SS&C, a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries, has officially announced the launch of its new SS&C Blue Prism Next Generation intelligent automation platform, which is designed to facilitate wider cloud adoption without compromising security and compliance. According to certain reports, the stated product comes decked up with an ability to maximize AI’s potential through greater scale, agility, and access to the latest capabilities. But how will the whole value proposition look on a slightly deeper level? Well, we begin from the platform’s process design, where a dedicated design studio makes it possible for users to create, edit, and test processes locally with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop user interface. Markedly enough, the interface leveraged here is ensured to be a known commodity among existing Blue Prism developers, therefore helping them achieve a more seamless and effortless transition to the Next Generation platform. Next up, we must get into platform’s centralized storage. This feature enables the customer to avail benefits of Next Gen’s Process Repository, which by the way, saves processes and objects using cloud-based storage. As a result, the stated customer can use version control to track changes with minimal effort. Not just that, they can also effectively deploy automations using a stage-gated submission and review process, as well as through a traceable audit trail that does plenty to put together a compliant release process.
“The combination of cloud management and hybrid execution of automation is a value win for any enterprise wanting to leverage best-in-class capabilities to enable efficient worker management, process scheduling, and automation health monitoring,” said Maureen Fleming, AI and Automation Research VP at IDC. “Cloud automation is a critical performance driver for the future, as more organizations turn to GenAI to respond more rapidly to changing conditions or make better use of centralized data between highly distributed applications.”
Hold on, there are still a couple of bits left to unpack. For instance, we still haven’t discussed how the new platform delivers a 100 percent secure execution. It realizes such a feat with an option to deploy self-hosted digital workers directly on an organization’s network. This instantly eliminates any need for sensitive data to leave the original workflow. Rounding up the highlights is a specialized Cloud Center, which can provide a single pane of glass across the entire operation for the purpose of simplifying worker management in all possible environments. Furthermore, it empowers the organization to start, stop, and schedule processes, while simultaneously monitoring the health of automations and digital workers.
Founded in 1986, SS&C has reached a point where it is today one of Fortune 1000 companies. In case that didn’t sound like impressive enough, the company’s excellence can also be understood once you consider how it has, at present, more than 2 trillion worth of assets under management. Serving over 20,000 customers, SS&C currently has over 100 offices in 35 different countries.
“Although 87% of organizations have accelerated their investments in cloud-hosted automation services in the past year, many organizations still face a number of barriers,” said Colin Redbond, SVP of Product Management for SS&C Blue Prism. “Next Gen’s hybrid deployment model addresses this issue head-on, equipping customers with the latest IA capabilities needed to create value for customers and employees. SS&C Blue Prism Next Gen enables organizations to reduce infrastructure overheads, quickly adapt to changing priorities, scale more effectively, and upgrade digital workers on demand while satisfying the necessary industry security and compliance requirements.”
