Automation Anywhere 5.5

Automation Anywhere 5.5 is an intelligent automation software designed for automating & scheduling complex tasks in minutes, without any programming. Record keyboard & mouse or create automation scripts with drag and drop actions.

Automation Anywhere features SMART Automation Technology(R), task scheduler, web recorder, variable & debugging support, task-chaining, conditional, file, system, database & Internet actions, single click web data extraction, Turbo-speed and IE plug-in.

Premier license allows task to .exe capability for deploying tasks. Businesses and IT divisions can generate exes to manage and configure software, alter software behavior, create interactive scripts that take user inputs and more.

Major Benefits:

• Save huge amount of time and costs
• Increase business & IT process reliability and speed
• Remove the possibility of human error

Major Features:

1. 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
2. Security
   • Ability to secure your tasks with a password.
   • For added security password protected tasks are encrypted with strong, industry standard encryption.
3. 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
4. Reliability & accuracy
   • Reliability and accuracy certified. Our vigorous testing and reliability certification is unmatched in the industry
5. 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
6. Speed
   • Ability to run task faster with accuracy. You can select from 3 speed options: Standard Replay (as recorded), High Speed Replay (faster) and 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.
7. Schedule task - 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
   • A task multiple times.
8. 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.
9. Edit tasks
   • Edit recorded tasks or create new tasks with point & click action wizards.  No programming required. More than 250 powerful actions to choose
10. Task to exe for distribution
11. Manage Windows Control actions for background execution
    • The 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.
12. 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.
13. 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)
14. 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 nad Folder.
15. 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.
16. Task chaining
    • You can create few simple tasks and re-use them within a large complex task. Task chaining makes task management easier
17. 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.
18. Remote access software support
    • Supports for all remote access software. For example: Citrix, pcAnywhere, Exceed, xCursion, logmein, GotoMyPC, etc.
19. Hotkey capability
    • Run tasks by just pressing a hotkey. Hundred of hotkeys are supported.
20. 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.
21. Email notification
    • Email notification allows you to send status mail when task finishes. You can define content of the status email.
22. Debugging capabilities
    • Full debugging support is available with Automation Anywhere
23. Error reporting
    • Historic log information & detailed error reporting. Log information shows line # where error happened and detailed error message.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.

Enhancements:

• New Features & Enhancements
• • Enhanced Read from CSV/Text feature which now processes text files as well. Now it supports user-defined separator as well in addition to Comma, Newline and Tab.
  • Added a new feature of SFTP which lets the user establish a secure connection with the server.
  • Added support for Microsoft Exchange Server in Send Email functionality.
  • Added support for Bulk Edit for commands like delay and insert keystrokes. Now, you can select multiple instances of the command and edit it in one go.
  • Added support for Change Window Title using which the window title in multiple commands can be changed to a new one. You may edit the title in the ‘Group by Windows’ tab of the editor by double clicking on it.
  • Now all the variables are local to the task.
  • Web Recorder
  • Enhanced String Manipulation feature with the support for Newline character as a separator.
  • Added a variable support for the task name in the Run Task feature.
  • Improved performance of the Run Script command.
  • Enhanced File and Folder trigger types with the support for File Modified action.
  • Configurable option for double click on the task. Now, you can choose to run the task or edit it by double clicking on it from the console.
  • Added variable support for all the Prompt actions.
  • Added variable support for the From field in Send Email functionality.
  • Enhanced ‘If File Date’ command with an ability to validate how long ago the file was created or modified.
  • Now the List Value type variable can be made random.
  • ‘If Ping Successful/Unsuccessful’ commands support machine name in addition to IP address.
  • Added a new functionality of Pass variable as argument in the Run Task feature. Now, multiple variables can be passed to the called task using this option. The modified values of the variables are available in the caller task upon successful completion.
  • Enhanced Message Box functionality with a configurable scrollbar option.
  • Added variable support for Before and After fields in Files/Folders feature.
  • Added a new command Save Spreadsheet in Excel for saving the spreadsheet.
  • Added variable support for X and Y coordinates of Mouse Move functionality.
  • Added variable support for the hyperlink in the HTML format for the Send Email feature.
  • Added a new system variable $Trigger Value$ which contains the actual value for which the trigger is fired.
  • Enhanced Group by Windows functionality to work with task created using Web Recorder.
  • Now the Task Editor can filter Web Recorder commands as well. For example, Keystrokes filter recognizes ‘Set Text’, ‘Type’ and ‘Append Text’ commands.
  • Added one more type of loop 'Each row in a CSV/Text file' for processing a CSV/Text file opened via Read from CSV/Text feature. Each column value is stored in a new system variable $Filedata Column$.
• Bug Fixes
• • ‘If Web Control Exists’ didn’t work as expected in some cases.
  • Some times list variable was not working properly inside the loop. .
  • While playing certain tasks, the line number displayed in Run Time Window was incorrect. .
  • While copying and pasting a task that has Insert Keystrokes command with a variable in it used to break the variable.
  • In Web Recorder, after capturing the control, the dialog box wasn’t getting the focus back.
  • Unable to stop the task with many Run Task commands.
  • Web Recorder hangs on chat windows.

Requirements:

• OS: Windows Vista / XP / 2003 / 2000 / Windows 2008 server