Blue Prism Teams Up with Coursera for RPA and Intelligent Automation Training

SINGAPORE,July 22,2021 --Blue Prism®,a global pioneer and market leaderin intelligentautomation,announcesa partnership withCoursera,one of the world's leadingonline learning platforms,tohelp narrow the digital skills gap and train futureleaders capable of steering digital workforces.Now,Coursera's more than82million learners will have access tothe Blue PrismFoundationCourse.In the coming months,Blue Prism will launch more courses that are also designed to provide an opportunityto further upskill and eventually take anindustry-recognized certification exam.

Demand for new digital skills is on the rise. In the past year,institutional adoption of Blue Prism's global Academia program has grown by over 300%with a high-volume of students gaining employment opportunities as a result of acquiring in-demand highly marketable RPA skills through Blue Prism's certification program.

Educational resources,such as The Blue Prism Foundation course,further support this growing demand. They offer an even greater number of learners the essential starting blocks for training and upskilling,giving them the skills needed to operate within theworkplaces of the future,those requiring a seamless blend of human workers,digital workers and business systems,interoperating in agile and innovative ways.Organizations will needpeople to manage this ecosystemby designing,delivering and managingdigitalworkers.

"We are pleased to partner with Blue Prism,a leader in the intelligent automation industry,to provide learners with cutting-edge coursework," said Betty Vandenbosch,chief content officer at Coursera. "Digital transformation presents far-reaching opportunities for individuals and organizations to be more efficient,impactful,and human-centric. The new learning content from Blue Prism prepares people across various roles,industries,and regions for this exciting new frontier."

An opportunity for career developmentin RPA and intelligent automation

Powered by intelligent automation,digital workers automate manual and time consuming processes across the enterprise,creating a workforce that supports human endeavour and creativity,leading to greater productivity and ROI. Together human and digital workers will continue to power innovation and business agility in today's highly-competitive digital world.

Asthe number ofdigital workers continuesto grow,enterpriseswillneed togain additional skillsets. Blue PrismTraininghelps individuals,businesses,academia and governments develop the knowledge and skillscriticalto success in any RPAor intelligent automation role while accelerating job-readiness for aspiring automation professionals. Success hinges on recruiting from this growing talent pool thatthe Blue Prism and Coursera partnership will help to sustain.

"We are excited to partner with Coursera to deliver the training peopleneed torunand governbusinesses'digital workforces,"saysGlobal Head of Education Services for Blue Prism,Ana Howes. "The platformwill help us enhance our own training and certification programand meet our goal of increasing the RPA talent pool to address the skills gapin RPA and intelligent automation.We look forward to expandingour footprintin collaboration with Coursera,to meet the needs of thegrowingRPA learning community."

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Blue Prism is a global leader in enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation,transforming the way work is done. We have over 2,000 customers in over 170 countries and 70 industry verticals,30% in theForbes Global 2,000, creating value with new ways of working by unlocking efficiencies and returning millions of hours of work back into their businesses. Our enterprise digital robots offer high-scale automation that is secure,smart,accessible toall,enabling centrally managed human and digital workforces of the future and freeing up humans to re-imagine work. To learn more visit www.blueprism.com and follow us on Twitter @blue_prism and on LinkedIn.

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