to monitor, alert and resolve
service outages as they occur. SS&C Blue Prism Automations
themselves can be configured to provide any technical or business
notifications during operation, via any channel (email, web page, API
call, pdf report, etc) to allow bespoke service outage, issue or exception
reporting during processing.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
-
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Other
- Other user authentication
- Other forms of authentication utilised by Blue Prism includes secure key card applications used extensively by the NHS, DoD, etc.
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
-
SS&C Blue Prism provides detailed software security features that
enable a secure environment and methodology. These mechanisms
result in the only Enterprise RPA platform that can withstand increasing
regulatory compliance and non-repudiation requirements. • Centrally
managed user access control, limiting access to named individuals only
• Role based access according to the principle of least privilege • Multi-Factor security, such that no individual can make changes without
secondary approval • A complete retrospective audit/changelog of all
activity • Segregation of environments with separate controls governing
each • Infrastructural security. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
-
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- BSI
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 12/07/2021
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- SOC2 (Type II)
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
-
In compliance with its ISO27001 and FedRAMP obligations, SS&C Blue
Prism conducts annual risk assessments and maintains disaster
recovery/COOP plans to ensure continued functionality in the event of
an emergency. Compliance is tracked a number of ways; Human
Resources tracks employee compliance with required training, IT tracks
employee compliance with hardware and software policies, and
independent third-party audits are conducted annually to ensure
compliance with ISO27001.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation offers an integrated Release Manager within Process Repository which applies structure, governance, and control to the Change and Release Management processes. Process Repository controls the promotion of automations between environments as well as ensuring that this process is only carried out by authorised users, with all actions fully audited. Every time a release is created or edited, this is recorded in the audit trail. Customers with particularly strict information assurance requirements may have different Release Managers for each environment so that, for example, one user can create and export a Release from the Development environment.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
-
For every new platform release we perform penetration testing and
vulnerability testing. We remediate High and Medium issues before
releasing to customers. We also utilise a vulnerability management
solution (Qualys) as part of our platform agents to feed into our Security,
Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. - Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
-
SS&C Blue Prism operates a comprehensive protective monitoring
process across its services and internal operations. In the interests of
security, further details on these practices are available on request. To
date, all threats are identified and mitigated in our operations before
they become an issue. - Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
-
Under Blue Prism's ISO/IEC 27001:2013 compliant ISMS, every single
security Incident is logged, tracked, managed, and resolved under a
documented process. Blue Prism operates a no-blame policy ensuring
that all issues are immediately reported and the Incident Management
process is initiated at point of reporting. Blue Prism has a
comprehensive IS strategy and documented policies across a number
of areas such as employee vetting, etc. Security and Vulnerability
Assessments are carried out periodically which validate the
appropriateness of controls which are in place and these include input
validation and sanitisation; authentication and access control; audit; and
management of sensitive information.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- Yes
- Connected networks
-
- Public Services Network (PSN)
- Police National Network (PNN)
- NHS Network (N3)
- Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN)
- Health and Social Care Network (HSCN)
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
As part of the Robiquity value 'Show we care', we are dedicated to reducing unnecessary waste, organisational carbon footprint and using renewable energy sources where and when available. We have an environmental policy committing to assess and regularly re-assess the environmental effects of the Organisations activities.Covid-19 recovery
Robiquity is committed to supporting organisations and businesses to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19, including where new ways of working are needed to deliver services.Tackling economic inequality
Robiquity provide training opportunities for individuals impacted by current economy inequality, enabling future careers in the intelligent automation industry.Equal opportunity
Robiquity has a long running diversity and inclusion programme, with D&I training rolled out across the business. We have an equal opportunity and diversity policy to ensure all members of our workforce are supported and included.Wellbeing
Robiquity encourage wellbeing and mindfulness to all members of staff. Vitality is offered to all members of the workforce, and there is a wellbeing policy to encourage health and mindfulness.
Pricing
- Price
- £7,850 to £18,897 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- 30 Day trial of Blue Prism automation capability available via registration on SS&C Blue Prism website.
- Link to free trial
- https://www.blueprism.com/free-trial/