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Aisera Assistant vs IBM watsonx Orchestrate comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
669
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (2nd), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd), Process Mining (1st), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (1st), Agentic Automation (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (2nd), AI Legal & Compliance (1st), AI Finance & Accounting (2nd), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (1st)
Aisera Assistant
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
AI IT Support (9th)
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Agentic Automation (6th), AI Agent Builders (8th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

Nadeem K. - PeerSpot reviewer
Rpa Developer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Automation has freed teams from repetitive finance and supply tasks and supports global operations
In the current organization, we had trouble initially because I think the documentation and support could be better than what it is now. This is one difference between Automation Anywhere and other RPA tools such as UiPath. In UiPath, if you have an issue, you go to the UiPath website and search for it, and you get lots of help materials. In Automation Anywhere, you do not get exactly what you are looking for. You get a very large number of results when you search for something, and from this large result set, you have to filter out what you need, or only partial information will be available. User handbooks are available for each product. In that regard, I would say Automation Anywhere is lagging compared to other RPA tools. It is difficult to get hold of their customer support team. I want to clarify that it is not a matter of us building logic on Automation Anywhere and it failing. When it is a product-related issue, they have to give us support because we only know how to develop within Automation Anywhere. We do not know how to fix Automation Anywhere itself. Whenever we have an issue, trying to get in touch with them always takes three to four business days.
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Chief Information Officer at a media company with 1-10 employees
Automated password workflows have cut help desk calls and improve user self-service success
The best features Aisera's AI Copilot offers include automated responses for users and a binary option where expected responses versus anything else can be handled. It has a standard response for anything that is not fitting into the specific question asked by the chatbot. The ability to give standard responses and handle expected versus unexpected answers has helped our team and end users by reducing confusion about what Aisera's AI Copilot can do and cannot do, streamlining the process so people know they can use it for a password reset primarily. Regarding Aisera's AI Copilot's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are evolving and it is in line with our requirements for ISO 22001. The accuracy and reliability of output from Aisera's AI Copilot is very good. Unfortunately, it is the old adage about garbage in, garbage out. As long as you take your time, work through your workflow to have accurate information and then negate anything that is not an expected response, you will be successful.
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Consultant at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Automation has streamlined complex workflows and delivers faster, more reliable onboarding
I think IBM watsonx Orchestrate can be improved by implementing simpler configuration for complex workflows and providing more flexibility when building custom integrations with internal applications. The monitoring and debugging experience could also be more detailed, especially for understanding exactly where a multi-step workflow failed and why. Regarding needed improvements, the overall user experience is fairly intuitive, but some advanced configuration areas have a steep learning curve for new users. I would also like to see more detailed, real-world examples in the documentation, particularly for complex enterprise integrations, troubleshooting, and production deployment patterns. Better production monitoring and more detailed troubleshooting would make a noticeable difference. More ready-to-use enterprise integration patterns and clearer guidance for scaling complex workflows would also help teams adopt faster.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Automation Anywhere has surely helped our organization to shape its Digital Journey - It was our first RPA tool which helped us to perform basic automation which created Point solutions but has added tremendous value at the early stage. We were able to scale-up fast using Automation Anywhere due to its user-friendly AI and later on IQ Bots provided the required edge to handle the unstructured data."
"The features are pretty easy to use, like the drag and drop feature. It is easy and understand, even a layman knows how the application works. All the basic stuff can be done by anybody."
"Because of the presence of Automation, it helped my company deal with banks in this field and to know many important processes in banks and private companies."
"If we talk about the automation RPA, it definitely has worked very well for us, giving good savings of more than 180 FTEs after implementing more than 200 plus bots."
"IQ Bot is a valuable feature. It processes unstructured data to structured data. It helps me by making tasks less time consuming. It reduces the effort it takes versus manually."
"My clients have seen tremendous value when it comes to automating business processes, and the robust nature of the application allows them to scale their business processes pretty quickly."
"I like Automation Anywhere's cloud-based nature. You don't need any on-prem infrastructure to host it."
"Overall, it is very helpful, and Automation Anywhere has helped us achieve our automation goals by reducing manual effort, improving consistency, and making repetitive processes easier to scale."
"Aisera's AI Copilot has achieved up to 75% automation of user requests, which is going to reduce our 80% consumer operation costs."
"Accuracy-wise, Aisera's AI Copilot is very good."
"Overall, Aisera's AI Copilot has become much more than a helpdesk tool for me; it is a central nervous system connecting employees to information and IT support across the entire organization."
"Since deploying the chatbot, we have seen a 95% reduction in support tickets for anything related to password resets or password changes."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate is much easier for anyone, whether a developer or a consumer, to understand and use without prior knowledge compared to other platforms."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate has positively impacted my organization by providing ease of implementation, configuration, and integration, making it very easy and possibly beneficial for the team."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate helped my team move from building every AI workflow from scratch to using reusable agents, tools, and integrations; this meant APIs, authentication logic, knowledge sources, and business actions could be packaged once and then reused across multiple use cases instead of being built for each assistant."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate has positively impacted my organization by providing a new optimized environment in which I could create much more powerful and complex agents, helping us create different opportunities and show demos at various events, allowing clients to see what we can do with the platform."
"For one of our onboarding workflows, the overall turnaround time came down by roughly 30 to 40%, primarily by removing manual handoffs and follow-ups."
"The ideation page does not only store your ideas or give it a written form, but it is also a part of the project."
"Regarding IBM watsonx Orchestrate's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security appear to be top-notch."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate positively impacts my organization by enhancing collaboration with my consulting company, and aiding in training learners to build practical AI solutions while reducing technical barriers for beginners and making coaching sessions more hands-on."
 

Cons

"I would like to have a bot as a service platform on AA Cloud. This would minimize the installation process, and we wouldn't need to have all the hardware to support the platform in-house."
"I would like to see more bots available right out-of-the-box in the SAP area."
"As far as stability is concerned, there have been some challenges. Sometimes, we experience our computers freezing up for no apparent reason or the network being inaccessible."
"I don't find a lot outside of the internal community forum."
"One of the main concerns with Automation Anywhere is the lack of a robust feature for capturing and managing information from the user interface, something competitors like Blue Prism already offer."
"We have had issues with stability in the past, and there should be a function that helps you to find out what is wrong with your environment that is causing the automation to fail."
"The OCR component should allow integration with 3rd party OCR. This way we can use the best of breed solution along with AA or allow better control over OCR packages to be customized."
"We are at an inflection point where we have automated so much that just keeping the lights on certainly takes 20% to 50% of the time, depending on the time of year. Being able to enable the stakeholders is one of my main focuses. If we are automating their process, I want them to continue owning that as much as possible. We are just expanding on the bot insights. From a security perspective, there have been some challenges for us getting our customers in there from a role-level security perspective and making sure that they have full access to the control room and their automation after it is automated."
"I believe that Aisera's AI Copilot could be improved with a more simplified initial implementation."
"To improve Aisera's AI Copilot, automating the scripting would be beneficial so that it is a little bit more free-flowing and generic for the workflow because something as simple as a password reset will always have the same features."
"There are several areas for improvement. First, hallucination control: being an LLM-based system, Aisera's AI Copilot occasionally generates confident but incorrect answers."
"Personally, I would say it would be nicer if it could be cheaper because I was working on a hackathon project and I kept running out of credits."
"Regarding technical support from IBM, my experience is that it is poor. IBM support usually does not take me straight to the solution; it tends to ask many questions before providing a final solution, which can take many days compared to any others."
"Better integration with other services can improve IBM watsonx Orchestrate."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for IBM watsonx Orchestrate reveals that it is expensive."
"The monitoring and debugging experience could also be more detailed, especially for understanding exactly where a multi-step workflow failed and why."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate could be improved by reducing the onboarding experience and getting the AI agent live."
"The customer support takes longer than is reasonable."
"IBM watsonx Orchestrate can be improved in three key areas: documentation with more practical examples, better debugging tools to identify issues, and a more beginner-friendly onboarding experience to enhance user interaction."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is very reasonable."
"We are a partner of Automation Anywhere and find the pricing to be reasonable."
"It's justified because we have saved quite a bit of money at the company and many manual hours. Overall, it justifies the cost."
"We have saved time and money using this solution."
"Additional costs will be for the machines and the number of machines that you are using. You can deploy virtually as well as on physical machines. In both the situations, you do need to allocate a certain budget for securing the machines and where the software will be installed and running. The machines cannot be used for anything else, because only a certain bot can run at a certain time. You need to be very particular about your scheduling of running the bots, and while the bot is running nobody can use the machine. You cannot have an agent working on a machine and the bot running in the background. It has to be completely dedicated. Then there are the network bandwidth requirements and space requirements, which are additional costs apart from the licensing and software costs. The developer is also going to charge you for their coding time too."
"We have seen about a 10 percent monetary savings."
"We just did a round of price comparison on a global scale and found it's so hard to compare the license prices. But, Automation Anywhere, in general, is on the same price level as the other vendors, a bit lower in some cases."
"I am not involved in the pricing, but based on what I hear from our central RPA team, it is not very expensive; it is also not cheap. Its price is in the midrange."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
Comms Service Provider
19%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business162
Midsize Enterprise86
Large Enterprise566
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.
What needs improvement with Aisera’s AI Copilot?
There are several areas for improvement. First, hallucination control: being an LLM-based system, Aisera's AI Cop...
What is your primary use case for Aisera’s AI Copilot?
I use Aisera's AI Copilot mainly for three things: automating repeated IT support tickets, providing instant AI-p...
What advice do you have for others considering Aisera’s AI Copilot?
I would add that in my team or my perspective, a few additional things are worth sharing. One thing that genuinely su...
What needs improvement with IBM watsonx Orchestrate?
IBM watsonx Orchestrate can be improved by including the possibility of incorporating external AI models.
What is your primary use case for IBM watsonx Orchestrate?
My main use case for IBM watsonx Orchestrate is web search integration for specific company and public websites. In s...
What advice do you have for others considering IBM watsonx Orchestrate?
I would rate IBM watsonx Orchestrate overall a 9. I chose that number because it is an extremely efficient system for...
 

Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
Aisera’s AI Copilot
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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
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