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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
Sponsored
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)
Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Serviceaide ChangeGear
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (25th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (23rd)
 

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.
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.
Umair Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technology
A fairly stable solution that’s highly mature, but has a poor user interface
The solution does not align as modern service solutions do. Seamless integration is no available among the processes. Their service management application needs a lot of work. It’s in a really bad state right now. They brought on a new interface that clumped all the processes and features of the solution into one. Still, it’s not really compatible with other solutions. Because of this, its rating has dropped in Gardner. The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements. The product needs to implement a cloud platform solution, which is lacking so far. Their workflow engine is still segregated. It’s not embedded. If you need to do some workflow approvals, you cannot do them directly on the service desk. You have to go into Outlook and do an approval or you have to go in through another screen to handle the approval because the workflow engine they have is a separate product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We use IQ Bot for invoice processing. It can be any type of document. It could be a PDF or any sort of document. It will convert those PDFs into CSV files, which is a structured format. It takes it from an unstructured to structured format. That is why we use IQ Bot."
"Automation Anywhere helps improve our organization by allowing us to automate processes that should not be manual."
"Compared to other RPA tools, I prefer Automation Anywhere."
"Automation Anywhere is frequently releasing new features to their product. I find this amazing as they provide frequent product updates, introducing new features to the frameworks and similar aspects."
"We have a lot of clients who use AA bots in their own process. Automated that are automated require less human input. AA bots save lots of time, increase efficiency, deliver accurate output, and provide consistency which improves the overall function of processes in different domains."
"My impression of the impact on visibility in the automation lifecycle is that we help to standardize the process and become more productive in those activities and visibility."
"The cloud implementation is easy, you do not have to install anything, and when we use it in the Automation Anywhere Cloud, it becomes even easier."
"Automation Anywhere helped multiple clients to save a lot of data entry time and have automated almost every repetitive task, and AA Control Room helped to manage the operations of both attended and unattended automations and have helped a continuous run of the bots saving hundreds of thousands of dollars."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"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."
"Just the use of big data is a game changer for us."
"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."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
"Easier access to data and for reporting which gives the data for managing IT."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create service catalogues for our customers, something that we didn't have previously with the other tool we were using, which was SDM."
"Essential service management solution all in one, like 100- for service request, 200- for change request, 300- for incidents, 400- for problems."
"It provides us with a very easy and flexible UI for CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7."
"CA Technologies support is excellent."
"The support is pretty good, the follow up is great; it is 24 hours, so that’s been useful, and it has a good escalation path, which is essential."
"The solution is a highly mature product, and because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
"The most valuable features for me are scalable architecture, customization potential where the UI, background, and data movement allow you to tailor to the nitty gritty details of what you might need in your environment, and advanced workflow management."
"Using the self-service functionalities we have been able to eliminate a lot of the support phone calls, and actually reduce a lot of our help desk staff."
 

Cons

"Automation Anywhere Control Room should update to the newer versions with one click, including the newer features. There should be minimum effort required from the IT organization. The major resistance from any organization is from the IT organization because they have a lot of dependencies and will sometimes resist doing changes because they have other activities and applications to manage. Future versions should minimizing their work."
"The Automation Anywhere University courses have helped us, but it could improve some things, like how the courses are designed."
"Built-in HTML features are lagging in this solution, whereas in UiPath, they are very good."
"Sometimes, while recording, the screen hangs and we are not able to perform any actions during that time."
"The setup and deployment processes for this product also need to be improved, e.g. made easier."
"Most of the Excel commands such as filtering and removing duplicates are not available."
"It is very difficult to create and automate timetables because they are modal, and it would be helpful if the bot could assist us with this."
"Even though the product is easy to use, there are some challenges when we move across different environments; there's a lot of setup needed."
"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"They're terrible as there was just a lack of response. We had to go through other avenues to get responses from the first level support."
"Integration: The integration capacity of the tool is limited."
"One area that needs improvement is the means of moving code from the development to production environment."
"The technical support could be better."
"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."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"The deployment was very difficult to handle. It's an unnecessarily difficult process that requires third-party assistance to do correctly."
"Importing data with relations is difficult and could be better."
"I would love to see better two-factor authentication as that would really help us and make a big difference."
"Their service management application needs a lot of work."
"I think they could update some of the interface. It doesn't look as pretty as some of the other ones."
"We have been seeing a little bit of latency here and there, but we haven't been able to identify it."
"Usability for IT analysts could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't deal have cost specifics but I can say it is a tool that provides value for the money."
"When you compare the cost of Automation Anywhere with UiPath and Blue Prism, those others are much less. Licensing-wise, UiPath wins the deal."
"In most of the cases, the product value is very good. If the infrastructure, implementation, and framework are good, then generally, the client can get a good return on investment."
"The pricing is a bit higher."
"It's justified because we have saved quite a bit of money at the company and many manual hours. Overall, it justifies the cost."
"The pricing that we received from Automation Anywhere in the beginning was very economical for us. We've seen a lot of benefit from what we spent to what we're receiving. From the beginning, it's been a very low-cost implementation for us."
"Our costs are approximately between $5,000 to $10,000 per license."
"Subscription for Automation Anywhere (AA) is paid yearly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
23%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
6%
Construction Company
20%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
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 Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

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.
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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
HPE Service Anywhere
Serviceaide ISM (Intelligent Service Management), Nimsoft Service Desk, CA Cloud Service Management , ChangeGear
 

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
·         United Airlines·         America First Credit Union·         AerLingus·         PointClick Care·         Faro Europe GmbH·         The Hutton Institute·         Tunise Electronique
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