Automation Anywhere
Process Discovery
Capture the work behind the screen
with computer vision.
Automation Anywhere Process Discovery is a task mining tool built around screen capture and computer vision analysis. Because it doesn’t depend on the OS, it can capture real activity even in legacy environments and virtual desktops such as Citrix. It leads directly into bot development in Automation 360 and excels at finding automation candidates at scale.
What you can do with Automation Anywhere Process Discovery
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Screen capture + computer vision analysis
Regular screen captures are interpreted with image analysis to infer what people are doing, whatever the OS or app.
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OS-independent data collection
Makes real activity visible even in environments other tools struggle with, such as virtual desktops (Citrix and others) and legacy systems.
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Scoring automation candidates in numbers
ROI scores are calculated automatically from how often repetitive work occurs and how long it takes, so priorities can be set objectively.
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Candidates sent to Automation 360
Automation candidates go straight into bot development in Automation 360, taking you from analysis to implementation in one go.
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Analysis at scale for large organizations
Analyzes many sites and users at once, making company-wide visibility efficient.
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Automatic process maps
Recorded activity is turned into process flows automatically, giving an overview of how work is structured across the organization.
Issues
Even as you make work more visible, do these challenges remain?
Activity in virtual desktops is hard to capture with other tools
Work done through virtual desktops such as Citrix is difficult for OS-dependent tools to log.
With so many sites and departments, you can’t prioritize what to map
The scope is so wide that there is nothing to decide where to start, so mapping work keeps getting postponed.
You can’t explain the return on automation candidates in numbers
Even when you propose automation, you can’t show the savings in numbers, leaving management without a basis for investment decisions.
Automation Anywhere Process Discovery
solves all of these at once.
Benefits
Turn invisible work into something you can describe in numbers, with ITSO.
Certified Automation Anywhere partner
ITSO officially provides Automation Anywhere implementation, analysis and adoption support.
Experience with legacy and virtual desktop environments
Making use of its OS independence, we have analyzed environments that other tools find hard to map.
Support for rollout across large organizations
We support large-scale mapping across many sites and departments, including setting priorities.
Taking candidates into Automation 360
We identify high-priority work from the analysis and take it straight into bot development in Automation 360.
Privacy and governance design
We design operating rules covering what is collected, masking settings and how to explain it to employees.
Ongoing maintenance and analysis
Ongoing remote support, from continuous data collection and analysis reports to carrying out automation.
Flow
Three steps to go-live, in as little as two months.
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Choosing departments and tasks
2–4 weeksWe agree on scope and privacy policy, and organize the targets, including whether virtual desktops or legacy environments are involved.
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Agent setup and recording
2–4 weeksAn agent is installed in participants’ environments to collect data for a set period, with activity logs aggregated so individuals can’t be identified.
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Analysis and automation proposals
2–3 weeksWe analyze the data and propose automation candidates for Automation 360 based on ROI scores.
Scene
Automation Anywhere Process Discovery is at work across a wide range of industries and tasks.
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Financial institutions
Mapping credit review in a virtual desktop environment
Activity in credit review work done through Citrix was made visible, and automation candidates were proposed with ROI scores.
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Manufacturing
Analyzing order processing across many sites at once
Order processing at sites across the country was analyzed at once and differences between sites quantified, driving standardization and automation in parallel.
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Shared service center
Work analysis for standardization
Differences in how the same work was done by different people and sites were made visible, leading to standard procedures and a defined scope for automation.
FAQ
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UiPath Task Mining mainly combines OS event logs with screen captures, while Automation Anywhere Process Discovery centers on screen capture and computer vision and doesn’t depend on the OS. Its strength is capturing real activity even where other tools struggle, such as virtual desktops (Citrix and others) and legacy environments.
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A standard implementation, from choosing departments to data collection, analysis and proposals, takes about 2–3 months. For rollouts across large organizations, we propose a separate roadmap based on the scope.
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Because it is based on screen capture, it can capture real activity even in virtual desktops such as Citrix, and analyze consistently in organizations that mix local PCs and remote environments.
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The analysis can be exported in a format that doesn’t depend on any RPA product, so connecting to other RPA tools is possible. The smoothest path from candidates to bot development, though, is with Automation 360.
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Yes. Its cloud-based analysis platform handles large volumes of data, and we propose a scalable setup for the number of users and sites at the design stage.