Blue Prism unveiled its connected-RPA vision which gives enterprises a game changing way of staying competitive and accelerating time to market for new services and products by easily accessing and exploiting cloud, AI and cognitive capabilities. Blue Prism's connected-RPA vision aims to unleash the creativity and innovation of an organization's digital savvy employees, "the makers", by giving them the power to invent, design and swiftly develop new disruptive services via the company's advanced digital workforce. IT departments often spend most of their budget on maintaining and updating processes and systems, rather than focused on new initiatives creating a digital entrepreneur gap that leaves organizations vulnerable to competitors who can innovate faster. Blue Prism closes this gap with an intelligent digital workforce capable of self-learning and continuous improvement, empowering users to automate billions of transactions while returning hundreds of millions of hours of work back into the business freeing up employees to create, build and share their innovations. Connected-RPA enables a powerful digital transformation that results in a connected entrepreneur enterprise, delivering new operational agility that allows organizations to maintain a competitive edge and be less vulnerable to start-ups and competitors. Supporting this connected-RPA vision, Blue Prism is also announcing new and enhanced platform features, capabilities, extensions and community enhancements — all designed to deliver intelligent automation with just a few clicks. Blue Prism also disclosed plans to introduce the following capabilities within the next 90 days: Intelligent document processing adds AI-powered document processing directly built into the Blue Prism platform, enabling smarter, end-to-end processing of document workflows with a built-in document processing engine. This provides off the shelf document processing capabilities and acts as an OCR system that can classify documents, extract key value pairs and encode verification steps into the digitization process. Blue Prism v6.5, the latest RPA software will include full Japanese and simplified Chinese language capabilities, IPv6 support, and data gateways, offering more data control while reducing the amount of storage being used. Success Accelerator: A program that provides customers with unparalleled access to RPA deployment experts to work alongside their trusted partners to help ensure RPA projects are a success. eCommerce/vending machine capability enables users to buy and sell solutions and services on the Digital Exchange making it a true eCommerce site. Technology partners, developers and anyone who has a best of breed AI or cognitive solution can join the Blue Prism DX community to market and sell on it. Easier Blue Prism software accessibility: By way of the eCommerce capability, Blue Prism plans to open-up access to the company's leading RPA software making it easy for people to get started, learn more and explore what's possible with an intelligent digital workforce. This access will be made available through DX and supports the company's academia program launched last April, which encourages innovation and entrepreneurship.