UiPath Platform Reviews

Our use case for automating with UiPath Platform involves different types of processes, such as processing documents like invoices that need to be updated into the SAP system on a daily basis for payment processing, mimicking the steps that a human user performs.

The best features I appreciate about UiPath Platform are its continuous growth and improvement, evolving from standard automation to more advanced agentic solutions which enhance decision-making capabilities.

UiPath Platform serves as a comprehensive solution for all business processes to be automated, including features such as communication mining that extract automated processes from business users and UiPath Insights for reporting benefits from our automations, including hours saved and business value saved.

With agentic automation on UiPath Platform, I handle components like people, robots, and AI agents through a centralized platform, the UiPath Orchestrator, which allows business users to monitor, manage, and trigger their automations at desired times.

I have been using UiPath Platform for nine years now, and one area for improvement I find challenging is the frequency of product updates; rapid upgrades, such as from version 2022 to 2024, complicate the migration process for organizations with many automations, especially those running on legacy systems.

I have been using UiPath Platform for nine years.

In terms of stability, I would rate UiPath Platform a nine.

Regarding scalability, I find it to be a scalable solution, rating it an eight out of ten.

I would rate the technical support for UiPath Platform an eight.

I prefer UiPath Platform over other software such as Power Automate, ranking it first due to its long-standing presence and the ease of use it offers compared to newer tools, particularly because I have experience working with both.

Deployment timelines for UiPath Platform vary by project; for low-complexity automation projects, it typically takes around three to four weeks from start to finish.

The setup for monitoring tone or sentiment in messages entirely depends on how each organization configures its communication, as there are different ways to install the product, both cloud-based and on-premises.

In my organization, there are over 100 business users utilizing UiPath Platform for their automation needs, while a development team of 10 focuses on developing those automation processes.

Since automating with UiPath Platform, human error has reduced to 0% because the process we automate relies on the standard process that humans perform, and it is significantly faster; for example, while a human takes about five minutes to send an email and raise a ticket, automation reduces that time to just a couple of seconds.

Regarding pricing, I find UiPath Platform to be relatively cost-efficient compared to other automation tools on the market, ranking it first against options such as Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere, particularly when considering the value and capabilities offered.

Currently in my organization, I am deploying UiPath Platform on-premises, but I am considering a hybrid option to leverage some cloud features due to our security requirements.

I prefer UiPath Platform over other software such as Power Automate, ranking it first due to its long-standing presence and the ease of use it offers compared to newer tools, particularly because I have experience working with both.

The UiPath Academy courses serve as my primary source of learning for UiPath Platform, having started in late 2016; there are now over 200 courses available, making it the best resource for gaining detailed knowledge and hands-on experience.

For anyone looking to implement UiPath Platform, I definitely recommend starting with a proof of concept using their 60-day trial version and also engaging with the UiPath Academy for a better understanding of how the platform works. I would rate this review an eight.

My main use cases for UiPath Platform usually involve a lot of repetitive process automations. I currently work in banking operations, and previously I was in the tax function automating the entry of tax information into documents.

The department processes I have automated with UiPath Agentic Automation are mostly within banking operations. I see a lot of automation within what we call the fraud, claims, and dispute space. When it comes to credit card or debit card claims from customers disputing transactions, lengthy investigations are involved with a lot of judgmental decision-making. The capabilities for Agentic AI come into play there, and that is where we try to focus. We were not able to do that before, but now we can with UiPath Agentic Automation capabilities.

UiPath Platform features benefit our organization as they lead to better outcomes. We used to run a robotic process automation product within my company that was focused on RPA cases with repetitive, deterministic solutions. Now with UiPath Agentic platform and capabilities, we are able to open up the box to a lot more different use cases.

I appreciate the features of UiPath Platform. I have not been developing as much within the platform itself; I now have developers who develop for me. We have been using UiPath Agentic platform a lot recently, and that has been challenging but good. It has been the coolest one so far.

Additional features that should be included in the next release may involve having a dashboard feature to get some insights. I am not sure if there is one, and in fact now that I am saying it, I feel there might be, but I just have not been introduced to it. If there is not one, then I would say that would be very helpful. Insights are always helpful, especially when you have to take that to senior leadership; something easier to explain to them would be those types of dashboards.

UiPath Platform can be improved in other ways as well.

I have been using UiPath Platform for about seven years.

My team currently uses UiPath Agentic Automation capabilities. I do not specifically use it; I am more so sourcing the use cases. My team is using UiPath Agentic Automation capabilities, and we work directly with the vendor team at UiPath to get some of that integrated.

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was using Blue Prism at my company before I joined. When I switched over, we switched to UiPath as the primary vendor. Where I came from before, UiPath was the primary vendor, so I did not really see the differences. I just started learning UiPath from the start.

I would describe my experience with deploying UiPath Platform as very relatively easy. It is one of the easier ones to deploy.

What was easy about deploying UiPath Platform is that back when I did, the ability to package up the software and send it out so somebody could download it and have it packaged somewhere was very easy.

The outcomes I have achieved by leveraging UiPath Agentic Automation include one use case that saved about a million dollars a year. I have not fully implemented it; it is in the process, but I have gotten really good feedback. It has been in production for over a year now, and we are actually expanding that use case by putting it on UiPath Agentic platform and getting some more of those businesses.

The time saved extracting data points with UiPath Agentic Automation is a little hard to determine in terms of how long it would have taken without it, but I would say it is significant. I would say probably hundreds of hours of personal time, not even applying it to a direct use case, but as an ad hoc side project where I was told to get this data out of something would probably take hundreds of hours.

The factors that led my company to consider UiPath Platform were that it was more about usability from a user's perspective. I think it integrated better with the applications we had internally, as we had issues with prior vendors like Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. With the type and variety of applications we had, UiPath was a lot easier to integrate with, and with the new features coming out, it made it an easier decision.

I was not part of the decision-making process to choose UiPath Platform, so I may not be the best to answer that, but if I had to guess, I would say it was having seen Blue Prism and other software's usability, the usability from the community, and the overall product.

I would rate UiPath Platform's user community as a ten out of ten. It is one of the most helpful communities.

The advice I would give to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is that there are a lot more capabilities and features within it than where it started five years ago. It is capable of doing a lot more. I was a little bit of a skeptic to be completely honest. I thought there was a very limited use case for it. But after I stepped out of my previous role into the industry, I see a lot more that I think UiPath Platform is capable of doing.

I have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses personally. I cannot tell you if they use it at my current position, but at my last position, we used the academy.

The benefits I have seen from using UiPath Academy are that it is great because it is self-paced and very direct to the point. It is very easy to just pick up. I have the software, and I am able to follow along the whole time. There are parts of the academy that I skipped because I was naturally learning while building something, and when I got stuck, I would go back to that specific part. The way the academy is indexed is really helpful. On top of that, the community, including the comments and everything when people are posting about their individual problems and use cases, having the community there was helpful, as being able to search and pull up a community forum on that same topic was super beneficial.

My overall experience using UiPath Agentic Automation capabilities was pretty easy because I just had to point and tell people to do it. Once we got UiPath Orchestrator, where I did not need a desktop to run the code, that worked great. I had a core team of developers that developed the automation, shipped them out to people with UiPath Orchestrator, and then they were able to run them. The debugging aspect was a little tough at times. When we were shipping it out on company laptops with different APIs, there were a lot of issues with the selectors, and it was sometimes challenging due to the nature of different laptops and setups.

My overall review rating for UiPath Platform is nine out of ten.

My main use cases for UiPath Platform involve working within departments within our organization, discovering pain points, trying to automate those, and free their time up. That's what we were focused on for a while. Now we're trying to scale up, and hence why I'm here, to see what all the Agentic stuff is about.

From a developer standpoint, the features of UiPath Platform that I appreciate the most include the ease of building. They've made it a pretty simple tool. The features of UiPath Platform benefit our organization since we can go to production quickly. When we talk to a department, we identify a good use case for it, and it's rolling within a week or two.

I and my teams have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses. The biggest benefits that I have seen from UiPath Academy are purely knowledge. We hit the ground running fast when we got into UiPath, so it's been a good resource.

In terms of the value that I gain by being part of UiPath Platform's user community, it's shared experiences. Being here, talking to other people in other financial services, has been helpful. If there's one thing my team talks about a lot regarding UiPath Platform, it is staying on top of updates.

In a perfect world regarding UiPath Platform, in Orchestrator, I could select a process and hit the "update all" button. There are some things coming down the line regarding licensing for UiPath Platform where our current license structure is being sunsetted. There's just a lot of confusion over that. 

A little more clarification around licensing and how we can best take advantage of it for our organization's purposes would be helpful.

I have been using UiPath Platform for two and a half years.

I assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as very stable. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with UiPath Platform, not at the fault of UiPath.

UiPath Platform scales very well with the growing needs of my organization. I have expanded usage of UiPath Platform. 

The process of expanding was fairly smooth. There are some hurdles that we had to overcome just with different business units and getting adoption going.

I evaluate customer service and technical support for UiPath Platform as pretty good since we have their premier support package. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support for UiPath Platform a ten. I have no complaints. They're just very expedient. They respond quickly. They're there when we need them.

Positive

When evaluating UiPath Platform, the aspects that stood out to me were that we were on Foxtrot prior, and it was changing hands, and we didn't want to be a part of that. We'd have to redo everything anyway. UiPath was also a leader in the market, so we wanted to be a part of that. 

Before adopting UiPath Platform, I was using Foxtrot to address similar needs. The factors that led me to consider a change for UiPath Platform included that they were changing their platform and pricing. So we figured if we were going to have to do all this change anyway, we might as well assess what's out there.

The act of deployment was pretty seamless from my perspective. We have an engineering team that takes care of deploying, so I just turn it on.

I have definitely seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. We have about 150 processes in production with UiPath Platform. The one department that has the majority of those processes has not had to hire anybody else for those two years. Their people are happy, and we've saved them money and the need for more people.

I personally didn't have to experience pricing and licensing for UiPath Platform, as that was someone in a bigger chair than me.

I did not consider other solutions before selecting UiPath Platform.

We do not use Agentic AI yet. 

My advice to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is that it works. Use it. Simple. 

I rate UiPath Platform a ten out of ten.

My use case primarily revolves around automating processes in the finance, insurance, automobile, aeronautical, multimedia, and retail sectors. I automated processes in applications like SAP and Oracle, focusing on ERP type applications, API automation, Excel, and web-based automation. These are the areas where I have implemented automation.

The best features of UiPath Platform, in my experience, relate to how accessible the learning resources are compared to other RPA tools. You can find a high volume of data from UiPath Academy or YouTube, making it easy for anyone to learn UiPath Platform. There is no time bound for using UiPath Platform; you can install the Community edition, automate your processes, and easily complete modular certifications. Other RPA tools, such as Automation Anywhere or Blue Prism, have time limits for free use, while UiPath Platform allows unlimited access once you install the Community edition. Most of the features in UiPath Platform, including Agentic AI, Process Mining, data engineering, and document understanding, can be accessed without limits.

Additionally, premium features are available in the Enterprise edition, and transitioning from Community to Enterprise requires merely raising a request. Overall, I find UiPath Platform comfortable and easy to use, and they continuously upgrade their tools and functionalities.

Regarding agentic automation, one of the challenges I sought to overcome by leveraging people, robots, and AI agents in automating processes was the difficulty of integrating multiple applications through UiPath Platform Agentic AI. Recently, UiPath Platform introduced UiPath Maestro, which has significantly resolved many of these problems. I have developed several Agentic AI processes using UiPath Maestro, and everything has worked well. Furthermore, with my prior experience in prompt engineering, UiPath Platform Agentic AI training has instructed me on writing prompts effectively, so I do not face any issues during the development of Agentic processes.

I can say that UiPath Platform has reduced human error by almost 90 percent when compared to doing tasks manually.

To improve, I notice a concern regarding support. For instance, if a vendor encounters an issue with UiPath Platform and is unable to resolve it via UiPath Platform developers or architects, they may raise a support ticket, but there can be delays in response. Additionally, for users who are not vendors but have paid for a UiPath Platform license, reaching the support team can be difficult if they do not respond promptly.

Regarding the pricing of UiPath Platform, I find it expensive compared to other RPA tools.

I have been using UiPath Platform for over the last seven plus years.

In terms of stability, I would rate it nine out of ten.

For scalability, I would rate it ten out of ten.

I would rate vendor support as seven out of ten.

The community surrounding UiPath Platform resembles a free edition tool, with its own community forums. Developers and architects using UiPath Platform can post questions about challenges they face, facilitating a community communication environment where their queries are answered, and discussions take place, similar to social media interactions.

Positive

The deployment process of UiPath Platform is very easy. We utilize the CI/CD pipeline, which allows for seamless integration of bot deployment. There is no need to perform additional steps; pushing the code automatically deploys it into the Orchestrator. In earlier deployments, we had to manually publish our code and update many assets in the Orchestrator, but with the CI/CD pipeline, deployment becomes significantly easier.

The amount of time that UiPath Platform automation has freed up from doing manual work depends on the complexity of the process. For instance, in one recently developed reporting process that interacts with Excel and SAP, processing a report file with nearly 300 items would take an hour manually. However, with the automation bot, we complete the entire reporting in about two minutes. That is a significant time saving compared to the one hour it takes manually for processing each item.

When comparing UiPath Platform with other tools, I observe that UiPath Platform is a giant in the automation industry and is continuously developing its tools. Other tools such as Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere seem outdated, receiving few updates. One competitive tool, Microsoft Power Automate, poses some challenges for UiPath Platform, but overall, I find UiPath Platform to be leading in advancement.

Monitoring the tone or sentiment in messages affects operations by facilitating automation. However, I initially struggled to understand the specific implication regarding sentiment. UiPath Platform provides tools, including Excel-based tools within the Automation Hub, where users can submit processes intended for automation and gather relevant information for business analysis. This hub can analyze how many activities are being automated and the benefits derived from such automation.

The biggest benefit I have seen from UiPath Academy courses is the ease of learning and the abundance of exercises provided. If a learner faces challenges in completing an exercise, solutions are also provided. The training progresses from basic to advanced levels, and the training modules feature excellent videos and explanations. If anyone wants to learn UiPath Platform, they can do so effectively through UiPath Academy portal and master the platform.

Automating actions or responses according to messages aligns with the purpose of automation, which is removing human dependency. Automating communication and sentiment analysis can significantly enhance operational efficiencies and improve automation processes overall.

Our clients are primarily medium-sized businesses.

UiPath Platform does require some maintenance, as UiPath Platform continuously upgrades its tools and packages. If there are major issues, updates are necessary; otherwise, regular updates for packages and processes may not be required.

UiPath Platform is purchased through a partner connection, and certain conditions must be met, including the number of licenses purchased. If you meet the required volume, you can partner directly with UiPath Platform; if not, you must complete a solution SSN certification to partner with them.

I have provided this review with an overall rating of eight out of ten.

My main use case for UiPath Platform is to build RPA bots.

The features of UiPath Platform that I value the most are the scheduling features and the ability to bring our own LLM. 

Having the ability to bring our own LLM has helped reduce some of our costs. It was cheaper and we felt we had better results with the LLM.

My overall experience with using UiPath Agentic automation capabilities is that it was very easy and rapid to develop, and we achieved a more sophisticated end result than when we tried to use other AI tools to do a similar thing, which were not nearly as sophisticated or accurate.

My advice to another organization considering UiPath Platform is to focus on how they start up the program and what automations they choose to develop first. We went for the big wins with automations that would return a lot of resource hours, however, in hindsight, we should have brought in partners to track down and develop various use cases for automation. Any turning an ROI within six months should have been developed earlier, as we would have been three years down the road now of saving from those bots instead of having a long list of 30 bots that have been sitting there and not developed.

I have been using UiPath Platform for three years.

We have only had one big issue where the Google Suite products caused the bots interacting with the Google Suite connectors to fail, but we could never figure out why. We just ended up having to upgrade each of the bots, and thankfully they ended up working after that.

UiPath Platform has scaled really well with our growing needs. We went from two bots to three licensed cores, and so far, just those three cores have been able to support all of our 35 bots. We are adding about 10 to 15 bots a year.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate my customer service and technical support experience as a ten. 

Every time I reach out to UiPath, my account rep quickly finds the right resources, gets us on a call in a timely manner, and helps us work through whatever we need. They schedule follow-up meetings to ensure we do not need more help.

Positive

The process with expanding has been pretty painless. We have our own CI/CD process that integrates with Git, GitHub, and our own pipeline, and it works really well, making pushing new bots not a problem at all.

We definitely have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. Over the three years, we have implemented 35 bots and are saving about 24,000 resource hours annually, and that does not even include the revenue that it has also probably helped generate.

Lately, we have looked at other solutions, including some of the Gemini products, to see if they had capabilities. We looked into them for performance, cost, support, scalability, and more citizen development capabilities. While Gemini has easier citizen development capabilities, what ends up getting developed is really not robust and often not enterprise-level use cases.

We do not use the testing features, however, we do use Autopilot and the Agent Builder within UiPath Platform. The deployment model for UiPath Platform is in the cloud. It is our own cloud and our own instance in AWS. 

We have not implemented the Agentic automation yet, so we do not really have metrics; the Challenger is the sales template that we implemented or technique. 

I would rate UiPath Platform overall as an eight out of ten. We have primarily Mac users throughout our company, and some features like Task Mining are not usable because it is Windows-based.

I am an RPA developer and tech lead within the RPA field. I have used UiPath Platform according to RPA development, especially for many customers, and I have worked within companies that also recommended UiPath Platform as a solution to their needs and business processes. There were many different use cases. The most popular one is traditional RPA automation of repetitive tasks, such as downloading reports and automating business processes where we created robots performing certain tasks in the customer's core systems.

I have also participated in a couple of use cases using AI Center from UiPath Platform and Document Understanding and data, but mainly, the most popular one is just the typical RPA traditional approach.

I did not have a chance to try agentic automation on a real use case; I just started it by myself to get familiar with the technology, not diving deep into that, but I appreciate the idea of Maestro and how it looks. I really appreciate the approach of showing just a simple BPMN or diagram where you are solving your puzzle and collecting all the components in one place. It reminds me of my first RPA tool, Blue Prism, which I also really appreciated. I never faced any issues because I did not use it for a real use case, but it looks promising, especially how easily you can automate and create agents and context-based agents with RAG. I appreciate it and I am hoping that there will be opportunities in the nearest future where I can use something from Maestro or agentic automation or all together, which would be interesting.

The best feature of UiPath Platform that I appreciate the most is UiPath Studio. It is a great tool that I appreciate because I am a developer and I also have a background as a .NET developer, and I really appreciate how Studio is built on the WWF framework, Windows Workflow Foundation. It also includes the core .NET libraries, which are really good, and it appears as a native integration environment, such as Visual Studio or other products.

The Orchestrator is also really good because it is a great tool with the open API, which I leverage really often. Those are the most beloved ones from UiPath Platform.

By using UiPath Platform, I always try to reduce human errors by the maximum amount possible. It really depends on the projects because we have a rapidly changing environment when needing to do something quick as a POC or MVP product to show the customer something that works. In my experience where I developed solutions using UiPath Platform, I always aim for an eighty percent reduction in human errors.

I see Blue Prism as a tool that is more compatible with customers and structures that keep a high focus on security. It is a popular choice for banks and financial structures because it is simple and has enhanced security features which are really appreciated by banks, financial structures, and also the government. Power Automate is also a great tool, particularly with its connections to the Power Platform, such as Power Apps, providing a seamless integration experience. I would say that Power Automate is more suitable when you have the full Microsoft stack, when you need to automate something inside regularly using SharePoint, Excel online, and Outlook.

UiPath Platform combines all these elements, as it caters to both citizen developers and experienced developers. If you know some programming language, you can do really agile things with UiPath Platform. Furthermore, UiPath Platform offers enhanced security features specifically for healthcare and banking. UiPath Platform is the right choice when you start your automation journey because it can do everything. You can create something focused on security or integrate with the Microsoft stack, though not as seamlessly as Power Automate. From the developer experience perspective, UiPath Platform is the winner, as it feels developed even with low-code, but still provides a feeling of native development, such as back-end development where you can freely utilize your favorite programming language, .NET and C#.

Backward compatibility has room for improvement because it often happens that when someone starts developing on one version of UiPath Platform, for example, version 2023.4, and newer versions come out, they might not have a proper SDLC which covers keeping up-to-date on UiPath Platform. When deciding to update to the newest version, it is often the case that it breaks previously developed automations and code. Even ninety percent of your code might not work due to new activities, packages, or something else. The first improvement should be on backward compatibility, which means I want to easily update when I need to.

I have also faced an issue with Q items and API. It does not allow full manipulation of Q items as you can do natively. For instance, there are several stages of transaction status, and with the API, you can grab and read details about items but cannot set the status in progress, which is essential for UiPath Platform to advance to the next transaction stages. This is covered by native activities of UiPath Platform, but when I want to leverage it from the API, I cannot do so.

The second point is the lack of proper documentation for coded automation workflows. I noticed that not many people use the coded workflows feature, which is great for creating C# classes for helpers and other custom needs. However, the lack of documentation and answers in the UiPath Platform forum can be frustrating. I would suggest more rich documentation and an open-source behavior approach for this feature to provide information for developers.

I have focused on UiPath Platform for probably three and a half years, maybe four.

Stability depends on the operator and infrastructure robustness. I would say it is generally good, but sometimes the bugs or behavior of the studio itself are frustrating. Therefore, I would rate it a seven due to these bugs and backward compatibility issues, as they tend to stop maintaining previous packages and versions, which can become buggy.

I would rate the technical support a strong nine. It is really good.

Positive

I have never used UiPath Platform for my personal projects, but for my clients, I would say it typically saves three to seven FDEs per week, which is really great.

Regarding pricing, I do not have direct access to it because it is always up to customers as the sales team from the customer side handles the purchases. However, from what I have heard and seen, it is probably more expensive than other vendors, but there are no doubts that it is worth it.

When comparing UiPath Platform with other RPA tools such as Blue Prism, I would say UiPath Platform is always the right option because Blue Prism and Power Automate and Power Platform are really for specific use cases. I also have experience with Power Automate and Power Platform.

I have really good feedback about UiPath Platform Academy courses because they provide plenty of information, divided into sections and include gamification with the robot icon watching. However, I do have one main concern regarding the tasks that you need to perform to gain your knowledge perfectly. They are pretty easy for me, especially. I would add some difficulty to that. Overall, the structure and the information located there are good and they cover all of my needs to check, review, or learn something.

I think the UiPath Platform user community lacks information about some complex use cases, which is a problem for the forum, as it seems that everyone develops something simple and only asks straightforward questions, getting their answers on the forum. However, when it becomes serious, you really struggle on the forum to find information. I do use the forum to get answers from the LLM models, but I would say it needs improvement, such as publishing more serious cases to provide answers to more specific questions.

My advice for someone looking into purchasing an RPA tool such as UiPath Platform is to always search for really qualified engineers, not just citizen developers. When building something complex and wanting to get your ROI, hiring qualified developers is essential. It is a must. Based on this, I would recommend UiPath Platform.

I would say that if you do not consider maintenance at the start, it will be complex and difficult. However, if you think about it from scratch, it can be easy. I perform maintenance with the major releases of the platform about once every three months. My overall rating for UiPath Platform is an eight.

Currently, my main use cases for UiPath Platform are working on Agentic. Previously I have worked on multiple RPA processes, be it finance, sales, or airport operations. 

My use cases and the department processes I have automated with UiPath Platform Agentic Automation are from the airlines industry, such as seat assignment and refunds for now. 

By leveraging Agentic Automation, I have achieved outcomes such as processing the refund requirements of customers; using the Agentic AI, I can process the documents easily and can just get the narrative that is present in the document to determine if we need to give the refund back or not.

One of the features of UiPath Platform that I appreciate the most is the Orchestration, along with the user-friendly UI where I can develop the code. These features benefit my organization by providing a low-code platform, using which we can easily deploy and develop our processes.

My thoughts on UiPath Platform's user community in terms of the value gained by being a part of it are very good; it's very reachable and has a quick turnaround if I have any queries.

UiPath Platform can be improved by adding more functionalities around security, especially around the Agentic AI. In the next release, I would want to see everything around Agentic included, making it more user-friendly, easier to access things, and allowing multiple tasks to be done on a single screen.

I have been using UiPath Platform for six years.

I assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as very good. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

UiPath Platform scales very effectively with the growing needs of my organization, as I work on multiple projects and can easily develop as soon as I get a project; the turnaround time is very low. 

I have expanded usage, and the process has been very smooth; if I see an additional requirement in a process, I can easily develop it, and with multiple functionalities available in UiPath Platform such as Action Center and Human in the Loop, it scales effectively.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support as very good. 

In case of any technical issues, I directly reach out to the SMEs and the TAMs assigned to me, who set up a quick meeting and are happy to resolve issues easily. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a nine; they are very reachable and knowledgeable, providing multiple solutions whenever I reach out.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was not using another solution to address similar needs.

There weren't any challenges with the deployment. Frankly, it's very easy. It's direct.

I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. Based on UiPath Platform, I have around 300, 400 bots with us, resulting in a very good ROI of approximately 20 million plus.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing as a UiPath Platform customer is very good; we get a bundle license, and if we have any issues, we can directly reach out to the sales managers to resolve them.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, I tested other products such as Power Platform and Automation Anywhere, but when I considered the UI and ease of use, I chose UiPath Platform. In my evaluation process, the positive aspects included the ease of use, the Orchestration as one of the biggest advantages, the support, the customer support, and the Development Studio, which is very good. The negative aspect was evaluating the license cost based on the ROI to determine if I could achieve it or not.

As a UiPath Platform user, my advice to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is that the platform is excellent; they should focus on comparing with other platforms, the ease of use, the products provided, the accuracy, and their quick turnaround for implementing new updates. 

My teams have not used the vendor's UiPath Academy course. 

I rate UiPath Platform as nine out of ten overall. It has everything you could want in one platform, including Orchestration, development, ease of use, easy connectivity, and the Academy is excellent for learning.

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.

Positive

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.

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.

Using these features of UiPath Platform benefited our organization by helping us troubleshoot an issue where some buttons wouldn't get pressed during one of our workflows, and we were on our fifth or sixth try at a new package. I had the recording software capture the process, and though the file size was gigantic, we were able to see that the window wasn't maximizing to the default 1080p. It would keep it at a 640p size, which was why it was not clicking the button.

For the Orchestrator, I really appreciate the logging function of UiPath Platform. Many teams at my company use offshore developers, so the debugging capabilities, such as the screenshotting and recording features, are particularly helpful.

I have used UiPath Academy courses as I'm fairly new to UiPath Platform. Many of my team members have been using this for years. The biggest benefits from UiPath Academy include learning how to use everything from Orchestrator to Studio. For Orchestrator, I was initially confused by the menus, tenant level, and organization level menus. Getting to know where to navigate within each of these has helped considerably.

UiPath Platform can be improved with better navigation and documentation. When I've introduced someone to the new Studio or Orchestrator, they definitely click different things that are named similarly or the same, and that is probably the most confusing part of the process.

I have been using UiPath Platform for about a year.

I have experienced downtime, crashes, and performance issues with UiPath Platform. Occasionally our on-prem Orchestrator would crash and we would have to contact UiPath support about how to get it running again, usually within one day.

UiPath Platform scales effectively with the growing needs of my organization. We initially started with a handful of bots to test its value, and the demand continues to grow.

I would rate the customer service technical support of UiPath Platform an eight out of ten. 

There is a good amount of technical knowledge to be shared. However, especially concerning licensing, we received very slow support to the point of last-day renewals.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, we were using basic workflows such as the original Microsoft InfoPath, however, they needed significant improvements.

I've had a smooth experience with deploying UiPath Platform so far. Our upgrade to Windows 11 remains to be tested.

I have seen return on investment with UiPath Platform. While exact numbers are under NDA, UiPath Platform has solved many repetitive tasks and has enabled people to focus on improving their skills or advancing the business in other ways.

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing of UiPath Platform are definitely on the more expensive side, and many colleagues have expressed the same opinion. However, considering what UiPath Platform offers, it has been worth the investment so far. We will reassess when our contract needs to be renewed.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, I considered other solutions such as Power Automate and other workflows such as Nintex, however, UiPath Platform's flexibility in executing tasks is what ultimately convinced us. What stood out positively in my evaluation process was how easy it is to administrate. We are very concerned with data security, so having an all-in-one Orchestrator to monitor access to logs and citizen developers makes it much easier than some of the other solutions we considered.

With the focus on AI, the next release of UiPath Platform should include a hand-holding guide to show people what it's capable of. Many developers I've talked to who have never used AI in this context will be uncertain about its capabilities. 

Based on my experience, I rate UiPath Platform seven out of ten.