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SAP Build Process Automation vs UiPath Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
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Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
633
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (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 (1st), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (1st)
SAP Build Process Automation
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
41st
Average Rating
0.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
UiPath Platform
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
920
Ranking in other categories
Agentic Automation (2nd), AI Agent Builders (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (1st), AI Finance & Accounting (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 5.8%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Build Process Automation is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Platform is 10.8%, down from 21.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UiPath Platform10.8%
Automation Anywhere5.8%
SAP Build Process Automation0.9%
Other82.5%
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
 

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.
CV
CTO at Atheneum
Simplifies integrations and is suitable for large companies
Sometimes, when our company develops using the latest technology, the knowledge is not yet cycled down to the tool's support team. The tool's support team is not mature enough to handle the tool. The promotion of a feature before it is mature may cause issues, and I feel that sometimes the deployment of such features is a little too early. The tool will release a feature, but it will have bugs in it. We face challenges because the tool's team doesn't have the knowledge to deal with the issues in the product's new features. When SAP develops something, if the tool's team doesn't know how to support it, it becomes a problem because now we have to access developers to get the information that is not readily available.
reviewer2761431 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Rpa at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Significantly reduces manual effort and improves team workflows through automated ticketing
We've used Agent Builder, IXP, and Maestro for orchestration. We have created context-grounded searches or chatbots using context grounding, and we also use context grounding within an Agentic flow where a bot or agent reads ServiceNow tickets to determine whether it has been assigned to the right work group. If it has not been assigned correctly due to human error, it automatically reassigns it to the right group. I would assess Agentic AI's ability to extract data points as effective. We created an agent for the purpose of extracting data, though not in a document. We created what we call an email conversation agent that engages with a customer, vendor, or someone in an email conversation with a set goal of extracting specific data points for an action to be performed subsequently. The one automation we have deployed in production involves the agent interacting with team members to collect data points and create a ServiceNow ticket. We appreciate almost all features of UiPath Platform, with one of the most successful ones being the use of Coms Mining. Most of the new features related to AI have all been good, and we use Agentic. We have already created a few agents and have started to use Maestro for a few flows, though we are not yet there to orchestrate an end-to-end workflow. We have good ROI from the automations we have developed with UiPath Platform, which far exceeds the investment in the platform. It has saved us tens of thousands of hours in manual effort, making the team members happy to pursue other things of value.

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 equipped us with amazing tools including Bot Insight, IQ Bot, Discovery Bot, etc."
"By automating processes we give back valuable hours to business stakeholders, which can be spent on value-adding activities instead of repetitive tasks."
"We work in the business process outsourcing arena, it has improved our organization mainly around freeing up people to do other things and that can be quite large numbers, in the high tens, even hundreds of people that can be freed up to do other work."
"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."
"Automation Anywhere is a ten out of ten."
"We mostly used the Database commands in order to make the process faster and more secure, rather than using Excel or a CSV for reading the input files."
"The majority of Indian companies are showing a lot of interest in recruiting students who are trained in this Automation Anywhere RPA tool."
"When this technology first came to market, I thought it was about robotic things, which we cannot do, however, when I started to learn about Automation Anywhere, it's completely different; it's a user friendly tool with drag and drop commands and a person just needs technical, logical thinking."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it offers an integrated development environment."
"This solution has reduced manual effort on our part; it's removed repetitive tasks which do not bring any value to the company and has saved maybe 1,000 man-hours every year on the AP side, and on the metric side for a dashboard that we created, we saved 90 hours a month."
"UiPath's OCR enables data processing of handwriting, which in turn allows us to automate elements of the billing process from incoming customer checks, which is a fantastic feature for us."
"Thanks to UiPath, we can develop new projects much faster."
"It is really easy for people to learn the basics and the learning curve is not steep."
"UiPath has the simplest low-code user interface that I've seen in my professional life."
"We bought the starter package and we were able to cover the full cost of it with one robot within two days."
"At my workplace, I developed three automations which saved a lot of efforts and avoided manual interventions, and we saved thousands of manual efforts."
"From jobs that require reading and processing emails, to jobs that require scraping information from web pages, this tool allows us to do anything that can be done by a human."
 

Cons

"We have been a little frustrated by the frequency of cache releases."
"As we expand our components of the Automation Anywhere platform that we utilize, we need better connections between them."
"I would like to see better and more technical use cases for the AI features, showing how to build them instead of repeated general examples."
"This solution saves us time but there are some things that make it clumsy for the end-users."
"I think it is a little bit of an ongoing struggle, because we don't deal with the infrastructure. We have a separate infrastructure team that sorts all that out, so sometimes there are communication issues just trying to get our internal IT team onboard to run through the installs and that sort of thing."
"When we try to process structured documents but with some little pen marks, improper partitions, or faded documents, IQ Bot fails to extract data properly out of them."
"Automation Anywhere is a technical application. It is not so easy for a regular user. It requires technical knowledge."
"Because I am using an older version, I am rating the scalability as a seven out of 10. I feel a lack of convenience when I try to scale it."
"The tool's support team is not mature enough to handle the tool."
"It would be beneficial to have the capability to track defects during the regression testing of applications."
"In terms of performance, sometimes it slows down when the internet connectivity is poor. They need to optimize it a little."
"It should be less focused on the howtos and more on demonstrating business value add. A business outcome should be that I was able to approve something in however many days or hours compared to my peers when I benchmark across my peers. That would be a business outcome as opposed to a technical outcome."
"On the Orchestrator side, I would like to see more controls and conditions for RPA managers. If they advanced in those areas, it would help."
"RPA appears to be working, as a technology, but it is still too immature to say that it is beneficial as many people portray it to be."
"I have used the AI functionality for PDF automations. In these processes, the bot is able to capture the data properly about 70 to 80 percent of the time, but if a document is not proper or it isn't handled the right way, the bot struggles to get the required data."
"UiPath could improve on-prem availability. I would like to see a load-testing feature, but that's coming."
"The license model changing every year can be a little bit frustrating. It's hard sometimes when things go from being robot-based to being runtime-based."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Time and monetary savings can range from 20 to 90 percent."
"Because it reduced the time duration of our processes, our costs went down."
"Automation Anywhere might have a higher upfront cost than some competitors, but its extensive features and seamless integration with other tools can save organizations money in the long run."
"The enterprise version is expensive for small businesses and individual users."
"I advise others that even as of right now, the setup cost and licensing cost to automate bots on Automation Anywhere is steep but it is worth the investment!"
"Automation Anywhere is costlier than the general competition. That is aligned with the share of the market it has."
"Cost-wise, it is fine. A lot of medium businesses prefer Automation Anywhere. The development cost is also lower."
"It is the most economically friendly and it provides you with a lot of functions."
"The product is not cheaply priced."
"UiPath's cost can be prohibitive, and the sheer number of licensing options they offer makes it difficult to choose the right one, creating a confusing selection process."
"Licensing is quite complex, and sometimes that's true even when we have to explain it to our customers. There may not be a way to do it more simply."
"We got purchased the basic minimum package and it was around $35,000 USD, annually."
"The price of UiPath is too high."
"We analyzed and compared the costs of RPA from different vendors and we found that UiPath was the most cost-effective in the long term. An unattended robot costs approximately $8,500 annually."
"I would rate the cost of UiPath eight out of ten with ten being the most expensive."
"The cost of UiPath is reasonable."
"UiPath is more expensive than other solutions on the market, such as Microsoft Power Automate."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business150
Midsize Enterprise82
Large Enterprise531
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business250
Midsize Enterprise145
Large Enterprise675
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Build Process Automation?
The product is not cheaply priced. In a development environment, the tool simplifies landscape management, etc. Wheth...
What needs improvement with SAP Build Process Automation?
Sometimes, when our company develops using the latest technology, the knowledge is not yet cycled down to the tool's ...
What is your primary use case for SAP Build Process Automation?
I use the solution in my company for the development of applications.
Best RPA tools for IBM iSeries
I can only speak to UiPath since that is the only RPA solution that I have used. I know that there are specific packa...
RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?
Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Pow...
How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?
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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
No data available
UiPath Maestro, UiPath Apps, UiPath Agent Builder
 

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
1. Accenture 2. Airbus 3. Allianz 4. Aon 5. AT&T 6. Bayer 7. BMW 8. Bosch 9. Cisco 10. Coca-Cola 11. Colgate-Palmolive 12. Comcast 13. Deloitte 14. Deutsche Bank 15. Ericsson 16. FedEx 17. General Electric 18. GlaxoSmithKline 19. Google 20. HSBC 21. IBM 22. Intel 23. Johnson & Johnson 24. JPMorgan Chase 25. Kimberly-Clark 26. KPMG 27. Liberty Mutual 28. Mastercard 29. Merck 30. Microsoft 31. Nestlé 32. Nike 33. Novartis 34. Oracle 35. PepsiCo 36. Pfizer 37. Procter & Gamble 38. PwC 39. SAP 40. Siemens 41. Sony 42. Spotify 43. Swiss Re 44.Toyota
1. Accenture 2. Deloitte 3. PwC 4. IBM 5. Capgemini 6. KPMG 7. Ernst & Young 8. Infosys 9. Cognizant 10. Wipro 11. Tata Consultancy Services 12. HCL Technologies 13. Genpact 14. Tech Mahindra 15. DXC Technology 16. Atos 17. NTT Data 18. CGI 19. L&T Infotech 20. Hexaware Technologies 21. Mindtree 22. Mphasis 23. Virtusa 24. Syntel 25. Zensar Technologies 26. WNS Global Services 27. Hexaware Technologies 28. Larsen & Toubro Infotech 29. Persistent Systems 30. QuEST Global 31. Sonata Software 32. Zensar Technologies
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