Blue Prism is the trading name of the Blue Prism Group plc, a British multinational software corporation that pioneered and makes enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) software that provides a digital workforce designed to automate complex, end-to-end operational activities.
[2] Blue Prism's headquarters are at 2 Cinnamon Park Crab Lane Warrington WA2 0XP, UK with regional offices in the U.S. and Australia.
The company was co-founded by Alastair Bathgate and David Moss to provide a new approach that today is known as robotic process automation, or RPA.
[21] An October 2018 study by Grand View Research, Inc. stated that the key companies in the RPA market included: Automation Anywhere, Inc.; Blue Prism Group PLC; UIPath; Be Informed B.V.; OpenSpan; and Jacada, Inc.[22] In 2019, Gartner released its 'Magic Quadrant' for RPA, and Blue Prism was one of the leaders in the market.
[26] On 6 January 2017 Blue Prism announced it would open new offices in Austin, Texas, while remaining based in London.
[30] As of April 2020, the leadership team is made up of chairman and CEO Jason Kingdon and co-founder and CTO David Moss.
[34] Vista is said to be considering "potentially material headcount reductions" of 8 to 10 per cent of the approximately 4,750 employees of the merged companies.
[35] The original takeover deal was first announced in December 2021, when a bidding war between SS&C and Vista Equity partners drove up the price.
[40] In 2016, Blue Prism received one of the top honors at the AIconics Awards, named as The Best Enterprise Application of AI.
[44] The Digital Exchange gives customers and partners the ability to create and share tools that can be used with Blue Prism's software.