Your automations already do useful work. Automation Orchestrator helps you run them more flexibly: respond to demand, absorb overruns, share available capacity and keep related steps on the same Digital Worker.
By connecting your existing SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise estate to WorkHQ, you can improve how that work is organized without rebuilding the automations themselves. Here are five practical places to start.
1. Stop Waiting for the Clock
Traditional scheduling starts work at a set time. Automation Orchestrator lets you trigger a Digital Worker Flow using work queue metrics, such as the number of pending items. You can also combine queue and schedule conditions to keep processing within an agreed operating window.
Imagine requests arriving throughout the working day. Instead of relying only on a fixed afternoon run, configure the flow to respond when its queue condition is met. Processing starts according to the metrics and conditions you configure, giving you a practical way to respond to demand.
Try this: Choose one queue with unpredictable arrivals and define the threshold and operating window that suit its service commitment.
2. Keep the Next Run Ready
Variable run times are part of running an automation estate. A reconciliation might take longer at month end, leaving its Digital Worker occupied when the next planned run is due.
Automation Orchestrator improves resilience by allowing the next execution to wait until the required worker becomes available. A task taking too long shouldn't make the next one fail just because the worker's still tied up.
The benefit is how AO handles the situation when it occurs. It does not predict future scheduling conflicts. Your team should still monitor waiting times and completion deadlines, but a busy worker alone need not turn an overrun into manual recovery work.
Try this: Choose two runs that regularly overlap and assess whether queued execution reduces manual intervention.
3. Use the Next Capable Worker
Assigning every process to a named Digital Worker limits your flexibility. Digital Worker Groups let you organize workers with shared capabilities and assign a process run to that group. The next available online worker in the selected group can then pick it up.
Think of several workers configured for the same application. Group allocation lets the flow use that shared capacity rather than depend on one machine.
Your team defines the group and verifies that its members have the required applications, access and configuration. AO uses that setup; it does not discover worker capabilities for you.
Try this: Identify one process that can run on several suitably configured workers and test allocation through a shared group.
4. Turn Separate Runs Into One Flow
Blue Prism Enterprise schedules already support sequential tasks. The practical challenge with a worker pool is keeping related steps together: logging in one worker is little help if a separate task is then assigned to another.
Within a Digital Worker Flow, a process chain lets you allocate a block of up to three processes to one worker selected from a Digital Worker Group. That worker stays reserved until the chain completes.
For example, chain login, processing and logout so the sequence runs on the same machine. You retain flexible allocation across the group while keeping the steps that depend on that worker together.
Try this: Identify a login, processing and logout sequence, then configure it as a process chain within a Digital Worker Flow. Check the documented execution limits when choosing your pilot.
5. Modernize what you already run
You can put these capabilities to work around the processes your team already runs. Automation Orchestrator connects your Blue Prism Enterprise estate to WorkHQ, giving you a practical route to introduce demand triggers, session queueing, group allocation and process chains around existing automations.
Start with one operational problem. For example, choose an existing process that regularly waits for a named worker, then pilot allocation through a suitable Digital Worker Group. Compare waiting time and manual intervention with your current approach before extending adoption.
The value here is a manageable first step: improving how an established automation runs without rebuilding it simply to adopt orchestration.
Try this: Ask your account team to confirm your WorkHQ access and activation prerequisites, then pilot one existing process with a clear measure of success.
Start with one friction point. Choose a familiar automation challenge, establish a baseline and pilot one process with Automation Orchestrator. Track waiting time, successful completion and manual intervention to see what improves. Confirm WorkHQ access and prerequisites with your account team, then put the results to work
