Automation Anywhere
About
Enterprise RPA and AI automation platform — major competitor to UiPath. Automation 360 is a cloud-native, browser-accessible RPA platform eliminating the on-premises infrastructure required by legacy RPA tools. IQ Bot handles intelligent document processing; AARI (Automation Anywhere Robotic Interface) delivers attended automation through a simple browser interface. Strong in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecom. ~$700M revenue, PE-backed (SoftBank, General Atlantic). Compe...
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Ideal Customer
- Automation Anywhere primarily targets large enterprises and expanding mid-market organizations, with its sweet spot being companies with complex, multi-system environments and existing or planned Centers of Excellence (CoE) for automation governance.
- The Global 2000 forms the core buyer base, and the platform sees particular success with organizations that simultaneously operate ERP, CRM, and ITSM systems and are looking to automate 50% or more of their business processes.
Key Differentiators
- Automation Anywhere has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation for eight consecutive years (2019–2026), a rare sustained achievement in competitive enterprise software.
- Its core differentiation lies in its cloud-native architecture (browser-based IDE, no on-premises infrastructure required), its evolution from traditional RPA into Agentic Process Automation (APA) powered by a proprietary Process Reasoning Engine (PRE) trained on over 400 million automations, and its November 2025 acquisition of Aisera, which it claims makes it the only company offering APA for core operations alongside self-service conversational AI agents for IT, HR, and customer service.
Industries Served
- Automation Anywhere serves a broad range of industries, with its strongest verticals being banking and financial services (approximately 35% of revenue), healthcare and life sciences (roughly 20%), and manufacturing (approximately 15%).
- It also has significant presence in insurance, retail, telecommunications, logistics, public sector, and shared services/BPO environments.
Service Coverage
- Automation Anywhere is a global company headquartered in San Jose, California, operating across 15 offices worldwide.
- Its customer base spans North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America, with the United States representing the largest single market at roughly 51% of customers, followed by India and Brazil.
Partnerships
- Automation Anywhere has a strategic, multi-year partnership with Google Cloud, making Automation 360 available on Google Cloud Marketplace and positioning Google Cloud as its preferred cloud provider while co-developing AI and RPA solutions for financial services, healthcare, retail, and the public sector.
- It maintains deep integrations with SAP (including the SAP Business Accelerator Hub and SAP Build Process Automation), Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, MuleSoft, IBM, Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, and dozens of others accessible via pre-built connector packages.
Company Size & Ownership
- Automation Anywhere was founded in 2003 (originally as Tethys Solutions) and rebranded in 2010, and currently employs approximately 3,000–3,200 people.
- Estimated annual revenue figures vary by source, with ZoomInfo citing approximately $378 million and Datanyze estimating closer to $807 million; the company has not publicly disclosed exact financials as a private firm.
Compliance & Certifications
- Automation Anywhere holds an extensive portfolio of security and compliance certifications, including SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 22301, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 42001:2023, and HITRUST CSF.
- It is also HIPAA-compliant, holds Cyber Essentials certification, and is FIPS-140 certified for encryption.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
2 offeringsAutomation 360
Cloud-native RPA platform — attended and unattended robots built in a browser-based IDE, deployed via cloud orchestration without on-premises infrastructure. Runs on any cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or private cloud. Includes AI + RPA capabilities with pre-built bots for SAP, Salesforce, and common enterprise apps.
IQ Bot (Intelligent Document Processing)
AI-powered document processing module — extracts structured data from semi-structured and unstructured documents (invoices, forms, contracts, emails) using computer vision and NLP. Learns from human corrections over time. Available as a standalone product or embedded in Automation 360 workflows.
Considering Automation Anywhere?
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