Implementing Blue Prism with AI for Robotic Process Automation
Blue Prism is an enterprise RPA platform with a focus on governance, security, and scalability. Historically popular in banking, insurance, and the public sector, Blue Prism offers Decipher (an IDP solution) and integration with AI services through Blue Prism AI Skills.
Blue Prism Architecture
Process Studio + Object Studio: Robot development. Process Studio – process logic (BPMN-like). Object Studio – interaction with applications (UI automation, API).
Control Room: Centralized management of digital workers. Scheduling, monitoring, exception handling, capacity planning.
Interact: human-in-the-loop interface. Robots request actions from people via a web form. Full audit trail.
AI integration
Blue Prism AI Skills: Pre-trained AI capabilities: Document OCR, Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis. Plug-and-play in processes.
Decipher IDP: intelligent document processing for complex unstructured documents. Training on examples without ML expertise.
External AI Services: Blue Prism calls external AI APIs (OpenAI, Google AI, Azure Cognitive Services) through a VBO (Visual Business Object). The results are used in the process logic.
Implementation pipeline
Weeks 1-4: Process Assessment. Blue Prism Wednesday. Developer training.
Weeks 5–14: Process development. AI skills integration. UAT.
Weeks 15-18: Production. Control Room setting. Capacity planning.
Compliance
Blue Prism is ISO 27001, SOC 2 certified. A complete audit trail of all robotic actions is critical for regulated industries.