A common trend we see in the automation market is RPA programs running on multiple RPA platforms. In other words, they’re using different RPA vendors to develop and deploy automated processes.
This practice leads to a common pain point; automation leaders want to centralize and consolidate their automations in one place because when they’re siloed in multiple platforms, visibility, governance, and change management become that much harder.
The desire to consolidate automations is so strong; it’s one of the prime triggers driving RPA platform migrations.
But before we get into the obvious benefits of consolidating automations in a single repository, let’s explore how RPA programs have ended up using multiple RPA vendors in the first place.
RPA programs typically find themselves using multiple RPA platforms due to one, or a combination of three reasons:
Many major software players like SAP and Salesforce are making big investments in their own RPA execution functionalities. The organizations using those major software tools would logically choose to leverage them for RPA with out-of-the-box automation capabilities.
Naturally, this siloed approach with multiple vendors leads to several challenges.
Using multiple RPA tools within the same organization creates several challenges. The biggest one is that RPA platforms are proprietary; they all specify process automations in different ways. The way a bot is developed in one platform isn’t the same as how it’s developed in another, creating disparate automation design practices and a lack of quality.
Multiple RPA platforms also means doubling overhead because you’re paying for two vendors, inflating the cost of ownership for RPA.
Most importantly, if your automation program is running on multiple RPA platforms, visibility, control, governance, and change management are siloed, leading to inefficiencies, added effort, and hitting you where it hurts the most: added costs.
The lack of visibility is arguably one of the greatest motivators for our customers to migrate a portion of their portfolio of bots into one RPA platform. If your RPA program uses multiple vendors, it might be time to consolidate your automation efforts into one.
Blueprint can help you migrate your entire portfolio of bots into one RPA platform 3x faster and with a 75% cost reduction when compared to manual methods.
One of the most impactful benefits of migrating your digital workforce with Blueprint isn’t limited to the accelerated execution and cost reduction of the migration itself. When you migrate bots using Blueprint’s end-to-end migration solution, you’re also able to consolidate all your automated processes in one, central location in your RPA platform for total visibility and control.
By consolidating your automations in Blueprint while leveraging our rich collaboration capabilities that allows all stakeholders to converge and work together in real-time, you’ll be able realize the benefits of RPA centralization, including:
Interested in migrating and consolidating all your RPA platform bots into one place? Download the Blueprint RPA Platform Migration datasheet to see how we do it and everything you have to gain.