Automation Lifecycle Management (ALM)

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The Blue Prism Cloud digital workers provide an unparalleled skill and capability set, with further use cases being addressable with each new release. Whilst capability is important, Blue Prism Cloud have paid equal attention to the usability during the delivery cycle, ensuring enterprises are provided with guard rails to ensure best practices are met. The Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Automation (IA) industry has a multitude of methodologies and operating models however these are contained in documents and training materials only. With the development of Blue Prism Cloud’s Automation Lifecycle Management (ALM) capability within Hub, enterprises early on in their RPA/IA journey can benefit from application driven controls to ensure the key milestones of a successful delivery are met. ALM will provide the functionality below:

  • Business Case Creation
  • Process Identification
  • Process Documentation*
  • Exception Tracking*
  • Automation Design and Development*
  • Process Sign-off and Approval*
  • User Acceptance Testing Management
  • Release / Change and Operational Management

The Automation Lifecycle plugin available for Hub provides a framework for the above functionality to be managed.

Only the items marked with an * are available in the first release. Additional functionality will be provided for future release of the Blue Prism Cloud platform.