SS&C Blue Prism
Headquarters
London, UKFounded
2001CEO / Founder
Rama KrishnanEmployees
1001-5000Funding
AcquiredProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.3/10Website
www.blueprism.com
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About SS&C Blue Prism
Blue Prism is a robotic process automation pioneer founded in 2001 in the UK by Alastair Bathgate and David Moss. The platform enables enterprises to automate back-office processes with software robots across finance, operations, and IT.
Blue Prism serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers including global banks, insurers, and government agencies, with a focus on governed, scalable RPA deployments. The company launched an agentic AI offering to extend its automation capabilities.
Blue Prism was acquired by SS&C Technologies (NASDAQ: SSNC) in March 2022 for approximately $1.6 billion. It now operates as SS&C Blue Prism within SS&C's broader intelligent automation portfolio.
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Products by SS&C Blue Prism
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Competitive Landscape
Who SS&C Blue Prism competes with, and how they differ.
The enterprise RPA market leader by revenue and analyst rankings; UiPath pairs unattended/attended bots with a broader AI-document-understanding and agentic automation suite, and is publicly traded (NYSE) versus SS&C Blue Prism's status as a business unit inside a larger financial-software conglomerate.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A direct cloud-native RPA competitor (Automation 360 platform); privately held and VC-backed rather than owned by a diversified acquirer, with a stronger self-serve/cloud-first go-to-market versus Blue Prism's traditional enterprise-license model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Bundled into Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform at a much lower entry price, trading dedicated RPA depth for ubiquity inside orgs already on Microsoft licensing — competes hardest for mid-market and departmental automation rather than large regulated-enterprise RPA programs.
9 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Combines BPM, case management and low-code app development with RPA as one module of a broader platform, competing for the same financial-services and healthcare automation budgets as Blue Prism but selling a wider process-orchestration suite rather than an RPA-first product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A narrower, AI-heavy RPA and intelligent document processing vendor focused specifically on financial-services AML/KYC compliance automation, versus Blue Prism's broader horizontal enterprise RPA footprint across industries.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A low-code process-automation and case-management platform with native RPA capabilities, competing for the same "digital process automation" enterprise budget but positioned around app-building rather than RPA bots as the primary product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in SS&C Blue Prism's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
SS&C Technologies completes acquisition of Blue Prism
SS&C Technologies Holdings completed its acquisition of Blue Prism Group Plc for approximately $1.6 billion (£1.25 billion), ending Blue Prism's run as an independent public company and rebranding it SS&C Blue Prism.
prnewswire.com - Milestone
Blue Prism agrees SS&C's 1,275p cash offer, drops Vista Equity backing
Blue Prism's board backed SS&C Technologies' £1.24 billion all-cash offer of 1,275 pence per share, judging it superior to Vista Equity Partners' rival 1,250p bid, ending a months-long bidding war.
proactiveinvestors.co.uk - Acquisition
Blue Prism acquires Thoughtonomy for $100M
Blue Prism acquired cloud-RPA vendor Thoughtonomy for $100 million to expand its platform with additional AI-driven automation capabilities.
en.wikipedia.org - Milestone
Blue Prism IPOs on London Stock Exchange AIM
Blue Prism floated on the AIM market with a market capitalisation of £48.5 million; shares rose 44% on the first day of trading.
en.wikipedia.org - Launch
Blue Prism launches "Automate", its first commercial product
Blue Prism released Automate, its inaugural commercial robotic process automation product.
en.wikipedia.org - Founded
Blue Prism founded by Alastair Bathgate and David Moss
Blue Prism was established in Warrington, UK, by Alastair Bathgate and David Moss, focused on back-office robotic process automation for financial services.
en.wikipedia.org
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