But existing RPA customers faced the prospect of rewriting their RPA applications and management tools.
âMigrating an entire digital workforce used to be incredibly expensive and time-consuming, so it was essentially a non-starter, even if there was significant interest in Microsoftâs offering,â Shimmerman said.
Blueprintâs offering could dramatically lower this cost and set companies up for improved governance down the road.RPA versus low-codeBefore RPA came along, process efficiency experts developed a whole science around business process management systems.
Process wonks would descend on a corporation and tease out how processes worked and how they could be re-engineered, then worked with business process management suites to convert these into executable business processes.
An RPA bot is instantly understandable by any user, and it can work with any app at the user interface (UI) level, which provides significant flexibility.The development and evolution of Microsoft Power Automate took insight from both the RPA and low-code camps to provide the best of both worlds, with applications that could be created much like RPA bots but could run at the speed of low-code apps.Bringing process into RPA migrationsBoth RPA and low-code tools have traditionally focused on the technical side of automation.
Additionally, most organizations rely on documents to specify their automations which may be missing or out of date.The new Blueprint Enterprise Automation Suite tool refactors RPA bots into a common object model.