UiPath Platform Reviews

I have tried the RPA tool for the first time and I already love it. How easy it is: you can do all of the daily tasks which you repeat at one click. 

Primary use case: educational purpose and automation for content writing.

Secondary use case: additional content writing and data scraping.

 In our institution, we have to submit a weekly report for the tasks we perform daily. It is very easy to scrape the tasks we do from our academic portal and embed to the report.

Now we can make more assignments and content. On running a robot with a keyword, it writes the content and we just have to sit back.

• Data scraping and web automation
• Citrix automation
• Easy integration with all windows applications.

1. Community
2. Own software stack exchange platform
3. UiPath Go! should be more reachable to developers.
4. Incentives should be given on publication on UiPath Go!

I have been using UiPath for quite some time now, and I have realized that it is one of the best automation tools out there. We primarily use this tool for automating our business processes and removing repetitive work with the help of automation. The most interesting part about this (easy-to-learn) tool is that it is accepted almost everywhere in the RPA industry. There are a lot of activities in this tool which will help you automate processes easily.

It has been quite some time since we started using UiPath in our organization and it has done nothing but help us. Everyone in the company now is learning how to use UiPath. It has helped us to automate a lot of menial tasks, such as salary processing and resume organization. There are areas where the employees can focus more on now. All of these things help us manage our organization better. 

The most valuable features of UiPath are its activities. There are an immense amount of available activities in UiPath. These are the building blocks of your process. Since UiPath is new, it is constantly being updated, and new features are being added accordingly. 

As of now, UiPath is headed in the right direction, but in the future, it needs to introduce its users to the field of AI and machine learning. These are the new features that should be added in the next version of UiPath. As for the drawbacks, UiPath should really add an option to change the toolbar options which would make it more user-friendly.

The main request of our clients is the integration with the SAP system and specific tasks of email, like sending and downloading of NFS.

With the automation of the tasks, we have significantly increased the production of our clients, with robots running 24/7.

The web recorder has been a great help when it comes to automating tasks over the internet. The selector is perfect, and it recognizes with mastery all the information that is shown.

I think they should give a review on the recognition of text in the PDF files. It can not read a whole file, and that delays the work it has too much.

We currently use the tool to sell solutions to internal customers. Most of the work that we automate is the migration of data between systems, automation of emails, extraction of data from PDFs with OCR, among others. The gain has been perceptible from the first moment, as human errors have been noticeably reduced to almost zero. Another good point for us is that we can leave the robot working for as long as we want.

UiPath is certainly the most acclaimed RPA tool on the market. Its ease of use and firepower are prime points for its worship. Its interface is user-friendly, and even those who do not have programming ease can use it. The implementation and editing of selectors make the tool extremely powerful, and your courses at UiPath Academy make learning very easy and fast. The Orchestrator course is really good and allows the solution developer to completely meet any type of demand.

• Integration with Outlook, which is the main mail server we use in the company. 
• Integration with Google OCR and Microsoft OCR is very useful when we need to extract information from scanned PDFs. 
• Data scrapping when we need to extract large amounts of information from websites. 
• Integration with Excel, when we need to allocate this data in tables or CSV for future use, and many others.

Unfortunately, some things could still be improved. The documentation of ReFramework is very confusing, although there is the advanced course of UiPath, where the focus is ReFramework itself. I believe this is the most difficult, since certification is mandatory in ReFramework, and it is the Framework indicated by the company for the solution of problems.

The primary use case would be automating repetitive human tasks: read emails to get data, then login to the specific application and select other data based on the email received and reply to the initial email.

The secondary use case would be integration between legacy software.

It has given back time to the employees, to focus more on tasks that would require creativity and decisions that are not binary.

It can input and retrieve data in and from the UI of almost all the desktop and browser-based applications. This feature would give you a way of interacting with applications that would trigger all the logic behind the user data, compared to DB integration, which would require more effort to have the same result.

They should define a yearly baseline build version that would support the next features without having to upgrade all the time.

What you can observe is the stability of UiPath Studio. Sometimes, there are issues with debugging or changing Windows sessions between devices, but the robot running is not affected.

There are no differences in using one robot or 70 so far.

The support response time is good for critical issues.

UiPath is our only solution for RPA from the beginning.

It was easy to set up in terms of high-density robots and disaster recovery. Everything is "click to install".

Development is done in-house.

I don't have access to this information.

Easy to set up, and now the licensing is more straightforward.

We were looking into UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere to start RPA development.

I'm working in the banking sector, and as we all know, there exist many repetitive tasks which are actually done by human workforces. I'm automating them with UiPath. 

Accuracy, time and cost are the benefits I've figured out from my experience.

UiPath is a wonderful platform which helped me with automating many of the repetitive tasks including data entry, file processing, document classification, and many more like that.

As a software engineer, the features I felt the most valuable are given below:

• Version control
• Python support
• Time-saving
• The wide knowledge base on the internet. 

• The UiPath forum is awesome; we can find solutions to every problem from there. 
• It has nice support too.

The product and its documentation are very easy to understand and helpful, but I found some difficulties when dealing with the licensing. I hope they would make that clear as soon as possible. 

Then next thing to improve is the option to add activities into the work pane without using a mouse — actually, via real coders like keyboards only. So, adding more shortcuts would be helpful.

Highly stable.

It has a very scalable and easy solution, both in licensing and infra setup.

Support with a good knowledge base.

No, this is our first solution, and we chose it after a long time market study.

They are providing full support for setup, which includes Webex support too.

In-house.

I think the ROI is more than 100%.

I think when comparing with other products, UiPath has a flexible and simple licensing option, and their pricing is also good.

Yes, we have tried some proof of concepts with other software like Automation Anywhere, Kryon, etc.

They are also introducing AI/ML to the product. It's time to start using this so we can grow with them.

• Manual processing of invoices
• Outlook lookups for invoices
• Automatic online checks of Oracle, Hyperion, and SAP platform.

We provide a fast and solid robotic process automation solution to our customers. Robots are easy to understand and deploy. We also perform KT for customers IT department.

UiPath is not an open-source project, but it supports private enhancements and plugins. These allow the community to grow and encouraged people to contribute, with best practices. In my experience, the technologies that are supported by an active community, are those ones destined to succeed. This is clearly a great feature that the UiPath Studio platform has. Also, providing free training courses eases interested developers into adopting the technology.

Having an online Orchestrator instance for training purposes is great also.

I think that a great, nice, must-have feature should be to allow other languages to invoke code blocks beside for VB.NET. I'm confident that this feature can empower more developers to perform tasks and activities that other tools do not support.

• Automatic filling of web forms for request of services
• Searching customers' and providers' information on government websites (to validate registration numbers and expiration date).

It offered us a new perspective for business processes improvement, looking not only for cost reduction but better accuracy and customer experience.

• The Studio tool: an environment for development with a lot of components.
• Easy to test or simulate the process.
• Flexibility to use attended or unattended robots on desktops and cloud.

The solution architecture should be reviewed to offer more opportunities to small companies or small entry level projects. For example, they could accept SQL Server Express Edition or other open software database engine; and allow all components installed in only one server, at least up to 10 robots.

They offer a lot of resources before you have to call them: great written material, videos, training courses and a forum.

No, only evaluate.

Initial setup is not complex. You can start learning to use the Community version of Uipath  Studio, before deploy production environment.

In-house.

The ROI was not calculated.

Uipath is competitive when you have hundreds of robots, but it is expensive to small companies or entry level projects up to 10 robots.

WDG (Brazilian solution)

YANK (Brazilian solution)

AUTOMATE

The Community Forum and the Academy are great resources to get users experiences and support and should be consulted before starting new projects.