Blue Prism Cloud vs. Fortra’s Automate

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blue Prism Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
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The Blue Prism Cloud Digital Workforce platform is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution built to bring together the principles of connected-Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Cloud Computing. It is designed to allow enterprises to automate the execution of complex business processes across the organisation at scale. The vendor states that when Blue Prism's intelligent digital workers are deployed alongside a human workforce to absorb the…N/A
Fortra’s Automate
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Fortra's Automate (formerly HelpSystems Automate) is a robotic process automation platform for desktop applications. According to the vendor, it offers the ability to automate almost any business process, and no technical expertise is required—IT and business users alike can understand the drag-and-drop interface.N/A
Pricing
Blue Prism CloudFortra’s Automate
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Blue Prism CloudFortra’s Automate
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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User Ratings
Blue Prism CloudFortra’s Automate
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Blue Prism CloudFortra’s Automate
Likelihood to Recommend
Blue Prism
Blue Prism Cloud is an ideal cloud automation solution for organizations with a significant number of remote workers or geographically disparate teams since its accessible from any web browser. It is also beneficial for organizations that need to quickly outsource part of their process automation without having to purchase additional software licenses and equipment.

However, Blue Prism Cloud is less suited for companies that have large volume data processing needs as its base cost may quickly become prohibitive in those situations. Additionally, this solution may not be suitable for organizations that need more complex solution-specific configurations since its integration options are limited.
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Fortra
It's great for repetitive or regularly scheduled activities like reports or file transfers. However, it's not so good for on-demand activities. It doesn't support task shortcuts to run specific tasks. If it did it would be perfect.
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Pros
Blue Prism
  • Scaling
  • Developer experience
  • Flexibility
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Fortra
  • Very detailed task builder. Easy to read step by step a task's operation even if you don't have much programming knowledge.
  • Scheduling for automation jobs is very flexible. Allows us to create all kinds of job schedules as needed.
  • Organization of jobs, tasks, conditions is done well. Allows us to easily manage our items.
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Cons
Blue Prism
  • Integrations with other tools
  • Reporting
  • User interface
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Fortra
  • A reporting capability on tasks: enabled, disabled, by folder, by trigger, etc. Currently there is none.
  • An "OR" in their conditional statements - currently there is only "AND".
  • Some kind of temporary backup when changing a task - separate from the current back up/restore functionality (which works well).
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Usability
Blue Prism
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Fortra
It's just very easy to use, extremely versatile, and very reliable. It's hard to find use cases where it won't work.
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Support Rating
Blue Prism
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Fortra
Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.
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Alternatives Considered
Blue Prism
It offers the same user experience as other RPA solutions such as Automation Anywhere and UiPath, but with the added benefit of being able to leverage the cloud for scalability and manageability. Blue Prism Cloud works in conjunction with existing IT infrastructure, allowing users to continue running their current IT operations while automating processes.

Compared to Automation Anywhere and UiPath, Blue Prism Cloud has several distinct advantages. Firstly, it provides pre-built templates for commonly used tasks, enabling businesses to scale faster with increased agility. Secondly, its hybrid deployment model allows users to select either private or public clouds - providing improved scalability and flexibility.
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Fortra
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Return on Investment
Blue Prism
  • Positive on improved collaboration
  • Positive on quickly scaling
  • Negative on costly to build
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Fortra
  • It's been a net positive as AutoMate requires less eyes on specific tasks so that people can focus attention elsewhere and do more analysis.
  • Less manual work also decreases the chances of mistakes and/or missed jobs. Since Automate can schedule everything, send email notifications, etc., there is less time wasted.
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