Blue Prism, founded in 2001, is widely credited within the industry as the company that coined the term "robotic process automation" itself, years before RPA became the broad category label it is today. SS&C Technologies, a large financial services and enterprise software company, acquired Blue Prism in 2022, folding it into SS&C's much larger portfolio rather than leaving it as an independent RPA specialist.
That two-decade RPA pedigree still anchors its core product: software robots that automate structured, rules-based tasks across enterprise systems, historically strong in highly regulated sectors like banking, insurance, and healthcare where Blue Prism built long relationships well before AI-agent framing existed. Generative AI capabilities have been added more recently to that established rules-based automation core.
There's no free tier; Blue Prism sells through enterprise contracts, sometimes bundled with SS&C's broader financial and business software offerings. For a large regulated enterprise, particularly one already working with SS&C's other software, that wants an RPA vendor with the longest possible institutional history in the category, Blue Prism's founding role in defining RPA itself carries real weight.
