| Feature |
Description |
| Task creation |
No programming required. 4 easy options to create any task in just minutes.
- Use SMART Task Recorder
- Use pre-defined automation templates
- Use task editor with point & click wizard
- Use Web Recorder for web automation
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| Security |
- Ability to secure your tasks with a password.
- For added security password protected tasks are encrypted with strong, industry standard encryption.
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| Intelligent automation software | Powered by our unique SMART
Automation Technology TM: Task re-plays automatically adjust to more than 40 changes between
record and play conditions giving you trouble free re-plays. For e.g.:
- Window position or size change
- If desktop icons or start menu items have moved
- Task bar or dialog box location change
- Internet connection is slower of faster
- Computer CPU load
- ...and many more.
This eliminates the need to write “infrastructure code”. It allows you to
focus on your business logic and automate 10 times faster than other automation software. |
| Reliability & accuracy |
Reliability and accuracy certified. Our vigorous testing and reliability certification is unmatched in the industry.
(See our reliability & accuracy money back guarantee) |
| Repeat task |
Ability to run tasks repeatedly at regular intervals. You can
- Repeat N times
- Repeat for ever (until you Stop it)
- Repeat for hh:mm:ss time
You can also set advance properties for repeat. Like
- Time between replays
- Upon error, continue with next repeat
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| Speed |
Ability to run task faster with accuracy. You can select from 3 speed options.
- Standard Replay (as recorded)
- High Speed Replay (faster)
- Turbo-Action Replay (faster, no mouse moves)
You can also customize the speed by adjusting delays in the editor. Run the task as fast as your computer can run. |
| Schedule task |
Scheduling capability to run tasks at pre-defined times. Automation Anywhere offers many scheduling options. You can schedule
- Daily (every day or only weekdays or every 2 days for example)
- Weekly (certain days of the week, for example every Monday)
- Monthly (certain day of month, for example 1st January & 5th& October)
- One time only
- When computer starts
- When you logon
- When computer is idle
You can also schedule a task multiple times. |
| Advance Web recorder |
Web recorder understands all web controls. When you perform any action in a browser, for example click a link or a button or a check box,
Automation Anywhere knows the exact web control. If websites change & links or buttons move, Automation Anywhere will still accurately replay the task. |
| Edit tasks |
Edit recorded tasks or create new tasks with point & click action wizards. No programming required. More than 250 powerful
actions to choose from like
- Keyboard & Mouse actions
- Files/Folder actions
- Windows actions
- Conditional actions
- Loop actions
- Internet actions
- Database actions
- Clipboard actions
- ...and many more.
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| Task to exe for distribution * |
Premier & Enterprise license allows task to exe capability.
Businesses and IT divisions can generate exes to manage & configure software, alter software behavior and more. These exes are self-contained and can even run on the computers that do not have Automation Anywhere. - Exes have intelligent Automation Anywhere agent inside it so even on a remote computer they are still powered by SMART Automation Technology. It
makes automatic adjustments while replaying the exe to run tasks seamlessly across computers.
- Exes provide unprecedented security in automation. All exes have task encrypted with strong encryption to protect task content. In addition you can
also password protect the task.
* Premier & Enterprise version only |
| Manage Windows Control actions for background execution |
Premier & Enterprise license offers Manage Windows control actions. Using this actions you can access many common Windows controls like
- Drop down
- Radio button
- Check box
- List box
- Tree Control
- Status Bar
- Buttons
- ..and more
This feature takes reliability of automation to a new level. All of these
actions can also happen in background offering a huge leap in reliable automation.
* Premier & Enterprise version only |
| Pre-defined automation templates |
Automation Anywhere features many pre-defined automation templates. Just answer few questions and Automation Anywhere will
automatically create a task for you. Template like
- Automate Backup
- Find broken web links
- Automate FTP
- Automate System maintenance
- Transfer data from Excel
- Web data Extraction
- ...and many more
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| Variable support |
Variables let you run the same task again & again with different
values, without changing the task. Two different types of variables are supported.
- System variables: These are pre-defined variables like date, clipboard, etc.
- User variables: These are variables that you can define as per your need. 3 different types of user variables are supported.
- Value (Single Value)
- List (Multiple Values)
- Random (Random Value)
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| Unique Auto Login capability |
Auto Login capability allows scheduled tasks to run even when computer is locked. Automation Anywhere provides this powerful feature to Auto
Login and Auto Lock for maximum security. When you enable Auto Login, and any scheduled task runs, Automation Anywhere will unlock the
computer if it is locked and start executing your task. Once the task completes, it will lock the computer again. This eliminates the
need to keep your computer unlocked for task execution. |
| Auto-response capability (Triggers) |
Auto response capability can trigger a task in response to many events.
You can define which task to trigger for which event. Automation Anywhere supports three types of triggers.
- Window
- File
- Folder
- Window Trigger: Two types of actions are supported in Window trigger.
- When window opens
- When window closes
- File Trigger: Three types of actions are supported in File trigger.
- When file is created
- When file is deleted
- When file is renamed
- Folder Trigger: Six different types of folder triggers are supported.
- When any file is created in that folder
- When any file is deleted in that folder
- When any file is renamed in that folder
- When folder is created
- When folder is deleted
- When folder is renamed
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| Web data extraction |
Powerful single click Web data extraction commands allows easy data extractions from web pages.
- Extract web data into your database, spreadsheet or any other application in just minutes.
- For e.g. product catalogue extraction, extract stock data, extract data
from business directory website, online competition price list extraction, etc.
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| Task chaining |
Using this feature, you can create few simple tasks and re-use them within a large complex task. Task chaining makes task management easier. |
| Interoperability |
Support for other applications: Call tasks from MS Excel, MS Word or any other scripts. This allows you to perform even more complex tasks. |
| Remote access software support |
Supports for all remote access software. For example: Citrix, pcAnywhere, Exceed, xCursion, logmein, GotoMyPC, etc. |
| Hotkey capability |
Run tasks by just pressing a hotkey. Hundred of hotkeys are supported. |
| Interactive scripts |
Automation Anywhere allows you to create interactive scripts.
Interactive scripts can prompt user for data during re-plays, then take that data and use it in the task. |
| Email notification |
Email notification allows you to send status mail when task finishes.
You can define content of the status email. Default email template contains:
- Task Name
- Task Description
- Repeat
- Task Status
- Last Run Time
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| Debugging capabilities |
Full debugging support is available with Automation Anywhere. You can
- Define a break point
- Clear break point(s)
- Run till the break point
- Execute step by step
You can also enable or disable specific actions for debugging. |
| Error reporting |
Historic log information & detailed error reporting. Log information shows line # where error happened and detailed error message. |
| Powerful automation platform |
- Integrate disparate scripts like VBScript, JScript into an Automation Anywhere script.
- Use in-built automation services like repeat, notification, etc., on VBScript & JScripts.
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| Task management |
Organize tasks into various directories. For each task you can specify description/notes. Each task also shows total
keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc. |
| Export task as TXT file |
You can export a task into a text file. In the Editor use File->Save as txt file to export your task. |
| Excel Integration |
- With Excel integration you can Create Spreadsheet, Open Spreadsheet, Close Spreadsheet, Get Cells, Set Cell, Goto Cell, Run Excel
Macro within the task and even Delete Cells.
- Sessions allow you to work with multiple spreadsheets.
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| Remote Administration & Deployment* |
- Deploy single task to multiple computers on a network or manage deployment of multiple tasks through the deployment manager.
- Deployment Manager allows you to create groups, initiate, maintain and monitor old and new tasks to a particular group or individual computer on the
network, schedule the remote tasks, get the status of the remote tasks run, get email notifications and clean up tasks from the remote machine.
* Enterprise version only |
| Workflow Designer* |
Workflow Designer is a tool to create high level business and IT processes and manage it. Workflow shows a intuitive graphical representation of
conditional logic, task initiation, etc. * Enterprise version only |
| System logs* |
A new feature is 'System Logs' capability that provides you with a single database of all events in your automation environment. Any
changes made to the task, errors, deployment events, workflow creations or any other actions can be viewed in the System Log. It can help you identify and
diagnose the source of a problem, track changes to your automation system and even help you predict potential problems. System Logs can be exported to a .csv
file and can be filtered by Date and Type of the event. * Enterprise version only |
| Visualize Technology* |
- You can view images at the time of recording the task in the Task Editor View
- Visualize (Image View) allows you to see all the images of the tasks in a storyboard style and helps to easily understand the scripts/tasks.
- Snap Point allows on-demand capture while creating task
- Visualize Technology 'Image Recognition' gives Automation Anywhere power to "See the screen". Compare static or dynamic images as task runs and
perform actions based on it like a human being would do.
* Enterprise version only |
