Blue Prism — Enterprise RPA and Decipher IDP
SS&C Blue Prism is an enterprise RPA and intelligent automation platform provider offering document processing through its Blue Prism Decipher IDP product.
Overview
Founded in 2001 by Alastair Bathgate and David Moss, Blue Prism launched its first commercial product, Automate, in 2003 and coined the term "robotic process automation (RPA)" in 2012. Acquired by SS&C Technologies in March 2022 for $1.6 billion, the company operates as SS&C Blue Prism, serving financial services and healthcare sectors from Windsor, Connecticut.
In 2025, Blue Prism positioned itself as a thought leader in agentic AI adoption, with company research revealing 79% of Fortune 500 companies have active agentic AI projects and 30% are implementing solutions. Everest Group analyst Amardeep Modi categorized Blue Prism as one of the process automation specialists competing against major enterprise software companies including Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, and ServiceNow in the emerging agentic automation platform market.
The company has been consistently recognized across multiple automation markets, appearing in AI-enhanced RPA market research projected to grow by $14.28 billion through 2029 with a 33% CAGR, and the hyper automation market expected to reach $77.7 billion by 2032.
Blue Prism Products and Capabilities
Blue Prism Decipher serves as the company's flagship intelligent document processing solution, combining computer vision, AI, ML, and NLP for structured, unstructured, and semi-structured documents. The platform's Visual Process Designer provides a low-code development environment with high scalability, while the Robust Execution Engine delivers enterprise-grade automation with proven reliability. Blue Prism Next Generation represents the cloud-native intelligent automation platform, integrated with SS&C AI Gateway for enterprise AI governance and agentic AI capabilities that enable autonomous work execution with minimal human intervention.
Use Cases
Financial Services Automation
Banks deploy Blue Prism for invoice processing and KYC automation, with the platform extracting data from identity documents and validating information across multiple data sources. The BFSI RPA market is projected to grow from $1.17 billion in 2025 to $6.26 billion by 2031 at a 32.14% CAGR.
Healthcare Claims Processing
Healthcare providers use Blue Prism Document Automation to process insurance claims with handwritten forms and low-quality scanned documents, digitizing patient information and extracting diagnosis codes for automated claims processing.
Commercial Vehicle Automation
Blue Prism has expanded into the commercial vehicle AI applications market, focusing on work order automation and fleet management operations.
Technical Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Core Platform | RPA, BPM, low-code/no-code, agentic AI |
| IDP Product | Blue Prism Decipher IDP, Document Automation |
| Technology | Computer vision, AI, ML, NLP, OCR |
| Document Types | Structured, unstructured, semi-structured, handwritten |
| Deployment | Cloud-native, on-premise, hybrid, SaaS |
| Processing Pipeline | Ingestion, classification, extraction, validation, integration |
| Integration | Native RPA integration, quick setup (hours) |
| Scale Metrics | 2,700+ active agents, 150M transactions, $170M+ savings delivered |
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Company Information
Windsor, Connecticut, United States
Founded: 2001 (Blue Prism) | Acquired: March 2022 by SS&C Technologies ($1.6B)
Founders: Alastair Bathgate, David Moss
Email: support@blueprism.com
Tel: +1 888 757 7476