UiPath Platform Reviews

My main use cases for UiPath Platform in my organization involve automating those manual tasks that people do all the time. 

For example, we have processes that monitor email accounts that automatically pull down the documents associated with those emails and stores them where they need to or uploads them into a database. We have processes that go out to websites, grab information, and bring that down for any reporting purposes or to store in a database, etc. Those are pretty much the main kind of processes for the most part. 

The use cases for Agent Builder involve an automation that we're currently working on for our owner relations department. They receive a ton of emails asking about various information about their ownership, or maybe needing to pass off their interest to a family member, or they've sold their interest. So this agent will receive those emails, get the context of that email, get the sentiment, and be able to route that email to the correct person or department that needs to handle that request. So it could be a revenue question, it could be a land question, it could be all sorts of different questions.

The features of UiPath Platform that I most appreciate include the great user interface, and I've really enjoyed using it as well as the ability to write your own code in there. You're not just stuck with the drag and drop, you can actually write your own. 

We're starting to get into the Agentic processes, so that's been really cool seeing that, getting to know how it works and building out solutions with that.

I have realized huge benefits from using UiPath Platform overall, especially from Agentic Automation. For the email processing mentioned earlier, just this year, we've processed close to 400,000 emails, which equates to about 6,000 hours of employees' time. So that's a huge savings right now, just processing emails. 

We've had processes that someone literally would spend two days out of the month submitting stuff online. That's all they did for two days. We've automated that where they don't touch it at all. They just get a confirmation email at the end of the month that it's been done.

UiPath Platform can be improved in the Studio Web deployment process, as it needs some work. Deploying the agents to the various environments seems not real polished yet. We've had some issues there just clearly understanding. If they put some focus on getting that clearly defined and a clearer process in place, that would definitely help.

I have been using UiPath Platform for approximately four years.

I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform and its bots as pretty good. We really haven't had any issues too much. We've had some connector issues recently. For the most part, the platform is pretty stable. It's never really hindered our business or anything like that.

As for how UiPath Platform scales with the growing needs of my company, it's not really applicable for the fact that we do all of our stuff on-prem. We have the Automation Cloud, but that's not really affecting where and how our bots run. 

We're kind of at our own constraints at that point. We're able to scale pretty easily and set those new servers up within UiPath Platform relatively quick and easy.

If I used UiPath Platform support, I would evaluate it as not being great. Every company I've worked with, their support hasn't been great, and it tends to be the same way here. 

We do have a technical account manager who's been great. So a lot of the stuff, we discuss with him and he may create a ticket or escalate in a way. When we have done support tickets, I provide all the information they need and then their first question is to provide the same information.

I don't feel they look at what you submit or what you're asking for. It's frustrating. It seems they have a script that they go by and that's all they do.

I'm really not sure what other RPA solutions were evaluated prior to UiPath Platform. I know in-house we have Microsoft Power Automate. Everything we've done in there, we've moved off and moved to UiPath Platform. We really prefer it. 

A lot of the stuff in Power Automate requires premium connectors, while you don't have that issue in UiPath Platform. Things are just much more streamlined and easier to use in UiPath Platform. There's just a lot more flexibility with UiPath Platform and it's overall a better product, in my opinion.

My experience setting up UiPath Platform has been smooth.

The time saved extracting data points with Agentic AI is probably reducing at least 50% of the person's time that has to deal with this mailbox. They're no longer having to monitor it all the time. They're no longer having to create tickets in SAP to route things. All they're doing is confirming that it's doing what it's supposed to be doing, and that's it.

UiPath Platform was given to me. The business decided on it and they wanted it as a citizen dev platform. IT ended up having to take over and now we have our own development shop for UiPath Platform and the citizen dev is essentially no longer. 

I would advise anyone considering UiPath Platform that it's a great platform. I would recommend it to anyone that's looking into getting into an automation platform. 

Unfortunately, I haven't worked with too many other automation platforms. From what I've seen with UiPath Platform and what I've worked with, it's been great. I'm an advocate for it. 

I would rate this platform a nine out of ten. It's easy to navigate and use, with many useful connectors and activities.

Hybrid Cloud

UiPath Platform is evolving into an enterprise-grade platform with different services, so there's no one specific use case. We use it for multiple different use cases, however, with one of our main clients right now, it is more about UI automation, including legacy systems that don't offer any API integration, so that we can consume them as part of the end-to-end workflow.

My favorite features of UiPath Platform include Document Understanding, which is pretty straightforward. We have a lot of scenarios in which extracting data from documents is relevant for the end-to-end automation, and UiPath Platform is doing a really good job with that kind of use case.

I can't disclose the specific document types, however, we have a case management system, and each case's case worker uploads a bunch of documents. We extract data from at least 15 different documents and then update the same case management system with the metadata we extract from the documents. Additionally, we automate filling forms in third-party applications, using data extracted from both the case management and the documents.

The biggest benefit I've seen from UiPath Academy is that it serves as the starting point when we onboard junior developers. We ask them to complete specific courses as part of their training, even if they have some experience with UiPath Platform. It is also valuable for new products, as we upskill the team with the latest courses when UiPath Platform releases new products. However, there is often a delay since UiPath Platform typically releases features before the academy courses, and it would be ideal for them to provide better training earlier. It is a continuous learning experience, with almost all the basics completed by junior talent as part of the training program while senior team members continuously upskill with the latest courses.

UiPath Platform could be improved, especially in terms of documentation. For example, we were early adopters of IXP, and the initial documentation lacked enough information for us to understand the whole product and best practices. Although UiPath Platform started releasing new versions of documentation and courses, there remains a need for better engineering basics and courses on LLMs since they are crucial for understanding the product behind the scenes. The final products for both documentation and the Academy are good, but the release timing can be challenging for early adopters who struggle to understand the products at the beginning.

UiPath Platform scales really from a technical standpoint, however, from a licensing and pricing perspective, scaling becomes challenging. In our case, we have an ELA, which sets restrictions on how many robots we can scale and how many AI units we can consume, making it a less-than-ideal experience regarding pricing when trying to scale.

I've been using the solution for around seven years. 

I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as generally really good, with only a few isolated and specific situations of downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

Expanding usage involves finding more automation opportunities. Some automations we've developed have scaled significantly due to the volume that needs processing, and from a technical standpoint, it's essential to make the right technical decisions and design a scalable solution. On the business side, I'm not as familiar, however, negotiations aren't always straightforward, and the complex pricing model makes it an extremely significant pain point for scaling UiPath Platform.

My evaluation of customer service and technical support from UiPath Platform would not have been good until they forced us to pay for additional fees to receive better customer service. After starting to pay, the service becomes acceptable, however, it's not the best. 

I am actively engaged in the insider program for early previews, leaving many comments and trying to interact with the insider portal, and yet we often do not receive quick responses from UiPath Platform, taking one to two weeks for a reply. 

Overall, after paying the additional fee, I can say it is acceptable. That said, before that, the service was really bad. The response time is what made it really bad. 

I would rate my customer service and technical support experience as neutral, with a score of five on a scale of one to ten. After paying the extra fee, I would give customer service and technical support a score of seven, as it improves but remains in the middle.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I worked with other BPMS platforms such as Bizagi and Bonitasoft. For RPA, we developed our own tool. Using UiPath Platform wasn't my personal decision; it was more of a professional coincidence due to moving to a different company where UiPath Platform was offered to some clients. I got assigned to those clients, so it was ultimately an accident rather than a decision I made.

My experience with the pricing and setup process of UiPath Platform is really bad. As a solution architect, my architectural decisions were initially driven by technical aspects; however, now licensing has become another driver for making decisions. 

I cannot recommend utilizing the best of the product in UiPath Platform, as it would incur high costs for my clients. It's not a good experience at all. For example, I would use Maestro in different use cases, yet justifying ROI with the pricing is impossible, adding overhead costs to a solution I could implement without Maestro. The Agentic-related features also present execution challenges, contributing to a negative experience regarding the license model.

The deployment model for UiPath Platform is cloud-based. For Automation Cloud, we use UiPath cloud. Our robots, which are part of the solution that runs on-premises, operate on on-prem servers and are not in the cloud at all.

My teams have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses.

I am not deeply involved in tracking the ROI metrics to provide specific numbers. I can say that the automation program has been growing significantly. Recently, it is really hard to stay updated with agents, IXP, and Maestro because it's challenging to find business cases to justify using those tools. This is frustrating since, as a technician, I would to leverage the best of the product and provide the best experience and solution for my clients, however, justifying the high price on the latest features makes that difficult.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, the situation is tricky because we did not consider other options initially, but due to the challenges with pricing now, we are considering Power Automate. Microsoft is offering excellent deals, especially with document processing, and they have their own orchestration style. While it is a different experience, the cost is much more appealing, leading us to contemplate several Microsoft products because of pricing rather than technical superiority. Some might argue that UiPath Platform is a better product, but they may not realize that even if Power Automate and the overall Power Platform are not the best technical options, they deliver good enough solutions at better prices, which could potentially lead us to shift clients from UiPath Platform to Microsoft Power Platform for business reasons.

I use the Agentic AI only for POCs, as we don't have any live implementation in production.

UiPath Platform community and forum are extremely helpful for debugging and sharing best practices. We were very active in the community a long time ago, providing answers and asking questions, but recently we haven't been as active. Perhaps this is because the team is more senior now and we might not need that much interaction, but initially, it was very helpful.

My advice for other organizations considering UiPath Platform is to get the right professional services to help make the right technical decisions from the start. Establishing a good framework and developing reusable libraries and composability while making the right technical decisions initially is crucial for success. So, having the right partner at the beginning is key for success.

I would rate UiPath Platform as a nine out of ten, as I've had a high level of satisfaction.

Public Cloud

Other

My main use cases for UiPath Platform are a number of unattended bot processes that do a lot of replacing manual data entry for the underwriting and claims process. 

Besides that, we have a few use cases for generating employee certification letters, along with downloading a number of partner year-end statements, income statements, and things like that. 

As agentic automation is now coming to the forefront, we're definitely looking to move to that case, going from just using AI and also the agentic piece of it as well. We do have a few use cases in mind, however, we are trying to find the right fit, and part of this conference is helping us figure out. 

We are getting ready to use Autopilot as part of Test Manager, Test Suite, since we just moved to the cloud for our Orchestrator, and now we'll be able to utilize Test Manager in the cloud as well, which includes the Autopilot piece we are going to be using. The department processes we will automate with this capability include software testing.

The feature of UiPath Platform that I prefer the most is Studio, as being a developer at heart allows me to see an idea come to fruition and see it working on a daily basis. Some benefits I've realized from using UiPath Platform include the elimination of data entry errors, giving folks time back to remove those mundane tasks, and allowing them to have high value in things they were hired for or find other ways to contribute to a better steward of the dollar within the company.

We have used UiPath Academy courses; they are lengthy to complete, but we have had some people go through the Academy courses to get certified. The biggest value I've gained from using the Academy is that it's just a great resource, not necessarily just taking the classes, but there are also articles and knowledge bases that you can go out to for help getting answers to the things you're looking for.

I am not part of UiPath Community; I am a viewer, not an active contributor. I have definitely realized benefits from the community, as any error I need help on, I put it in there, and somebody else has had it. The beauty of the community is that we're helping build each other up in terms of our skill sets and also running into roadblocks, finding others who can help, even if I don't know that person; the answers are out there.

In my opinion, UiPath Platform could be improved by being more consistent in the presentation of what's coming down the pipeline and when it can be delivered, as well as not changing the names of the products so often. It's confusing when they say, 'Oh, that used to be called this, and now it's that since we've combined it with this.' Ideally, we get more clarity, so that when I talk to a business user, they know what I'm talking about.

I have been using UiPath Platform for the last five years.

My assessment of UiPath Platform's stability and reliability, including its robots, is that typically it's not a UiPath Platform issue; it's more about the business process where the bot may not know what to do if it's not given clear instructions, which could be related to needing new healing agents. 

Overall, from a stability standpoint, UiPath Platform has not given us any issues.

UiPath Platform scales very well with the growing needs of our organization; adoption is our biggest challenge, however, once we do achieve that, it scales well with different systems. The concept of orchestration is a key success factor for us.

I would give UiPath Platform's support a rating of ten out of ten across the board, as they helped with troubleshooting any issues whenever I called them, and thanks to the paid support level we wanted, it's more than paid for itself.

Positive

I have not used a similar solution prior to UiPath Platform; we did not have anything before that.

The deployment is pretty straightforward. Support was with us. We didn't need much of it, however, they were willing to be on the calls with us, especially when we were migrating to the cloud. 

They definitely were a partner that went above and beyond what I would have asked from any other partner. 

In terms of ROI, I would say there have been some dollars saved, although I'd have to look for exact amounts. Especially in eliminating data entry errors rather than emphasizing the dollar return, which is actually hard to quantify, some processes did save around 35 hours over a month, and it continues to grow. 

I wouldn't say we have eliminated errors completely by 100%. We have definitely eliminated about 60 to 75% of the manual data entry errors.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing of UiPath Platform is that I have mainly brokered meetings with leadership versus managing those aspects. My manager helps coordinate that, while I focus on implementing it within the organization.

I have considered other vendors besides UiPath Platform. With our company having a Microsoft enterprise license, Power Automate is a competitor that is a bit more attractive due to being free for users. I think that justifying costs to business users, especially when they see Power Automate as free, is definitely a challenge we face.

It is indeed a challenge when folks come to us with an RPA process; we don't say that UiPath Platform is the only way to go. We assess the use case and note that if it's everything in the Microsoft ecosystem, it makes sense to stay there, so we won't force them to switch to UiPath Platform. However, each renewal comes with the challenge of justifying the decision.

Comparing the two solutions, I find that with UiPath Platform, there's more of a development angle, while Power Automate is very tied to a specific user. With UiPath Platform, you can create a service account, so if someone leaves, I don't have to worry about their email being tied to the process, which is one of our biggest selling points.

My advice to someone considering UiPath Platform is to make sure you get buy-in from leadership, as a lot of people see a hot new tool and pursue it without sustainability. Having top-down leadership support is crucial for longevity, especially when pricing increases or licensing renewals arise. 

I would rate UiPath Platform a nine out of ten, as there are aspects that need improvement, particularly around naming conventions. I don't believe any product can achieve a perfect ten since that implies no room for improvement. I see them moving closer to a nine or ten out of ten.

Public Cloud

Other

We are exploring a use case for agentic AI right now.

The features of UiPath Platform that I value the most are Orchestration, which is a significant component, and the agentic pieces that are coming into shape. The biggest thing is that we need to figure out how to connect other agentic pieces that we have. 

The examples of how these features benefit my organization include implementing traditional RPA with the features and functionalities that UiPath Platform offers today. A lot of them are backend business operations, however, we are also exploring clinical use cases. 

It significantly reduces the time that a physician spends on documentation versus taking care of the patient, which is what they came into medicine for.

UiPath Platform can be improved by working on specific use cases and partnering with us to help bring more belief in the system, and solving the pain points for the industry is critical. Do not lose focus on a specific industry. 

Additional features that should be included in the next release are probably healthcare-specific connection and partnership with Epic.

With the agentic part, we are facing some challenges in terms of governance, in terms of which agentic platform to use, whether we should use UiPath, whether we use our agentic platform that we have chosen. That's going to be the challenge. Governance and clinical use cases typically go through a lot of scrutiny from security and legal. So that's the challenge, however, that's nothing to do with UiPath.

I have been using UiPath Platform for the last three years.

The stability and reliability of UiPath Platform are so far, so good. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with UiPath Platform.

UiPath Platform has not been used to its fullest potential yet as it scales with the growing needs of my organization.

I evaluate customer service and technical support as phenomenal. When we have a question, we have answers, which is really cool. 

I would rate customer service and technical support a ten out of ten. They are available when we want them. It's not just about technical support; it's also about working with us and partnering with us, which is significantly important. That's one thing I want them to keep.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, we were using another solution to address similar needs. We started using a smaller tool and also used Microsoft Power Automate, but we needed to scale, so that's why we chose a partner that will work for us. The factor that led me to consider a change was scalability.

It's better to ask this question to my technical folks, however, there have been zero complaints on that front. They're available when there are questions for us, which is really, really good. It's not like sell and then forget. It's like sell, we will make you grow, and then we'll make you successful, which is really cool. 

In the last two years we have been setting our COE, and we are working towards seeing a return on investment with UiPath Platform. We have several use cases that are marching towards the ROI piece. One use case will probably pay for itself, the product.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for UiPath Platform is that it is significantly simple and a workable solution that's always offered, which has been a blessing for us in a tight financial market, especially in healthcare. It becomes really challenging; however, they have been willing to work with us, which is really good.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, we did look at the other two vendors in the market and also looked at Microsoft. UiPath Platform stood out because of their focus on the domain-specific areas, and the tool is significantly superior.

The advice I would give to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is to jump into it. ROI is something that you will find very quickly. Howecer, build and partner with UiPath Platform and maybe their partners. Most importantly, fail fast if you need to, and don't try to build a big project that goes on for years; do some small pilots, but pilot to project, scale pretty quickly. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate UiPath Platform overall an eight, based on the features and functionality we've used so far.

Hybrid Cloud

Other

Today I faced an issue installing the unattended robot in the production machine. I signed in with the robot account and entered the client ID and secret. The system did not recognize the license and was not giving me a proper response. I did not understand what the actual issue was and searched for the community guidelines as well. I had no issues when configuring a business user, an automation developer, or any other users, but I felt discomfort when onboarding a robot account into UiPath Platform Orchestration and connecting that with the production machine.

I am not using Agentic automation in any of my production environments, but I am using it for development purposes. I am exploring the platform on the Agentic side. I was working on a use case where I wanted to extract meaningful data from a chunk of error messages. I used Maestro for that and it was working very well, so the user can easily correlate with the actual issue.

The Agentic response when using some ML activities or AI activities is getting generated with Maestro. Those are up to the standard. I used Maestro to extract meaningful data from error messages and it worked very well.

The developer-friendly environment and the resolution to the problems faced inside UiPath Platform are very fast, and the customer support service as well as the development-friendly environment make deployment and development processes easier.

One thing which I can suggest is to integrate the CI/CD pipeline within UiPath Platform Orchestration. That will be the next step to get into a full Agentic service within UiPath Platform. I am currently using some external CI/CD pipelines, like Azure or others, and integrating them inside UiPath Platform would be an easy-to-go solution for anyone.

The sales approach is a bit slow. It almost took a month to complete the entire sales process and just get the final quote from UiPath Platform US sales team. There was also some discomfort in selecting the packages. The AI unit bundle flexibility in pricing is missing. I wanted to buy a smaller portion of AI units but needed to purchase a large bundle.

Recently, I faced an outage issue with Cloudflare, resulting in being unable to connect UiPath Platform with UiPath Platform Orchestration, and some of the UiPath Platform Orchestration services were down. This was the first time I faced a stability issue.

I expected faster support during a production deployment issue. I got email communication, but a call would have been faster, resolving the issue more quickly.

In the past six years, I never faced an issue, but in the last couple of months, I faced a Cloudflare outage issue where I was not able to connect UiPath Platform with UiPath Platform Orchestration.

In the last couple of months, I faced a Cloudflare outage issue leading to problems connecting UiPath Platform with UiPath Platform Orchestration, along with some services being down. This was my first encounter with a stability issue after six years of experience without any outages.

Scalability is not an issue. Configuring the machines is straightforward with the use of machine templates. After the first configuration, scaling the same process to multiple machines just involves assigning users and adding the machines to the templates, making it an easy process.

I used to connect with technical support. Recently, I faced an issue in configuring the templates and assigning the user from the UiPath Platform Orchestrator tenant. I contacted the technical support team, and they assisted me in resolving that issue quickly through email.

The reason for rating eight is that the email support was good but slower than expected when I had a production deployment issue. I expected quicker response times, preferably through calls, which could resolve issues faster.

Positive

I used AssistEdge, an RPA tool from Infosys, and Power Automate, which is from Microsoft.

The initial setup, including the machine setup, takes at least a day, but if the machine is already set up, it is just a one to two-hour task.

Only one person will do the deployment.

Pricing is a bit costlier compared to Power Automate, but the same as AssistEdge. It delivers as expected, so the charge is acceptable.

For some cases, I prefer Microsoft Power Automate because of its cloud-integrated connections, such as creating a flow triggered by a Microsoft email, which is not as straightforward in UiPath Platform. Integration services could be improved within UiPath Platform.

Deployment is a straightforward task, but ensuring integration of the CI/CD pipeline within UiPath Platform Orchestration would enhance the ease of use. I rate this review an eight overall.

Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Azure

UiPath Platform is used for building enterprise robots to speed up work in FinTech departments, automating use cases relevant to financial businesses. For some of the use cases, UiPath Platform has provided a 60% reduction in manual time effort, and human error has been reduced by 80% because the system performs great work with proper exception handling.

UiPath Platform is very robust compared to other platforms and is very easy to use with a friendly UI. It has a lot of creative potential that can be implemented. UiPath Platform has helped reduce manual work by eight hours per day, and over the whole year, it has benefited the company and firm significantly in terms of pricing, budget, and cost. The team is looking forward to using it in other processes that are in queue.

The newer version that has been upgraded has some bugs in it because the studio is not working properly as it was in the previous version. When making bots, there are selector issues where elements that need to be clicked cannot be properly selected or passed on to other team members.

The new version is causing issues, sometimes crashing, and selectors cannot be opened. When it crashes, all work must be redone, which is very annoying. The UI is very advanced and looks great, but the selector issues and crashing still persist.

When a bot is developed in two or three hours, it should not crash suddenly and force a redo of the work. The team is automating processes to reduce time, yet this issue increases development time. An update would be greatly appreciated so that work can be done better.

The stability of UiPath Platform was a nine in older versions, but now it has dropped to an eight because of the annoying issues where it crashes after a lot of work has been completed, forcing a redo. Having deadlines and having it crash repeatedly is very frustrating. Feedback could be provided to the team responsible for looking at these bugs to explain what the issue is referring to.

The UiPath Platform has been used for almost the whole career, spanning about five years.

The issue being faced while developing bots is that it sometimes crashes on its own during work, or it is not picking up the selectors. If selectors are opened, it is just not allowing editing or making them dynamic.

The stability of UiPath Platform was a nine in older versions, but now it has dropped to an eight because of the annoying issues where it crashes after a lot of work has been completed, forcing a redo. Having deadlines and having it crash repeatedly is very frustrating.

In terms of scalability, UiPath Platform is definitely scalable.

The technical support for UiPath Platform is very good. Contact with the IT support team was made last year, and their response was timely, allowing issues to be resolved effectively, which is good in comparison to other tools.

Positive

The initial setup of UiPath Platform is very straightforward, and anyone, even a non-technical person, can do it.

Power Automate and Automation Anywhere have also been used, but UiPath is majorly in all processes. In comparison with Power Automate, it is a much more complex platform. UiPath has all the templates ready to be built and has the REFramework, which is very suitable for complex solutions because all the exception handling is ready to go, and the solution just needs to be integrated, and then it is ready to run. On the contrary, Automation Anywhere and Power Automate are very complex because everything must be done from scratch, and there is not much advancement or variety of activities in those platforms.

Agentic Automation in UiPath Platform has not been used yet, but it is something to look forward to, and a new certification is being pursued. There will likely be some use cases in the team to replicate that. Monitoring the tone or sentiment in messages is not a current focus. UiPath Academy is used to learn about new things coming, like Agentic AI, and work is being done on that as well. The team is also working on the document understanding feature that UiPath Platform has for developing custom models.

UiPath Academy has been very helpful, especially for learning new features. The videos and descriptions about everything are very good, explanatory, and detailed. The documentation and the UiPath forum are also very beneficial because many issues are already posted there and resolved, making it easy to find solutions or resolution notes.

The thoughts on the UiPath Platform user community are very positive. It is great because other platforms lack such a community. If a search is needed for something about an error in Power Automate, it is challenging to find a solution because the documentation is very limited. In contrast, UiPath Platform community is vast, filled with talented individuals, with technical support staff often commenting on posts, which is very helpful. The community should continue that great work.

UiPath Platform has advanced very quickly. It would be recommended to other companies or startups because, compared to other products, UiPath Platform is excelling in marketing, technological advancements, and community services. Automation is needed to minimize manual processes, save money, and save time.

The overall review rating for UiPath Platform is 8.5 out of 10.

I'm trying to think of some good data points or examples on the spot. One of the things that our company struggles with is that we've bought a lot of different systems that don't integrate with one another. What I've really tried to do since starting to utilize UiPath Platform is find ways to make these imperfect systems work together, whether it be Mike Albert for fleet data, Azuga for safety-related data, or Snowflake for data warehousing. I aim to take all that data, put it into our Snowflake warehouse, and then visualize it in Power BI and other tools, so the sky's the limit, and I know we even use it for Amazon, Walmart, and various other processes.

I love the Studio application and the Orchestrator function of UiPath Platform, being able to put our details all in there. I especially appreciate the integrations with Snowflake and different software, which really make it more useful for us as we're starting to dive into the Agentic AI piece at our company. However, I'm still getting fresh into it.

One of the biggest benefits of the features of UiPath Platform that I can think of is that we've been able to build a process to handle what previously were multiple manual processes where people would go in, review purchase orders, and make changes to them themselves. Now, when we have an order come through and need to make a change, they can submit a change through a ticket, and UiPath Platform will do it all, saving us about an hour of personnel time per head every single day, which has already been a huge change in our organization.

I honestly really benefit from UiPath Platform's user community. I go to forums and similar platforms and always find supportive people who often have had similar problems or issues that I've been able to reach out to, communicate with, and get the path forward for, so it's been nothing but positive, even beyond just UiPath Platform individuals within the company; other users have been very helpful too.

That's a tough question about how UiPath Platform can improve. For me, starting out, it was very helpful that I utilized different other AI platforms to teach me the best way to go about creating a process in the tool, and perhaps it was a lack of my education, however, tools to leverage AI within the platform could continue to educate users as they're building out new processes.

I would emphasize functionality to challenge one's thought process, asking whether one is going about it in the most efficient way, recognizing that there are a million different ways to do a process and questioning if I'm doing it the right way and needing tools to help with that.

To be considered a ten out of ten, UiPath Platform needs to enhance its capabilities, and I would lean into the integration of AI to coach and mentor you through the process. While I have my connections throughout the company, often it's just myself. Having an AI friend who is a UiPath Platform professional that knows what's best would make it easier than having to gather information from various places.

I've been using the solution for about two years; it's very new. 

I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as excellent, as everything I've experienced so far has had minimal hiccups, and if there were issues, they have been user error rather than reflecting poorly on UiPath Platform.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with UiPath Platform.

UiPath Platform has scaled very with the growing needs of our organization; just in the year that we've had it, we've continued to find new ways to utilize it.

We have expanded usage of UiPath Platform. The gentleman that I was just around passed it on to me, and we've been trying to share it broadly across the rest of our enterprise, and so far, the experience has been very promising. We tested it with a couple of other individuals at some of our parent company's six smaller companies, and it's made it easy for us to share it across them as also, so from that standpoint, it's been very rewarding.

Regarding customer service and technical support, the times that I've had to search for it, I've had no problems whatsoever.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a ten based on my limited interactions. The encounters I have had have all been positive.

Positive

I was using Power Automate to address similar needs prior to adopting UiPath Platform. It definitely wasn't at the scale of what UiPath Platform has been able to do for us.

I've seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. As I touched on with the PO changes, many more opportunities are found at our parent company, and while our team has a laundry list of things to do, we don't have enough time to do it.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for UiPath Platform would definitely be more directed towards another colleague, as he handled more of it than I did. That said, from my experience, it was nothing but positive.

For myself, I didn't consider many other solutions before selecting UiPath Platform since I used what our company had at its disposal, which was a lot of Microsoft tools such as Power Automate. Those were not nearly as robust as what UiPath Platform brings to the table, and this was my first exposure to an RPA system and Agentic AI.

The factors that led me to consider a change to UiPath Platform included performance; our company needed a system that we could trust.

I don't yet use Agentic AI. Part of the reason why we're attending a conference is to learn more about it.

I haven't yet used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses.

The biggest advice I would give to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is to continue to push outside of the box and not to think within the confines of what you initially look at, as the opportunity to use the software is really everywhere. It's just a matter of having the time to put into it, so my biggest words of encouragement would be to keep trying, keep pursuing it, and avoid a too tunnel-visioned approach.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate UiPath Platform overall as a ten, as coming in with a little bit of experience, it was very easy to pick up, learn, and lean into, which has been very rewarding.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

UiPath Platform can be used mostly for banking and insurance related automations.

I am working with UiPath Platform and am using a few AI-related configurations and Agentic automations wherever I am getting the opportunity, but the customer needs a lot of consulting and a lot of understanding of AI, because it is not a fully matured and fully used product.

The customer wants exact use cases about what exactly Agentic AI is and where it is to be used in their industry. That is something customers always look for from a product company.

The most valuable features of UiPath Platform are those related to UI automation, intelligent automation, Agentic AI, document processing, error handling, and exception handling. A lot of reports and dashboards are there, which are helpful.

In terms of reducing human error and freeing up employee time, UiPath Platform gives good, visible benefits in terms of employee's time reduction. It is possible to see a return on investment for almost every use case in terms of benefits. Error handling or exceptions are part of the business requirement. Even if a customer has a lot of scenarios to handle, through UiPath Platform, I am able to configure it in customer expectations.

Sentiment analysis is very important because when customers or business users are looking at UiPath Platform or services, they are also using conversations with customers or internal employees to understand human behavior or psychology along with robotics automation.

In terms of areas for improvement, artificial intelligence has the potential to be better, also the sentiment part, and on-premise hosting for specific regulated customer entities is one more improvement.

Direct UiPath Platform support needs some improvement, as I have to follow the entire process of ticket creation before getting a response with the SLAs defined by UiPath Platform, causing a little long waiting time to handle all technical support and provide resolution.

I have been using UiPath Platform for four years.

Stability is the highest for UiPath Platform, with uptime being almost 99.9% most of the time, so scalability and stability are good in-built features.

Scalability is present on UiPath Platform, but in terms of the server requirement or IT infrastructure, there is a need for scalability also, which means with the platform scalability, there is more investment associated with hardware.

The monitoring of tone or sentiment in messages affects my operations or business, as the sentiment is very important, and this area can also be part of some improvement from an automation perspective.

I have worked with a few competitors for a few opportunities or business requirements.

The installation and deployment procedure for UiPath Platform is easy and very clear, with no obstacles. The documents are available, and a seamless installation can be done.

If I quantify the return on investment that I can observe, I would say the ROI is mostly in the range of twenty percent on average for each automation.

I can mention Automation Anywhere and Automation Edge as the two competitors I have gone through for some of my projects.

The biggest benefit that I see from the product is the biggest positive thing in it. I am still using UiPath Platform at this time.

In the last one or two years, I have not really upgraded myself in terms of UiPath Platform Academy related latest training courses and material, though there was a requirement for new trainings and upgrading knowledge, I could not spend time. That is from my side, the weakness.

I would rate my experience with support from UiPath Platform as a six. My overall experience with this product receives a rating of eight.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use cases for UiPath Platform are web extraction, automations to automate business procedures in finance and accounting, and sometimes for professional development and business development.

The feature I value most about UiPath Platform is Document Understanding. With Document Understanding, people had to read through documents manually and do a control+F to search for certain keywords, which was very time-consuming. Now, with Document Understanding, a robot can read the document, extract the information automatically, and put it into designated fields. 

The value I gain from UiPath's user community is significant as when I have questions regarding certain error types in the system, I search on Google, and usually the first or second question from the community forum is very helpful.

My teams and I have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses. The biggest benefits I've seen from UiPath Academy are that whenever there's a new feature coming from UiPath, the academy can shorten the learning curve dramatically. The factor that led me to consider a change was scalability or at least the infrastructure setup that needed to be addressed for our own company.

The biggest challenge for our company, which is a law firm, is that the data is very sensitive, and we do not want to expose our data on the cloud. Therefore, we have our system set up in an on-prem environment, and while we try to utilize new features, with on-prem, we cannot utilize all the new features such as AI Agent or many functions on the cloud. In an ideal world, instead of using the large language model, I would prefer the small language model so we can have our own model, maybe set up on-prem, which would be easier for us.

The additional feature I would want to see included in the next release of UiPath Platform is the self-healing agent. We experience downtime, crashes, or performance issues sometimes. The situation with performance issues is usually caused by not upgrading the system in time, leading us to use an older version, which can result in certain packages not being supported and that affects functionality. The areas I see for improvement include the booming AI Agent capabilities and the need to fix maintenance issues that arise after a project is delivered, as addressing this can truly be a game-changer.

I have been using UiPath Platform for seven years.

Before the self-healing agent, I would rate the reliability of UiPath Platform at around 70%, however, I am looking for maybe 90% reliability after the self-healing agent is implemented.

I would rate how UiPath Platform scales with the growing needs of my organization around a six on a scale from zero to ten.

My evaluation of customer service and technical support is that whenever I submit a ticket, I receive very good support. 

They are timely, professional, and address the problem effectively. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support a nine. Although I want to give them a ten, a ten indicates no room for improvement, and there's always room to grow.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was using Excel macros to address similar needs. Now, we can utilize UiPath Platform to replace that. However, there are still use cases where we might revert to using the macros inside of Excel.

Deploying UiPath, so far, has been very good. 

I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. Every year, we conduct an analysis using our Tableau dashboard to calculate the ROI and other impacts on our existing processes, and we present that to our CFO, and the results look really good.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and license agreement for UiPath Platform is that the pricing is okay; however, I often feel UiPath is trying to sell everything in a bundle, which is not very smart since many companies have different use cases and needs. It may be better if they could sell individual components with individual pricing to boost the market.

I considered different solutions before selecting UiPath Platform, however, it mostly depended on the use case. 

As an RPA developer in UiPath, whenever a project or problem is put in front of me, I think of UiPath Platform as the first option. If it cannot perform certain functions, I may look up .NET code or a combination of UiPath and .NET programming, and sometimes we even turn to Python programming for certain use cases. 

In the evaluation process, what stood out to me positively and negatively while comparing these options is how easy it is to learn. If there's a long learning curve, it may frighten me to continue with this process. The second priority is whether it can resolve the problem without significant maintenance in the future. A big challenge for me is that after I develop a project, it works fine initially, however, if the UI changes, I often have to maintain those processes. I really appreciate the self-healing agent since it can potentially eliminate that issue.

I do not use generative AI at the moment. I am waiting to try it as soon as possible. 

My advice to another organization considering UiPath Platform is that many people initially feel confused as they don't know how to set up their own COE team, however, it's important to have good communication with the supporting team, professional services in UiPath, and their salesperson to gain a comprehensive understanding of how this platform and product can assist their business. 

I would rate UiPath Platform overall a seven out of ten. There are still many areas for improvement.

On-premises

Other

My main use cases for UiPath Platform involve working in finance and banking, where we have a lot of manual processes relating to documentation. 

Sometimes, we are still getting up to speed. One of the first things we have done is to take rates from the internet and transcribe them into our system, which is something that happens daily. 

We also have some account cleanup tasks, such as using the bots to delete old items hanging out on our systems. Additionally, we are working on some onboarding processes, covering a couple of different areas.

We are still getting up to speed with UiPath Platform, so we're just using basic UiPath Studio and Orchestrator, and as the process owner of the whole thing, I definitely prefer Orchestrator. 

It's difficult to explain to UiPath Platform how RPA helps since we don't have something specific that we're using, however, we are definitely seeing some dramatic time savings on the things we have automated so far.

I just came out of the product meeting, and I can say they are doing a great job as it is. 

I hope we can leverage a lot of the agentic features. We are taking a more cautious approach on AI. 

Making things more user-friendly, particularly for end-users, allowing those people to get involved in the process, would be wonderful, as I saw with Maestro. 

I cannot think of any additional features off the top of my head.

I have been using UiPath Platform for about a year.

We have not yet expanded usage, as we are still trying to establish our initial processes. I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as great, as we haven't had any issues with the platform itself. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with UiPath Platform.

UiPath Platform scales with the growing needs of my organization very well.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support as very good. We have only had one or two support cases so far, and they were handled adequately. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service, technical support, and product as a nine. There is always room for improvement.

Positive

I was not using another solution to address similar needs prior to adopting UiPath Platform. However, I should mention that we do have ExcelQ and we use Power Automate for small cases and one-offs.

The deployment had some challenges, however, I don't know that that is unique. Understanding the infrastructure was a little bit of a challenge. That was also intertwined with our decision to host on-site and, host internally, yet on AWS, which was new for us at the time. 

To this day, we face security challenges. Being in the financial sector, that's a big concern. And, having more concise documentation, specifically to those finance concerns, would be very helpful if that could be put out there somewhere.

So far, we are just about breaking even with UiPath Platform. We have had UiPath Platform for about a year; we are coming up on our renewal. I crunched some numbers a week ago, and we are a little bit under, however, since this is our first year, we understand it might take a bit of time to reach that speed.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that it is definitely a cost, so we are trying to ensure we get good ROI on that. The licensing seems pretty simple, requiring us to purchase only per bot. I understand from my boss that things were a bit more complicated previously, so I appreciate that the licensing is simplified at this time. Of course, I wish we didn't have to pay per developer seat, however, that's how it goes.

In considering other solutions before selecting UiPath Platform, Blue Prism was a top contender, and we also looked into Power Automate, however, it really didn't hold a candle to either of the other two. 

We went with one of the UiPath Platform partners that helped us make that decision. What stood out to me in the evaluation process was our reliance on market share and the company's positioning as a leader. Blue Prism seemed to be having some organizational challenges that may impact their future direction. We liked the forward-thinking approach of UiPath Platform, and the pricing was on par with Blue Prism, making it seem a better choice.

My thoughts on UiPath Platform's user community in terms of the value I gain by being part of it are that it is my first place to go if I have any questions or need some light troubleshooting, so it is very valuable for me. I think our developers also find a lot of value from there, figuring out how to structure certain things.

My advice to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is for larger organizations to take the plunge. For smaller organizations, I would suggest balancing how large of a scale they are interested in and if that justifies the cost. We are right on the cusp, so it can be challenging; we only have about 1,600 employees, which limits our scaling potential. We really need to work to get that ROI. 

On a scale from on eto ten, I would rate UiPath Platform overall as a nine, as it is pretty good.

On-premises

Amazon Web Services (AWS)