Blue Prism Tutorial for Beginners

Blue Prism is a UK-based software development company in the field of Robotic Process Automation. The group supplies software robot which helps to automate clerical back office processes that work exactly like a human.

The Robotic Process Automation which is shortly known as (RPA) was invented by Blue Prism. This fact itself shows that the company is pioneers in RPA software development.

Blue Prism software enables business operations to be agile and cost effective by automating, manual, rule-based, repetitive back-office processes and improving accuracy by developing a "Digital Workforce.". The Blue prism tool offers flow chart like designer with drag and drop feature to automate each step of the business processes.

Blue prism Features

• Secure, scalable, and central management of a virtual workforce of software robots
• Complete automation solution that results in work distribution and queue management
• Blue prism has many robust features like load balancing, encryption, and audit. It also offers robots that are defined and managed centrally
• Blue Prism comes with various types of spying modes for different application types
• It has many improved featues to configure Dashboards so that session information can be directed to external Analytics and monitoring systems
• The latest version 6 of Blue prism provide support for Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud deployment patterns
• Exception stages can be set to save a screen capture. When it is used in the production environment, this feature can resolve resource processing issues in a secure manner
• You can automate Excel, XML, csv, pdf, image, etc.
• There is no need to write any code while working with the Blue prism tool
• It can automate software developed in Java, Mainframe, Web-based, Windows Applications

Components of Blue Prism

Blue Prism is a set of libraries, tools, and runtime environments for RPA.

Every software robot has two main parts:

1. Process Studio
2. Object Studio

What is Object Studio?

Object studio is a where we can create the Visual Business Object. It is abbreviated as VBO. VBO are created to interact with other applications.

We will see that Object Studio looks very like Process Studio. There are key differences, which are:

• Object Studio offers some "stage" which are not available in the Process Studio
• Object Studio does not have a Main Page, but it does have two default pages
• Pages are organized as a flat group instead of hierarchy like in the Process Studio

Benefits of Developing VBO:

• Consistency and scalability
• Lesser Bot creation time for subsequent processes
• System changes only needed to be updated in one location instead of for each process. Bot maintaince becomes easy

What is Process studio?

Process studio looks similar to a traditional flowchart. It is an area where an actual process is created. Apart from features offered by Object studio, it allows business logic, control loops, variables, and object call to be sequenced, and tested in a visible business flow. Each Page in Process has its tab, and generally, the process defined in the Process Studio is pretty similar to a flowchart.

A process acts like a human user. It implements a software robot's logic. It is almost similar to personal interaction with several applications to carry out a series of steps which can invoke actions to carry out same steps.

Process diagram:

• Process diagrams are comprised of various stages connected together using links to form logical structures.
• Stages are selected from the toolbar and placed on the diagram using the mouse.
• They can be selected, moved, resized, formatted, cut, copied, pasted, and deleted, much as you might expect.
• Stages also have various properties that can be accessed by double -clicking.
• Links are created using the link tool by dragging the mouse from the center of one stage to the center of another.
• Dragging without the link tool can be used to select more than one stage at a time.