Automation Anywhere Server Feature List

Server features

Server management console

Control security by assigning rights, privileges and passwords by user.
You can monitor activity by getting details on recent activity by user.
Manage shared tasks in the central repository.

Collaboration: Upload / download / share automated tasks

Automate a task on one machine and rely on AA’s SMART Automation Technology^® to seamlessly replay it on other machines
Maintain a central repository of automated tasks to share between users, thereby reducing set up time and replicating efforts.

Centralized backup / security/ disaster recovery

Schedule auto backup and recover lost files from central repository
Assign individual user privileges and rights to maintain security. Use the client manager to allow certain users all rights, others only download rights and so forth, to match organizational structural requirements.

Client features

Collaboration

Upload automated tasks and share with other users.
Download automated tasks from other users to run seamlessly on your machine
Download automated tasks and edit to customize.

Windows object recording

One of the most powerful features: Actions are recorded using windows objects and just not their positions on a screen. For example: users can record a task to click a ‘reply’ button in an email program. Independent of its subsequent position in the application, this button will be clicked when replaying the task.
This object-based capture and replay also allows automated tasks to run in the background, allowing users to continue using a machine even while a task is being replayed.

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.

Workflow designer

Workflow designer is a tool to create high level business and IT processes and manage it. Workflow shows an intuitive graphical representation of conditional logic, task initiation, etc.

Web Service

Web Service command implements SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) over the internet so that multiple clients can consume web services. This command establishes complete interpolarity between clients/applications with the Web, supporting XML-based open standards, such as WSDL(Web Services Description Language) , SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) and UDDI(Universal Description Discovery and Integration).

Use an existing URI or create a customized WSDL URI, providing secure authentication details, if any.
Consume reusable application components like currency conversion, weather reports, or even language translation as services.
Connect to existing software of different applications and different platforms irrespective of any underlying infrastructure requirements.

Application integrator

Integrate with any application to automate any task: Excel, legacy or Windows applications, Unix Shell, Telnet, Java application, Java applet, DOS command prompts, browsers, email automation and terminal emulation.

Task to Exe for distribution

Convert tasks to exe for quick and convenient deployment on remote machines.
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.

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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.

Advanced 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. Enhanced Web Recorder with pattern based data extraction, allows you to extract web data with the same pattern spanning across multiple pages with ease.

Create a task 5 easy ways

No programming required. 5 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
Use Windows Object Recorder

Task editor with 530+ actions

Normal View: Edit recorded tasks or create new tasks with point & click action wizards. No programming required. Edit multiple tasks simultaneously. More than 530 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.

Automate tasks with point and click actions

Enhanced Security Features

Secure auto-login –schedule a task to run at a later time, then lock the computer and go home. At the scheduled time, Automation Anywhere will automatically log in, run the task, and lock the computer again.
Disable the mouse and keyboard – When Automation Anywhere uses auto-login to unlock the computer to run a scheduled task, disenabling the mouse and keyboard while the task is running, ensures no misuse of the computer during the run cycle. If someone tries to use the computer at anytime during the entire process, Automation Anywhere automatically locks the computer, ensuring security.
Turn on stealth-mode – Automation Anywhere allows you to prevent information from being displayed on the screen during auto-login. Furthermore when a scheduled task is running Automation Anywhere blanks the screen, shielding information from prying eyes in the absence of the user.

XML

Process XML information generated from web services and/or through cloud computing using XML command. Get data having XML formatting and save to the desired location using:

XML sessions
Node functionalities like Insert, Update and Get Nodes
Validate XML file
Perform XPath Expression

Email automation

Use single or multiple fields like ‘subject’, ‘from’, ‘to’, 'message' etc., to isolate emails of interest and assign custom processes. For e.g. identify all emails with subject matter “automation anywhere” from anyone and collate them in a word document and email that document to everyone in the department.

Terminal emulator

Terminal emulator is a program that transmits keystrokes to the remote server, receives output from the server, and displays it in a window which simulates the screen. It supports standards like VT100, ANSI to name a few and allows users to access virtually any server, including mainframes, that requires the use of a terminal.

Unicode support

Multi language capability allows for ease of use across multi-country operations and international offices.

Schedule & Manage tasks

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.

Schedule Manager:
View the set task schedules via a graphical Schedule Manager. Add, Edit or Delete a task schedule from the Schedule Manager. Switch between daily, weekly or monthly views and System related schedules.

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 six types of triggers.

Window
File
Folder
Performance
Process
Service
Email Message

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
Performance Trigger: Three different types of performance triggers are supported.
- CPU Usage
- Free disk space
- Process count
Process Trigger: You can have two types of triggers for each executable running on your computer.
- When process starts
- When process stops
Service Trigger: You can have four types of triggers for each service installed on your computer.
- When service starts
- When service stops
- When service resumes
- When service pauses
Email Message Trigger:
- When new mail arrives

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.

Three different types of user variables are supported.

Value (Single Value)
List (Multiple Values)
Random (Random Value)

For the above three types of user variables, you can select either values or read from text file.

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

Report designer

Automation Anywhere provides several graphical reports that display the status information of your tasks and workflows. Reports designed by Reports Designer can be triggered to run when an action happens, scheduled to run at pre-defined times and much more.

ROI calculator

The ROI calculator calculates the return on investment as a result of automation. The ROI is a cumulative amount in dollars that gets calculated when you create or run the task. It shows the dollars saved over a period of time.

ROI can be viewed in a graphical format also.

AA Server Features List