The company called me to work on the goal of restructuring the team and putting everything in order. When I joined this team, I needed to assess the current state of the program, and I essentially had to reorganize the entire program. Fortunately, that's what I've been doing right now; I have experience managing Automation Anywhere, and it's a great tool for automation since it gives you a lot of flexibility to work with different applications.
Intelligent Automation Engineering Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
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Pros and Cons
- "From my perspective, the most valuable features in Automation Anywhere are the ability to connect to different systems of records."
- "I am confident that we are saving several million dollars as a result."
- "Automation Anywhere could improve by incorporating better integration with DevOps."
- "What we currently have with Fortress IQ needs to mature more, and I say this since people spend weeks creating PDDs documentation."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
From my perspective, the most valuable features in Automation Anywhere are the ability to connect to different systems of records. We are using it at a very basic level; we only use RPA and are not using Intelligent Automation or AI yet; it's not part of my contract. Document Automation is still growing and is not, from my perspective, 100% mature, yet the basic functionality of RPA is amazing. I really appreciate how you can connect and interact, regardless of the system of record, infrastructure, or platform, and that has given us a lot of power to help the organization interact and eventually automate their processes.
What needs improvement?
In terms of reducing manual work, I think Automation Anywhere could improve by incorporating better integration with DevOps. This is functionality; it's a methodology that cannot be integrated 100% with Automation Anywhere, and a lot of companies are requiring that right now. I think Automation Anywhere is in the right direction, however, a better task mining tool would be great. What we currently have with Fortress IQ needs to mature more, and I say this since people spend weeks creating PDDs documentation. If we had a user-friendly tool that could record sessions and generate PDDs in minutes, it would greatly assist our processes. I have seen tools similar to that, not with Automation Anywhere. It would be great to have it.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using the RPA Automation Anywhere in 2017, starting with zero automations. After seven years, we've ended up having around 120-some automations.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
My assessment of the stability and reliability of Automation Anywhere or its bots depends on how you define your development strategies. If you have good best practices, reusable code, an effective framework, and a solid development methodology, bots can be very stable. We do have some bots that fail, however, they generally fail since we weren't good developers or due to a glitch in the system, not due to the fact that Automation Anywhere failed. We see issues. That said, those are often related to server maintenance and upgrades.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In terms of how Automation Anywhere scales with the growing needs of my organization, in the cloud, I don't see much problem; the cloud will scale based on our needs. The only concern I see is probably on the Bot Runner side; I need to support VMs, and my team is working to migrate those VMs to servers. This change will help me scale since I can have multiple Bot Runners on a single server rather than adding more VMs; increasing the power of the server allows for 20 to 30 Bot Runners to operate effectively.
How are customer service and support?
We migrated to gold support last year, which is excellent. What I appreciate is that you have a technology partner who gets to know your environment, and that's very important. When I began at my previous company without gold or platinum support, I had to explain my environment every time there was an issue, wasting hours. Now that we are in gold support, they already understand our setup, infrastructure, and pain points, allowing us to address issues more efficiently.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting Automation Anywhere, my company used Excel macros, which are not an enterprise solution; they are more a personal automation tool. Some people were using Power Automate, still, that's not an enterprise solution; you cannot integrate it with the rest of the tools; it's just a Microsoft tool where you can only work with Microsoft products.
The primary drivers that led my company to choose an RPA tool and eventually Automation Anywhere are its capabilities to connect and integrate with other systems of records, not only with specific brands like Microsoft. When I started in 2017, we decided to use Automation Anywhere primarily for its ability to interact with various systems and it was regarded as an enterprise solution.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a lot of benefits using Automation Anywhere. We currently have around 50 automations running in production, and I am confident that we are saving several million dollars as a result. I cannot provide those numbers right now. Still, I can see many benefits emerging. We work very closely with the legal team, who have to do a lot of manual work; we basically help a lot. That's my main customer right now. The next important customer is technology and digital technology, and then finance. So from all those three teams, I'm covering probably 80% of the company. As a financial institution focusing mainly on financial advice, we will be opening a completely digital bank in the next few days.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I am aware of the existence of other tools, however, I have not evaluated them. When I started in my previous company, there was a prior agreement for me to use Automation Anywhere. When I joined this company, they were already using it; my understanding is they were at some point evaluating UiPath, however, the cost was a huge decision-maker.
What other advice do I have?
I work in the banking industry as the Intelligent Automation Manager for engineering. I joined this company almost a year ago, and I worked before that for one of the largest banks in the US.
My advice would be to ensure proper planning before adopting Automation Anywhere. First, you must define your environment, focusing on security and compliance. Governance is key, and once you are set up, ensure you are developing proper metrics since you need to show management the savings generated from automations. Once you've established that, implement best practices and standards, create a framework, and I wish anyone good luck; they likely will be successful.
I would rate Automation Anywhere as an eight out of ten. It's a great solution, however, there are limitations with tools COE Manager and Document Automation. I have seen some restrictions in the system, and making improvements to tools Fortress IQ would enhance our experience. I understand Automation Anywhere's operational goals, however, maturing these tools would make it an even better solution from my perspective.
Something I have observed repeatedly, as a technical person who engages with various attendees at Imagine events, is the need for clarity when new solutions arise. AI is excellent. That said, my question is about data storage; will data be kept within our control? This topic is crucial for compliance and legal approvals. I think it would be beneficial to have more technical sessions demonstrating how new tools are implemented. For example, during a discussion on Document Automation at a conference, I was concerned about how data moves from on-premises to the cloud, as it could take us out of compliance. More information on these aspects would help people understand the implications.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Last updated: Jun 30, 2025
Flag as inappropriateSoftware Engineer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
RPA platform transforms back office operations with impressive scalability and support
Pros and Cons
- "The scalability of Automation Anywhere, the framework, and user interface are particularly impressive."
- "On a scale of one to ten, I rate Automation Anywhere a ten."
- "As we expand our components of the Automation Anywhere platform that we utilize, we need better connections between them."
- "We need a native way in Automation Anywhere's framework to tie all that information together, including AI dashboard, governance dashboards, and document automation results."
What is our primary use case?
We have had a number of different use cases for Automation Anywhere. As a higher education institution, many of the use cases have been for back office operations.
Some use cases include automating expense reimbursement processes. This involves the submission of data after collection, validation of data, and several different steps in that process.
We are exploring invoice reconciliation and invoice processing as a new use case. Many of the other use cases have been system-to-system data transfer where they don't have APIs, which has been accomplished through UI automation and RPA.
How has it helped my organization?
We chose Automation Anywhere to investigate the feasibility of using RPA in place of dedicating other team's time for developing custom APIs between systems. We wanted to tackle problems that we couldn't dedicate resources to solving with custom in-house development and bridge the gap between third-party external software.
The governance guardrails built into the Automation Anywhere platform have allowed us to develop solutions at a pace while adhering to our internal organizational policies.
What is most valuable?
The scalability of Automation Anywhere, the framework, and user interface are particularly impressive. When evaluating Automation Anywhere versus alternatives such as UiPath for RPA specifically, their tool works exceptionally well. Their customer support model has been fantastic at resolving issues. Security and infrastructure are other significant components why we continue to use them.
The actual tools on the RPA side have been very nice to work with. When onboarding members of our team, being a lower-code platform with much of it being no code, it has been good to bring people up to speed. It's easy to bring both people from developer and non-developer backgrounds up to scale. Our developers have applied standard SDLC principles towards working within that platform.
With agentic process automation, there are several challenges we were looking to solve. GenAI infused document automation has been of great interest to us, especially in invoice processing for our financial side. With APA in particular, some use cases involve taking complex processes that could have large decision trees, and instead of dedicating time and resources towards fleshing out all those if/then statements or pushing exceptions to human middle processing, we aim to lower that scope and allow for quicker delivery time.
The Composer orchestration tools have been great in developing new solutions. Automation Anywhere started as a pilot at our CMU, where we are at the forefront of numerous computer science areas. It's part of our CTO's mission to embrace automation tools, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation, bringing internal processes into the 21st century and beyond.
Automation Anywhere helps us overcome challenges in the age of GenAI. The platform has solved our initial challenges as we transition from being a pilot to a long-term customer. With GenAI, challenges revolve around use case identification and implementing AI in processes while ensuring governance and protecting sensitive information, government information, and student information.
AI governance and data protection are extremely important for our company. We are currently reviewing the Autopilot capability and evaluating document automation with AI capabilities for new solutions.
What needs improvement?
As we expand our components of the Automation Anywhere platform that we utilize, we need better connections between them. Currently, our shell framework, metrics, logging, and guardrails are done at an RPA or Bot level. As we take advantage of other features such as work queues, process Composer, and AI agents, we would prefer to see features around offering frameworks around those models or domains specifically that can encompass all of the subset features that Automation Anywhere offers.
Bot Insight is an available feature, and we can create our own custom metrics and logging in RPA Bots, but we don't want to have to send results to a logging subset bot after using an AI agent or higher components such as document automation. We need a native way in Automation Anywhere's framework to tie all that information together, including AI dashboard, governance dashboards, and document automation results.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Automation Anywhere for about two and a half to three and a half years.
How are customer service and support?
Their customer support model has been fantastic at resolving issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In the RPA space specifically, we have not used any other solution that addresses similar needs before using Automation Anywhere.
For internal technologies prior to implementing RPA, we had various solutions. For table-based and database-based operations, users were using spreadsheets.
We are now able to convert certain things to databases, even without native APIs for certain software platforms, because we can leverage Automation Anywhere to bridge the gap between disconnected systems. In the specific landscape that Automation Anywhere competes in, we haven't used direct competitors.
We have been replacing software developer adjacent technologies, custom script solutions, and low code/no code platforms with different features from Automation Anywhere.
How was the initial setup?
Standing up the service itself had no significant challenges. There were a few small challenges, however, nothing significant that were nonstarters for us. Our teams were able to work around any issues. The biggest thing we had was was enabling SAML authentication to work with our identity management services.
Other than that, standing up the service, connecting the host controller to our local VMs, etc., that was easy. There was a little bit of network stuff, and some of DevOps stuff. Thankfully, we have a great DevOps team. Working with Automation Anywhere is largely straightforward and seamless.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have been happy with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Automation Anywhere so far. There is sticker shock with many new features, however, we definitely think that the end results can more than justify the cost. We are evaluating the use case and the resources needed to stand up solutions using some of these features.
The cost versus return for the traditional out-of-the-box features has been very reasonable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Since the evaluation phase, we have not considered other solutions that do the same as Automation Anywhere. We have been extremely happy with Automation Anywhere. The tools provided for the cost, scalability, robustness, and infrastructure have been very satisfactory, and we have not had a significant need to evaluate alternative platforms.
This may not stay that way forever as this is an ever-changing landscape, but for the foreseeable future, we don't see ourselves evaluating alternative platforms.
What other advice do I have?
On a scale of one to ten, I rate Automation Anywhere a ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Last updated: May 14, 2025
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Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Automation of finance and HR processes has reduced manual effort and saves significant time across internal teams
Pros and Cons
- "I appreciate that Automation Anywhere is so user-friendly, and currently, our team is learning Power Automate and migrating some of the processes as we go."
- "There have been many instances, particularly in my previous organization where we did a lot of development in Automation Anywhere, catering to clients like CPA firms in America, where we raised tickets for solutions but did not always find a satisfactory resolution, despite connecting over a call."
What is our primary use case?
We do not cater to clients; we are automating in-house processes like finance and HR, payroll processes, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and collection. These are the kinds of use cases, with separate teams for each domain, while our team mostly focuses on the finance part of it.
What is most valuable?
I appreciate that Automation Anywhere is so user-friendly, and currently, our team is learning Power Automate and migrating some of the processes as we go. I find Automation Anywhere very developer-friendly, and I have been in this field for seven years, working on tools like UiPath and Automation Anywhere, then switching to Power Automate, which comes with quite a bit of a learning curve. Something that can be done very simply in maybe one or two lines in Automation Anywhere takes a lot of workaround in Power Automate. Automation Anywhere has positively impacted my organization primarily because the deployments were mostly done before I joined, and I focus on knowledge transfer and migration. However, from what I understand, during COVID, they started RPA in our firm and saved a lot of manual hours by automating the business processes, which was a lot of help especially during that time.
What needs improvement?
One area for improvement with Automation Anywhere is that while Power Automate has very simple integration with Microsoft tools, it is something that could be worked upon. Even in my previous organization and many other organizations are shifting towards Power Automate, especially companies catering to clients because of the cost efficiency with Power Automate, which is also something you can take into consideration. I confirm that while the product has advantages in terms of pricing, in terms of integration, it needs some improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
My current experience in this field is seven to seven and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The deployment of Automation Anywhere is quite simple for me.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We actually have some citizen developers in our organization who develop entire processes on Automation Anywhere, even with very little knowledge of how RPA works. During the migration, I had the opportunity to meet some of these business users when they came to India a couple of months back, and we had the same conversation that Automation Anywhere was very user-friendly compared to Power Automate, which is something everyone appreciated.
How are customer service and support?
There have been many instances, particularly in my previous organization where we did a lot of development in Automation Anywhere, catering to clients like CPA firms in America, where we raised tickets for solutions but did not always find a satisfactory resolution, despite connecting over a call.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used UiPath, but not in this firm where I have been for only seven months, focusing on Automation Anywhere and migrating to Power Automate.
How was the initial setup?
I do not remember approximately how much time the deployment for this product took.
What about the implementation team?
I could implement it all by myself without any consultancy or help from outside.
What was our ROI?
We do track ROI, though I do not have the exact statistics in mind. For every man hour during any deployment, we estimate about $70 saved based on how much it takes manually to do that process, and we track that every time the bot runs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I am considering Power Automate because of the cost.
What other advice do I have?
In my current role, I joined about six or seven months ago, and they have been using Automation Anywhere for three or four years with a renewed license for another three years. Automation Anywhere has positively impacted my organization primarily because the deployments were mostly done before I joined, and I focus on knowledge transfer and migration. However, from what I understand, during COVID, they started RPA in our firm and saved a lot of manual hours by automating the business processes, which was a lot of help especially during that time. The challenges I was trying to resolve by implementing Automation Anywhere mostly revolve around automating repetitive business processes, as during COVID, there was a lot of extra work in my role within the aviation industry. Streamlining the business processes made a lot of sense and helped boost the revenue significantly. I provided this review with an overall rating of 8.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Last updated: Nov 28, 2025
Flag as inappropriateSoftware Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Developers create and deploy automations quickly with multiple development options
Pros and Cons
- "The features of the Automation Anywhere bot bring us the ability to develop automations to production quickly."
- "I would rate this solution a ten out of ten."
- "It would be great if they could do more third-party Salesforce integrations into the RPA side, which would be helpful."
- "We do not have the AI Agent Studio feature of Automation Anywhere available yet in our government GCC environment."
What is our primary use case?
Our use cases on Automation Anywhere span across HR and finance as the main two areas.
We are exploring Automation Anywhere A2019 and have found some good ticketing, service now solutions, and integrations that we can use. We're continuing to explore A2019 AI.
Automation Anywhere is definitely one of the leaders in helping with these challenges. Automation Anywhere is especially useful for us in web automation and browser automation.
How has it helped my organization?
It allows us to bring automations to development quickly. It's a quick turnaround.
What is most valuable?
What I appreciate most about Automation Anywhere is the fact that there are multiple ways to develop an RPA bot, which is useful to different types of developers. There's the lists, and there's the drag and drop. It's all very easy to automate.
The features of the Automation Anywhere bot bring us the ability to develop automations to production quickly. We can test, and then we can easily fix any bugs that we have in the bots and then we can bring them to production quickly with quick turnaround.
The deployment of Automation Anywhere, meaning just moving bots to production, is seamless. It's easy. We have our environments set up with dev, QA, and production, and it's very easy to move from one to the next.
It's early in our implementation. In the age of agentic AI, my biggest challenges and those of my company include finding the right use case and then choosing the right platform. There are a lot of companies that offer services, so we have to do evaluations across each company and then select the right one to solve the problem. Automation Anywhere is one of the leaders in this space.
I have worked mostly with RPA in Automation Anywhere. I attended the APA developer class. We don't have any agentic AI solutions, and the ones we have are minimal in terms of the AI component. It's too early to have achieved our automation goals.
The CoPilot fixes the problem of quickly dragging in a lot of lines and the commands in Automation Anywhere.
What needs improvement?
It would be great if they could do more third-party Salesforce integrations into the RPA side, which would be helpful. I don't know how much will be covered with the agentic AI. More SharePoint integrations and things would also be great for doing more tasks with those tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Automation Anywhere for five years.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use another solution before implementing Automation Anywhere in our company. We started with a lot of the major players, including UiPath, and we chose Automation Anywhere. Some sectors had UiPath, but the dominant one is Automation Anywhere. Automation Anywhere stands out from UiPath for us because of its ease of development and competitive pricing. Those are the two main reasons.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment is seamless.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm coming from a developer standpoint; I don't handle pricing.
What other advice do I have?
We do not have the AI Agent Studio feature of Automation Anywhere available yet in our government GCC environment. AI governance is very important for us, especially as a government contractor, however, I would have to look into that more.
I have not used Automator AI yet.
We have our own COE for Automation Anywhere. We have a few dashboards, but I don't think we are using the Automation Anywhere dashboards too much. We mostly use Power BI to get our insights. From Automation Anywhere, we don't utilize document automation in our current processes. We're using Azure Document AI currently, and that's our best source of extraction. I don't know too much about the pricing and licensing from the developer standpoint.
We're also using Azure Document AI for as our main source of extractions.
I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
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Last updated: May 20, 2025
Flag as inappropriateData engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
User-friendly and efficient for managing manual processes
Pros and Cons
- "The impact of Automation Anywhere on our organization has been significant; it has helped us save a considerable amount of time, approximately 30% to 40%, in repetitive processes and has improved automation accuracy."
- "Debugging can be particularly tricky; identifying the exact reasons for bot failures can be time-consuming."
What is our primary use case?
I primarily use it to automate repetitive data workflows.
How has it helped my organization?
The impact of Automation Anywhere on our organization has been significant. It has helped us save a considerable amount of time, approximately 30% to 40%, in repetitive processes and has improved automation accuracy. The finance team, in particular, has benefited, as their tasks are now automated from the data engineering side. I was able to integrate file transfers, validations, and data loading into pipelines, making the process more efficient.
Regarding the financial impact, my senior mentioned that it saves our organization around 40% to 50% in costs since it automates roughly half of the tasks, including data integration and file transfer.
What is most valuable?
Having completed the AI/ML engineering certification, I particularly appreciate Task Bots. They are extremely useful for handling repetitive tasks without errors. I also find IQ Bots valuable, as they can process unstructured documents—something that can be quite complicated—and automatically extract data. Additionally, the Control Room stands out for me, as it allows for centralized monitoring and management of all bots, which is crucial when multiple automations are running. These features are among the most beneficial I have encountered.
What needs improvement?
The platform is functioning quite well. Initially, I faced some challenges in learning the platform; it felt a bit complicated at first. However, as I became more familiar with it, I found it manageable. Debugging can be particularly tricky; identifying the exact reasons for bot failures can be time-consuming. Integration with modern data engineering stacks also posed some difficulties, but I have since learned to navigate these challenges.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Automation Anywhere as a data engineer intern for a year now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
As for stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten. Generally, the system is stable once the bots are tested and scheduled; they run consistently. We faced some challenges at the beginning, but they were manageable. Occasionally, updates or changes in the system environment can cause some disruptions, but these are not severe.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is one of its strengths because it can handle large volumes of data efficiently. As processes grow, it is easy to add more bots without incurring significant extra costs or effort. The cloud infrastructure for deployment works well in tandem with this capability.
I am working in a small organization with around 18 employees, all of whom are AI and machine learning engineers, including myself.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate their support an eight out of ten. They are very helpful, but there is some room for improvement regarding quicker resolution times. They can take time to solve issues, but overall, the customer service is solid.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have only used Automation Anywhere as automation software so far, so I cannot compare it to others at this time. However, if I get the chance to use another software in the future, I will definitely make a comparison.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment process was quite straightforward and smooth since it is cloud-based. We deployed it on Microsoft Azure, starting small and gradually scaling up.
The Control Room feature made it easy to manage multiple bots in one place, allowing for effective monitoring. In the beginning, it took about two to three weeks to implement because we encountered several issues and system failures. However, our team did a great job, and we managed to overcome these challenges.
What other advice do I have?
I strongly recommend this software to others as it efficiently manages manual processes. All we need to do is monitor it and handle issues related to fault tolerance. Overall, it is quite effective for automation processes.
I would rate Automation Anywhere a nine out of ten. It handles our credential data securely and is user-friendly, though there is room for improvement in debugging and integration features.
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Last updated: Aug 23, 2025
Flag as inappropriateAutomation Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees
Robust automation simplifies revenue cycle management but logging feedback needs improvement
Pros and Cons
- "What I appreciate the most about Automation Anywhere is that the tool is very robust."
- "My main issue with Automation Anywhere might be the logging of bots and getting more detailed feedback of what my bot is doing, step by step. It is hard to track fine-tuning in larger codes."
What is our primary use case?
The main objective of using Automation Anywhere is revenue cycle automation and our tie-ins with the hospital allow us to work in different parts of the revenue cycle. It specifically automates either patient info collection, Medicaid submission, and similar tasks. It is all contained within the revenue cycle, which represents the main services we provide to our clients.
What is most valuable?
What I appreciate the most about Automation Anywhere is that the tool is very robust. It can handle buttons moving around and any elements changing. It makes the process super easy to maintain and, in terms of tracking failures, it is improving. It is very good for new websites, identifying elements effortlessly.
What needs improvement?
My main issue with Automation Anywhere might be the logging of bots and getting more detailed feedback of what my bot is doing, step by step. It is hard to track fine-tuning in larger codes.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Automation Anywhere for maybe a year and a half to two years now, or rather I have been using it since I joined.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Automation Anywhere definitely allows us to provide more reliability and affirmation to the client. For every client we successfully automate, it is a checkmark in our book to show that we have a huge skill set of bots and different capabilities.
Having them operational month-to-month and reporting that they work is a very good confidence booster, especially with smaller hospitals when this is the only grant they can invest in. Once development is done, the bot is relatively stable. It does have some discrepancy with older websites but performs really well with all new websites, current revenue cycle automation, or any submissions we have to do. It reduces the pressure of maintenance significantly because even with numerous website changes, the maintenance becomes negligible for us.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
When bringing Automation Anywhere, we were trying to solve the time taken in these processes for hospitals. We aim to improve how fast they can charge their insurance or patients, ensuring they hit their revenue targets. We are expanding into other fields, still centered within healthcare. Having these small working components and consistent bot performance brings in the next client, which is a significant goal for us.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In my company, I have not used another product that does the same as Automation Anywhere, but I have studied and used UiPath briefly. That was about two and a half to three years ago.
How was the initial setup?
When bringing Automation Anywhere, we were trying to solve the time taken in these processes for hospitals. We aim to ensure we can improve how fast they can charge their insurance or patients, making sure the revenue part is properly managed as that is what we are ensuring they hit.
What about the implementation team?
Our team is based on two engineers and one team lead.
What was our ROI?
For every client we successfully automate, it is a checkmark in our book to show that we have a huge skill set of bots and different things to accomplish.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Regarding the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of the Automation Anywhere platform, I have limited experience in answering as I do not represent the company in this aspect. From what I have heard from my team, the basic pricing seems to work for us.
For larger scaling pricing of other features, we need to bring in more clients and a larger volume to justify the potential cost of the license. Every automation license is specific for each hospital since we cannot share files or security due to HIPAA compliance requirements. Currently, we are able to bring in clients in the current price range, though it is becoming more challenging.
What other advice do I have?
We are among the smaller scale clients for Automation Anywhere. The AI component is something we are still not utilizing much because it is difficult to justify the license cost to our clients. In the healthcare sector, there is hesitation to implement AI due to security concerns and a preference for manual processes during their initial step into automation.
A-People platform is particularly helpful for discussions and finding solutions to issues. The support team provides regular updates and maintains good communication even in uncertain scenarios. The platform has a growing repository of answered questions, similar to resources available for other programming languages.
We use OCR extensively, particularly for older websites and legacy systems where button identification is challenging. We have three active builds in production using only OCR, which demonstrates the robustness of the system.
On a scale of 1-10, I would rate Automation Anywhere 7.5 to 8. While I might rate it slightly lower as a developer who works with it daily, most of my team would likely rate it 8.5 to 9 because it effectively meets our needs and critical client requirements.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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Last updated: May 22, 2025
Flag as inappropriateAutomation Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Fair price, impressive availability, and continuously enhanced
Pros and Cons
- "I like the diversity. Every year, maybe even every six months, new modules are introduced to the program, and module enhancements are added to the toolbox to make automating various applications or situations easier."
- "On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Automation Anywhere a nine."
- "On the document automation side, the document learning features are not as robust as one would expect them to be. When I am doing document automation and a document fails due to low confidence in populating a field, it requires manual correction."
- "On the document automation side, the document learning features are not as robust as one would expect them to be."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary functionality is built around screen scraping applications. We collect data from one application and either generate reports or use it to complete a user transaction or a customer transaction. For example, I have automation that handles bill pay. A request comes in, we verify it, and then we execute a bill payment transaction.
How has it helped my organization?
When we first started, the motivation was not wanting to be left behind in the latest and greatest opportunity for automating desktop applications that are boring and time-consuming but are still very important for the company's business operations.
We were able to see its benefits immediately during our proof of concept five years ago. We were able to take five users of daily work and reduce it to one user of support work. It was very significant.
Prior to implementation, these processes were done by the business units manually. Post implementation, the solutions are IT-based. As a result, IT now has additional responsibility for the business automation, just supporting the business function. It is one thing to build the software. It is another thing to maintain it and keep it running in production. There is a pretty significant lift or burden on the IT side that was not there during the manual executions.
What is most valuable?
I like the diversity. Every year, maybe even every six months, new modules are introduced to the program, and module enhancements are added to the toolbox to make automating various applications or situations easier. For example, the email module has been enhanced over the years to support all the latest authentication technologies. That is very important as we move away from username and password and embrace multi-factor authentication. Without the ability for these modules to stay in sync and up to date, we would not be able to use them.
What needs improvement?
On the document automation side, the document learning features are not as robust as one would expect them to be. When I am doing document automation and a document fails due to low confidence in populating a field, it requires manual correction. Automation Anywhere states that if I correct enough documents, over time, the automation tools will learn where those error situations are and automatically fix them. We have not seen that feature work as advertised.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Automation Anywhere for roughly five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not had any issues. I am very impressed with its availability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It scales quite well. I have not found an application that has exhausted the capacity of the system to execute. If we need to handle more transactions, we simply need to add additional bot runners. We currently have three bot runners in production. If we needed five or ten, I could have five or ten in a couple of days.
How are customer service and support?
On a scale of one to ten, I would rank their technical support group a nine.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have two other solutions in-house other than Automation Anywhere. They are very specific to the tasks they are handling.
How was the initial setup?
It was pretty easy. I took a proof of concept that took nine months to build. Since I could not copy it from the proof of concept environment to our brand-new tenant or control room, we had to reprogram it. The reprogramming and testing took three months. Now, if you put all those numbers together, you probably could say it took us a year to build that first application.
It requires operation execution maintenance by my company and my IT group, but it does not take any Automation Anywhere resources to maintain it now. They maintain it at the cloud level and do a good job.
What about the implementation team?
Two people were involved in the implementation.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is fair. My company is part of a big organization, so the pricing is very advantageous.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Five years ago, we evaluated four products, and Automation Anywhere emerged as the top choice. It offered the best cloud solution compared to the other vendors or providers. Now, if I took those same four vendors and evaluated them today, I might come up with a different answer. The industry has changed drastically just in the last three or four years, and if we did a reevaluation and could start over, chances are everyone, including Automation Anywhere, is on much better footing today than they were five years ago.
What other advice do I have?
In terms of our AI approach, we are very cautious with AI. We are a Microsoft shop, so we are limiting our AI exposure to an Azure tenant-based AI resource. We are probably building our own LLMs to manage the intelligence or the exposure of intelligence to the AI engine. I do not see us ever using external AI modules.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Automation Anywhere a nine.
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CIO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Automation streamlines finance and HR processes, leading to faster implementation and greater efficiency
Pros and Cons
- "AI governance is very important in my company, and we are implementing it now."
- "Comparing Automation Anywhere with other tools for RPA, in my opinion, it is better because it is easier to use for both the final user and the developer."
- "The AI is very important, and they are starting to use AI. They could continue to develop it out."
- "The pricing is a little bit high compared with other tools."
What is our primary use case?
I started in the other company with the manufacturing processes for logistics and finance. Now, I am implementing processes for finance and human resources.
My challenge is to use Automation Anywhere for automatic manufacturing and services. I always push my finance team first, and they have to improve the financial processes before we use Automation Anywhere.
How has it helped my organization?
Automation Anywhere is helping us improve processes, as it can handle specific improvements. As we can execute the same processes, it is now easy and fast. With the APA, we can improve more processes. As the processes are more automated and easier to use, it is faster to gain value. Automation Anywhere is helping me overcome these challenges.
What is most valuable?
Comparing Automation Anywhere with other tools for RPA, in my opinion, it is better because it is easier to use for both the final user and the developer. This gives us many benefits because we can automate the processes more easily.
APA has helped me achieve my automation goals. It's helped us achieve some of our automation goals. It's made things a lot easier. We have integrated the APA and RPAs with SAP, with Salesforce, and with many data sources.
I'm using the AI agent studio in the automation process.
I utilize document automation in my current processes. We introduced automation, and where we previously had to use many letters, we now use only documentation.
AI governance is very important in my company, and we are implementing it now. I discovered this company three years ago when I studied the RPA tools. AI governance and data governance are not currently implemented.
What needs improvement?
There is no need for improvement right now. The AI is very important, and they are starting to use AI. They could continue to develop it out. Innovation is very important.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started to use Automation Anywhere five years ago when I was working in another company.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
The deployment depends on the processes being put in place. Normally, it is straightforward.
What was our ROI?
I do not have the correct numbers to calculate ROI, however, overall, it has been very efficient. The time saved in document processing is good.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is a little bit high compared with other tools. Of course, some tools may be much cheaper, however, the offering isn't as robust.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
For our internal policy, before implementing a new project or new tools, we have to evaluate technical skills and make a comparison with other tools. We did evaluate Automation Anywhere and UiPath. Between Automation Anywhere and UiPath, there are pros and cons. Automation Anywhere is easier to use for final users and developers.
What other advice do I have?
I am utilizing the AI Agent Studio in my automation process. My impression of the AI governance features in maintaining compliance and data integrity in my company is that all the automatic processes are similar to processes made by humans. Only in specific cases do we have to use the compliance process with government; in most cases, enterprises would have to accomplish specific requirements. It is not usual in these kinds of processes to have compliance.
I would rate Automation Anywhere a nine out of ten. If the price were a bit less maybe I would give it a ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partnership
Last updated: May 14, 2025
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