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Manager of Technology Service Automation at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 17, 2018
Allows for rapid development in which we can see value back quickly
Pros and Cons
  • "The quick delivery is good, and the solution is easy to use."
  • "It allows for rapid development in which we can see value back quickly."
  • "Rapid development: If we can develop something in four weeks, then see value back, that is big for us."
  • "UiPath has to run on some infrastructure, and that infrastructure and security is not scalable yet."
  • "The stability is not that good yet for whatever reasons. We have a lot of safety critical things that have to be 99.999% availability, so we're struggling a little bit with those."

What is our primary use case?

Primary use case is to find the highest value add processes and automate them to allow people to work on other things, which are of higher value and more strategic.

I currently have a team of about 15 people on my team, as a central team. We are at 35 licenses, so we have about 35 developers across the company.

How has it helped my organization?

We are still in the process of maturing to the point where people think about RPA first. We're still running around looking for the processes, teaching and helping people to get there. Our culture shift hasn't happened yet.

The solutions has meet our expectations, even a bit more than that.

What is most valuable?

  • Rapid development: If we can develop something in four weeks, then see value back, that is big for us.
  • The quick delivery is good.
  • The solution is easy to use.

What needs improvement?

Managing the infrastructure UiPath is running on is a lot harder than it seems. In the app development world, there's things called Docker containers that sort of help you containerize what your thing is running on, then it is in code. If we could get that, it would go a long way. Otherwise, I will have trouble scaling, because every time I scale, it's another manual setup of the infrastructure. I could automate that too, but the right solution is to have this working in containers, not a bot running around getting rid of pop-ups, and installing and uninstalling Chrome.

Working at an enterprise is harder, because we have security concerns, infrastructure, and governance. So, how do you create these virtual users? Because now someone has to own the credentials, but that's an anonymous user who has access to the credentials, and they have access to systems. All of this stuff is hard.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is not that good yet for whatever reasons. We have a lot of safety critical things that have to be 99.999% availability, so we're struggling a little bit with those. For the non-critical processes, it does a great job.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

As a product, UiPath is very scalable. UiPath has to run on some infrastructure, and that infrastructure and security is not scalable yet. I'm not sure what the best practices are to avoid that. 

How do you leverage a scalable infrastructures? Let's say a Windows Server 2016 version, because I know UiPath supports it. However, in an enterprise environment, there are security concerns when I have anonymous users with internet access and interactive logins to a Windows Server. As a matter of fact, my security team says, "No." 

In these areas, there is a lot of opportunity. Because, in reality, this is what is keeping me from scaling. I have the business cases. My business users want it. I have the development talent to do it. My issue is with the infrastructure. 

How are customer service and support?

Their customer support is very responsive. Sometimes it can be hard to communicate, because we are going back and forth in a forum type of environment. After three back-and-forths, it should just be a phone call. 

We put everyone through the UiPath Academy RPA training courses: The foundation and advanced framework. Some people struggle with the questions being asked which aren't on the videos. 

The advanced framework is a difficult course. People take it and they don't get the concepts yet, so it needs to be thought through again. 

What was our ROI?

We haven't actualized the value. We save people time, but then they're doing something else, and you have to quantify that into the value, which gets really grey and hard to do. As far as a head count reduction, we haven't done any of that.

The performance benefits are good. Everyone is happy. When the thing is working and it's working great, they love it because we are getting value.

What other advice do I have?

There is a lot of focus on new features going forward, integrating more with AI, and that's great.

Get started using the product yesterday. You're already too late.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Process Excellence Leader at a leisure / travel company
Real User
Oct 17, 2018
We seen have operational cost reductions. We have improved our efficiency and capabilities.
Pros and Cons
  • "We have seen operational cost reductions, and we have improved our efficiency and capabilities."
  • "The customer support is not that good. You have to send a ticket, and there is no one to call and talk to. When you are talking about operations, it has to be live. Otherwise, you lose money. I would change this a little bit. I think there's an opportunity to improve."

What is our primary use case?

We're doing a pilot. It's something that we trying to use to obtain more sales automatically. It's about selling tickets, and we're building the capability to do that more quickly and reduce costs.

How has it helped my organization?

We seen have operational cost reductions. We have improved our efficiency and capabilities. So, there are a lot of benefits.

It has met our expectations.

What is most valuable?

UiPath Orchestrator is a tool which allows to us to orchestrate all the commands, like a manager and their employees. We can do a lot of processes, not just in one department. It has flexibility, where you can do a process then to move to another process when there is nothing to do. With one robot, you can program it to do many processes.

The programming seems easy.

For how long have I used the solution?

Trial/evaluations only.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We are still testing stability, but it seems okay.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It provides a lot of scalability, because we can do a lot of things with it.

How are customer service and technical support?

The customer support is not that good. You have to send a ticket, and there is no one to call and talk to. When you are talking about operations, it has to be live. Otherwise, you lose money. I would change this a little bit. I think there's an opportunity to improve.

I'm using the UiPath Academy right now. I'm trying to understand and learn, and it is good, which I like.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We had a lot of manual tasks inside the company. People were doing things manually, then they would try to do those tasks faster, which was sort of impossible. With a robot, we automate those tasks 24/7.

How was the initial setup?

When you take the training, it seems complicated, but it's not. You do have to prepare in terms of knowledge. 

We are building it right now, but I will probably have three or four developers on my team.

What was our ROI?

We saw ROI in 15 days.

I would rate its performance benefits as an eight out of 10.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We also considered Blue Prism.

We went with UiPath because they have a lot of experience in the market. People really trust them. There are also a lot of use cases of success.

What other advice do I have?

Check the use cases, like cases of successes that they had with other companies first. It can be useful for them in making a choice.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

  • Product stability
  • It can't be complicated.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 17, 2018
It creates bots that save man-hours and money
Pros and Cons
  • "Technical support has been good. I am happy with their response times."
  • "Look into the data web scraping. I don't think another tool has that feature and we use it a lot. Data web scraping was probably the bonus of why we went with UiPath."
  • "UiPath keeps growing, so it has met and exceeded our expectations."
  • "We would like to know the prerequisites when installing bots."
  • "A bot that could provide feedback would be nice."

What is our primary use case?

A lot of our business development teams (end users) use it by going to a vendor's site.

How has it helped my organization?

For example, end users download information at the point of sale and export it to an Excel sheet, where what happens next is usually manual labor. Whereas, we can go to a site and download a file, then that file is loaded to our business data warehouse. Therefore, we are taking an element away and leveraging UiPath, so staff can do other stuff. That is how were leveraging the UiPath.

It works without human intervention. Since it has become more popular in our company, we will see how we can leverage UiPath with our supply chain, because it seems like supply chain is one of the top five ways to leverage UiPath.

What is most valuable?

There is a big community, which is very helpful and end user friendly. 

What needs improvement?

  • We would like to know the prerequisites when installing bots. 
  • A bot that could provide feedback would be nice.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is great. The product works. UiPath seems better at this than Automation Anywhere.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support has been good. I am happy with their response times.

We have not used UiPath Academy RPA training. I plan to suggest this as a training solution when I return from the UiPath conference to eliminate people asking me random questions about using UiPath.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I came from Automation Anywhere. The UiPath GUI is better for the end user, since I don't have time to develop a bot. Any user can use it.

While UiPath can be complicated, it is much easier than Automation Anywhere.

We were able to replace what we had with Automation Anywhere with UiPath, meeting our expectations. Then, it got popular within the company, exceeding our expectations. A lot of people are interested in UiPath. A lot of people weren't interested in Automation Anywhere. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not like an SAP product that takes forever to configure something. It was easy to install. 

We haven't upgraded yet because it seems like they just released the next version.

We're a team of eight business analysts. All of us try to create a bot, so we can familiarize ourselves with the process. So, if I create a bot and someone else has to support it, everybody knows at a high level what the bot does. 

What was our ROI?

We created an orders to cash department bot, which is already saving man-hours and money. Because of it, we don't have to hire an employee.

I would rate the performance benefits as a 10 out of 10.

What other advice do I have?

UiPath keeps growing, so it has met and exceeded our expectations.

Look into the data web scraping. I don't think another tool has that feature and we use it a lot. Data web scraping was probably the bonus of why we went with UiPath.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Senior Application Developer at Intalere
Real User
Oct 17, 2018
Takes a very manual, key punch-oriented job and automates it, so the user can do more intelligent work
Pros and Cons
  • "It has exceeded my expectations. It took a job which would take a user up to 30 minutes and decreased the time without their interaction to three minutes."
  • "It takes a very manual, key punch-oriented job and automates it, so the user can do more intelligent work."
  • "We would like the RPA app that we developed to fall back to one of our APIs and Visual Studio and have that take off."
  • "My team has just been learning UiPath for the past three to four months, and they are still hitting a wall in certain areas that they have to dig out of."

What is our primary use case?

To increase the efficiency in jobs that people do not like to do.

How has it helped my organization?

It takes a very manual, key punch-oriented job and automates it, so the user can do more intelligent work.

It has exceeded my expectations. It took a job which would take a user up to 30 minutes and decreased the time without their interaction to three minutes.

What is most valuable?

  • It is reasonably easy to use.
  • The FTE payback benefit.

What needs improvement?

We would like the RPA app that we developed to fall back to one of our APIs and Visual Studio and have that take off. However, I was talking with one of the guys at the conference, and he says, "It'll do that." 

For how long have I used the solution?

Less than one year.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We don't have a large installation, so I can't really measure this.

How is customer service and technical support?

We use the online forum to ask questions and review user's questions. It's helpful half the time. We don't have in-house experts. My team has just been learning it for the past three to four months, and they are still hitting a wall in certain areas that they have to dig out of. I am at the UiPath conference looking for any advanced training offerings. 

How was the initial setup?

It was straightforward. It was more building the initial app. I'm a developer on .NET, so it was just getting the experience with UiPath. The biggest challenge was just understanding the small, little 'gotchas' going into certain properties, what was required to make the control work. Overall, we prefer it because of the easy user interface and the open community, where you can get a lot of responses from others.

We have had an app running since July and it has been fine. The company change their websites, so we had to go in and fix the app, because the user changed their site. It wasn't because the app broke or had a bug in it, but the user changed their site, so we had to modify it.

We have two developers inventing and developing.

What was our ROI?

We're still measuring it, because these were more test apps to get to know the system, so the benefits aren't as large as we can see coming from other development.

What other advice do I have?

It does what we designed it to do. It has worked flawlessly, except when somebody changes the actual website that we are reading.

I would start small. As someone in the conference said, "Don't expect in two weeks you're going to have miracles."

In the beginning, put the time and investment into it and do it right. Once you have one victory, then that's where you start looking to train people in the company on what the benefits are, so you could get ideas flowing in their minds. Stress you are trying to automate the boring, mundane, painful jobs that they wait until the end of the month to do because they don't like doing them. Stress what you are trying to automate, and show that you will automate their whole job.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Head of Automation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 16, 2018
There are operational benefits in terms of time savings and user satisfaction of not having to do menial, repetitive tasks
Pros and Cons
  • "The UI interface and the back-end platform are very easy to use."
  • "The customer support is supportive and knowledgeable. They are always willing to help and support me."
  • "Every release gets better, which is what I want."
  • "Ease of use could be improved. The newer features are easy to use and positive additions, but there is room for improvement, specifically of the UI console for the developer."
  • "I would like to see the OCR, machine learning, and cognitive package that is being discussed in the next release."

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath for automating activities that which from operations, such as policy administration, claims handling, HR activities, and finance to a little bit of underwriting support.

How has it helped my organization?

We are still at about a year and half of implementation, so the benefits are already being realized. Because of the size of our organization, it's going to take more time for it to make a real tremendous impact. What I already see is there are financial benefits that we have been yielding. There are also operational benefits in terms of time savings and user satisfaction of not having to do the menial, repetitive tasks.

What is most valuable?

  • It scales fairly easily. 
  • The UI and the back-end platform are very easy to use. 
  • There is a roadmap for growth in the organization: scalability-wise and additional features going forward.

What needs improvement?

Ease of use could be improved. The newer features are easy to use and positive additions, but there is room for improvement, specifically of the UI console for the developer. There are also other features that could use improvements.

I would like to see the OCR, machine learning, and cognitive package that is being discussed in the next release.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

How are customer service and technical support?

The customer support is supportive and knowledgeable. I tend to deal more with the account and management directors because of the relationship. They are always willing to help and support me.

The UiPath Academy RPA feedback from my team has been positive. It's real structured. One of my guys did the RPA development course, and it should have been an in-depth development and less high-level development. So, it was supposed to be an advanced training, but it wasn't advanced from his viewpoint. I think he wanted more hands-on experience.

How was the initial setup?

The version that we implemented two years was probably harder to implement than what it is now. Though, I would not necessarily say it's very complex to set up. It's fairly straightforward compared to other solutions.

We're still figuring out how much staff we need for deployment and maintenance, as it has been a much bigger requirement than initially expected. We're not at the stage yet where everything is hands-off. 

At the moment, I have a team of seven people offshore that do maintenance, support, and run operations. This is helping us have a seamless experience for the user. The staff in the those roles are support analysts and maintenance level 1 support.

What other advice do I have?

Make sure you have your infrastructure correctly set up and that you are ready to scale up, because it will grow.

Ease of use has met our expectations. It would only exceed them once we see the new features come in and they all work seamlessly together. Every release gets better, which is what I want.

This is now a cognitive solution. It's leading in the industry, but there's still room for improvement. However, I know they're getting there.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Sr Vice President at a tech services company
Consultant
Oct 16, 2018
It is easy to implement and use to provide training to people
Pros and Cons
  • "It is easy to use and quick to install."
  • "With this solution, it has a more hands on GUI-based feature."
  • "It is easy to implement and use to provide training to people."
  • "The steps, documentation, and information are pretty straightforward when it comes to the product, so there is no ambiguity."
  • "There are certain areas that we need to see improvements: performance, efficiency, and complex environment."
  • "We need to be able to span across a bigger complex network. Right now, the decision-making is based on a five step rule. It would like to see this increased, so we can take on bigger productions and work more efficiently."

What is our primary use case?

We work in the healthcare industry. We are trying to establish a use case for our company to speed up our processes. Because with FDA regulations, there are a lot of processes to follow. There are a lot of phases of implementation to follow. For example, if you want a drug for cancer, a lot of time is spent, but it takes more time to release to the market because of all the manual labor intensive work which is happening. 

Therefore, I am working with legislators and the FDA to see where we can cut paths. There's a lot of scope for automation. UiPath is one of the best product for this.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath is user-friendly, so when we are working with the customer, if they want something immediately they will jump in. We don't have to give the level of estimation, then how much price will be (quote) at all. They don't really talk about the price or the time. They say, "There is a problem," and they are very excited about solving that problem. This excitement is good, and that's what our CEO has always said, "Immersing yourself is always important."

Everyone feels positive when they want to talk about RPA and what they want to do. When we go and explain how easy and adaptable it is, people are happy. It is not complex, because we are simplifying the way how they use it. 

If you're able to discuss and give the layout and the architecture purposeful meaning along with the training, then people can adapt to it well.

What is most valuable?

It is easy to implement and use to provide training to people. With a lot of other tools, it is more about scripting. Whereas with this solution, it has a more hands on GUI-based feature.

It is easy to use and quick to install.

What needs improvement?

With every product that we have, there are still improvements needed in some areas. There are certain areas that we need to see improvements: performance, efficiency, and complex environment. We need to work with the product manager on these, and say, "Now that everything has met the industry standards, there's a way to go."

We need to be able to span across a bigger complex network. Right now, the decision-making is based on a five step rule. It would like to see this increased, so we can take on bigger productions and work more efficiently. Also, the performance has to be improved in some areas.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

For the last three years, they have been very aggressive. They have been progressing nicely. So far, the stability has been good, because of the continuous product implementation. There has been a focus on the product and everything working. 

The people who started the company are still with the company, and this is a good sign that there is stability. This can be seen in the financial markets. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is one of the nice features, because they're able to come up with the UiPath Orchestrator. They have improved this with the 20.18.3 version, which has a lot of good scalability features compared to the previous one. Right now, it is scalable, and there are always new use cases coming out. The more use cases that we pump into the product development team, the more scalability that we will see and more features will be added on, because they can only think of what they have on hand.

How is customer service and technical support?

Being a partner, I have my own team that I work with.

The UiPath Academy RPA training is good, but we have a good geek squad. Our people have really gone to the community research and downloaded it, so most of my team is self-learning. However, the support people are always available, if needed, when we need some help.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is pretty easy, because now my team has been implementing it a lot. For more than a year, we have been a partner. We have been doing a lot of PoCs.

Overall, the steps, documentation, and information are pretty straightforward when it comes to the product, so there is no ambiguity.

The staff that we need for deployment and maintenance depends on the complexity of the process. Typically, we start with a couple of people for the PoC. Depending on how many parallel approaches we have to do, we may increase to four to five people. With that number, we are able to create a good sizable environment and solution. These staff members would be responsible for the architecture, one would be the lead developer, and another would be the functional expert to understand the processes, then there could be a couple of people helping in the development environment and doing all the testing to make sure whatever they have implemented follows the process.

What about the implementation team?

We have use customer support for implementation of the projects because the team is really good.

What was our ROI?

Some of the return on investments are quick. Because some of the processes that we have implemented, a person who does manual labor over two weeks will see a reduction in hours. Thus, that person is already focusing on some other intellectual work. 

Our goal is not remove all the people, but repurpose their work time in better ways, therefore these people can work better and their throughput is good. So, customers are able understand ROI very quickly.

Its performance benefits are the reduced time, making it is very efficient. If someone is taking two weeks, and now it is takes them ten hours, you already have a performance benefit. 

In terms of product performance, there are still things they need to work on.

I would rate the performance benefits at an eight (out of ten).

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

If you want to do a demo trial, it is a 30 days free. 

However, the community edition is completely free. Then, people say, "There is nothing to lose, let me try it."

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism are competitors. They have been in the industry a little longer than UiPath, which is just coming up. One good thing about UiPath is that it is really capturing the market.

What other advice do I have?

  1. The company culture: We are an extended family, not just a partner. Their entire team is available to us.
  2. As a product, it is really coming up in the market with a different architecture, most which is .NET and C#. For a lot of my developers, it is easy condition for my team to learn more quickly. We have not really used the Academy. My team was able to learn on their own. 
  3. The product has more in terms of supportability, predictability, ease of use, and overall culture of organization.

We have not really seen anyone moving from Automation Anywhere to displays or some other product.

Our customers want to see:

  • Whether it is a viable product.
  • Does it make sense for their business. 
  • If it does makes sense and are there other companies, why should they go with UiPath?
  • What are the benefits compared to other products? 
  • What is the benefits that it is giving to the customer?

If I can layer all of those decisions, then I have walked them down the path of the realization of ROI and why they should be doing UiPath. So, it is an easy sell.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner.
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Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Oct 15, 2018
It is a very easy model to work with. It helps us reduce the amount of manpower needed.
Pros and Cons
  • "It is very stable."
  • "It is as simple as dirt."
  • "There is a good support network. Their response time is good. They will find a solution within two days."
  • "Now, spreadsheets and ledger books can be done within five seconds."
  • "I want to improve machine learning."

What is our primary use case?

Mainly, we are using this product for automation, the kind of automation that a human usually does.

How has it helped my organization?

For example, if we process where 10 people are working manually, which we can automate using RPMs (Revolutions Per Minute), we can reduce this up to eight people. We can't reduce the human manpower 100%, but we can reduce up to 80% of the manpower. But, for the remaining 20% we need human interaction. Manpower is still needed for checking the report and verifying information. For these tasks, it is still key to have a human take charge of the process.

What is most valuable?

The specific feature I find most valuable is its ability to access a database, automating inquiries, and sending emails. This is very useful. Now, spreadsheets and ledger books can be done within five seconds.

What needs improvement?

I want to improve machine learning. 

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have used this product since 2016, and uploaded three different versions. It is very stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. There are no issues with scalability. 

How is customer service and technical support?

There is a good support network. Their response time is good. They will find a solution within two days.

How was the initial setup?

It was very simple to set up the solution for our company.

What was our ROI?

It's kind of like a process which can be done easily by anyone. There is no human involvement required. It is a very easy model to work with, and it is a win-win situation for both business owner and user.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing differs on the requirements. If there is a huge purchase, then we get a discount.  There is not a fixed pricing of the product. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Blue Prism is a competitor that has benefits, but we chose UiPath. 

What other advice do I have?

It is very easy to learn and easy to adapt. For example, if we have to open a browser, we need code. If we are using Selenium, or some other programming that you have to write code for, it could be 30 or 10 to 15 lines of code. But in UiPath, there's true ease of use. It is as simple as dirt.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Director of Business Systems at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Oct 11, 2018
Implementation was quicker than we expected and it integrates well with our analysis tools
Pros and Cons
  • "Valuable features include the OCR capabilities, to take somewhat structures data and put them into more structured data so that we can do our analysis. Another is screen scraping and, finally, the overall process of integrating it with other applications that we use in our analysis. It has also exceeded our expectations in the fact that it's a lot faster to implement than we thought it would be."
  • "We have been able to do our work in a more timely fashion, more accurately, and it opens up other paths of customer use cases which will enable us to expand our business as well."
  • "I would like them to continue to build and make Studio easier to use for non-technical people."
  • "It's easy to use but I think it will be a lot easier as it continues to develop."

What is our primary use case?

We are accountants and consultants and there are many mundane processes in auditing. Using RPA to automate not only allows us to be more precise, but we can also audit a larger population of material. We get accuracy and speed, and those are our main goals.

How has it helped my organization?

We have been able to do our work in a more timely fashion, more accurately, and it opens up other paths of customer use cases which will enable us to expand our business as well. 

In terms of performance benefits, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

What is most valuable?

  • The OCR capabilities, to take somewhat structured data and put them into more structured data so that we can do our analysis.
  • Screen scraping.
  • The overall process of integrating it with other applications that we use in our analysis.
  • It has also exceeded our expectations in the fact that it's a lot quicker to implement than we thought it would be.

What needs improvement?

It's easy to use but I think it will be a lot easier as it continues to develop. Right now, we do need some development capabilities, to understand certain computer languages, to put in the bots. They're on the right roadmap to make this even easier to engage so that anyone, even people without programming language experience, will be able to use it.

I would like them to continue to build and make Studio easier to use for non-technical people.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Looking at it as a marketplace, I think it's very stable.

How are customer service and technical support?

We have used their customer support. It has been good for us, although it hasn't been perfect because they're growing so fast that there are a lot of new employees coming on board. That's a challenge to manage for any company. Certainly, the online tools, the Academy training, allow for a nice implementation. It's more an issue when it comes to getting in touch with someone, where we need something customized and we have questions.

I have used UiPath RPA Academy training. It's been great. I think it is developing as well. They continue to add training, change and modify some of it, which is great. You can feel that it is evolving.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

With most of our clients, generally, it's humans who are doing manual, mundane tasks - what I refer to as the "low-hanging fruit" side of it. They see right away, when we take their current process that they're doing, how the automation can handle it and be more accurate than what the human employee is doing right now.

The important criteria for our clients in selecting an RPA solution are price, that is always one, but also accuracy and security are factors they're most interested in.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the initial set up of UiPath in my company. On a relative basis, it's straightforward. There are certainly some complexities to it, but it is definitely less complex than I expected it to be.

What was our ROI?

Our clients have seen considerable ROI from using UiPath. Once our customers get their heads around it, and then we implement it, they see the benefits of using it straight away.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Scalability is there. There are so many use cases, certainly for our company. There are many opportunities. We're essentially automating what I would consider to be the low-hanging fruit, and there are so many things to build on top of that, as we get that foundation.

UiPath absolutely is capable of scaling.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Usually, it's Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere.

One of the main reasons that clients go with UiPath is the Academy, where they can get free training, where they can send their internal people to get the training. Having access to it and learning about it is a big hurdle a lot of times. Having access to the learning is a great thing.

What other advice do I have?

I think it's the best RPA solution that I've looked at and I would suggest that you take a hard look. It's easy to start working with it. You can get it stood up pretty quickly and you're going to reap benefits right away.

This is a fast-growing industry, so staying on top of, and executing, plans is important. So far, from what I've heard regarding the roadmap, UiPath is certainly on their way to doing that.

Right now, we're in an interesting spot where a discussion point is how much our customer will own of what we sell to them. We're developing bots right now. The infrastructure, in our use case, typically, is owned by the customer. For us, it's about educating our customers on what we can help them with in terms of infrastructure: We can run it ourselves or they can own it. A lot of our customers want to own that infrastructure.

I think of all of the things it can do - the integration with different applications, solving what are important problems, and saving many labor hours for those who are using it  - and they are the main reasons I rate it a nine out of ten. The only reason it's not a ten is it's not totally done by someone that doesn't know technology and programing. I think they'll get there but you still need some skill sets in your organization.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner.
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IT at a energy/utilities company
Real User
Oct 11, 2018
Enables us to automate manual tasks across multiple systems
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is automating tasks that are highly repetitive, such as Accounts Payable. It is also easy to use."
  • "There are man-hour savings, some of that equals headcount reduction, but we've also been able to redeploy people to more value-add activities."
  • "I would like it to better handle updates from other systems, whether it's SAP or a website. That's the thing that we struggle with. Anytime a system changes, we have to go in and modify the code."

What is our primary use case?

We use it across all functions, but our major groups right now are accounting followed by tax.

How has it helped my organization?

There are man-hour savings. Some of that equals headcount reduction, but we've also been able to redeploy people to more value-add activities. It has met our expectations. We wanted to automate manual tasks and it has successfully done that, across multiple systems. I would rate the performance benefits at nine out of ten.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is automating tasks that are highly repetitive, such as Accounts Payable. It is also easy to use.

What needs improvement?

I would like it to better handle updates from other systems, whether it's SAP or a website. That's the thing that we struggle with. Anytime a system changes, we have to go in and modify the code.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability has been an issue. It has taken about three months for a task to become stable. That was not a huge surprise, but anytime there's an upgrade of a website, things change on a website that we're using as part of the automation task, we have to go in and make those changes to the code.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's very scalable. That's been a nice feature of the tool.

How is customer service and technical support?

We have not used technical support.

What other advice do I have?

Dive in and get going.

We have used UiPath RPA Academy training and we like it. It gets us about 80 percent of the knowledge that we need, and then we have a group of in-house folks that will teach people who complete a class how our policies and our procedures are rolled into the tool.

It's changing daily but we have about five developers. We have business users who are now being trained to do development. They're actually working on developing their own task now. In just a few months, we'll probably have 15 to 20 developers.

We've been pretty pleased with the product. The lack of stability is our biggest issue. There are external issues that cause that, so we're not surprised by it. We were expecting it, but that's the biggest issue.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Managing Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 11, 2018
We have seen significant increases in the speed of our clients' business processes
Pros and Cons
  • "It is very easy to use. We have seen new developers becoming productive in a matter of weeks, not months."
  • "Positive factors include ease of development, ease of maintenance, robust security, and a very good installed client base."
  • "We see the real value coming out of UiPath in the ability to transform our clients' businesses: Produce rapid time to value and a very good return on their investment as well."
  • "One of the things that many of our clients ask us about is security. Some of them are really struggling with how to do multi-factor authentication. A robust and solid approach for dealing with multi-factor authentication would be one of the things we would like to see."

What is our primary use case?

As a partner, we see many use cases. Our clients are really looking to UiPath or RPA as a means of digital transformation. Some of the areas we see them use it are in finance, supply chain, human resources, IT automation, and tax functions.

The way we tell our clients to look at UiPath is that everywhere they have repetitive functions happening, they should explore RPA as an opportunity.

How has it helped my organization?

We see the real value coming out of UiPath in the ability to transform our clients' businesses: Produce rapid time to value and a very good return on their investment as well. That's the real value UiPath provides to our customers.

It is transforming our clients' cost structures but, at the same time, it improves their time to market. It helps them to improve their employee morale, make sure that employees stay longer, and it helps them improve their customer experience.

We see that the speed of business functions has improved by as much as about 70 to 80 percent. A particular process that, at times, would take about ten minutes to execute, has gone down to just two or two-and-a-half minutes. I would give performance benefits full marks with UiPath.

What is most valuable?

The way we look at it is that features are a commodity. We prefer to look at the value it provides.

Having said that, it is very easy to use. We have seen new developers becoming productive in a matter of weeks, not months. The entire solution is structured in such a nice way that clients can start seeing benefits in six to eight weeks.

What needs improvement?

One of the things that many of our clients ask us about is security. Some of them are really struggling with how to do multi-factor authentication. A robust and solid approach for dealing with multi-factor authentication would be one of the things we would like to see.

Also, some of the IAM tools have features that have somewhat segregated duties. For our clients, this is a big challenge in terms of how they do SoD. If there were some features related to SoD that were added to the tool, that would be really great.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is fairly stable. We have not seen any major issues in terms of stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability has been good.

How are customer service and technical support?

We have not used technical support.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is relatively straightforward. It is easy for our clients' security groups, their IT departments, their compliance departments, to understand. They know the key steps that need to be taken. From that perspective, it is relatively easy.

Many of our clients have used UiPath RPA Academy training and have found it very helpful.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In addition to UiPath, the top options are Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism. In addition to that, we have seen some interest in exploring solutions from Pega and Kofax.

One of the reasons our clients select UiPath is that it now has a very well-established customer base. Those success stories help UiPath. A second factor is the ease of use. Our clients find it is easier to train their developers and access the necessary workforce. Thirdly, the licensing model is where clients see that it is among the best-of-breed.

What other advice do I have?

Focus on your objectives. Don't consider UiPath or RPA as just a shiny technology. You need to know what is it that you want. What are your business objectives? That is the first thing you need to determine. Second, you need to set very realistic goals regarding what you want to accomplish. Thirdly, don't wait for a long period of time. Get started. You need to get into finding success as soon as possible. Find the low-hanging fruits, create a few bots, demonstrate the value for people, and then look at scaling up.

The pitfall I see with many of our clients is that they want to think big, do automation for 50 processes at once. But they get a lot of organizational resistance. The key here is to start small, show success, and build on top of those successes.

Almost all companies recognize that there is a need to invest in automation, both RPA-type automation and cognitive automation. When we work with them we try to understand what their strategic objective is. Is it about improving time to market? Is it about improving efficiency? Is it about improving customer experience? Or is it about improving the cost structure? In some cases, it is a combination of all of these. Determining that is usually our starting point. Then we can deep-dive into what the process areas are where we can get the maximum benefit.

All the companies we deal with are focused on improving their cost structure, so cost-saving is the most important criteria that our clients articulate. But in many cases, clients talk about improving the efficiency of their workforce or being able to respond to their customers' needs.

From there, we do an opportunity assessment, identify some of the key, low-hanging fruit where they can benefit. We prepare a value case which could be anything, depending on the client. It could be related to cost savings, it could be related to time to market, etc. Then, as we implement, we set up a value-realization office to track the benefits very closely.

Despite all the new hype happening around upcoming RPA and automation tools, what we have seen is that clients usually do not have the internal workforce that is trained and that really knows the best practices that are involved. That is where they look to partners, like us, to bring in their skills. When we start working with the clients, we start in a 70/30 model where 70 percent of the team comes from Accenture and 30 percent of the team comes from our clients.

To begin with, when our clients start a proof of concept, on average the team size is usually about six to seven people, including the IT support functions that are involved.

I rate UiPath a ten out of ten because of multiple factors: ease of development, ease of maintenance, robust security, and a very good installed client base. These are the factors that actually lead to a perfect score.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner.
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