

Mid size companies that considered automation out of their reach can enjoy the democratizing effects of cloud, avoiding the hassle of on prem infrastructure.

The midmarket can benefit from Blue Prism’s RPA technology, with very little setup cost or initial investment. Now, Blue Prism can contend with Automation Anywhere’s claim that “BotFarm is the first and only enterprise-grade platform for scaling bots on demand”.

We touted Blue Prism as a potential target for IBM three years ago, and with a scalable cloud story and IBM/s major pivot around Cloud with its RedHat acquisition, surely this Cloud-ifying of Blue Prism makes the firm even more attractive to them.įinding the synergies to justify the price tag – cloud with a potential side of cognitive capabilities, but the focus is too UK centric More importantly, it increases Blue Prism’s attractiveness as an acquisition target itself by upgrading its cloud-readiness from “available cloud reference architecture” to a legitimate SaaS-based offering.
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However, this cloud wrapper puts Blue Prism in the ring with Automation Anywhere’s V12 cloud product, which is drawing a lot of plaudits from enterprise users (our forthcoming Robotic Transformation Software Top Ten will reveal its performance across several hundred enterprises). Net-net, Blue Prism is buying a cloud (SaaS) wrapper for its own product arguably, it could have (and should have) built that itself, but decided instead to pay a tidy sum. HFS was particularly inspired with the firm’s work at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) ( which you can read here).Įssentially Thoughtonomy is RPA + cognitive capabilities + cloud. This was always the logical end-game for Terry’s business, which he bootstrapped from day 1 and tirelessly pushed at the automation world. After six years and much flirting with potential suitors, Terry Walby’s Thoughtonomy successfully exits into the welcoming arms of Blue Prism. Blue Prism yesterday announced the acquisition of Thoughtonomy, a SaaS-based integrated automation platform with Blue Prism RPA baked into its core.
