Automation Anywhere
One of the big RPA incumbents, now putting AI agents alongside the screen-driving bots.
Highlights
- Agentic Process Automation (APA) System for building and governing AI agents alongside RPA bots
- Cloud-native bot creation, orchestration, and centralized Control Room management
- Automation Co-Pilot, a generative-AI assistant for building and triggering automations in natural language
- Document Automation with AI-powered extraction for invoices, forms, and unstructured documents
- Pre-built connectors and an automation marketplace (Bot Store) for common enterprise apps
- Process discovery and analytics to identify and prioritize automation opportunities
- Enterprise-grade security, role-based access, credential vaulting, and audit logging
- Attended and unattended bots for both desktop-assisted and fully autonomous workflows
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About Automation Anywhere
What it is
Automation Anywhere is an enterprise automation platform combining traditional robotic process automation — software bots that drive applications the way a person would — with AI agents that handle the judgement steps RPA never could. Founded in 2003 and used across finance, IT, HR and operations at large scale.
Why it's different
Its position is the incumbent's: an enormous installed base, mature governance, and bots already running business-critical processes. The honest assessment of RPA generally is that it is a workaround for systems that lack APIs, and a bot that drives a user interface breaks whenever that interface changes — which is why RPA estates accumulate maintenance cost rather than shedding it. The agent additions genuinely help with the parts that defeated rule-based bots, such as reading an unstructured invoice. But a platform built around screen automation carries that history, and a newer system with proper APIs rarely needs any of it. This is enterprise-priced and implemented over months.
How people use it
It is used where the underlying systems cannot be changed — legacy finance and insurance platforms, mainframe interfaces, vendor applications with no integration path. The pattern that survives is automating stable, high-volume processes and accepting the maintenance, rather than automating everything and discovering the upkeep. Where an API exists, use the API; the bot is for when it does not.
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