Blue Prism Group PLC Accenture Partnership Update

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Blue Prism Group PLC

05 January 2017

5 January 2017

Blue Prism Group plc

("Blue Prism" or the "Group")

Partnership with Accenture results in provision of RPA solutions to over 40 organisations

Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), a global leader in Robotic Process Automation ("RPA"), is pleased to announce that its partnership with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has to date resulted in the provision of RPA solutions to over 40 organisations. These organisations, which cover a number of industries, are using RPA to automate a wide range of business processes for reduced costs, improved compliance and increased productivity.

The alliance combines Accenture's global reach and cross industry expertise with Blue Prism's RPA software robots to provide the next generation of the "digital workforce." As part of this, Accenture plans to certify more than 600 professionals on Blue Prism technology and implementation to provide critical advice and guidance to companies navigating a complex automation landscape.

The full announcement issued by Accenture today can be found at the following link:

https://newsroom.accenture.com/index.cfm

For further information please contact:

 
 Blue Prism Group plc             via Newgate Communications 
  Jason Kingdon, Chairman 
  Alastair Bathgate, Chief 
  Executive Officer 
  Gary Johnson, Chief Financial 
  Officer 
 Investec Bank plc                Tel: [phone] 
  Andrew Pinder / Sebastian 
  Lawrence 
  Carlton Nelson / Dominic 
  Emery 
 Newgate Communications           Tel: [phone] 
  Bob Huxford / Adam Lloyd 
  / Helena Bogle 
 

About Blue Prism

Blue Prism Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software delivers the world's most successful digital workforce, which has executed over 1 billion transactions in its customers' datacenters. The Group is trusted by a diverse range of highly successful organisations to operate in some of the most demanding administrative environments. Blue Prism's RPA software delivers a digital workforce for the enterprise to eliminate high-risk, manual, rules-based, repetitive tasks and execute business processes at scale to improve organisational efficiency and effectiveness whilst radically reducing operating costs. Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best of breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and proven RPA platform for the digital enterprise.

Customers include BNY Mellon, Commerzbank, Nordea, ING, Westpac, Zurich, Aegon, Maersk, Siemens, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Nokia. Blue Prism is headquartered in the UK with offices in Manchester, London, Miami, Chicago, New York and San Francisco.

For more information visit www.blueprism.com and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions - underpinned by the world's largest delivery network - Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.

For more information visit www.accenture.com.

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