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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
Sponsored
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
661
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)
Ivanti ITSM
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (10th), Process Automation (14th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (10th)
Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Venkat Sivaprakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at Accenture
Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions
Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.
Rajat_Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Technical Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has helped streamline ticketing and change management while offering clear documentation support
Documentation and learning materials are available for Ivanti Neurons for ITSM, and if you check the vendor sites, you will find documents for each feature. I believe that short videos should be created and uploaded for newcomers to learn quickly since time can be limited. If a user believes in Ivanti, they should also believe in all its products including Ivanti Neurons for ITSM and Neurons because they are genuinely putting in hard work. This is reflected in the documentation, though I suggest they work on creating more videos. Other than that, you will find everything you need in the community site and documentation site. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Ivanti Neurons for ITSM an 8 out of 10.
it_user568017 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is accurate, secure and stable.
Anything that can basically reduce the amount of time that the guys spend working on a specific problem or task. There is always room for improvement that can be in terms of functionality, cost of market, ease of use, training of the product and so on. If it brings functionality into the solution, that would be good. I'll leave it at that because there's so much that they can offer, it's unreal.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is its easy to use."
"It has helped us relieve the workload on our human workforce and thus ensures that they remain productive and motivated at all times thus work efficiently."
"The object cloning is its most valuable feature."
"We saved approximately 10,000 hours of work for ourselves, and there are a couple of projects that we have worked on where we could have saved approximately 4000 hours on just one project that we built in two to three weeks."
"It has improved the efficiency and reliability of the data in the systems."
"Removing manual tasks has been beneficial. It works effectively."
"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."
"It is easy and simple to use with its drag and drop functionality."
"It is relatively cost-effective compared to other options like ServiceNow. Additionally, it is highly stable."
"The main feature for us is incident management, as it assists me in knowing my assignments because we have group assignments and when we go to the group assignment they can assign it to me there."
"Understand that this product is a great investment."
"It is easy to set up."
"It's easy for the IT admins at the company to use. It isn't hard to understand and there are lots of features you can use out of the box. If a feature isn't available in Ivanti Automation, you can always script it."
"The solution is easy to use and has a user-friendly interface."
"I like Cloud Neurons. Since it's a cloud version, it's much easier to enhance productivity because it collects all the information automatically."
"The solution's technical support is excellent. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"The benefits for the company is the ability to reuse the knowledge that you can capitalize on the entire process and be able to share the same process worldwide for all of our countries."
"Our users have traditionally been slow to adopt new systems, and in the past have not raised requests in our previous ITSM systems, but when we launched Service Anywhere to our staff we found they instantly adopted it, and the number of requests handled through the system has almost completely replaced other methods, allowing us to shut down several email addresses and have our staff use one single point of contact in Service Anywhere."
"We've got faster time for our agents to open tickets, they find the screens really easy to use, and they're pre-populated with information about our users which our old system didn't have."
 

Cons

"Automation Anywhere will sometimes announce releases or updates in their roadmap, and we wait for them, but they do not happen on time or at all."
"When they develop the product, they don't always provide all the necessary details that a customer needs to implement the product."
"The marketing for Automation Anywhere has room for improvement."
"We have encountered some issues in the actions like Terminal Emulator-> Send Key -> Page Down/Up not working."
"I would suggest going with Microsoft Power Automate rather than Automation Anywhere because Power Automate's cloud flow is easier to use."
"I noticed that from version 10.5 to 11.3 the number of clicks to start a bot through the Control Room and Schedule Manager have increased. In certain cases, I would like to see that become simpler, faster, and easier."
"Automation Anywhere's stability could improve. It isn't completely stable, but it's getting better daily."
"Pricing is too high for small-scale groups. The Control Room yearly fee is high, making it difficult to break even."
"Sometimes I can't get the reports that I want until I go to the manager. They need to put more into the new reports. The standard reports are great, but there do not communicate as much."
"The user interface must be made simpler and more effective."
"There's a lack of integration with other products. This needs to be improved."
"Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is not a user-friendly tool when compared to ServiceNow."
"The process to add fields is time consuming and requires the system to be offline while you apply an Edit Set."
"Perhaps one area that could see enhancement is at the hardware level, particularly regarding endpoint control."
"Configuration requirements are extensive, even in basic Service Desk processes."
"Areas that have room for improvement with Ivanti Neurons for ITSM might include some of the reliability with Mac devices."
"The process of moving updates from development to production."
"It's not as mature, and so we have got a few things we're looking for there that we're working with HP on."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"The technical support could be better."
"One area that needs improvement is the means of moving code from the development to production environment."
"I'd like to see better ways of getting reports into a paper copy which means the ability to export into Excel."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's cheaper than other similar solutions."
"While calculating the setup cost you should account for the server, virtual machines, product licenses, maintenance costs, and running costs."
"Annually, we are paying almost one million reais."
"If it is saving FTE and Generating a good ROI then it is Worth Investing."
"We were required to purchase licenses and bot runners, which determined the permissible run times for the bots."
"The licensing cost could be improved. It costs a lot. At the very least, the developer licenses and the control panels should be made free to enterprises, and the production environment licensed."
"Automation Anywhere University is pretty good. They make it available free for everyone."
"If I compare it with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere is cheaper. Blue Prism is very costly. Automation Anywhere's pricing follows the market, not less and not more."
"My customers do direct sales with Ivanti, and they complain that Ivanti Automation is more expensive than other solutions."
"I came to know from my team members that my company used to operate ServiceNow but shifted to Ivanti Neurons for ITSM due to its low licensing prices."
"The product is affordable for small businesses."
"The price is on the higher side. The support is included in the standard licensing fees."
"If you want to add more users who can handle support there will be additional fees. What we call our extensions, we need to pay more for. They tell us that we need to acquire more licenses or something like that. I think it's very expensive, because in terms the pula, our local currency, it's about 20,000 per license for each user. It is an annual fee."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
8%
Construction Company
25%
Outsourcing Company
21%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business161
Midsize Enterprise82
Large Enterprise560
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

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 Ivanti Neurons for ITSM?
Areas that have room for improvement with Ivanti Neurons for ITSM might include some of the reliability with Mac devi...
What is your primary use case for Ivanti Neurons for ITSM?
I use this product for patch management, remote access, and endpoint control.
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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
HEAT Service Management, Ivanti Automation
HPE Service Anywhere
 

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
AFS Group, Auckland Airport, Baylor University, County of Maui, Dis-Chem Pharmacies, Elia, Essentia Health, Government Research Laboratory, Groupe Webhelp, HSBC Africa, Midwestern University
·         United Airlines·         America First Credit Union·         AerLingus·         PointClick Care·         Faro Europe GmbH·         The Hutton Institute·         Tunise Electronique
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