UiPath Platform Reviews

We can use UiPath for pretty much anything, including document reading, day-to-day processing, or maintenance cases. For pretty much anything that the business comes up with, we can use UiPath. 

It's the only RPA software I've ever used. It's really given us the capability to help automate a ton of slow-moving tasks.

It is helping to automate some finance processes, shared service processes, and items like that to eliminate some tedious tasks that people don't want to deal with.

The Automation Hub helps prioritize things. I'd say using the community edition to get citizen developers on board has been great. Those are probably the two biggest aspects of the solution for me.

The user community is helpful. The forum is really great. I need to build up a bigger community around me; however, for right now, the users are super helpful.

I've used UiPath's Academy courses. It's great for letting people do training at their own pace. It also speeds up training. I don't have to spend hours teaching people how to do stuff. They can do it whenever they want. That's super helpful.

We'd like more onboarding features for new people. I mostly taught myself. It would help if it was more proactive in reaching out and saying, "Here are all of our connectors. Here's the stuff you can do." The program itself is really easy to use, however, to understand the capabilities, it would be nice to have more of a guiding hand.

I've used the solution for probably two years. 

The stability is good. I've never had a feed down and find it to be rather solid. 

The scalability is pretty strong. It seems to be as scalable as you want to make it. It depends on your design. For example, if you make a shady bot, that's not going to work scalability-wise. However, if you build your bot the right way to handle tasks quickly, it'll do it quickly and will scale well.

Technical support is really good. I've only used it twice. However, both times they have been really quick to respond and help.

We did not previously use any other RPA software.

I am involved in the initial setup process. I started the CoE of my last job, and I'm doing that at this job now.

We used a partner to help with it, so it was pretty straightforward. If I had to do it myself, I'd probably struggle, however, with partners, it's easy.

I have seen an ROI. The first spot I made paid for the license. It's pretty quick to realize a return on investment. 

We've used Automation Hub to track monetary and hourly savings. My last company probably saved to the tune of $300,000 annualized. I just started this job. I will be able to note an ROI pretty soon.

I need to dig into pricing a bit more. It's pretty affordable for what you get. 

We evaluated the whole market before choosing UiPath. However, I wasn't directly a part of the process and, therefore, can't get into specifics. 

I do not yet use UiPath to automate processes that deal with a good cause that our company is involved in. I've only worked at the company for two weeks. I'm a little new.

I have yet to use the AI functionality in our automation program. 

I'd advise others to work with a partner to deploy it at your company. Don't try to do everything at once. Build a list of ideas before you start trying to get into things. Have a funnel of projects to do.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. They could improve a couple of things. However, it's really easy to use. You don't really have to learn any code. It is really easy to get people to learn it on their own. It's pretty solid overall.

We have quite a few use cases, and a few big ones are creating purchase orders, reviewing invoice PDFs and extracting information from them, and creating customer orders from forms that are emailed in.

UiPath Orchestrator is a valuable feature for us. We started with all attended bots without Orchestrator, on-premises, or on the cloud. It was almost like a very low-cost way to prove that we needed this technology and that we could use it. So, for our first year, we did that. For the second year, we got Orchestrator, and it gave us the ability to utilize the bots more effectively. I thought we were going to have more attended bots, and we didn't because the process owners wanted things to happen in the background and wanted to be able to schedule them. Being able to do that and not have to have someone worry about triggering the bot or babysitting the computer while the bot runs, etc. have been the biggest game-changers for us.

The biggest benefit we've seen from using UiPath is time savings. Since June, when our fiscal year started, we've saved 8,000 hours so far. We're measuring everything in terms of hours saved, mainly because that's where we see the most benefit. I haven't really seen a big cost reduction, like replacing people with automation. Our teams are pretty slim right now.

A lot of the time what we found was that people were working extraordinarily long days. Now, they're actually able to do their job because they don't have all these other things that they had to take care of before. With some of our use cases in customer service, we've been able to avoid costs by not having to hire temporary staff. This is because a lot of the transactions that they would've taken care of are now done by the bots. They are doing it faster and more accurately. We have automated 36 processes so far. We have three attended, but most of our processes are unattended.

The biggest value of the UiPath Academy courses has been the ability to point new citizen developers to it. They are self-guided and require very little oversight from the team, so it provides the ability to grow a citizen development community with very little time from our team. The UiPath Academy is also useful for onboarding new team members; you can point them to some of the basic courses and have them get an idea of what RPA is all about, what we have, Orchestrator, etc.

UiPath Insights needs improvement. It's been almost five months since we got it, and I'm yet to see a business impact dashboard, which was the selling point.

Trying to get Insights support has been really tricky. The documentation that's out there is not detailed enough, and it doesn't really tell you how to make it happen. I've paid for a product for five months that I still can't present to my senior leadership.

I've been using UiPath for about two and a half years.

The stability is good overall, and we haven't really had any issues. We do have certain processes, especially with certain systems, that are very finicky, and we have to go back and keep updating. I don't know how much of it is UiPath versus just the nature of automation.

We got premium support, but getting the attention of the person that is dedicated to our account has been really hard. It shouldn't be that hard, especially not when we're paying $12,000 a year for it.

We've also had a lot of issues with Insights. When we get to the right person, it's helpful and easy, but getting to the right person is way too complicated, especially considering that we're paying for premium support.

So, I would give technical support a rating of seven on a scale from one to ten.

Neutral

We went with UiPath because they are a leader in the robotics industry.

The initial deployment was complex. We started with all attended, and transitioning from attended to orchestrated was not easy. Nobody understood that we had been operating robots without any orchestration, so whenever we talked to UiPath, they would tell us to get our on-premises Orchestrator and migrate it to the cloud even though we didn't have an on-premises Orchestrator. They should've already known that because they had all the details. It wasn't straightforward, but we did it.

Transitioning to Orchestrator in the cloud, probably, took us three months. 
We had to recreate workflows because the workflows were attended to.

We did it ourselves.

I talked to the CIO of a medical company, and they had implemented Automation Anywhere. They had a good experience with it, and it was good for their use cases. However, their use cases were very different from ours. So, I talked to some of our partners, and one of our partners had a relationship with a UiPath partner, so we did the proof of concept with UiPath. It worked, and so we just went from there.

Understand what your goals are with RPA, and make sure that UiPath is the right vehicle for it.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would rate UiPath at nine.

We have implemented a couple of use cases. One is with our creative collection scenario. We are also working on order automation. That will go live in October.

Since we are fairly new, I will say we have only two scenarios running right now, and they've been going on for almost a year. It's definitely saved us a lot of time. We haven't rolled out too many scenarios yet. When we'll be rolling out our order automation for 15 countries, I will see more benefits in the uses as we go.

The most valuable feature is definitely the document understanding. We have started using it for the order automation project that I'm working on. It definitely has some challenges also, especially dealing with other languages. However, so far, it's good.

We only have our Cash App or our credit collection scenario. We save around one-tenth of the time we typically spend where a lot of transactions happen. We save around 60 hours every month, at least for now.

UiPath's user community is definitely helpful. Usually, I'd look it up there first when we run into a problem.

Our team has used UiPath Academy courses. Academy courses were really helpful in giving us a good start to have a good foundation. Although we use UiPath to develop our scenarios, having that Academy access and going through the training definitely helped us get up to speed very quickly.

I definitely want some improvement on the documentation of the understanding side.

Maybe they should build more out-of-the-box apps rather than companies building their own implementation from scratch and maybe build them as a product on top of the platform. That would save time in implementation.

We're a SAP shop, so I'm looking more at what scenarios can be pre-booked using UiPath. I know there are some escalators that are there in SAP. However, they are not production ready, in my view. That area definitely can be improved since they're all Excel-based, and they're more proof of concept rather than production ready.

I've been using the solution for almost two years. 

Stability is one area where I'm really concerned. Sometimes it does behave erratically and I have to stop everything, and deploy it again, and it works fine. Therefore, I have some concerns about how it's going to scale out when there is a very high volume.

I'm concerned that we may have issues with scalability as it can behave erratically, and I have to stop and redeploy it.

For example, right now, we have a very small implementation. We will be implementing this order automation for 15 countries with a lot of customers. So I have concerns about how UiPath will scale out to these countries plus even more countries that I am planning to implement as well. What will be the process, what will the performance impact, and how is it going to behave? I do have concerns there right now.

I have dealt with technical support a few times. That said, most of the time, I could figure out the problem myself. There is one problem that I'm still dealing with in terms of technical support, and it's been ongoing. They have involved the product team to help resolve that particular issue. I have to say that I'm not thrilled with the support that I got.

Neutral

We did not previously use a different solution. We used to do everything manually.

I lead our automation implementation. For our treasury, it was easy; however, for the automation we are going live with in October, the process is a bit more complex. 

Our implementation strategy involved starting small and starting with a couple of use cases. I decided to use UiPath as our partner to cover our bases since I wanted to ensure we have a good foundation with best practices before we start doing anything in-house.

We had UiPath assist us with the initial implementation. The experience was pretty good. There were some challenges to deal with in terms of having a robust solution with good logging and notifications. That definitely didn't happen right off the bat. That said, overall, it was an okay process. 

We are definitely seeing an ROI. For example, we are saving 60 hours every month, and it's a small implementation. With order automation, we are going to save a lot of time. I don't have the exact numbers yet. However, we are positive about the outcomes we expect.

I was quite surprised at the pricing. We decided to implement action forms, and at that time, I was not aware that there is a separate licensing. It's difficult sometimes when you have to go back to your finance team or the sponsor and tell them that you need more money. Any licensing requirement has to be clear up front rather than being revealed later. I'm not worried about the cost, it's more about knowing what license we need, and in my implementation, we had quite a few mishaps related to licenses.

We looked at a couple of other products.

I don't want to go into what products we looked at. However, I can definitely say the main criterion behind selecting UiPath was its ease of use. We did a proof of concept in-house without any help. That was my main criterion for making a decision. 

Also, there's a good product path in terms of what they're doing next. UiPath is a market leader. We wanted to go with a solution that not only meets our needs for now but also is taking the effort, time, and money in building the product and bringing new capabilities.

We're fairly new to the process and have yet to get into using UiPath for a good cause.

We aren't using the AI functionality yet.

I'd advise potential users to do their homework. Look at other products and make the decision based on what capabilities you are looking at. I will say don't look at only one scenario. Look at the overall picture. Look at what your future plans are. I still believe UiPath is the best product when it comes to RPA. However, you have got to look at the whole picture at the outset.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. There are a lot of good things happening. It's very easy to use, and UiPath has a very good product roadmap. That's the key for me. Especially with AI, process mining, cost mining, et cetera, they're really going to help any company that signs on.

Our company uses the solution for financing, accounting, and commercial operations. Right now, we are automating the lowest-hanging fruit. We look at people or personal productivity and automate their desktop tasks. 

We currently do not use AI functionality. 

The solution saves our company 10,000 hours annually. Automations have removed menial tasks from people's desks so there is instant gratification.

Studio and StudioX are really powerful tools. From the development side, business users have realized much success and have made great strides with StudioX because it is easy to use.

Automations are really easy to build with a minimal technical background. For example, my background is in accounting and finance but I am the manager of an automation team so that speaks to how easy it is to learn and develop. 

It would be useful to have co-authoring because we have many staff members working on the same project. 

I have been using the solution for four years. 

The solution is fairly stable. We have to perform maintenance on things we are doing and see some infrastructure issues for on-premises users. Many of these issues would be addressed if we switched to the cloud so that is under consideration.

I can see the solution's scalability. I think you need the right organizational buy-in for scaling but there isn't anything that the solution should be doing differently. 

The community is great and we learn so much there. We would like the community to bring back in-person user groups because we found a lot of value in knowing and connecting with other customers in our area. But, the community as a whole is awesome and invaluable. 

When we started our journey with the solution, we utilized the Academy for training. Since then, we have used the Academy to train three new team members because it quickly gets them up to speed so they can start developing. 

Technical support is good and we utilize it a lot. Sometimes it takes a little while to hear back from support. Though we understand, it also causes us heartache when tickets are automatically closed without a response. For example, sometimes we contact support on a Friday and the ticket closes on a Sunday which does not give us time to review our email and can be difficult. Otherwise, we like the technical support provided and rate it seven out of ten. 

Neutral

Our company did not previously use another solution. 

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

The price is high in comparison to Power Platform that Microsoft provides as part of its enterprise license. 

The pricing can be a bit confusing because many new products have been added. We just renewed our licenses and got all new SKUs because products have changed so much since our initial implementation.

I was not on the evaluation team but I do not believe other options were evaluated. The solution was chosen because it was a known leader in the industry.

The solution is great, works well, and is learnable. Users will be able to pick it up easily. People who are interested in change will find a way to make it happen, so you might as well give them a good tool.

There is nothing comparable in the industry that provides the same ease of use, great community, and good products.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

We use it mostly for reconciliation, automatic emails, and monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports and extractions. Document Understanding is another big use case for us.

The AI functionality cuts down development time. The out-of-the-box models are pretty good at extracting and do account for variations. We don't have to do it template by template, at least for invoices and purchase orders. Thus, it's a huge time saver.

We have more than a hundred unattended automated processes and hope to scale as well. We have a healthy pipeline, and our COE just prioritizes them and chooses the ones with the most impact.

The core RPA is the best feature because of how easily we can get started. The other most valuable feature is DU or Document Understanding. It doesn't require huge setup and implementation times. When you look at a pure machine learning model, it requires a lot of expertise. Though UiPath is not purely plug-and-play, it's almost like plug-and-play because it can be up and running very quickly.

UiPath has definitely helped us with productivity. It has helped us to grow because as we bring in more companies, we don't have to add more people or train new people. The existing staff can handle the growth. Also, the team no longer has to do some of the manual, repetitive activities and can focus on more value-added work. We're looking at how to move analytics and data into the department and use the time saved to upskill the employees.

I connect with local customers and find it very beneficial to share best practices. My team tells me that the UiPath user community forums are pretty active and that if they're stuck and post a question they get a response pretty quickly. I only hear good things about the forums.

I took the UiPath Academy basic certification training before I rolled it out to the others. It's pretty good, but you still need to be technical. You cannot pick an analyst and then put them through the full certification. However, the training is self-explanatory. The Automation Academy is good as well. The biggest value I've gained from UiPath Academy is the self-learning methodology. Having free self-learning material makes sense when you don't know whether you are committing to the solution.

I would like to know more about the product features and real use cases. Sometimes, all I hear is how quickly the solution can be up and running, and I don't hear about all the work that goes into it. Because everybody has a choice with bots and process improvements, unlike that with ERP systems, I would like to have more information on how to constantly evangelize.

In the UiPath Academy, there's not much documentation for Document Understanding and Process Mining. Documentation for some of the newer tools needs to be added to the UiPath Academy.

I've been using UiPath for three years.

I haven't seen any degradation in terms of performance.

It scales well.

UiPath's technical support is pretty good. If their level one support is unable to take care of an issue, they will then escalate it to product managers. I would give technical support a rating of eight on a scale from one to ten because they are not as good at supporting some of the newer technologies.

Positive

The initial deployment is straightforward. It took a few months to set up everything, and we scaled slowly. It's easier now that we've moved to the cloud.

We did it all ourselves. We tested everything in UiPath Academy first to see if it would work for us.

UiPath has reduced the number of hours spent on manual work, and that is our ROI.

The cost could be lower. The pricing is not transparent, so we don't always know if we really are getting a good price.

We evaluated Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism. When we looked at the total cost of ownership, UiPath felt better for our situation.

Compared to other solutions, UiPath offers a lot of products in its portfolio. The customer success manager attends to our needs, gives access, answers our queries, and takes care of us. Also, UiPath has a robust community, so it pays to be with the leader to get all of these benefits. Thus, I rate UiPath at nine on a scale from one to ten.

We use it to transfer information from one system to a government system.

We also use UiPath to automate processes that track mileage on vehicles, which would then allow us to calculate some of the GHG emissions.

It has really helped us become more efficient. UiPath has made the lives of our data operators a lot easier because they would normally have had to manually enter all this information or transfer data.

AI Computer Vision has been great because it works through VMware. It's able to see the elements through the VMware window on the government system that we interact with.

UiPath's user community is great. I get a lot of answers and am able to talk to folks who know the products and can provide support directly.

The UiPath Academy courses are an easy way to learn how to use Studio.

The licensing has been a challenge in terms of what is included with our current license. They've changed it a bit.

The learning curve to get UiPath up and running is hard, although we're pretty comfortable with it now.

Promoting its use is the hardest part for us. It's tough to get people to believe in using the assistant or Studio without fearing the loss of their jobs.

I've been using UiPath for about five years.

It's very stable, and we've never had an issue with it.

UiPath is easy to scale. If we want to share the bot or the scripts, it is easy to do so with other team members. It is also easy to add licensing and grow the current bot or create a new one.

Our experience with UiPath's technical support has been really good. We get great responses to tickets when we need help. On a scale from one to ten, I would give technical support a ten.

Positive

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. We learned Studio, started with a simple script or bot, and grew from there. Our implementation strategy was to look at our highest demand for transferring data and make the bot do that.

Our ROI is that instead of having a team of seven people to manually do the data transfer, we now have two people.

The pricing is fair.

We looked at Blue Prism and went with UiPath because of its ease of use, the Magic Quadrant rating, and the price.

It's great software and has helped us a lot. It gives us a competitive edge.

Overall, I'd rate UiPath at nine out of ten and would advise you to go for it.

We're currently rolling out some of our first few automations. So far, it's been in finance and procurement. We're just automating some of their inventory processing workflows.

The automation will be unattended. We have three that are in active development and another six in backlog awaiting development.

The first few automations have definitely had an impact already. One that we're rolling out, we anticipate having a great impact. One that I'm currently working on should probably have the biggest impact so far on one of our departments. It will save us time and therefore cost. It's a very manual process with lots of human error opportunities. Between how much faster it's going to happen now and how it will be 100% accurate, we anticipate seeing a huge benefit from that.

I appreciate the infrastructure. There are numerous platforms through which we can perform automation. We are in the Microsoft sphere, and so we have the opportunity to use the Power Platform to do lots of automation. However, I've been impressed with the infrastructure that UiPath provides in developing, publishing, and rolling out these automations and then being able to monitor and manage them effectively.

The community can be helpful. In the public forums, I have seen some forum threads that are very active with lots of people that respond with great answers and great context, and multiple options. That said, there are just as many cases where no answer is ever provided, and it just disappears into obscurity. I've had multiple of those types of approaches myself, where I've posted questions and gotten no response. The community can be helpful. For somebody like me that wants to get something out of it, I would also need to be willing to put something into it and help others answer their questions, as that's how the community works.

For the most part, I was impressed with the Academy courses. They did a great job of introducing me to a new piece of software I hadn't seen before and establishing some familiarity with it. The instructor-led training from UiPath, allowed me to put into practice some of the things that I had learned in the Academy. 

The biggest pain point we've seen so far is that we have trouble identifying best practices in certain areas and circumstances. There is no shortage of resources in the Academy and on the forums that have great information. That said, a lot of them are specific to use cases, or they're too generalized, which makes it difficult to know exactly how we should be handling a certain scenario or just some basic things about how to best set up the folder structure for our given environment.

It's been difficult to navigate that as it is still so early in our implementation of RPA. We want to ensure we're doing it right to establish a good foundation from which we will build all of our future automation. We are constantly concerned that we're not doing something the right way.

During a UiPath conference attendance, I really appreciated having access to experts directly. I can just ask them, "Here's our scenario. In this context, what's the best practice?" And I can get a straightforward answer. We don't have access to them outside of this conference. I don't always have the time to watch the videos or go through the multi-hour-long training to get to the one best practice that might be nested inside a larger training.

Finding some of the answers ourselves is difficult since they are contingent upon our scenario and the context we're building. There's not a one size fits all. To that end, it's no surprise that there's not going always to be a single solution that can just be published to say, "Always do this, this way." Without that context, we really do need to be able to talk to somebody, and we haven't had that yet.

In terms of the UiPath community, I probably can't answer a whole lot of questions since I'm so new; however, for a community like that to function and succeed, there have to be enough people with the expertise that are willing to put in that time for free. In a realm of automation that touts itself as a solution for people who have no time, it's no surprise that there are not always people that are willing to sacrifice what time they don't already have to begin with to give out free service.

Once I have automation ready for production, I don't see a way to deploy that to a production tenant environment without manually recreating everything. In a typical development environment in software development, you develop in one area, and then when it's ready for deployment, it's packaged up with all of the assets and everything that it needs, and then you deploy it to the production environment. You do some final testing to ensure the deployment takes, and you're done. Whereas here, it seems like I'm having to recreate everything manually. I can import the automation, yet I need the whole structure and orchestrator and all of the assets (75), and I have to recreate everything manually. It seems something is missing. 

I just started using the solution three months ago. 

The solution is pretty stable. That said, that'll be a question better suited for me in about three months after we've had our bots live. Since we're only in development and testing them in pretty controlled environments, it's harder to tell. It seems like it would be pretty stable. However, I can't answer that fully.

From what I understand, it scales well. I understand that's one of the directions that we see ourselves going. We'll be taking on more and more automation and scaling up quickly.

I haven't had any technical support directly from UiPath yet. I've only learned that we can request a technical account manager, and I understand that we don't have one right now. I'm not sure what additional cost that may incur, either. It's always that question of the cost versus the benefit. That's what we need - that technical expertise from somebody that can have a short conversation with us and help steer us in the right direction.

I have worked in the Power Platform with Microsoft. That is not specifically for RPA, per se. However, I've worked in it and have familiarity with it. 

One of the biggest pros for sticking with Microsoft would be that we're a Microsoft shop, so it would keep all of our solutions in the same realm. We wouldn't have to export and import data across services and databases. It would just all be under the same umbrella. That's a huge benefit of sticking with Microsoft.

With UiPath, there's a stronger infrastructure that supports the development, maintenance, and scale of automation versus Microsoft. However, Microsoft is still pretty new and young to the RPA development environment, and they move very quickly. I would expect that they are not done developing their RPA suite either. I imagine that we'll see future iterations where they become a stronger contender to what UiPath provides.

I was not involved in the initial setup. That happened before me. 

We have yet to see an ROI since we don't have any of our automation fully live. We anticipate an immediate return as soon as these are in production based on the countless hours that will be saved from people's workdays.

The licensing is a headache. Luckily, I don't have to deal with it directly. That's above me. As a developer, I have to deal with the licensing just in trying to build new automation and ensure that there are licenses available to be allocated at runtime. That alone is just obscure enough to make it complicated and leave me unsure as to if I've set it up correctly.

I'm an RPA developer.

We do not yet use the AI functionality. 

I would advise potential new users to make sure they know what it is that they want. In our case, we need to choose between the options of sticking with the Microsoft Power Platform or going in a new direction with UiPath. Even though the Power Platform could potentially do everything we need to automate, it's not apples to apples against UiPath. If what your need is better suited to one or the other, don't force your solution into one product.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate it higher. However, there are technical issues that I've encountered and a steep learning curve. We've had difficulty in finding the specific answers we're looking for and lack access to technical experts that can answer complex questions, pricing, the ambiguous nature of the licensing, and how those get provisioned. There are some core features still missing.

We use this solution for finance, HR, and for handling invoice reconciliation. We also make use of donation approvals.

I find that UiPath's user community was more helpful a few years ago. When I go to use the UiPath forum, a lot of the answers are copied and pasted from old answers and they don't make a lot of sense. That being said, I do still occasionally get some value from it. 

We also make use of the academy courses. We have put all contractors through the basic courses to make sure that they've got a basic level of competence. The academy courses are useful to test that people know what they should. The architecture courses have been most beneficial to us.  

We are saving approximately three and a half million annually based on the number of hours saved multiplied by a salary base rate. That ends up being approximately 60,000 hours a year that's being replaced by bots and this is a big deal for us.

The Orchestrator really stands out as the most valuable feature. We don't have to train anyone. They can usually pick it up really quickly. It is easy to use and intuitive.

A lot of the packages are very easy to work with. There are some challenges when updating a package that you've built or a library that you've built in UiPath. Overall, the extensibility is really nice. 

I would really like to see the package deployment updated. As it is right now, if you want to update something, you have to take down the latest code, sync the packages and re-upload everything back through the dev test to prod. It's a big hassle when we've tested the library ourselves. 

I have been using this solution for seven years. 

This solution is very stable. Any complaints I have come back down to package management and custom issues with custom libraries. Outside of that, upgrades are really quick and really easy. We have bots disconnect so frequently that it is easy for us to catch issues manually.

This is a scalable solution but UiPath could use some better visualization tools for bot utilization. They do have insights but they are a little bit rough to work with. I wouldn't want to put on a hundred bots at a time, but loading in a few here and there is really easy.

I used Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism for a while. The UiPath Orchestrator far exceeds the functionality of Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. As far as the bot setup goes, UiPath is very easy to install, especially compared to Blue Prism. UiPath is more business user-friendly than Blue Prism. Sometimes it's nice to work with Blue Prism because it has such low-level code that it gives you a little bit more flexibility.

We keep it pretty agile by necessity. We use a lot of contractors to get a lot of different approaches. We have 168 processes on 27 machines. We have some restrictions based on the company requirements but internally we move as fast as we can because we have to.

It is really easy for us to set up a VM and get UiPath installed. It is a five or six-step process. UiPath is significantly bug-free compared to what I'm used to with other products. I haven't had to raise a support ticket yet for UiPath.

Initially, we had a customer success manager from UiPath who showed our admin how to run the installation. At this point, we take care of all of it ourselves. 

We've replaced the equivalent of 20 to 30 employees who have all been moved to more valuable positions. We've taken processes that were supposed to take months and reduced this to days which has improved our customer experience. 

I would like to see a few more options for developer licenses because we end up swapping them so often. We've tried going through floating robots and a few options that have been not exactly what we're looking for. Price-wise, the cloud offerings are good. 

I'd certainly say UiPath is worth it to save time and effort. The product is really stable compared to what I've worked with before. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

We provide a lot of financial services. Its use cases are specifically in banking. There is a lot of Excel transformation where we are moving data from Excel into in-house applications. That's probably about 80% use of it.

We are using UiPath to automate processes that deal with a good cause. We run a lot of charity work, and there is a bit of work going on there to automate the operational aspects of running these charitable causes and things like that.

We have not yet used its AI functionality in our automation program, but we would love to.

We started with nothing. We now have about 150 attended automations going with another 80 attended robots effectively. So, we've had quite a growth in automation capabilities in terms of its impact on the organization.

The ease of use of Studio is valuable. In terms of features, Excel Application Scope, web automation suite of products, and screen scraping are the features I use the most.

Excel Application Scope allows you to use Excel pretty easily and graph data from there, and then you can transform it within Studio and make any changes you need to do. You can then either write it back to another Excel file, or you can read the table within Studio and write it directly to a web-based application.

We have used screen scraping a lot. If you have a web application inside Chrome, you can go to Chrome, and it can grab all the data from there. You can put it into a data table in Studio, make any changes or transformations needed, and then write it back to whatever application you want it to go to.

We gain a huge value from the user community. I'm always running into problems, and I have been going to the UiPath forums to get answers to my questions. Usually, if I have a question, someone else would have already asked it, and I can get great info and insight from there. So, the community is a very important part of the development experience.

We have used UiPath Academy courses. We recommend our citizen developers to use UiPath Academy. I've used it on and off for things I don't quite understand, and people also use it to get RPA certified with UiPath. It's another great value service that UiPath offers. There is the ease of use of videos and the breadth of knowledge. There is also the applicability of the examples to everyday problems. I definitely know people who've been able to automate processes that are more complex with the help of UiPath Academy.

Our challenge with UiPath is getting the infrastructure assets up to speed, particularly on the Orchestrator side. However, I just now came from a demo for UiPath Web, and it seems to be to enable serverless robots, which would definitely be a lower barrier to entry. 

Our pain point is just on the infrastructure side and getting the assets coming up to speed. It's a big bank problem. We have a very large IT organization, which is not always aligned with the needs of teams like ours.

I've used UiPath for about two and a half years.

The product is great. It's very stable. It's reliable. We trust it with a lot of different and very important automations. If UiPath wasn't stable, it would introduce quite significant operational risks to the firm.

Its scalability is good. It could be better, but that goes back to my pain point on our struggles with infrastructure. That has been challenging. If we could get a better handle on our infrastructure, then scalability would be a bit higher, but overall, it's a very scalable product.

I would evaluate them very highly. I work with their technical support every time our technical account managers can't get something done. They're very confident and well-versed in what they do, and they always find a solution to our problem.

Positive

The only RPA tool I've ever worked with is UiPath. Some people used Blue Prism at work, but I never used Blue Prism. They're not using Blue Prism anymore. They switched because of better capabilities. UiPath is just a better tool all around. 

I wasn't in the decision-making process, but I know they tried to do a proof of concept. The Blue Prism team was supposed to do automation of some sort, and the UiPath team was also supposed to do it. The UiPath team did it in six hours and the Blue Prism team didn't do it in two weeks. The ease of use of the Studio product really drives home UiPath's capabilities.

It was complex, but it was straightforward with the help of account managers. We have two technical account managers with UiPath who are very resourceful and well-suited to working with us and helping us accomplish what we need to do.

Our implementation strategy was a citizen development framework. It involved getting the Orchestrator set up and then empowering people within the firm to start automating their various roles or tasks. We still have the citizen development framework, but we're also moving to unattended automations from our RPA developers.

We did it on our own with the help of our account managers.

I don't have any metrics yet, but we're at breakeven in terms of ROI. That's just in terms of monetary figures. In terms of general error reduction and things like that, we have seen quite an ROI.

Its pricing seems reasonable. I know we've been able to get a good amount of value in a few years. Our breakeven was only in year two. So, we're approaching breakeven in our licensing program. It's not a cheap product by any means, but the value that can be returned on an ROI basis is quite high.

To those evaluating such solutions, I would advise taking a good look at the capabilities of the solutions. The strength of UiPath is its capabilities in a number of key areas, whereas some specialized players in the industry might be really good at one specific thing. For scalability, you want to have a wider operating area that something like UiPath can accomplish, rather than a more specialized player.

I would rate it a 9 out of 10. It's a fantastic tool that does what you need it to do. It's great for automating a wide variety of things. Ease of use is there in the various products. Any concerns I would have about having a lower barrier entry seem to be acknowledged by the product managers in the demo that I just now had with UiPath Web. So, in that regard, it's a very accessible and functional product.

We generally work on integrating it with our support ticketing system, which is ServiceNow. That way, we can standardize our input and get better results. It has been working really well for those kinds of processes.

A process that we worked on for operations, for example, was the ordering of phones for our new agencies. It accelerates a lot of that process and gets the people onboarded faster, more easily, and with fewer errors.

The most valuable feature is that it can be integrated with almost anything. We use in-house applications and we're able to integrate them through the database using endpoints and APIs. This sharing of information between systems via UiPath means our staff gets results quicker. Normally, we have to put in a request with the database team to go in and input the data. But UiPath already has access and it's really quick. It's really responsive and makes the experience easier for the business.

That is also true for third-party vendors. The vendor that we order our phones from has a UI, a website that we use, and we have been able to use the UI to integrate their application.

We can implement almost any interface that we want, in any way possible. It's really flexible.

And given that healthcare is highly regulated, UiPath works really well for credentialing and that type of security. We see that it has protocols that ensure that our data is not going to be stolen. We use the credential assets to save our passwords and sensitive information such as licensing.

I've been looking into Document Understanding. I've worked with it in previous jobs, things like AI center and OCR for documents. It would be helpful if they made the Document Understanding modules a little more user-friendly. There is a learning curve for using it correctly. It's a little bit hard, but once you get a feel for it it's good and it doesn't delay the automation process.

I've been using UiPath for almost four years.

The stability of UiPath is good. I haven't seen any abrupt occurrences in my time using it. Our production environment is always running. It's well-secured.

In regard to our processes, it's easy to scale. It is not that easy to scale on the business side of things, but the tool itself does provide an easy scaling process.

I haven't had the need to reach out to technical support that often because, with the community, you can find out anything regarding UiPath online. It's the same support team that answers those questions.

I did submit one ticket to support, and it was answered really fast. However, they did take a little long time to get to the root of the problem.

Positive

We did not have a previous RPA solution.

We do calculate ROI in terms of the hours we're saving the business. For example, with the specific processes that we created for phone ordering, we're saving the business a lot of hours. 

Currently, we're just using it for agencies because we want to see how this can impact things. But it's handling the process for more than 40 percent of our employees because most agency employees get phones as soon as they are onboarded.

I have evaluated other automation tools, and I've been asked many times in the different companies where I have worked why I prefer UiPath. It's the best choice because of the community, documentation, and the number of updates they come out with. They're really on top of things.

Other vendors are not on the same level. I have tried Blue Prism but it has poorer documentation and it doesn't have the support that UiPath has.

To get our certificates we had to use the UiPath Academy. The Academy gives you a sense of how UiPath works. It can get really technical, but to get a sense, at least, of how to start the journey of becoming a developer, in my case, it helped a lot.

Overall, it's a great tool to use. It has a lot of benefits documentation-wise and support-wise. It's really stable and it's really easy to use.