Founded in 2003, Automation Anywhere is an early pioneer and market leader in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) space. However, the company has a broader strategy focused on the Digital Workforce, in which intelligent automated assistants provide additional value to the workforce to extract value, automate data extraction and entry, and other functions. The company is focused on enabling the workforce to automate and enable a greater percentage of its business processes than capable with other business process approaches. Processes are composed of bots, which are executed by bot runners.
The cornerstone of their cognitive automation platform is IQBot, which is focused on specific business use cases and apply a combination of computer vision, natural language processing, fuzzy logic, machine learning, and third-party ML services to address the large quantity of semi-structured information in the enterprise, and mostly on-premise or private cloud environments. Their BotFarm cloud environment can execute bots with on-demand scale.