Blue Prism Named a Market Leader in Ovum Decision Matrix on Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Platforms


Blue Prism recognized for Rapid Customer Adoption, Strong Technical Capabilities for Enterprise Users and Comprehensive Product Roadmap

Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), the provider of the world’s most successful Digital Workforce, today announced that it is named a “market leader” in the 2018-19 Ovum Decision Matrix (ODM) on RPA platforms. The ODM report evaluated several RPA platforms and compared RPA platform providers on an extensive range of criteria under “technology” and “execution and market impact” assessment dimensions, with Blue Prism achieving high scores for both assessment dimensions.

“Blue Prism has strong technical credentials in terms of enterprise RPA capabilities, offers a functionally-rich RPA platform, and has executed well against aggressive product and growth strategies to drive rapid customer adoption,” said Saurabh Sharma, Principal Analyst at Ovum.

The report highlights Blue Prism’s strong product roadmap execution over the past 12 months including investing heavily in intelligent automation (IA)-focused initiatives while providing users with certified reference architectures for major IaaS providers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google and IBM), with resilient and elastically scalable topologies. The company’s push into areas such as adapting to evolving process patterns and deriving contextual meaning, understanding and contextualizing visual information, workload optimization, and autonomous resolution of business and system problems is paying off with greater customer adoption.

“We are glad to see Ovum recognize Blue Prism as a market leader and innovator in robotic automation," said Dave Moss, Co-Founder and CTO for Blue Prism. "Ovum points out that RPA platforms are rapidly evolving with integration of cognitive and cloud capabilities to help organizations stay competitive and operate efficiently. This is consistent with our experience as we see more and more of our customers using RPA as a foundation for their digital transformation.”

The ODM also indicates that Blue Prism has, “a cohesive, modular architecture with component-level APIs, and offers load balancing, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) and failover (active/active and active/passive) capabilities as standard features.” The report goes on to say that Blue Prism achieved a high score for “security, monitoring, and governance”, key selection criteria for enterprise customers.

About Blue Prism
As the pioneer, innovator and market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world’s most successful Digital Workforce. The company’s intelligent digital workers provide government and business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate mission-critical business processes, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.

Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best-of-breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and secure RPA platform of choice for the Fortune 500 and public-sector market. Billions of transactions and hundreds of millions of hours of work are executed on Blue Prism software robots. For more information about Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), visit www.blueprism.com and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Ovum

Ovum is a market-leading research and consulting firm focused on helping digital service providers and their technology partners thrive in the connected digital economy. Through its 150 analysts and consultants worldwide, it offers expert analysis and strategic insight across the IT, telecoms, and media industries. Founded in 1985, Ovum has one of the most experienced analyst teams in the industry and is a respected source of guidance for business leaders, CIOs, vendors, service providers, and regulators looking for comprehensive, accurate, and insightful market data, research, and consulting. With 23 offices across six continents, Ovum offers a truly global perspective on technology, communications and media markets and provides clients with insight including workflow tools, forecasts, surveys, market assessments, technology audits, and opinion.

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