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BPW 2020 Surface Automation Challenge! 🏆

NorahAlsudani — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:41:00 GMT

This year at Blue Prism World we hosted four virtual Challenges in which Global teams worked to automate some key use cases within Blue Prism. The Challenges were extremely popular and registration had to be closed early as all spots were filled!

Global teams battled to overcome the Surface Automation Challenge: this challenge was to design and build a solution that could play the Windows Minesweeper game. Under @Chris Sneddon expert guidance the event was tough, enjoyable and rewarding.

The five teams had many challenges, one of which was to consistently identify the difference between a flagged mine, a blue block, an empty cell and different numbers. They had to do it by just surface automation and the VBOs provided in the challenge environments. This would require design ingenuity and solid Surface Automation development skills to craft a solution that could accommodate precise gaming logic against a complex application interface with gradient colours.

To make things more challenging the teams had to deal with an artificial light source rendered over the applications UI that created a gradient shadow from top-left to bottom-right making a cell that contained a "1" in the top left corner of the game board different from a cell that contained a "1" at the lower right. This effected all the images and added a significant challenge to identifying a block read by the Blue Prism process.

It was awesome to see each team show their strengths as they approached the challenge. While it was difficult we would recommend it to anyone that wants to truly learn more about Blue Prism surface automation. And who doesn't want to teach a robot to play minesweeper?

The winning team was Futonomers from Symphony in Poland @Michal Anchim @Pawel Olbrycht Edyta Rogowska, @Kamil Misko, @Piotr Palczewski - who demonstrated great creativity in overcoming the challenging obstacles as well as cleverly breaking up their build to maximize the contribution of team members in what was a very challenging timeframe.

Great work from everyone!

How would you have approached automating the gradient colours?

To hear about the other challenges please click the BPW 2020 Challenges hashtag below 😊

#BPW2020 #BPW2020Challenges

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@NorahAlsudani
Communities Strategy Director
Blue Prism
London
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RE: BPW 2020 Surface Automation Challenge! 🏆

shashank.kumar280 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:49:00 GMT

Hi Norah,

Is this solution going to be published on DX?

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Shashank Kumar
DX Integrations Partner Consultant
Blue Prism
Singapore
+6581326707
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RE: BPW 2020 Surface Automation Challenge! 🏆

NorahAlsudani — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:09:00 GMT

Hi Shashank,

The Challenges were very tough so teams may want to polish their solutions further before they are production ready. Once any individual team has achieved this, they are welcome to submit their automation for publication onto the DX (if they would like to).

Our internal BP team's plan is to continue developing their solutions internally and publish it to the DX in the near future.

Thanks,

Norah

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Norah Alsudani
Communities Strategy Director
Blue Prism
London
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RE: BPW 2020 Surface Automation Challenge! 🏆

NorahAlsudani — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:47:00 GMT

For anyone interested in learning more about Surface Automation, BP & Ultima are joining forces on an upcoming webinar on 23rd July, find out more here:

Tackling Surface Automation challenges, with IA-Connect

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Norah Alsudani
Communities Strategy Director
Blue Prism
London
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RE: BPW 2020 Surface Automation Challenge! 🏆

NorahAlsudani — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:25:00 GMT

We have another great webinar lined up on Surface Automation!

When: Nov 18, 2020 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM (ET)

Associated with Blue Prism Product

Please join us for a live online community webcast on Wednesday, November 18th at 9am ET. This session will consist of a bitesize presentation, followed by a live Q&A session. To register for the event, click here.

Topic: Surface Automation

Agenda:

-Why and how you should use region mode in concert with other available modes

-Improving OCR results and other performance considerations

Presenter: @PatrickAucoin, Senior Product Consultant, Blue Prism

Registration link:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5363386244881516301(after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar

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Norah Alsudani
Communities Strategy Director
Blue Prism
Europe/London

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