| Tool | Key Difference | |------|----------------| | | Integrated with AA’s RPA platform; includes screen recording + process mining. | | Blue Prism Process Intelligence | Focuses on process mining from event logs (Celonis partnership). | | Celonis | Pure-play process mining (can feed any RPA tool via API). | | Fortress IQ | AI-driven discovery + built-in RPA development. | | Microsoft Power Automate Process Advisor | Included in Power Automate; records desktop/web actions; exports to Power Automate flows. |
| Feature | Description | |---------|-------------| | | Silent background recording of user actions (keystrokes, clicks, data entry, app switching). | | Process mining | Analyzes event logs to reveal actual process paths, bottlenecks, and deviations. | | Task mining | Combines UI interaction data with business context to understand intent and decision points. | | Flowchart generation | Automatically creates visual process maps (e.g., BPMN or UiPath’s native format). | | Automation estimation | Calculates potential time savings, complexity score, and suggested RPA activities. | | Export to RPA studio | Direct export to UiPath Studio (or similar) as a starting workflow. | | Compliance & privacy | PII masking, data anonymization, and user consent controls. | rpa explorer
Explores the shift from traditional RPA to "Agentic Process Automation," where AI agents construct their own workflows from human instructions. | Tool | Key Difference | |------|----------------| |
The primary value of RPA Explorer is that it moves RPA discovery from a manual, qualitative process to an automated, quantitative one. Instead of asking employees what they do, the tool observes their actions through UI logs (recorded clicks, keystrokes, and screen changes) to identify repetitive patterns suitable for automation. | | Fortress IQ | AI-driven discovery +
While excellent, the paper (and the approach) has challenges that subsequent research has tried to address:
RPA Explorer is not for building or running bots. It’s for finding what to automate and creating the initial design.
If you are looking for an academic paper published in , you may be referring to "Towards a Design Guideline for RPA Evaluation: A Survey of Large Language Model-Based Role-Playing Agents".