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About Automation Anywhere is the leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA), putting AI to work across organizations. The company’s platform is powered with specialized AI agents, generative AI, and offers process discovery, RPA end-to-end process orchestration, document processing and analytics, with a security and governance-first approach. Automation Anywhere empowers organizations worldwide to unleash productivity gains, improve customer experiences and create new revenue streams. The company is guided by its vision to fuel the future of work by unleashing human potential through Agentic AI-powered automation.	About Plain is an AI-powered customer support and collaborative experience platform built to help B2B teams manage and respond to customer conversations across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, email, chat, forms, and in-product channels within one unified, lightning-fast workspace; it consolidates all support channels into a single inbox, connects internal systems via a flexible API-first model, automates workflows, and uses built-in AI tools, such as the customer-facing AI agent Ari to triage and resolve routine queries, Sidekick to assist team members with context-aware drafting and knowledge search, and Insights to detect trends and surface themes, to reduce manual work, accelerate response times, and improve customer understanding. It can add any knowledge source for precision, integrates with development and business tools, provides SLAs and workflow automation across channels, and is designed to enable teams to understand every customer.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Automation Anywhere is ideal for enterprises across industries looking to automate workflows, improve efficiency, and leverage AI-powered agents to drive faster, smarter, and more cost-effective operations	Audience B2B customer support, success, and operations teams that want a platform to unify and automate support across modern communication channels and surface insights that improve customer relationships
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Pricing $750.00 Cloud-Based access: Control Room User Unattended Bot Runner User Bot Creator User Add on capabilities: Unattended Bot Runners Attended bot Runners Bot Insight AARI Digital Assistant Discovery Bot IQ Bot Pre Built Bots in Productivity Pack Advanced Capabilities: Bot Store Marketplace Mobile App Bot Lifecycle Management Workload Management Built-in DR on Cloud Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $35 per month Free Version Free Trial
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Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros This is one of the leader providers in the RPA space and while we were doing our due diligence on implementing in our finance dept, we quickly realized that we can definitely leverage it in other departments as well. The overall implementation took a couple of weeks and their team was amazing at answering any questions or concerns we had. I have been in a better situation to automate nearly ever business procedure such as workflow management among others. I am able to automate more than 70% of my daily business procedures. I like that AA makes it easy to manage workflow. Cons So far the only feedback is we need this to run on Macs. Automation Anywhere is a bit overwhelming to fully customize. Creating bots on Automation Anywhere is actually daunting.
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Company Information Automation Anywhere Founded: 2003 United States www.AutomationAnywhere.com	Company Information Plain United States www.plain.com
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