SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation (DA) & Intelligent Automation (IA)
With SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation at the forefront of your automation strategy, your data is immediately extracted from skewed and low-quality faxes, scans and images, PDFs and handwritten forms, then prioritized, contextualized and routed to fit directly into your business processes.
Features
- Cloud-based for unlimited scalability
- Unparalleled accuracy for maximum straight-through processing
- Fast access to business-critical, automation ready data
- Expands to support enterprise workflows
- Supports English and Latin character-based languages
- Trained on over 1.2 billion human-verified datasets
- Optimized for SS&C Blue Prism technology including BPM and RPA
- Easily integrates with other third-party systems
Benefits
- Exceed response-time expectations
- Optimize your operations, reduce processing times and cut costs
- Automate repeatable tasks and eliminate processing errors
- Improve compliance and data security
- Scale your automation end-to-end across the enterprise
Pricing
£5,000 a licence a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
8 6 7 5 5 2 9 6 1 6 1 7 0 8 1
Contact
BLUE PRISM LIMITED
Mark Lockett
Telephone: 07917 588254
Email: mark.lockett@sscinc.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
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SS&C Blue Prism Chorus Business Process Management (BPM) & Intelligent Automation (IA)
SS&C Blue Prism Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) & Intelligent Automation (IA) platform - Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Service constraints
- None
- System requirements
- Web browser-based supporting HTML5 and CSS on Chrome or Edge.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- 60 mins
- 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
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Service Hours are per client level contracts.
Currently the standard is 00:00 Mon – 23:59 Friday for system operations, regardless of geographical location.
SLAs for system availability are typically 99.5%. However these can be increased or decreased and are subject to contractual agreement. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Computer-based training on SS&C Blue Prism University is available at no cost.
Training through trainers and partners is available at daily/hourly rates.
Full documentation is made available online - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- SS&C Blue Prism have tools to extract data from the systems prior to contract end, and the Professional Services team will work with the customer to complete this exercise
- End-of-contract process
- SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation is hosted in AWS. At the end of any contract term, the Client’s subscription within the tenant will be deleted and AWS will handle the secure deletion of data. For this reason, we advise against the storage of data on the platform. In addition, all backups will be deleted once they exceed the configured retention period. Any configuration information of logs requests will be shared at the end of the contract. Access to support services and updates ceases at the end of the contract.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- 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 Document Automation features are securely accessed via Web Browser based application
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation provides the ability to centrally control user access to the various layers of system capability.
- Accessibility testing
- SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation uses keyboard navigation to assist with accessibility.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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Using web services, SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation can connect to almost any third-party software. Data from third-party systems can be integrated by used to validate teh data extracted.
SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation provides an API based interface that allows external systems to trigger an extraction and retrieve data from SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- The AWS Infrastructure is deployed as a high availability implementation deployed in an active/active configuration across at minimum of two datacentres with automated failover of any failed infrastructure between datacentres.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- The solution tracks all document extractions that have been completed, by whom, & where/when. This information is available in a set of reports inside the user interface.
- Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- No
- 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
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Access to data within side the solution is controlled by user privileges.
Certain aspects of the data can be downloaded into a .CSV format, whereas other parts of the data can be pushed into a data lake where appropriate. - Data export formats
- Other
- Other data export formats
- Export not applicable
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
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- TIFF
- JPG
- GIF
- PNG
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- Private network or public sector network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Based on contractual terms; 99.5%
- Approach to resilience
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The AWS Infrastructure is deployed either:
The service is deployed across multiple datacenters in a high availability configuration. With this configuration in the event of a machine failure the system will auto replace the failed server in either available datacenter by instantiating a new (e.g. cold) virtual server.
SS&C maintains a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 8 hours and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of
24 hours. - Outage reporting
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All SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation Public Cloud infrastructure, application stack and network traffic is monitored with IDS, Endpoint Security, activity logging, vulnerability scanning etc. This includes 24x7 SOC and automated alerting.
- The service is monitored by AWS, Lacework, Sophos and Qualys security tools/stacks.
- Systems are in place but only visible to vendor
A health check dashboard is available with email and text alerting support
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation control user access to the various layers of system capability.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
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- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- 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
- 21/01/2010
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/a
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
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
- From a hosting perspective, both public and private cloud options provide hosting in securely maintained facilities—all audited to SOC 3 standards.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
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SS&C follow an ITIL methodology.
SS&C's formal Change Management process requires that all change requests be logged, tested, reviewed, and approved prior to implementation.
Weekly change review meetings are held to discuss the all proposed changes.
Once items are approved, they are released into production by the specified Implementer, and then post-implementation verification is performed by the specified Verifier.
All change tickets contain rollback instructions - Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
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Our Information Security Program’s vulnerability management is multi-faceted/layered, and takes a risk based approach.
We perform network, O/S, application, and database scans on our internal and external computing environments.
Utilizing tier one vulnerability management solutions to perform vulnerability verification, remediation recommendations and verification of resolved issues.
Scans on internal and external IPs on our network on a weekly basis by Qualys Vulnerability Scanner.
Application assessments are performed continuously by an independent third party as well as internal scanning resources.
We contract with a third-party security vendor, at least an annual basis, to complete enterprise penetration testing against our global network. - Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
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The SS&C Blue Prism Document Automation environment is monitored real-time using a number of open source and custom tools that provide real-time statistics, evaluation of processing, throughput and predictive analysis of the environments. Tools used for monitoring the SS&C managed environments include Splunk, BigIP, Veracode Dynamic Scanning, and Qualys.
All systems are monitored continuously 24/7 using commercial and self-developed monitoring tools. This includes operating systems, networking, database, application and associated components.
SS&C provide SLA based information on a regularly scheduled basis. Up time, throughput, and performance metrics are available. - Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- Under SS&C Blue Prism's ISO/IEC 27001:2013 compliant ISMS, every single security Incident is logged, tracked, managed, and resolved under a documented process. SS&C operates a no-blame policy ensuring that all issues are immediately reported and the Incident Management process is initiated at point of reporting. SS&C 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
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Tackling economic inequality
SS&C Blue Prism University is offered cost free to everyone, anywhere, anytime. You will receive world-class intelligent automation training and learn how to apply cutting-edge AI capabilities to automation. You'll also gain highly desirable RPA skills and the confidence to successfully deliver them. We are proud to offer free-to-access training for everyone to acquire digital skills which will help people improve their confidence to use technology for work, learning and daily life. Raising digital skills will help the UK move towards a high skill, high wage economy, benefitting individuals as well as the UK more widely, helping to tackle economic inequality.Equal opportunity
SS&C Blue Prism University is offered cost free to everyone, anywhere, anytime, giving everyone the equal opportunity to gain digital skills. You will receive world-class intelligent automation training and learn how to apply cutting-edge AI capabilities to automation. You'll also gain highly desirable RPA skills and the confidence to successfully deliver them. We are proud to offer free-to-access training for everyone to acquire digital skills which will help people improve their confidence to use technology for work, learning and daily life.Wellbeing
SS&C Blue Prism believes that understanding what affects our overall wellbeing as individuals, families, communities, and a nation is increasingly important for managing our social, environmental and economic value, and our overall impact as an organisation. SS&C Blue Prism software is designed with the future of work in mind and is intended to remove the monotonous and tedious tasks in people’s everyday work lives, enabling individuals to focus on higher value tasks, making their roles more rewarding and interesting and giving them back time to prioritise self-care and wellbeing.
Pricing
- Price
- £5,000 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
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Free 30-day trial
Digitize up to 200 pages - Link to free trial
- https://shreddr.captricity.com/accounts/signup/