Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation (RPA) platform that lets organizations build software bots to automate repetitive, rule-based business tasks across desktop and web applications.
Definition
Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation (RPA) platform that lets organizations build software bots to automate repetitive, rule-based business tasks across desktop and web applications.
Overview
Originally founded in the early 2000s and rebranded as Automation Anywhere around 2010, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and grew alongside competitors such as Blue Prism in the enterprise RPA market. Its flagship Automation 360 platform is cloud-native, offering a bot creation studio, a control room for scheduling and monitoring bots, and AI-based document automation for handling unstructured data. The company increasingly positions itself around combining RPA with AI/ML for more intelligent process automation, overlapping at the lighter end of the market with automation platforms like Zapier or open-source options such as Activepieces.
Key Features
- Cloud-native bot creation and management platform (Automation 360)
- Attended and unattended bots for desktop, web, and enterprise applications
- AI-based document automation for unstructured data extraction
- Centralized control room for scheduling, monitoring, and governing bots
- Pre-built bot templates and a marketplace of reusable components
- Integration with major enterprise systems