We are considering implementing AI as we are a healthcare staffing company in the education sector. Our use case focuses on processing a large number of emails and resumes. We aim to mine resumes to determine which are best for rapid and successful placements. On the communication side, we wish to perform sentiment analysis to assess how well our salespeople respond to clients.
It improves the efficiency of our operational and analytical work without the need to hire more staff
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable thing is the whole automation suite that helps develop automation processes. In the future, we might further explore Communications Mining and Process Mining."
- "There's a push for cloud-based operations, but I prefer to develop things on the desktop. I'd appreciate the ability to develop things on the desktop and roll them out concurrently on the cloud."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We want to mine, structure, and analyze data using data science methods. We also hope to use generative AI and large language models to perform some of the data analysis, saving us lots of time. My company tripled in size in the last three years, so we have a lot more people, but the backend operations haven't grown at the same pace as the number of salespeople.
Automation helps us with operational and analytical work because we lack enough talent for that. By using AI, we can do the same amount of work without hiring more people, so we save money and improve productivity. Generative AI is part of our discussion. We had to decide whether to develop our own model or use existing software like UiPath to get things done faster and easier.
We have about 15,000 consultants working for us during the school year, and to fill those positions, we may need to interview five times that many. A lot of them might drop out by the time school starts. Using UiPath and AI, we can speed up processing and onboarding because that might be why people quit. They might leave for another job if we don't onboard them fast enough. We can save more candidates and prevent revenue loss from a potential placement by making the processing time faster.
After implementing UiPath, we automated many manual tasks. We save a lot of time, and those people who used to do manual work are doing more knowledge work. A lot of them now see what bots can do, so they're more open to the idea of developing bots. That set the stage for them to trust AI-powered bots in the future.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable featire is the whole automation suite that helps develop automation processes. In the future, we might further explore Communications Mining and Process Mining.
What needs improvement?
There's a push for cloud-based operations, but I prefer to develop things on the desktop. I'd appreciate the ability to develop things on the desktop and roll them out concurrently on the cloud.
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For how long have I used the solution?
My company has used UiPath for about two years, but I've used it for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath has kept up with our growth. However, there's a limitation with licensing.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Blue Prism in a different company. However, for the current company, they had no prior automation solution.
What about the implementation team?
Our IT support company, Coretelligence's parent company, helped with the initial implementation. There were renewal delays prompting a desire to work directly with UiPath.
What was our ROI?
From a cost-saving perspective, we are seeing a lot of returns, including internal staffing cost savings and HR bot efficiencies.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath's licensing could be cheaper and more dynamic. The licensing can sometimes feel high, especially for smaller companies, but generally, the pricing is reasonable when considering the time saved and corresponding costs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I wasn't the decision maker, but my CFO considered industry leaders and attended the Forward Conference. He was impressed and chose UiPath. One thing that he liked was that it was easy to learn and use.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10. I enjoy working with it, and it seems to have everything we need. They're adding new features at a reasonable rate while not deprecating old stuff too fast. It's a smooth transition from classic to modern activities.
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Automation Coe Lead at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
The document understanding feature can handle a significant amount of handwritten notes and efficiently extract information
Pros and Cons
- "Any solution, such as Power Automate, can do traditional RPA functions, but UiPath's Document Understanding sets it apart. The document understanding feature can handle a significant amount of handwritten notes and efficiently extract information. While there is a human-in-the-loop component for validation, it is still faster than manually extracting information."
- "My biggest problem is that UiPath is growing so fast and adding integration with so many different products that it's hard to keep up. The COEs at various companies and our developers aren't able to keep pace with what's happening. It's a good problem to have. I'm not complaining, but there are so many features and little time for developers to learn and implement them."
What is our primary use case?
We use UiPath across departments, including HR, IT, procurement, and the supply chain. One use case is hiring and other simple HR-related tasks. We also automate complex processes, like using Document Understanding and machine learning to extract vendor contract information and input it into our procurement system.
How has it helped my organization?
Many applications don't have built-in APIs, and some repetitive processes require a lot of staff to perform. We try to identify those processes and automate them. At the end of the day, it's about how quickly a particular process can be implemented, what kind of ROI we can realize, and the speed of completing the process.
These processes take forever if you're doing it manually. For example, let's take something as simple as hiring. Evaluating a candidate probably takes 30 to 45 minutes to complete all the steps, and large organizations are constantly hiring. Another challenge is the number of staff you have. By automating using robots, you can reduce the number of people you need to hire and complete the work much faster. It also helps resolve turnover. You can run the automation 24/7, and robots don't take vacations, so things happen faster.
Another benefit is SLA compliance. We have SLAs to meet for data, and we need to complete some tasks within 48 or 72 hours. Automation helps us meet those targets by completing jobs faster. UiPath frees staff to work on other tasks. Just one process that we use for hiring has easily freed two or three people. Now, they're doing tasks that require human intelligence and knowledge.
What is most valuable?
Any solution, such as Power Automate, can do traditional RPA functions, but UiPath's Document Understanding sets it apart. The document understanding feature can handle a significant amount of handwritten notes and efficiently extract information. While there is a human-in-the-loop component for validation, it is still faster than manually extracting information.
What needs improvement?
My biggest problem is that UiPath is growing so fast and adding integration with so many different products that it's hard to keep up. The COEs at various companies and our developers aren't able to keep pace with what's happening. It's a good problem to have. I'm not complaining, but there are so many features and little time for developers to learn and implement them.
If you need something new like a CICD pipeline or somebody for a test suite or to work with Document Understanding, you can't use our existing staff because they don't have the skills. Now, I need to go out and hire more people. I need to reduce the company's size to save money but also spend more to hire.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used UiPath for about seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not encountered any stability issues with UiPath. The cloud-based deployment has been stable, and we have not experienced any unexpected robot shutdowns. Issues tend to arise from other SaaS applications rather than UiPath.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath has been able to scale effectively as our organization grows. Scaling with UiPath has been easy and efficient.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service has always been good. However, it takes longer to reach support now than it did four to five years ago, this can be attributed to their increased customer base.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
At my current organization, we didn't use a different solution before UiPath. However, I have previous experience with Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. Despite using a partner, we managed most of the work in-house due to my previous experience with UiPath.
What about the implementation team?
We worked with a partner for the implementation. Although the partner helped, we managed most of the work ourselves to tailor the solution to our needs.
What was our ROI?
When you start a program, it takes a while to reach the point where you achieve an ROI. Still, if you're not seeing an ROI with UiPath by the second year, you're doing it wrong. We are doing that right now.
We've found a lot of processes working across different teams and departments. We spoke to the leads of various COEs and found processes that would realize the highest ROI or SLA compliance. A department might have only one or two procurement processes, but they are sizeable. Automating those will help you achieve an ROI faster.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath isn't cheap, but it's priced competitively with other automation solutions, and it offers more resources.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I was not part of the organization during the evaluation phase, but I know they chose UiPath because it was easier to set up with comparable costs to other solutions, more resources available, and robust training material for basic RPA functions. It's easier to train people to perform basic RPA functions.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath nine out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Solutions Head of Software at Raya Integration
Handles integrations and complex business processes very well
Pros and Cons
- "The most important features of the UiPath Platform are the UI automation capabilities and Document Understanding."
- "I would rate UiPath Platform a nine out of ten."
- "UiPath Platform is doing a good job with enhancements; they are releasing new features almost every six months. However, I would recommend that they improve their ability to be a low-code, no-code platform, as this would be a great feature for their platform."
- "They need to work on improving their response time for open tickets and handling complex support cases, as I have seen some cases take a very long time to troubleshoot and get to the source of the problems."
What is our primary use case?
Clients usually use UiPath Platform for the automation of use cases in departments like HR, Finance, and IT support.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath Platform can handle very complex processes. We have implemented various complex use cases using UiPath, and they are performing very well.
UiPath Platform integrates with several systems, whether they are ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP, as well as other systems.
UiPath Platform utilizes AI features. They recently released a new platform called Agentic Automation, which exposes AI and RPA in one platform, making it something fresh and new.
What is most valuable?
The most important features of the UiPath Platform are the UI automation capabilities and Document Understanding.
What needs improvement?
UiPath Platform is doing a good job with enhancements; they are releasing new features almost every six months. However, I would recommend that they improve their ability to be a low-code, no-code platform, as this would be a great feature for their platform.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with UiPath Platform for about six years.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate UiPath Platform's support a seven out of ten. They need to work on improving their response time for open tickets and handling complex support cases, as I have seen some cases take a very long time to troubleshoot and get to the source of the problems. Therefore, they need to improve their response time as well as increase the teams in their support team, especially when handling complex support cases.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
Deploying UiPath Platform takes a couple of weeks.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of UiPath Platform in the Middle East region is a little bit high; having a lower price for the Middle East region would make it more attractive.
It suits big enterprise customers. However, if the customer is of medium to smaller size, UiPath Platform may not be a suitable choice.
It is an expensive tool. When compared to competition, such as Microsoft's Power Automate platform or IBM Cloud Pak, UiPath is expensive. Both of them are much lower in terms of pricing than the UiPath Platform, so they need to consider this in the enterprise scheme.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath Platform a nine out of ten.
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Business Analyst at North Easton Savings Bank
Improved our operational efficiency, enabling us to grow our assets without increasing headcount
Pros and Cons
- "We like UiPath's integration with the ARIA framework and Orchestrator we use to manage our automations. The Copilot also helps us streamline the development process."
- "There could be better documentation for Copilot, and UiPath could provide solution design documents as part of the training."
What is our primary use case?
We're a bank, so we primarily use UiPath to automate tasks such as filling out Excel sheets, organizing PDF files into folders, and reconciling rejected checks and chargebacks.
We prioritize use cases by meeting with each business unit to operational challenges that they would like to solve through automation. They walk us through the process they want to be automated, and we prioritize the requests based on potential hours saved and the automation difficulty.
The business units don't interact with the bots much. We get requests via email, and our Center of Excellence develops and maintains all the bots.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath helps us improve operational efficiency. We want to grow our bank by increasing the number of accounts without adding more employees. Our headcount hasn't increased in the last four years while our assets have grown tremendously. By automating data entry and other monotonous tasks, UiPath has improved employees' sense of job fulfillment. It frees them up to work on more challenging tasks and work on new skills.
What is most valuable?
We like UiPath's integration with the ARIA framework and Orchestrator we use to manage our automations. The Copilot also helps us streamline the development process.
What needs improvement?
There could be better documentation for Copilot, and UiPath could provide solution design documents as part of the training.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used UiPath since 2021.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven't had any issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath scales well with our environment.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath customer service eight out of 10. I had one issue where they pointed me in the right direction but didn't fully resolve it.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We've done some simple tasks with homegrown automation that UiPath could handle, but we opted to build the processes with tools we already had.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup involved using a UiPath partner, which significantly facilitated our production and deployment environments.
What was our ROI?
We've saved about 2,500 hours annually with UiPath.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm not responsible for the budget, but I know that UiPath is more expensive than its competitors.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
IS at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We have realized productivity increases, financial savings, error reductions, and streamlining of many processes
Pros and Cons
- "RPA is always good, and UiPath's Document Understanding is interesting. We used the old model, but the new modern Document Understanding is much easier."
- "The pricing is very expensive, making it challenging to continue using UiPath when competitors like Microsoft offer cheaper alternatives like Power Automate."
What is our primary use case?
We use AI mainly around sales processing and document understanding. Our current use cases involve traditional automation, processing different orders, order formats, languages, and language translation, and creating actual orders in any ERP solution.
We've done a Communications Mining POC, and we think that's promising, but we haven't used UiPath's process mining because we have another solution for that.
How has it helped my organization?
We were already using a competing automation platform when we implemented UiPath. UiPath is a more cloud-based solution. We're biotech regulators, so we're trying to adopt new innovations as quickly as they are released. Regarding challenges, we're trying to simplify and automate processes to achieve a higher value and make problem-solving more seamless.
We engage our employees in automation in two ways. At the enterprise level, it's more about making it easy for there to be a centralized intake of opportunities and focus on the value of what comes through. Citizen automation is about empowering and training them on how to use it so they can build more.
Our organization has experienced productivity increases, financial savings, error reductions, and streamlining of many processes in finance and accounting with UiPath automation. It has helped free up staff time so that they can focus on more value-added work, and when automations don't function as expected, employees can be upset because they don't want to return to previous manual methods.
I don't know about shareholders, but employees who learn to build automation can do more value-added work. It makes them happy. Customers within the company can have people in their teams spend their time on more value-added work, and they have better transparency.
What is most valuable?
RPA is always good, and UiPath's Document Understanding is interesting. We used the old model, but the new modern Document Understanding is much easier.
What needs improvement?
UiPath could offer better support for operations. It has all these cool features, but when you still need to build and run these bots. You need to have more features that make it easier to run bots, and they require fewer people to maintain.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used UiPath since 2020, so it has been nearly four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable, with, for example, only a thirty-minute outage in three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable, but successful scalability depends on how you build automations.
How are customer service and support?
We have premium support, which provides excellent customer service. Our technical account manager is amazing, and that's one reason we keep paying for premium support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Automation Anywhere and switched to UiPath because it was easier for developers to use and could integrate with more products.
How was the initial setup?
It was complex because UiPath didn't have a biotech-specific offering. We were the first biotech company to use this, so we had to develop a product that would work for companies under regulation. We needed something called delayering. We had to educate UiPath on what it means to do this for health care and biotech.
What was our ROI?
UiPath helped us save around 500,000 thousand hours. Over our entire automation journey, that amounts to an estimated $25 million worth of productivity hours.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is very expensive, making it challenging to continue using UiPath when competitors like Microsoft offer cheaper alternatives like Power Automate. Why continue to use UiPath when you're paying three to five times more?
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Program Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Computer Vision helps us read and process handwritten documentation
Pros and Cons
- "Computer Vision helps us read and process handwritten documentation. That will be incredibly important. The unique thing about UiPath is the robustness of the Academy that's built into it."
- "UiPath could be more intuitive in how it formats strings, variables, or databases. This can sometimes be difficult, even for someone with a computer science background. Additionally, some tasks require a team effort as one person can get overwhelmed or discouraged."
What is our primary use case?
One of our simpler UiPath use cases involves running an SQL query, copying the results into a spreadsheet, and then emailing them to the appropriate people.
We also have a third-party system for parking at the hospital. Visitors need to fill out a web form, and the automation process kicks in once the web form is filled out. The data is input into a database and then automatically processed in bundles. The form is filled out automatically for them, and it batches every thirty minutes.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath helps us automate many tasks people do daily that they don't want to do. They can spend that time on tasks that humans are better at, such as being creative and thoughtful instead of copying down information, filling up databases, making spreadsheets, sending emails, etc. I have one automation that normally takes me about four hours to do.
Automating certain tasks can potentially save employees approximately 60 hours per week. This was particularly true in our parking pass processing. People used to get overwhelmed with that task, so automating it saves significant time.
What is most valuable?
Computer Vision helps us read and process handwritten documentation. That will be incredibly important. The unique aspect about UiPath is the robustness of the Academy that's built into it.
What needs improvement?
UiPath could be more intuitive in how it formats strings, variables, or databases. This can sometimes be difficult, even for someone with a computer science background. Additionally, some tasks require a team effort as one person can get overwhelmed or discouraged.
For how long have I used the solution?
We are only about a month or a month and a half into using the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is generally good, but it can't really be driven without support for prolonged use.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scaling UiPath is easy. You just purchase more bots.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used Power Automate and a proof of concept for Automation Viewer, but we decided to switch to UiPath because it has a better deployment model. We use the Orchestrator. It's a server that we can add our robots to and configure them.
UiPath is good at handling the sequential flow of processes. The way it breaks down sequencing is commendable. It was shocking how disorganized some of the other solutions we reviewed were.
What was our ROI?
We are seeing a good return on investment potential, but we haven't fully realized it yet since we are only a month and a half in.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Student at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Allows referencing specific objects on the screen and offers good capabilities for desktop flows
Pros and Cons
- "I like the way that I can reference specific objects on the screen, like a specific text box, and add a value to it. The capability that UiPath has to recognize elements on the screen is what I found most useful at that time."
- "I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten."
- "UiPath should be less sensitive to changes in the existing UI of the system we are trying to manipulate. If it was more intelligent in adapting to changes in the user interface and the tools we are trying to manipulate, it would be beneficial."
What is our primary use case?
I have used UiPath for very few projects. My go-to tool when it comes to automation is Power Automate. The reason for that is that I work in the Microsoft 365 environment, so Power Automate is better connected than UiPath.
With UiPath, I helped some organizations in my company automate tasks like data entry into systems such as SAP.
How has it helped my organization?
I like UiPath. I enjoy working on UiPath. It has a lot of different features to control, especially related to desktop flows. I helped some organizations in my company automate tasks like data entry into systems such as SAP. They had Excel files, and all that data needed to be input on standard screens in SAP. It was taking a fair amount of time to do it by hand. We created a flow that transfers all that data, interacting with the screens in SAP, and uploads that information where another alternative, like an API or mass upload tool, was not available.
It is pretty easy to build automation in UiPath. We could easily implement end-to-end automation. I was consulting a group within my company. I was helping them build the flow. For them, it was a game changer because they would have spent several man-hours trying to transfer all that data into SAP, creating all those SAP items. After that, they were not only able to complete the task at hand; they were also able to replicate and create more automations on their own because they knew how UiPath works. They learned a little bit more and were able to continue to expand the other processes they had.
We were able to realize its benefits quickly. It took us a couple of weeks to finalize the flow, but once it was built, we were able to start seeing the benefits. It definitely saved time.
What is most valuable?
I like the way that I can reference specific objects on the screen, like a specific text box, and add a value to it. The capability that UiPath has to recognize elements on the screen is what I found most useful at that time.
UiPath has a lot of courses for easy learning. There were several courses that I offered to the organization I was helping. I myself went through several online resources that UiPath offers to figure out things.
What needs improvement?
UiPath should be less sensitive to changes in the existing UI of the system we are trying to manipulate. If it was more intelligent in adapting to changes in the user interface and the tools we are trying to manipulate, it would be beneficial. If the UI changes or a label is changed, sometimes the whole flow breaks. Identifying where the flow breaks requires going into edit mode and making modifications. It might be quite extensive work with the new, updated UI.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath here and there for at least two years. It is a part of the solutions that my company offers, but I have not used UiPath as much as Power Automate.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It performs well. I do not see any issues there.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I use Power Automate on a daily basis.
How was the initial setup?
It was easy. It took us about a few weeks for ideation, selecting UiPath as a tool, getting everything set up, building the flow, and testing.
In terms of maintenance, users continually review and upgrade their flows. They can reuse the existing flows to create new ones.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not familiar with the pricing. I worked for an organization where the UiPath was available, so I do not know what the pricing is.
What other advice do I have?
It was through an internal community that I connected with the organization for which I did the automation, and that is a great advantage. They were looking for people to help create automation. I was curious about UiPath, and I wanted to learn. I raised my hand to build that for them. An external community or a learning community is something that has proven its value by creating synergies between people who do not know and people who already know a little bit, allowing them to get together and grow.
In my opinion, RPA solutions are alternatives to digital transformation. Digital transformation is a big project. When you do not have access to those big budgets or the structure to get into new capabilities on an existing system or implement a future system, that is when you go to RPA to supplement the digital transformation. If the use case is not eligible for the big capital investment or the big project investment, you go through the route of RPA.
I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Software Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I am incredibly impressed with the pace of new features that have come out
Pros and Cons
- "UiPath's Object Repository was huge. I could build these libraries because our industry works with many of the same systems. It's hard to integrate with Yardi's core CRM, and many of our automation efforts focus on getting information in and out of that system. The ability to build these libraries of reusable selectors has dramatically benefited me over the past couple of years."
- "The messages and alerts that Orchestrator generates are a little overwhelming. I'd like them to be filtered down to the most actionable things I need to look at. For many things, we set up an automation that will send an email summarizing things to the stakeholders for the automation. With any of these types of things, you're generating notices, emails, and things, so you want to focus on some things that need your attention."
What is our primary use case?
I currently work for a data center company serving real estate clients. Our primary use case for UiPath involves large-scale automation using Document Understanding to process invoices.
I have two models running. One is for our general invoices, including everything we pay for people coming on-site at all data centers worldwide. There's a separate model for utilities. Accuracy in our utilities spending is crucial for our data center business, where power costs are passed on to customers.
Currently, we still use traditional machine learning from when we initially developed these models three years ago. However, we are creating a company strategy to implement GenAI and deal with the legal implications. GenAI is something we're considering as an enhancement to our document processing and data collection. We're still trying to figure out how that happened. We're figuring out which documents and data to include in an internal model and draw conclusions from.
When working with data, our top priority is ensuring that the data is updated, accurate, and well-maintained. There's a structure involved because a ton of our information is in SharePoint, which is a mess. We have two SharePoint sites for every employee.
How has it helped my organization?
Some large-scale invoice-related tasks were overwhelming our existing processes and attempts to handle them manually. We are in the data center industry and dealing with all these technology companies, but many processes in the real estate business are a bit more outdated. Many of our people are comfortable working in Excel, and some teams are highly siloed. One significant challenge I've faced as a UiPath developer is acting as an evangelist within the company. We want to demonstrate the platform's capabilities and get buy-in from these different teams across the enterprise to raise the level of what we're trying to do.
UiPath has been helpful with that first step of getting the information off the invoice. I've been learning and expanding my skill set on the workflow side. Many of our automations have a workflow with a human in the loop doing manual review. I look forward to automating between different departments, and that's one thing I want to develop at this conference.
We used to bring on seasonal contractors during peak seasons, and now we no longer need to do that because the existing staff have more capability. That was a big thing when we started. Our accounting team was so busy for the two weeks before and the one week after closing. There was a tiny window when they could engage with any process improvement or look ahead at what we could change because they were so busy keeping up with how things work. We've freed up these people who are intimately familiar with our business and give them more time to apply that knowledge instead of filling out forms.
We were processing about 2,000 invoices a month when I started. Now we're up to about three thousand. It took about 15 minutes per invoice to process because there were so many different elements. Working with Yardi is challenging. There was a big issue with getting these into Yardi and uploading them in batches. If one invoice in the batch failed, it would kick them all out. We spent all this extra effort troubleshooting and doing all of this.
Now, the bot can execute this work and upload them individually. If there's a single error, it can be isolated and kicked out as an exception. Someone can manually review it, and the bot can keep putting the rest of the invoices into the system. We've also had a great ROI on the monthly reporting. We generated reports from around 50 sites every week and then distributed them to a long list of different people on different projects. It's straightforward to do and only requires 10 clicks for each report, but it saves massive amounts of time for people. Now, all I need to do is maintain a list of who should get the emails and what projects need reports to run.
I love developing automations. I often directly help people by improving the part of their job that is time-consuming and dull. In addition to saving time, we reduce errors caused by manually typing things in. I've demonstrated that in different departments at our company.
We won an award for our ESG efforts. I developed an automation to help us report our ESG metrics because all of these customers want reports to give their shareholders about green initiatives. We wanted to take all the data on energy reductions in data centers and distribute it to each of our customers. We had a very complex template that we wanted to iterate on until we delivered the report. I developed a bot that could generate the source data and template of these files for our customers by data center and aggregate them.
Before I joined the company, they had no automation solution. They tried to do this with mail merge, which struggled because of the variability across our sites. We wanted to achieve greater complexity and offer this table of information when it's available or update it when the final file we're generating varies significantly. We wanted to be able to convert a Word doc into PDF format and aggregate all of those different PDFs at the site level and aggregate those per customer.
What is most valuable?
UiPath's Object Repository was huge. I could build these libraries because our industry works with many of the same systems. It's hard to integrate with Yardi's core CRM, and many of our automation efforts focus on getting information in and out of that system. The ability to build these libraries of reusable selectors has dramatically benefited me over the past couple of years.
I'm excited about all the new stuff around document understanding because I think that is a large area. We can continue expanding and delivering large-scale automations.
What needs improvement?
The messages and alerts that Orchestrator generates are a little overwhelming. I'd like them to be filtered down to the most actionable things I need to look at. For many things, we set up an automation that will send an email summarizing things to the stakeholders for the automation. With any of these types of things, you're generating notices, emails, and things, so you want to focus on some things that need your attention.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using UiPath while interning and pursuing an MBA. I've always been a huge fan of Excel, Visual Basic, and automation in general. I've been in my current role for about three and a half years, but I began tinkering with UiPath for a couple of years before that.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not experienced any performance or uptime issues with UiPath.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In my current role, it's been challenging to demonstrate the need to grow and bring on more developers. We're processing a high volume of invoices, but the rest of the business has around 200 employees. We have large capital expenditures building these data centers but not a high volume of back office processes.
I have not necessarily been able to evaluate what it would look like to grow with 20 automations. We could keep a steady pace of new smaller-scale processes and look for new large-scale opportunities, especially with some of these new technologies. However, I don't think we'll be a large enough business to need these massive deployments.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath support 10 out of 10. I have submitted tickets periodically for a specific issue, or when I'm trying to solve a new problem, I haven't faced before. I am the only UiPath-focused employee at my company. I can work on iterating, researching, and troubleshooting.
I've always been able to put in a ticket and get on a call with some people. They're able to connect me with someone and help me understand either the problem I'm facing or the fact that we've been able to have more calls recently about new potential. The online community is also an excellent resource for finding ways to approach and solve problems. Their support has been great.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to UiPath, there was no different solution implemented at my current company. At a previous company, we conducted a comparison between Automation Anywhere and UiPath and opted for UiPath due to its greater flexibility, capabilities, and entry offerings. At the start of my career, UiPath was one of the first to offer free online training and a lower entry point for businesses just starting out.
Automation Anywhere followed suit. While reviewing them, I built the same process in both systems and presented it to our executives. Automation Anywhere seemed focused on the financial industry. It had some excellent features if that's what you were what you cared about, but I greatly preferred the UiPath's general flexibility, capabilities, and breadth of integration. I've done some small-scale things with Microsoft Power Automate. That tool is hard to work with. They try to make it easy for non-technical people, but it means that I have a hell of a time trying to get it to do what I want.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward, and it was conducted in-house. We host our own virtual machines for running automations and we are a cloud customer.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was done in-house.
What was our ROI?
We've seen the greatest ROI from large-scale invoice processing, but small-scale operations have had great returns. Before automation, we were processing 3,000 invoices monthly, which took 15 minutes each. It still requires time to review them in the Action Center manually.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath's pricing and licensing have been reasonable and manageable for us. Despite challenges in constantly monitoring SharePoint folders, UiPath has worked well within our resources. We have a fully dedicated, unattended license for our invoice processing, which needs to be a top priority and is always running throughout the day. We have another one for all of our other scheduled automations, and we've been pleased with that so far.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath 10 out of 10. I'm incredibly impressed with the pace of new features that have come out. I have been working with UiPath for six years since I graduated college, and I'm blown away by what's coming out every year.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Project Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Improves efficiency and decreases costs with robust automation
Pros and Cons
- "UiPath Platform helps save time, increase performance, and decrease human errors."
- "The support process of UiPath Platform can be improved. When we get stuck somewhere and need help from UiPath people, it takes considerable time to receive assistance."
What is our primary use case?
We use UiPath Platform for automation. We implemented automation across departments with this solution. We use robots to automate a process.
We handle both attended and unattended automation with UiPath Platform. We do not use any AI integration features in UiPath Platform.
What is most valuable?
UiPath Platform is easy to use, and the user interaction is good.
UiPath Platform allows for code-free use, but I mostly write code.
What needs improvement?
The support process of UiPath Platform can be improved. When we get stuck somewhere and need help from UiPath people, it takes considerable time to receive assistance.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have worked with UiPath Platform for around two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not experienced any stability issues with UiPath Platform.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of UiPath Platform is good. We deployed the automation in departments, which helped us save resources, money, and improve quality.
How are customer service and support?
The support needs improvement.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I also worked with Blue Prism. When comparing UiPath Platform to Blue Prism, the main difference is the user-friendly aspect. UiPath Platform is easier to use.
What was our ROI?
UiPath Platform helps save time, increase performance, and decrease human errors. While quality is not always accurate, time and money savings are significant.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath Platform is a cost-effective tool.
What other advice do I have?
In terms of the learning curve, it was initially difficult but became manageable once we learned the tool and started working with it. It takes some time and effort in the beginning, and then you get the results. It saves a lot of time and also reduces costs.
I would rate UiPath Platform an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Manager, Information Technology (Intelligent Automation) at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Valuable testing features for easier QA but better documentation is needed
Pros and Cons
- "UiPath has been pretty stable since we are mostly on-premises."
- "The product documentation needs improvement as it tends to be self-contradictory and sometimes hard to access since we are on an older version."
What is our primary use case?
We are primarily looking to solve business challenges related to processing unstructured documents.
How has it helped my organization?
Currently, we have not realized the business outcomes as we have not implemented the solution yet. The goal is to increase efficiency, throughput, and accuracy. UiPath AI and automation have not yet helped free up staff to work on other projects or tasks. In terms of environmental, social, and governance solutions, it is not applicable.
What is most valuable?
The Studio and the Test Manager have been valuable as they made testing with QA easier. We've been able to rerun numerous test cases quickly. From the UiPath platform overall, I find these features valuable.
What needs improvement?
The product documentation needs improvement as it tends to be self-contradictory and sometimes hard to access since we are on an older version.
There is also a need for more consistency in product support and customer service.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath has been pretty stable since we are mostly on-premises. However, the stability is to be determined when we move our full infrastructure to the cloud. Outages could occur with SaaS solutions.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It has scaled with us efficiently despite the initial complexity in understanding licenses, runtimes, and utilization. No significant issues have been encountered yet.
How are customer service and support?
There have been ebbs and flows with customer service. We are at Premium Plus, now called Enterprise Success. Initially, there wasn't much value, but there has been some improvement. Dedicated support provides more assistance and better outcomes.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I'm familiar with Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, each of which offer different pros and cons. UiPath, being the market leader, differentiates itself with its capabilities and portfolio. It is easy to use from day one, flexible, and their vision is helpful.
What was our ROI?
I can't provide specifics as to ROI. That said, in general, we achieve financial benefits and a positive ROI on our implementations most years.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing and licensing are challenging as they can be difficult to understand. They make it hard to determine utilization and necessary licenses for runtimes. Comprehensive components need to come together for a clear picture, making renewals and contract negotiations complex.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have considered Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism as alternate solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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very relatable points, especially about the library versioning issues across different Studios. We've run into similar things on our end. Good to know it's not just us!.Also agree the community forum could use more active moderation.