I'd say our finance applications, like accounts payable, have been our biggest use cases for this solution.
Project Manager at MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
Gives us the ability to have an agile development group to do automation without relying on IT but we've had issues with stability
Pros and Cons
- "The ability to automate processes allows the opportunity to allocate resources differently."
- "The bots do not seem stable and we spend a lot of time fixing things that break."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I would say just the ability to be able to go outside of the IT department in our organization to get things done and have a sort of agile group to do automation. It is difficult to get IT involved in this type of thing in our organization. So being able to have our own agile group is beneficial for us.
Another thing that is valuable is that I think it's just saved a lot of our finance and customer service people a lot of manual time on processes. We are just able to involve a lot more value-added work.
What needs improvement?
I really liked the insights dashboard. I guess that there is an additional fee for that. Being able to see your return on investment in real-time is definitely beneficial. We spend a lot of time manually calculating how many hours we saved and that would make it a lot easier. The improvement I want is already there. I have to look into implementing it.
The area of the solution that has room for improvement is the stability of the bots. It just seems like we have spent a lot of time trying to fix bots that are down and whether that is our coding or the product. I think there must be a better way to diagnose the issues and avoid them.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
On a scale from one to five, five being the most stable, I would rate the stability of the UiPath platform as a three. We've had a lot of issues with bot stability. I don't know if it is how we go about development or if it is the platform itself, but we spend too much time trying to fix all the bots that seem to be breaking.
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How are customer service and support?
I have not used technical support personally but our IT group has. Everything I have heard about the customer services group has been positive.
I have used the UiPath Academy RPA training. On a scale from one to five where one is the least beneficial and five is the most, I would rate the UiPath Academy as a four out of five. I'm not an IT person, so would have given it a five if I was. Parts of the training may have been more advanced than I expected.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We had a lot of archaic processes in our company — a lot of paper-based processes — so we knew we needed a better solution. That meant we had to work through a lot of processes and re-engineer what we were doing. We knew that we needed to move in the direction of automation because the processes were just not sustainable. We had processes but we did not actually have an automation solution until we started using UiPath.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for the product was something I found to be a bit complicated. At least the first couple were pretty complicated. It was just that we were all new to the technology and we didn't really know necessarily what we were doing. It is getting better. From the time we purchased the UiPath license until we had your first robot in production, I think we took about three months.
What about the implementation team?
We did you use an integrator. It was EY Technologies (Ernest & Young). They helped us out a lot and our experience with them was good.
What was our ROI?
We have certainly seen a return on investment. As far as how many months it took to see real value, I think we just crossed that threshold. So it was about twelve months in total. We have probably saved — just at our platform — around $100,000. The solution has also helped to eliminate human errors with a couple of the bots that we've deployed for sure. It has also saved our organization time. If I had to estimate, I'd say probably 8,000 hours a year so far.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We looked at Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and UiPath. We kind of landed on UiPath because it just seemed like it was a little easier to navigate than the other ones from a user experience.
What other advice do I have?
Currently, we do not run any of our bots in a virtual environment and we use only untended bots so far. Either of those situations could change at any time. We have a couple of processes that we are looking at for attended processes, but we haven't implemented any yet.
We have about five people involved directly in the initiative. On a scale from one to five where one is very difficult and five is very easy, I would rate the ease of use the platform for automating as a four. It is a four because I would say it takes a little time to kind of get up and rolling for a developer, but it is not too bad.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product a seven. We have just had some issues with keeping bots up and running. I feel like the issue is the learning curve.
The advice I would give to a colleague at another company who is researching this solution is to just do it. Make sure you know what processes you are going to want to automate. If you need to do standardized anything in the processes, do that on the front end in the planning stages versus kind of chasing your tail on the back end.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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RPA Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Recording tools enable the capture of user actions on the screen and then the recordings can be converted into workflow sequences
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use for this product is to automate processes that we are capable of automating at our tier-one level human resources center.
How has it helped my organization?
This product has improved the way the organization functions by helping us go through a digital transformation. RPA is able to bridge a lot of the gaps that we had in our processes and processing what we had before we moved to this platform as a solution. With a little effort, I was able to bridge those gaps and automate a lot of processes that were manual and less efficient prior to involving the product.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features for us are the recording tools. They allow the capture of user actions on the screen and then the recordings can be converted into workflow sequences. The activities are very simple to use and easy to put together in order to automate the processes. Once we get Orchestrator, that feature will probably be the most valuable, but we are currently not able to put it into production.
What needs improvement?
As far as additional features, there doesn't seem to be anything outstanding that I can think of right now. Maybe some off-the-shelf "How To" features could be installed with Studio so that you can search for how to do something and pull it up directly in the Academy or on-screen without leaving the product.
There could be room for improvement in the ticketing feature. It's kind of hard to find that feature sometimes.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
On a scale from one to five, where one is the least stable and five is the most stable, I would rate the stability of UiPath as a five. It is very stable. We have never had any issues with regards to UiPath. The actual problems seem to be network issues and our environment.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We started out sort of small in the beginning and we've invested more in buying licenses and functionality. The scalability in that way seems very good.
How are customer service and technical support?
My experience with customer service has been very good. They make a few different types of resources available and it is usually pretty easy to find what you are looking for. For example, I have used the RPA Academy. It is pretty easy and it was very beneficial. I haven't really opted for using customer support or technical support much. I've been able to just call, text, or email somebody and get a solution.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
There were really no automated processes when I first came on to work at this organization. When we made the decision to go in this direction, we made a comparison of products to solve the automation issue. What made us choose UiPath to automate our processes was price, availability, ease of use and customer services. They were also willing to be the quickest to work with us as well. It seemed to be the best mix of all these.
We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because, where I'm working, we had 600 or 700 processes that I knew could benefit from automation. As an industry and in total, we probably have thousands of processes that could benefit from and be improved by automation. Coming into the company and seeing how things were done just made it obvious that automation was missing but necessary. Government processes need to be automated to be more efficient because of the volume and the potential for human error.
How was the initial setup?
I would describe our initial setup as complicated because of our industry. We never worked with software like this prior to implementing UiPath. Just to get permissions to use the product on our network was one obstacle. It wasn't always easy to get to ATO (Authority to Operate) and get the capabilities and rights to do certain things on the network like to have the product interact with certain programs that have sensitive information. It's kind of complicated, but that is a whole new path within our industry whenever introducing new technology.
From the time of purchase of the UiPath license until adding our first robot in production was a few months. We purchased a license in February and got a robot into production in May. Most of that time spent was because working on the project is not even my full-time job. I have a whole different responsibility in the organization. So, I was doing a lot of developing in my free time. It probably would have only taken a month or so if I was doing it full time.
What about the implementation team?
We did not use an integrator, reseller or consultant. I did everything in-house.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment and performance benefits. The ability to notice a difference was almost immediate for certain things and in certain programs. I know that I've calculated that we saved $1.47 million through the automation we have already set in place. The solution also helped eliminate human errors which are more difficult to approximate as a dollar value or percentage.
Basically, using the product has allowed us to take between four to six full-time employees from doing very mundane transactional processes to doing more value-added work. That shift alone reduces human error because the human mind is not made to do this kind of transactional work over hours and days at a time.
This solution saves our organization time on an ongoing basis. I would say it saves a minute to three minutes per transaction per thousands of transactions. It certainly has value in more than one way.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We license the use of the product on a yearly basis. The licensing we bought costs $7000 in 2019 for what we have in production. That is the cost of the license plus Studio.
From a cost perspective, I believe that unattended robots can save even more time and more money than attended robots. The only reason we haven't gotten unattended processes into production yet is simply that we haven't got the authority to operate Orchestrator on our network server. The cost is not an issue given our budget, we need to be able to justify how secure it is.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The vendors who were on our shortlist were UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism. All of them seemed to be good solutions.
What other advice do I have?
We are currently running some of our automation in a virtual environment. The implementation performance is all right. Our system environments are pretty out of date and a bit technologically behind. Sometimes that fact will hold things up. I am the only one in the organization involved in the automation program. I'm the only developer and the only person who uses UiPath directly, but it affects thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
On a scale from one to five, one being the most difficult and five being the easiest, I would rate the ease of use of the platform as a five. Personally, I had no developer experience. I never heard of RPAs or UiPath a year ago. I was able to learn it and figure it out using the Academy, YouTube and the forum. Coming to it cold and doing it part-time, that really doesn't seem like a long time.
On a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as a ten overall. It has been completely helpful in achieving the goals we set for it and the technical help and customer service I've gotten have been good. Most of the issues we have encountered with the product are because of the way we operate and not because of UiPath. The support from UiPath provided everything we have ever asked for and needed.
The advice I would give to a colleague at another company who is researching this or a similar automation solution is to just do it. It really creates the opportunity to make things more efficient.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Helps to eliminate human errors and helps to save us time
Pros and Cons
- "All of the features are valuable. I think the best feature for Russian government customers is security. Security in Orchestration for requiring credentials. Our customer are usually serious about security."
- "I would like to see more AI features with data classification and computer reason. I think it would be great to have more features in full monitoring robots."
What is our primary use case?
We use all of the UiPath products: UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, attended robots, and unattended. Primarily, we use them for financial liquidation. Our customers frequently use it for different cases. Some use it with chatbots.
Sometimes, our customers run automations in a virtual environment. In terms of implementing UiPath within a virtual environment, UiPath staff are working on the cost. Currently we have UiPath with a Citrix client and you need to go to the Citrix virtual station to activate. It's more difficult to implement as a user.
Our customers' organizations have involved about 15 to 20 people in their automation programs.
How has it helped my organization?
I would rate its ease of use as about four out of five. It's not so easy, but it's also not difficult. We have a great UiPath Academy and it's really useful and helpful. Sometimes we need to do difficult operations and use other frameworks, through activities in UiPath. I think this mechanism is very nice, but in implementation, the customers are pretty close. Sometimes we must do it.
This solution helps to eliminate human errors. The amount depends on the process and the customer. Even unattended robots don't provide 100% automation. Sometimes a robot interrupts and waits for a human to make a decision. There is a process when unattended robots do fewer steps and after ten interruptions are waiting for a human to go on. I would say there is about a 70% reduction in human errors when using an unattended robot.
UiPath also helps save time. One unattended robot works 24 hours a day because a robot doesn't get ill or need to sleep.
What is most valuable?
All of the features are valuable. I think the best feature for Russian government customers is security. Security in Orchestration for requiring credentials. Our customers are usually serious about security.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see more AI features with data classification and computer reason. I think it would be great to have more features in full monitoring robots.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate their stability as four out of five.
In cases of high scalability when we have one process and many of us use that process, we sometimes have problems. When one process uses about 24 robots for 24 hours, we have problems with it. I think when many robots work at the same time, something goes wrong in orchestrating tasks between robots.
How are customer service and technical support?
I am happy with the support. For me, it's okay.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup can sometimes be complicated, depending first of all on the environment, as well as the implementation strategy of the company. Too many processes or only one PoC could lead to a more difficult implementation. Sometimes, customers try to automate a lot of the big processes. When we try to automate the complete process, we understand with the customers how many FTEs you can get from it. Everything depends on the customer's requirements.
It takes about six months from the purchase of a UiPath license until our customers have their first robot in production.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
UiPath is a data mining solution. Our company tries to explain why RPAs are useful.
I don't know which other solutions our customers evaluate. Kofax might be one. Sometimes we work with a customer to make a decision about which platform to choose. Sometimes we do a PoC for Blue Prism. In the Russian market, there are two major vendors that are competing against each other: Blue Prism and UiPath. Usually, customers go through a PoC to choose the best vendor. UiPath wins because you can automate more processes with it.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath as nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
Global Sales Director, Inside at Feat systems
Enhances customer success with advanced AI for seamless data handling
Pros and Cons
- "Customers find numerous features of UiPath valuable, including Document Understanding (DU) and AI functionalities."
- "Currently, there's a time lag in training, which eventually impacts the customers. All stakeholders should receive updates simultaneously."
What is our primary use case?
We have done work for customer success by collecting information from various sources such as email, IVR, and chat. Our solution performs classification, sentiment analysis using the AI of UiPath, and then data validation and posting. We've implemented this for one of the biggest banks in India.
How has it helped my organization?
Our admin team benefits from an internally created ticketing system, which offloads repetitive tasks and improves performance. This facilitates time savings and enhances overall satisfaction within the employee base.
What is most valuable?
Customers find numerous features of UiPath valuable, including Document Understanding (DU) and AI functionalities. They leverage it for repetitive tasks and beyond.
What needs improvement?
Customer education is crucial. Currently, there's a time lag in training, which eventually impacts the customers. All stakeholders should receive updates simultaneously.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been a UiPath partner for more than six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We face no major challenges regarding stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Investments in hardware are necessary for scalability, especially when dealing with AI and audio functionalities.
How are customer service and support?
The UiPath support team in India is excellent, offering professional services and tech support. I rate it eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We've been using UiPath from the beginning. We were also Automation Anywhere partners but decided to stick with UiPath.
What was our ROI?
While it's difficult to quantify precisely, we've observed a 10% to 20% cost savings.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing is high, affecting renewals significantly. Many small companies are hesitant due to the increased cost compared to past discounts.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath an eight out of ten.
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Flag as inappropriateRPA Developer at Mitgo solutions ltd
Helps to speed up digital transformation
Pros and Cons
- "UiPath is very easy to use. We are able to automate manual processes with bots, so the work gets done in a very short time."
- "On my organization laptop, while doing database activities, such as database connect activity, UiPath Studio hangs. We click on the screen, but there is no response. The only option that works at that time is to open the task manager and forcefully stop the services of UiPath. UiPath gets closed, and we again have to run UiPath Studio."
What is our primary use case?
I have worked on use cases for three domains, which include the banking, health care, and insurance domains, and designed bots for automating processes.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation. In my three years of experience, I have developed bots for banking, insurance, and healthcare domains.
UiPath is very easy to use. We are able to automate manual processes with bots, so the work gets done in a very short time. Manual work that takes months can be done in two or three weeks.
UiPath helps to speed up digital transformation. It is easy to use. It completely removes human intervention. We can develop unattended bots. It brings efficiency and also helps in reducing human headcount. After UiPath was launched in our organization, there was a reduction of 800 employees.
What is most valuable?
UiPath Studio and Orchestrator have been useful in designing the bots. I know about Document Understanding, but I am not working on integration services such as app integration. For building automation, a lot of activities are there. There is load taxonomy or taxonomy creation. After that, there is digitization, classification, and extraction. The validation part is also there. These are the steps for designing a bot using Document Understanding.
I have used UiPath Academy courses. I have done two courses. I did the UiPath Associate certification in 2021, and UiPath Advanced RPA Developer v1.0 certification in January 2023. I am currently preparing for the advanced UiARD certification. Through the UiPath Academy courses, I have learned a lot of things about queues, Orchestrator, advanced methods, etc. It is very good for learners.
What needs improvement?
On my organization laptop, while doing database activities, such as database connect activity, UiPath Studio hangs. We click on the screen, but there is no response. The only option that works at that time is to open the task manager and forcefully stop the services of UiPath. UiPath gets closed, and we again have to run UiPath Studio.
UiPath Studio is also slow during web scraping and screen scraping.
In terms of new features, UiPath already has many features, but its pricing can be better for small businesses.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with UiPath since December 2020. It has been three years since I have been working as an RPA developer.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We are an organization with about 1,300 employees, and we have 20 people working with UiPath.
How are customer service and support?
I have not used their support. When I have a problem in developing a bot, we use the UiPath community, and they provide me with a solution for the same.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have also used Blue Prism. UiPath is easy to understand. It is easier to develop and deploy bots in UiPath. In Blue Prism, there are some challenges related to how to create processes. In UiPath, there are many sections such as Control Panel, activity properties, or object repository. They provide a modern experience to the developers. It is better than Blue Prism.
How was the initial setup?
To deploy three projects, I had to install UiPath on the client's machine, and it took only one and a half days.
What about the implementation team?
We have two or three people for the deployment of projects. We have one person to deploy the code on a client machine. We also have a solution architect and a support team. The deployment requires only two or three days.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Small businesses do not have the budget to purchase the UiPath license. They should provide a cheaper license option for small businesses.
What other advice do I have?
It is a very good solution. There are various RPA solutions, but UiPath is currently the number one solution in India as well as outside of India.
I would rate UiPath a ten out of ten. I love this tool. It works very efficiently.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Country Director (Sri Lanka)/ Executive RPA Lead - Asia Region at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Multifeatured, with document understanding and AI capabilities, and a drag-and-drop, low code interface
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of UiPath is document understanding. AI is also a valuable feature, as that is the current trend, so it's one of the most essential features of UiPath."
- "What could be improved in UiPath is the release or update because my organization noticed that a few minor bugs occur from time to time, mainly on the development side. UiPath releases need to be improved."
What is our primary use case?
We generally use UiPath for invoice processing, finance-related processes, and other similar processes in the oil and gas industry, including government and child welfare use cases.
My organization also used UiPath to automate processes for a good cause, particularly for a US organization that was into child welfare and adoption, so that was one of the use cases: automation for a child adoption and child welfare organization.
What is most valuable?
To me, the most valuable feature of UiPath is document understanding.
AI is also a valuable feature, as that is the current trend, so it's one of the most essential features of UiPath.
I found it very easy to build automation through the solution, as it has a drag-and-drop interface. If you know the flow and understand the basics, you can easily build automation in UiPath. In simple terms, the solution has a low code interface.
My organization saw many positive outcomes from UiPath automation, mainly when it was applied to an organization in the US focused on child welfare and adoption.
The solution also enabled my organization to implement end-to-end automation. That is important because I would always prefer some end-to-end automation wherever possible, even with a bit of human touch in the loop. I find solutions that enable end-to-end automation, such as UiPath, great.
I found the UiPath user community valuable. I'm a very active member of that community, and one of the good things about it is that it's active and full of people helping each other learn and grow, even when people don't know each other. I learned a lot from the community to be who I am today.
My organization worked with one client with an on-prem environment, and UiPath still has a good platform for an on-premises setup. It's called the Automation Suite, particularly the latest version.
My team, including myself, took courses from the UiPath Academy, and I recommend the academy to anyone interested in learning RPA and understanding the basics of UiPath. Even for someone who needs some refresher or retraining, I would recommend UiPath Academy, as I find it one of the best places to learn.
My organization used several UiPath AI functionalities for automation, including document understanding, language understanding, and even generative AI, which has significantly helped.
I also like that the AI functionality of UiPath enabled my organization to automate more processes overall.
The solution helped speed up digital transformation, mainly because manual processes take up much time. Still, with UiPath, time and costs were drastically reduced, so I find the solution beneficial. It has also reduced human error in the organizations in which it was implemented and even freed up employee time. The amount of time freed up would depend on the use cases, but the time saved would be significant for a company with a lot of automation. UiPath also helps save costs, but it depends, so it would be difficult to determine a number or percentage.
What needs improvement?
What could be improved in UiPath is the release or update because my organization noticed that a few minor bugs occur from time to time, mainly on the development side. That is not a showstopper, but if the UiPath team could inform my organization ahead of time, that would reduce the need for developers to find a workaround for the bugs. UiPath releases need to be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using UiPath in 2019. I'm still using it.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability in UiPath is good, but this relates to the little bugs that my organization noticed in the community edition of the solution, not the enterprise version. Other than the minor bugs, stability-wise, UiPath is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath is a very scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
My experience with the UiPath support team is very good. The team was very helpful and supportive. The support team is an eight on a scale of one to ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before UiPath, I used Microsoft Power Automate and Blue Prism. Still, UiPath is more advanced when compared to the two tools, plus UiPath has a much broader scope, with over twenty products addressing different stages of the project lifecycle.
The AI or RPA and automation capabilities offered by UiPath are also quite good versus what Blue Prism and Microsoft Power Automate offer. UiPath is one of the leading tools in the market.
How was the initial setup?
Deploying UiPath in the cloud is easy because it only requires some configuration before use.
For on-premises deployment, you need to install specific applications to get the solution to work. Still, with the UiPath support team, you can easily do the on-premises deployment, so deployment isn't a big issue.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing for UiPath is OK, but it's a bit on the higher side, as the target audience is a bit different.
What other advice do I have?
UiPath is deployed differently for clients. Some have an on-premises deployment, while some deploy it on the cloud.
You don't need many people to deploy the solution because if you have the infrastructure, such as the database and the server, ready, one person who understands the infrastructure would be able to do it.
My rating for UiPath overall is a nine out of ten.
My organization is a partner of UiPath.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Senior RPA Developer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Excel automation and document understanding are valuable features, but the documentation portal is difficult to navigate
Pros and Cons
- "Most valuable is the document understanding feature of this current project, which is better than ABBYY FlexiCapture or Automation Anywhere."
- "I find the features UiPath provides to be excellent, but the documentation is difficult to maintain."
What is our primary use case?
We use a feature called Document Understanding to extract data from invoices and generate reports. It uses the invoice number, amount, line amount, description, addresses, remit address, and other fields. This is the current project I'm working on. I'm using all the features available in UiPath to train the invoices to identify all the fields. Then, I deploy the training, create a pipeline, and use that ML skill in my coding while developing a project.
We are doing this for our team talent payments team. They usually receive different invoices from vendors for various reasons. My company currently has 700 vendors listed. These vendors send invoices for their services, and the talent payment team used to fetch and extract the data manually before we started working on this project. Whenever they received an invoice, they would open it and write down the data.
We have now completed phase one of the project and are in phase two. For this process, the bot will receive all the invoices and extract all the data needed by the team. We will then create a consolidated report in Excel for each vendor and present it to the talent team. This automation saves the talent team time. In addition, I have used email automation, Excel automation, API calls, and UI automation in this project.
We deploy UiPath on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments depending on the organization's requirements.
How has it helped my organization?
Building automation using UiPath is really easy. Studio is a drag-and-drop environment with different palettes, search options, and simple properties, inputs, and outputs. It doesn't take much effort to develop a workflow in UiPath, even complex ones. UiPath also has recorders, so we can perform our actions and start recording before we perform them. UiPath will then develop the workflow for us based on our screen actions.
UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is important to me from an analytics perspective. It makes it easier for us to provide solutions to businesses, regardless of their requirements. With UiPath, we can keep manual interaction to a minimum, from providing input to getting output. UiPath apps and interactions also make it easier to automate processes. In the past, people would develop scripts to automate tasks, but they had to keep in mind that there would still be some manual work involved, such as preparing an input file. With UiPath, we can minimize this manual intervention and prerequisites. This is a significant advantage.
Everyone on our team uses the Academy Courses when they start using UiPath, and whenever a new feature is added, we search the course list for the updated courses. The biggest benefit is being able to learn UiPath directly from the developers, rather than from a third party. When we learn from a third party, they have to learn UiPath first, and then try to explain it to us based on their own understanding. But when we learn from UiPath, it's like a personal experience, because they developed the product and know how it's supposed to be used. The other great thing about the Academy is that it's very interactive, with question-and-answer sections and plenty of resources. For example, they provide input files so we can try out new features. All in all, the Academy makes it really easy to learn UiPath. We just have to take the startup course, and they explain everything through videos, interactive sections, questions, tests, and data flows.
UiPath helps speed up and reduce the cost of our digital transformation.
It also helps reduce human errors in the normal processes that we develop.
UiPath has freed up our employee time. For example, in the onboarding and interview processes, our organization may have many people applying on any given day. Sorting through applications was done manually, but with UiPath, the process has been significantly sped up. UiPath now performs all of the tasks, such as getting candidate details and making consolidation reports for the hiring team. Overall, UiPath has saved us a lot of time and effort, and it has been a great return on investment.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the document understanding feature of this current project, which is better than ABBYY FlexiCapture or Automation Anywhere. It can learn on its own, given enough instructions and data. With training, we can actually train it to recognize the specific fields on invoices that we want. For example, UiPath can still provide information from a few of the invoice fields without training, such as the invoice number and date, which are present on every invoice. However, some vendors have specific fields on their invoices, such as the candidate name, job location, or start date, which we can train UiPath to recognize. This gives us the ability to train UiPath beyond the common things, if we are looking for any specific information or if we want to personalize it for a vendor. We are then able to use this trained model in our code, which is very helpful.
I also like the Excel automation feature. UiPath has recently updated the Excel activities package, which gives us more options with a more modern look and feel.
What needs improvement?
I find the features UiPath provides to be excellent, but the documentation is difficult to maintain. I have noticed that it can be difficult to find information on some features in the UiPath documentation portal. The document portal needs to be kept more up-to-date. UiPath will release the new feature, but the document portal will still have the older version information. The documentation portal could be easier to navigate if it were redesigned to make it easier to find information about a particular feature. It would be great if the portal were updated as soon as new features are released.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath for almost three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have occasionally observed some abnormalities, but we have not yet found the cause. For one of the processes, we are running macros and triggering them with UiPath. These macros can take ten to eleven hours to run. Sometimes, UiPath stops while a macro is still running. Once the macro is completed, UiPath is supposed to perform another task, but the macro takes so long to run that this does not happen. I believe this is a problem with our program, as it is taking too long to complete. These kinds of delays can occur, and that is understandable.
How are customer service and support?
There are many areas where support can improve. However, it is not that bad. In terms of sticking to schedules, they are available quickly and listen to all of the problems. Sometimes, we have hit roadblocks because the people assigned to solve a particular support ticket did not have any idea about the feature. This has caused problems for us, as we have had to spend time filling in another person who actually had the knowledge about that feature. We have run into this problem a few times.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Our organization previously used Automation Anywhere, a script-based RPA tool. The fact that we moved to UiPath suggests that we wanted to change products for a reason. We must have heard that UiPath is better than Automation Anywhere in some way, which is why we made the switch.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a good return on investment.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath seven out of ten. UiPath has a lot of features they are working on but they take a long time to enter production.
Maintenance for UiPath is minimal. Small things such as changing the passwords because of the password rotation policy. We maintain our bots through VMs that run on AWS.
I recommend UiPath because it is a low-code/no-code solution that can be used by non-technical people. The Academy courses, which train users specifically on how to use the tool, make it easy to develop and automate processes. UiPath also offers a community version that includes most of the features of the paid version. Earlier in my career, I learned to use Blue Prism, which is a closed-source solution that only had basic courses available in its academy. It was difficult to use compared to UiPath, and it was hard to get any information on any forum or from its academy on how to use the tool and update it. In terms of learning, use, and understanding, UiPath is much easier than other solutions.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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RPA Developer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We can easily automate, helps reduce costs, and saves time
Pros and Cons
- "The automation and the customization of the platform are the most valuable features."
- "I would like to see improved support and cost management for advanced certification."
What is our primary use case?
We use UiPath to automate processes.
How has it helped my organization?
Users who are not proficient in programming can still use UiPath.
UiPath makes it easy to build automation because it can fully integrate with third-party applications.
UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is crucial because it allows us to focus on other aspects of our work rather than dealing with repetitive tasks that can be exhausting.
It helps to eliminate 70 percent of our human error by automating routine tasks and enabling drag-and-drop activities.
The UiPath User Community is helpful.
UiPath has helped our organization improve by saving us 80 percent of our time through automation, which is vital to us. We no longer have to manually manage hundreds of lines of code and it simplifies our work.
I would rate the Academy courses eight out of ten. The courses are good, but I would like more of them.
UiPath has helped speed up and reduce the cost of our digital transformation.
What is most valuable?
The automation and the customization of the platform are the most valuable features.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see improved support and cost management for advanced certification. The cost is too high for many people to afford.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is an unmatched platform for robotic automation services. One of the most stable and up-to-date databases to automate and reduce workloads for organizations.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment was neither complex nor straightforward. It required around 15 people and took two to three hours to complete.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath is reasonably priced.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath nine out of ten.
UiPath allows me to create automation solutions that are perfectly adapted to my business needs, making my work more efficient.
Fifteen people in our organization use UiPath, and they are also responsible for maintaining the solution and ensuring that it is up to date.
UiPath is used remotely within our organization.
I recommend UiPath to others as it truly saves organizations a lot of time.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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