UiPath Platform Reviews

We have tried more of the RPA part. We haven't used much of the cognitive part.

We use it for our client purposes. We don't use it much for internal use.

It has helped to automate many processes. One of the places where we have tried it is the Citizen Development Engagement Program. That's where some of the people who were tech-savvy were able to use it properly.

It enables implementing end-to-end automation to an extent. Having a single tool for everything is helpful.

It reduces human error. A person can focus on his or her core activities rather than doing repetitive tasks.

It has freed up employee time. The time saved could be 70% to 80% depending on the use case of an employee.

The product is good. It's highly scalable, and it's stable. Over the last one and a half years, based on whatever we have developed, we've found it to be pretty stable as compared to the other platforms, such as Automation Anywhere.

We have used UiPath Academy courses. In UiPath Academy, there are courses and role-based training programs. They are good and effective. They give you some exercises to perform, and the community edition is also available, which is good.

The cognitive capabilities of UiPath are pretty time-consuming. If that can be improved, it would help a lot.

I'm not using it directly. Our team has been using it for the last seven or eight years. I have some experience with it but not to a very detailed level. 

It's stable. I would rate it a nine out of ten in terms of stability.

It's scalable. I would rate it a nine out of ten in terms of scalability.

Their support was good, but at the same time, for certain areas where we had issues, we had to directly call them up and try to get support from their internal COE teams. I would rate their support a nine out of ten.

Positive

We weren't using any other solution previously.

I wasn't involved in its initial setup.

They would've not directly saved costs, but they certainly would've gotten some value in terms of time efficiency or productivity, which would've indirectly helped them to save costs. The savings also depend on the FTEs freed because of automation.

I didn't evaluate any other solution, but people in my company might have evaluated other options.

Understand the product first, go through their internal training, and then decide whether you like it and how you want to use it.

It can speed up digital transformation or reduce the cost of digital transformation, depending on how you use it and where you use it. This digital transformation doesn't require complex application upgrades, but support upgrades are required.

I've explored UiPath's community, but in a couple of instances, I didn't get any proper responses or proper answers. We had to directly get in touch with the UiPath team for insights and information about the queries we had.

Overall, I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.

The use of this solution is spread out across our organization. On the IT side, we use it for synoptic notes like admission process, reviewing invoices and giving usage access.

The insights that this solution provides have been most valuable. We use these insights to report to higher management on the performance of our processes. 

UiPath also helps us reduce manual work although we do not yet use UiPath's AI functionality. We have learned a lot from the UiPath community and gained knowledge about future products and enhancements. 

The support for this solution is tedious. I would rate it a five out of ten. If we don't respond or the ticket closes, we do not get a response from them.

I have been using this solution for six years. 

This is a scalable solution. 

The support for this solution is tedious. I would rate it a five out of ten. If we don't respond or the ticket closes, we do not get a response from them. We then need to go through the process again and reopen a ticket with the same information.

Neutral

I have a little bit of experience using Automation Anywhere, but I prefer UiPath. The coding with Automation Anywhere was not developer friendly. 

Our whole team was new to this solution so there was a learning curve involved for all of us which made the setup difficult at times. At this stage, UiPath was one or two years old with limited documentation. The deployment did not take long.

We deployed this solution with the help of a partner called Ernst & Young.

We have experienced a return on investment using the solution as it has led to three million in savings since we started using it. 

We would prefer it if the licences were packaged together. When it comes to developer licences, we need to pay to transfer licences when a developer leaves and this also creates additional work for our IT team. 

Overall, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

I would recommend UiPath to others because it is a good tool and has a lot of potential to expand. 

We have multiple use cases for this solution. We have applications built on Microsoft platforms and we use UiPath for our automation and automation testing. Being able to do this means that we do not need to keep reverting back to test every use case when we complete upgrades. 

We also use this solution for the automation of responses to support tickets. Any tickets that come through that can be automated, rather than it being done manually. 

UiPath has improved the ease of building automations. We were using SeleniumBase testing which is a legacy application and required a lot of manual work to maintain it. 

UiPath has made a significant difference on our staff's workload capacity and freed up team members to take on new endeavors versus getting stuck with manual tasks. 

This solution has been most valuable for our support ticketing processes. This has created efficiencies within our team and freed up time for them to focus on project work. It has prevented the need for them to stop what they are doing to complete a mundane task and then get back to what they were doing. 

We previously built automation repositories before it was offered by UiPath. There's no smooth migration from what we built to the newer studio that they have at the moment. This is the biggest hurdle we are facing. We would also need to rebuild all previous automations built in another solution called SeleniumBase.

I have been using this solution for one and a half years. 

We experienced some performance issues because our libraries are growing and we experience crashes from time to time. This usually means we need to reboot. The stability could be improved in this regard. The ability to handle large-scale applications or multiple applications could be improved as our operations and libraries are going to continue to grow. Currently, our libraries need to be split and this creates more maintenance for us. 

We are satisfied with the scalability. We are aware of new features coming in the future and we will be able to adapt and expand our applications based on these new features. 

The technical support for this solution could be improved. They take longer to respond than I would expect. We would like a 24 to 48-hour SLA in place to manage expectations. 

I would rate their support a six out of ten. This is not due to their ability to resolve an issue. It is due to their lack of transparency and keeping us updated on how issues are being resolved. They are not good at communicating when we can expect our issue to be resolved. 

Neutral

We used SeleniumBase. We needed a solution with enhanced technical capabilities and this is why we switched to UiPath. UiPath offered us a lot in terms of functionality. 

I was a part of the implementation team in our organization where I made sure there were no roadblocks. I was working with UiPath's points of contact and they were coordinating and making sure the implementation happened as planned.

The initial setup was complex. It happened three years ago and we still have some questions about the setup. In order to get answers to these questions, we need to raise a support ticket. I feel like the knowledge of the support individuals could be elevated so we could receive answers right away. 

We implemented this solution in-house. 

We have not yet experienced ROI using this solution as we have only been using it for a year and a half. We don't have control over the domain to see the metrics and KPIs at the moment. We are hoping that once some of our core applications are in operation, we will be able to assess the ROI. 

UiPath has reduced our manual effort and improved the overall efficiency of our team. 

We considered Microsoft's Power Platform which does offer very similar functionality to UiPath including a Desktop AI Builder. However, this solution had limitations that UiPath does not. UiPath is focused on automation and offers a lot of support in this regard whereas Microsoft focuses on so many different areas. 

I would advise others to hang in there for the first six to eight months as the initial learning curve can be frustrating. Once you get a hang of it, you will clearly see the benefit of using this solution. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. Our test automations need to be improved for migration purposes and overall performance could be improved. If those two were resolved, I would give it a ten out of ten. 

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.

Our company is in the insurance industry and uses the solution to run RPA processes for the claims department to free up staff time. 

The scheduler tool is valuable because I can slow or speed up run times during peak use. 

Our solution is on-premises so we are unable to utilize phone apps.

I have been using the solution for three years. 

The solution's stability is 100% and really good because it never goes down.

The solution offers the best scalability of any known product. 

I have not utilized technical support because that is handled by other team members. 

I personally did not use another product prior to learning the solution. 

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

We track ROI quarterly and through Q2 we have saved more than $100,000 by using automated processes. 

We are getting to the point of reaching full ROI but need to build more automated processes to reach that goal. 

I am sure my company evaluated other options but the solution was already in place when I joined the team. 

I utilized Academy courses to understand the solution's full capabilities but haven't yet used many of those features such as AI. I am currently learning about OCR and plan to use AI in the future. 

Learning the solution is a case of "I don't know what I don't know" so it is important to become aware of all the tools at your disposal. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Our company uses the solution to automate processing of intended and unintended regulatory transactions in the banking industry. 

We are just starting to use the AI function of the solution. 

The solution has been a tremendous efficiency game for our company. 

We have delivered hundreds of thousands of hours of efficiency over 300 robotic process automations. 

The speed to market is amazing because an automation can go from the initial planning conversation to production in weeks.

Most of our automations have been without a user interface and we need the ability to interact with users directly. That should be coming in the next release for us. 

I have been using the solution for four years. 

The solution has been very stable across hundreds of automations. 

We scaled from dozens to hundreds of automations and are very satisfied with the solution's scalability. 

Technical support has been great and I rate it an eight out of ten.

The solution's community forums are great and help solve many issues. We can easily reference documentation for similar issues and that provides a lot of assistance. 

Positive

We previously used Pega but switched to the solution for its speed-to-market benefit. 

Our strategy is to use automation for maintainable, high-quality, repeatable processes while delivering excellent speed. 

I was not involved in the initial setup within our environment, but have managed the deployment of several hundred automations and the process is straightforward. 

It is very easy to use our CICD pipeline to deploy and monitor solutions via the orchestrator tool. 

Our ROI is saving hundreds of thousands of hours in time by automating processes that used to be managed by staff. 

Academy courses have been very helpful in preparing our developers for certifications.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Our company uses the solution to automate used to be a completely manual set of processes. 

The solution has cut down the amount of time needed to process certain transactions. We went from fifteen hours to three hours of processing time. 

The solution has freed up human resources to work on other things. This has created a better work-life balance because staff are not stressed when working on a particular process. 

There is much enthusiasm around using the solution and we plan to take advantage of courses offered through its Academy. 

The solution is easy to use, has a good user interface, and processes transactions quickly. 

Initial deployment is very complex and some integrators need better training. 

I have been using the solution for one year. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable.

Customer service is good and I rate it an eight out of ten. 

Positive

The solution is the only one we have used. 

The initial setup was complex because our vendor was not as qualified as we thought and created code that did not work. The process to correct that was hard.

We implemented through a vendor but had many coding issues to correct. 

Our vendor experience was a four out of ten. 

The solution has gotten pricier. 

We did not evaluate other options. 

So far, we are happy with the solution. It seems very stable and scalable with many different uses. We are still in the early stages of using the solution, but things look promising. We are not yet using the solution's AI function. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

We do a lot of manual work on a routine basis. We brought in UiPath to reduce a lot of routine work and mundane tasks that we do. An example would be that we have developed internal tools in our company. We need to back up the logs for these tools. Earlier, we used to log into a system, copy the logs, and then store them at another place, such as Amazon S3. With the introduction of UiPath, we are able to achieve this completely in an automated way. We have set up a UiPath automation to log into a system automatically, take all the logs, and then put them in S3 so that we have a backup for all those logs. This was one of the major use cases that we had, and UiPath helped us to achieve that at scale.

We are using the cloud version. We have more of a hybrid model. We have a pipeline through which we deploy everything related to UiPath. We have a beta endpoint and a production endpoint. Everything goes through the pipeline. Once everything is deployed in beta, we do our testing, and when we know that everything is safe in the beta endpoint, we push everything to the production endpoint. It is basically a pipeline system that we manage.

Our overall efficiency has improved. Previously, the manual tasks that we had to do consumed a lot of time, and they were also prone to human errors because they were manual. With the introduction of UiPath, we were able to reduce the time by half, and we were also able to reduce resources with these automations.

We don't use drag-and-drop APIs, but there are components that we drag and drop to build a UI that can connect to the backend robots. It has increased the effectiveness of how we implement apps. We can create the UI that we want visually, easily, and immediately. Through code, it would take us more time. UiPath's drag-and-drop functionality has drastically reduced the time because everything is visual. We are able to quickly build the app that we desire.

One of the features that I find most valuable is the Apps feature. We can easily create an app, or a web app, that can connect to the robots that we created with UiPath. It is just a drag-and-drop functionality, and we can implement an app with minimal code. Once we have the app ready, we can easily and quickly share it with other stakeholders so that they start using it. The apps are also pretty professional to be used at an enterprise level. That's the main feature I love in UiPath.

UiPath's community is great. It is a place where developers like us post questions and get answers from our fellow developers. We've been using that. Their community is very active. Some of the communities out there in the market don't seem to be as active as UiPath's community. Whenever I post a question, I get a detailed response within 5 to 10 hours, which is very good. My peers have also told me the same thing. We get support in the community, and we can also contact community members for help, and they are glad to help us with any problems.

UiPath is good in a lot of areas, but as an end user, I feel one thing that can be improved is UiPath Studio. It is an application that we can download to our system and then start building the use cases that we want. Sometimes, it takes a little bit of time to launch, and when we are building a complex application involving a lot of sequential flows, it tends to lag a bit. 

As a developer, initially, UiPath is a little bit difficult to understand because it has a lot of features and components available with it. Understanding each one takes a little bit of time. After we get into the solution, they can provide more out-of-the-box hands-on. It took some time for us to grasp the concepts and features of UiPath and then implement them. If that time could be reduced, it would be really good.

In terms of features, I'm happy with the features that UiPath offers.

It has been around one and a half years since I've been using UiPath in our company.

Its stability has been great. I've never seen it break or crash. It has been very reliable.

For production workflow, it is able to scale at high volume. It is able to take in a lot of transactions per second, which is really good for us because we have a huge customer base, and more customers are starting to onboard. The more RPA is used in the back end, the better it is. It is scalable as we expected it to be. It is able to cater to all the requirements that we have. 

One good feature of UiPath is that whenever I do a Google search, I get a lot of answers. The community of UiPath is very active, and they're great. Whatever question I post, I get a reply to it. 

They also provide professional service. We have the enterprise version, and they provide professional service and support. Anytime that we have raised a ticket with them, we typically get a response within 24 hours. That has been really good. I would rate them a nine out of ten.

Positive

We haven't used any other similar solution. We had in-house solutions, but they were not scalable. They couldn’t operate when the user base was increasing on a day-to-day basis. We saw UiPath and immediately went through the documents. Once we knew that UiPath could solve all our use cases, we just onboarded it and migrated all our in-house solutions to it, and since then, we haven't had any problems. It has been great.

I was not a part of the deployment team.

We were able to reduce the resources. Previously, if we used five resources, then after we introduced UiPath, the number went down from five to three. We need two less resources with the automation that UiPath provides. There is about a 25% increase in efficiency with the help of the automation that UiPath provides.

I'm not aware of the pricing because I'm on the development team. The pricing mostly comes from our marketing team. They handle the pricing with UiPath and give us access to the UiPath licenses as a company. 

We didn't evaluate other solutions. This was the first one that we encountered. 

We have not used UiPath's artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, but we are doing research on that. We haven't yet implemented anything in production.

I haven't yet explored UiPath Academy, but I have heard about it.

I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.