Automation Anywhere starts 'Bot Store' featuring plug-n-play software bots

BANGALORE, INDIA: The enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) software provider Automation Anywhere has launched Bot Store - a first of its kind online marketplace for off-the-shelf, plug-n-play software bots that accelerate business process automation.

The Bot Store features prebuilt bots from Automation Anywhere and will feature bots from strategic partners EY, Genpact and others. It introduces a deployment model that dramatically shortens the time to value for business process automation initiatives.

The bots run on the Automation Anywhere Enterprise platform and can be snapped together like LEGO blocks to automate complex business processes like order fulfillment, mortgage processing, logistics management, compliance auditing and customer churn prediction. For example, in minutes a sales operations manager can interconnect a bot that queries Salesforce for high-revenue accounts and feed the list of accounts to a bot that queries Zendesk for any recent trouble tickets. The tickets can then be sent to a cognitive engine to analyze sentiment and assess churn risk to prioritize mitigative action.

Businesses today are increasingly augmenting their human workforce with a digital workforce – armies of software robots (or bots) that automate repetitive, high-volume tasks and operate at speeds unmatched by human workers.

“The Automation Anywhere Bot Store enables organizations to scale their digital workforce faster than ever before, which enhances the productivity of human workers and allows them to focus on more human-centric initiatives,” said Mihir Shukla, CEO and Co-Founder of Automation Anywhere. “Our certified, off-the-shelf bots incorporate industry best practices and enable organizations to shrink deployment times, reduce operational costs, and amplify the ROI from RPA initiatives by more than 50 percent.”

Bot Store users can discover new bots with ease using filters for attributes like process type, application integration and cognitive capabilities, as well as intelligent recommendations for related bots. 

Bots are available to Automation Anywhere customers and partners free of charge for an introductory period.

Automation Anywhere is expanding its partner program to include the Bot Store, with added incentives for strategic, technology and system integrator partners in all tiers of the partner program to participate in the Bot Store.