UiPath Platform Reviews

The UiPath Platform is used to automate business processes, mainly task automation and process automation that requires manual repetitive tasks. It is similar to Blue Prism, with additional integration capabilities such as Salesforce, CRM, and a better ecosystem. It is a low code, no code development tool for rule-based process automation.

The UiPath Platform helps enable end-to-end automation, but it is not suitable for all processes. The product is designed for rule-based automation. The machine follows the same instructions every time to automate manual repetitive work. If your pathway changes, considering the difference between deterministic versus non-deterministic or stochastic automation, the UiPath Platform is more deterministic. It performs the same exact actions every time. If the work requires different paths each time with dynamic decision-making capabilities, you would need to look beyond the UiPath Platform or integrate it with AI agents.

Some of the most valuable features of the UiPath Platform are its ease of use. It is low code, no code, and they are the leader in RPA software. They have a head start in integrating agent automation into their framework. There is agent process automation, which is still yet to be proven, but they are making progress compared to other RPA providers who are not as advanced as the UiPath Platform in terms of their agent adoption.

My primary use case is to build automation. We started with building automation for enterprises, then shifted to Intelligent Automation, and currently, we are using it for Agentic Automation.

By implementing UiPath, we wanted to solve different kinds of problems. The major one is where people are taking a lot of time to do mundane and repetitive tasks. Some processes have a lot of repetitive steps and a high business volume. We automated those processes. After that, we shifted to something called Intelligent Automation to process scanned documents such as bank invoices, PDFs, etc.

We are now working on use cases with Generative AI for building intelligent applications on top of automations.

Agentic Automation helps with use cases without fixed input and output. Previously, when we were only restricted to robotic process automation, we had to schedule the processes weekly or monthly. Whenever human intervention was required, it was a long loop. For business use cases where we needed a chat interface, we had to go for a different solution altogether and then integrate it with the automation. Agentic Automation helps with all use cases where a person gives unstructured input, such as a person wants to know where his order is or why his account was debited 300 dollars. To cater to all the use cases where inputs and outputs are not fixed, we use Agentic Automation.

The biggest benefits of Agentic Automation have been customer satisfaction and time to respond to queries. We used it for a use case for the L1 support of a client. Previously, the client's customer would call or message on chat, and a human would respond. The support person will go to the system, look for the query, and then revert on the chat or on the call. With the implementation of Agentic Automation, we have enabled the smart AI assistant for the company, so anybody can type anything onto that AI agent, and it is able to understand the context and the background. It knows who the user is, and it fetches all the details. It reduces the time of the support people. They can now focus on more important things rather than repetitive tasks. The response time to the customer is reduced, and user satisfaction has increased. It is also easy to scale. Tomorrow, if the volume of inquiries increases from 10 to 10,000, they do not have to hire more people. They just have to scale their AI agents.

We have had one or two use cases of UiPath Communications Mining. In one use case, the customer had a huge set of data in its on-prem environment, and they wanted to process a list of emails. They were a big hotel chain in the north of the US. They had a support mailbox where a lot of people sent emails related to the services, inquiries, etc. They wanted to monitor and categorize them into actionable insights to identify which features people liked or did not like. With UiPath Communication Mining, they extracted the information, bucketed the email, and got actionable insights. UiPath Communication Mining also gives you things that you need to prioritize. For example, they found out that a lot of people were complaining about the swimming pool, so they knew that the swimming pool was the first thing they needed to improve upon. UiPath Communications Mining was helpful for such actionable insights. After that, we used other products of UiPath, such as UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, or Action Center to build a complete cycle. UiPath Communications Mining turns every message into actionable data in real time, which means that you get insights within a fraction of a second of receiving emails.

UiPath Communications Mining helps automate actions or responses according to the type of content in the message. If they receive a customer email saying that they have to cancel their visit, they can categorize it into a cancellation request. Most of the time, it is able to identify content on its own. If it requires human input, it shows a pop-up on your screen where you can confirm a hotel cancellation request. As soon as you click on confirm, that date is available for other customers. An email is triggered to the support or the customer confirming the cancellation.

The insights from UiPath Communications Mining help the administration people to see what is working and what is not working. In this hotel use case, they can see that out of 1,000 emails, how many were for cancellation and how many were complaints. It provides information about the volume. You can drill into a specific category. It helps prioritize the issues.

The UiPath Communication Mining reduced the time of staff from three hours to fifteen minutes.

The introduction of autopilot into the UiPath products has made work easier. A lot of beginner developers are able to write automation by just giving a prompt. While doing the development and automation, if you are stuck at some point where you need syntax or code, within UiPath Studio, you can request the code. You do not have to search for the solution on the web. With a prompt, you can create an automation to read a PDF and convert it to Excel. It is absolutely low-code. Coding-wise, it is much easier than before.

UiPath provides good support for on-premises environments, which works very well for banks and other businesses that cannot go to the cloud. They have very good enterprise support and a dedicated team supporting on-premises. Their product managers work directly with customers. They continue to add things on the on-prem side. In addition to UiPath Studio, they have added AI Center, Document Understanding, Action Center, etc. They are putting all the things on-prem. They are able to cater to all use cases.

UiPath helps reduce human errors by 70% to 80%. About 20% of human errors are always there because new users are onboarding and systems are changing. You can even reduce them by 90% if your process is extremely streamlined and no human is involved. This reduction varies depending on the use case.

UiPath saves a lot of time and costs for our customers. For one of the use cases, the time taken was reduced from three hours to fifteen minutes. It also helps customers meet compliance.

We are using UiPath for some automations. One of the roles that I have handled over the last two years was related to customer service. In customer service, you tend to have a lot of inquiries and redundant work that can be done through RPA automation. We managed to use it to reduce a lot of recurring tasks. Our experience is very nice when using automation to reduce the workload.

There are a lot of cases related to user inquiries or figuring out how to do things, as well as some tasks related to setting passwords, creating shared folders, and creating virtual machines. These types of workflows are tasks that require only line manager approval, and things can be done without daily human intervention. We have managed to automate staff onboarding and related tasks. 

I have recently changed to a governance role. I am now the governance director at the company. A part of my governance role is taking care of internal and CSR committees. We are considering using automation for good causes.

We are now both a customer and a partner of UiPath. We are using UiPath as a partner because we are selling it to customers and we are also using it internally for the benefit of our employees.

UiPath has helped us a lot to reduce unnecessary load on the agents. In customer service, you tend to do a lot of repetitive tasks. After some time, the employee or agent ends up not being happy because they have been doing the same thing every day. When you take away such reoccurring and redundant tasks, you keep the employee or the agent free to do what matters more. It increases customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction. 

UiPath frees up employee's time for things that matter and need to be done by a human. It has saved 30% to 40% of the time of the customer service staff. We can easily automate tasks that our agent is conducting. The benefits are seen more outside working hours when you have fewer people working.

UiPath helps us be more efficient by freeing staff from doing unnecessary tasks. There is better load balancing and utilization of the agent's or employee's time, so there is going to be more productivity.

UiPath helps speed up digital transformation. Bots can do multiple tasks at the same time. Humans need more interactions for every task.

UiPath helps reduce human error. Bots are more precise than humans. A bot gives the output based on the instructions without making mistakes.

I have worked on Adi FlexiCapture, and my reviews are good about it because the automation that I had to end up using is still running fine, the document is in proper format, and it works fine. For Microsoft, I have tried using Form Recognizer for some passport extraction, and at that point in time, the extraction was not good. 

The solution speeds up digital transformation, but the cost is on the higher side.

The biggest benefits I have seen from the UiPath Academy include getting familiarized with whatever products they have, as whenever they release a product, they also release a course in the academy along with it. This helps users get familiarized with the tool and understand the capabilities of that particular solution they are putting forward.

My use case for their products is the regular automation use cases, and I am trying with some Gen AI use cases.

The most valuable functions in UiPath would be that it's easily integrated with multiple applications. The cost is annual. It's not based on transactions for the products.

It has good documentation that we can follow. 

It's also easily built; you can do it with low-code/no-code, making it quite simple to build. Some coding experience is needed, however, if you are good at it, it's a good tool to use.

UiPath provides a scalable solution and well-secured. Since we are on SaaS, we have more flexibility, and because we know the products, we can evangelize about it. It's quite user-friendly, scalable, and secure, so that's good for us.

The solution helps reduce human error.

It saves employee time absolutely. When we automate manual or recurring tasks, employees have free time, so they are looking at picking up other creative tasks instead of doing redundant ones.

For UiPath maintenance, I give it ten out of ten.

We use the Academy for courses. I do use UiPath Academy courses; we study from that, however, learning doesn't stop.

The UiPath user community is fantastic. We get to learn a lot about various solutions, and gain access to a good knowledge base. There's nothing particularly special from an evangelization perspective. The MVPs do have access to product support, and from them, you can get most of the information coming out in the community. The community is quite engaging, and we do get to know each other a lot in terms of solutions.

I have automated a few basic business workflows. They were simple automations.

In terms of complex workflows, generally, we have some kind of system to interact with over a browser. There are specific sites such as SAP or other HR applications that usually have browser UIs. Browser interactions are the best I have found with RPA solutions. 

We have tested the Document Understanding feature, which seems promising. Although I haven't developed a proper workflow for that use case, it looks useful. The framework seems to help set up the development process without needing extensive programming knowledge. 

We also use UiPath in our Microsoft environment, particularly for core applications such as Excel, Word, and Outlook. Excel activities are very useful, so it has become a core element of our workflows. As a developer, I enjoy using Visual Studio to create custom activities based on specific business workflow requirements.

There are also a few use cases for agentic automation. A core element is processing the source document, whether it's Microsoft Word, PDF, JSON, or XML. It parses the documents, retrieves required data, and pushes the data into a target system, such as a database or Excel table. The automation acts as an automated interface, moving data from a source system to a target system.

UiPath helps speed up digital transformation and ideally reduces associated costs. Though there are instances where the frequency of automation has decreased, impacting overall effectiveness, generally, our automations operate ten to hundreds of times faster than manual processing.

There's a notable reduction in human error. Partners are often surprised that the automated process doesn't make mistakes. While we can't predict all unexpected issues, business-related errors are virtually non-existent once a process is automated.

When considering specific features of UiPath that streamline operations, the management part of UiPath Orchestrator for unattended automation is helpful. The scheduling is very nice, easy, and simple to manage, allowing me to oversee workflows and their schedules effortlessly.

It saves time for the development team. The agentic automation from UiPath is user-friendly. It's definitely one of the stronger points. It's really easy to handle, even for someone who has never heard about RPA. It's generally simple. Once I install the system, I show them how to start and stop the processes, and that's basically all there is to it.

We are using UiPath as an RPA solution, utilizing its capabilities for document extraction, intelligent OCR, and intelligent automation. Once it became available in-house along with the robot environment, we started using it.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation.

UiPath has freed up employee time because most accounting staff are now monitoring rather than performing tasks manually.

I am in consulting, and I implement UiPath for my clients across various use cases.

Immediate benefits include faster operation and the ability to run overnight, which clients value since the work is already completed when they start their day.