SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation Platform
OCR software
Business process management software
Digital process automation (DPA) software
Intelligent document processing (IDP) software
Process mining tools
Robotic process automation (RPA) software
Process automation software
Business automation platforms (BAPs)
Enterprise automation software
- Features
- Ease of use
- Ease of management
- Quality of support
- Affordability
- Market presence
Take the quiz to check if SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation Platform and its alternatives fit your requirements.
Contact the product provider
Free Trial
Free version unavailable
Small
Medium
Large
- Banking and insurance
- Real estate and property management
- Healthcare and life sciences
What is SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation Platform
SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation Platform is an enterprise automation suite centered on robotic process automation, with additional capabilities for workflow orchestration and AI-assisted automation. It is used by IT and automation teams to build, deploy, and govern software robots that execute repeatable business processes across applications. The platform emphasizes centralized control, security, and operational management for scaled deployments, and it can be extended with document and AI components through SS&C Blue Prism offerings and integrations.
Enterprise-grade governance controls
The platform includes centralized management for robot deployments, credential handling, access controls, and operational monitoring. These features support regulated environments where auditability and separation of duties matter. This governance focus is often a deciding factor for large organizations standardizing automation across multiple business units.
Scales for attended and unattended
Blue Prism supports unattended automations for back-office processing and attended automations that assist users on the desktop. It provides scheduling, workload management, and runtime controls to operate automations at scale. This breadth helps teams cover both high-volume processing and user-assisted scenarios within one automation program.
Broad integration and extensibility
The platform automates across common enterprise applications via UI automation, APIs (where available), and connectors/integrations. It supports reusable components and patterns that help teams standardize automations and reduce duplication. This is useful when automations must span multiple systems, including legacy applications that lack modern interfaces.
Higher implementation overhead
Enterprise RPA programs typically require infrastructure planning, security reviews, and operational processes before value is realized. Blue Prism’s governance and control model can increase upfront configuration compared with lighter-weight tools. Organizations without an established automation CoE may find initial rollout slower than expected.
Document AI not always native
While the platform can be used in document-centric automations, advanced OCR/IDP capabilities often depend on additional SS&C Blue Prism components or third-party integrations. This can add licensing, integration effort, and model/exception-handling work for document-heavy use cases. Teams evaluating it primarily for IDP should validate end-to-end extraction accuracy and human-in-the-loop workflows in their specific document types.
Ongoing maintenance for UI bots
Automations that rely on user-interface interactions can be sensitive to application UI changes, performance variability, and environment differences. This can create ongoing maintenance work, testing needs, and release coordination with application owners. API-first automation can reduce this risk, but it is not always available for all target systems.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Trial Edition | Free for 30 days (time-limited) | Fully functional 30-day license; standalone installation; up to 15 processes. |
| Learning Edition | Free for 180 days (time-limited; feature-limited) | Intended for learning/certification: 1 digital worker, 2 sessions, 5 published processes; local installation. |
| Enterprise / Production | Custom pricing — contact SS&C Blue Prism | Commercial/production offering; support tiers (Production, Business-critical); extras and add-ons available via SS&C |
| --- | --- | --- |
Seller details
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.
Windsor, Connecticut, USA
1986
Public
https://www.ssctech.com/
https://x.com/ssctechnologies
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ssc-technologies/
