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Ah that's a good explanation of Blue Prism vs UI Path. I think MS is planning to offer it in the O365 stack which means if its half decent it will probably eat
by sjs7007 6y ago
Ah that's a good explanation of Blue Prism vs UI Path.
I think MS is planning to offer it in the O365 stack which means if its half decent it will probably eat UI Path's lunch?
> I don't think legacy support is a major point for them, which will probably be good enough for most people.
Interesting that you say that, I thought that would be one of the primary usecases of RPA? Legacy apps where there's no possibility of an API.
- ethbr0 6y agoLegacy app support takes a huge amount of work. And probably doesn't have the profit margins MS likes to see, and/or enough of a market to impact their bottom line. My guess would be they'll develop really tight integration with the Office suite, wrap a thin shim around Active Accessibility [0] / UI Automation (/ whatever they want to call it), and call it a day. Also, there's a ton of Java stuff out there that gets very esoteric. And that doesn't seem like something MS is interested in expanding into. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibili...