UiPath Platform Reviews

Reformulate simple processes such as API access and virtual environments, e-mail access, spreadsheet completion and systems.

• Positive impact on ROI
• Process control and integrity of information
• Reduction of expenses and reduction of procedural errors.

• Easy installation, maintenance, and competitive cost
• Active community, forum, and academy with resources for individual user development.
  

- Arguing between scopes and activities is still confusing.

The mode of argument transfer of a scope (or activity) is done by a screen where a variable is indicated as output to which the subsequent activity (or scope) is indicated as input. In large projects, these arguments need to be identified in an easy, fast and unquestionable way. Assigns a variable value to then assigns that variable to the output argument, and then assigns an argument as input to another activity. I think this transfer should be done in the panel of variables and not in the properties of the activity



REFramework is good, but still very rigid.

REframework is a good template but besides being very generic it is also rigid with respect to error handling. Basically follows the default entry> processing> output which does not encompass part of the applications in RPA, we must remember that the tool is for scripting and falling into the programming vices is a mistake. Overall it is a good way to start processes but during development it will be completely changed

We used a free application with few features.

A complete and agile solution for companies of any size.

Easy installation and maintenance with lower costs than practiced in the market.

I studied all three major RPA markets, "Automation Anywhere" and "Blue Prism".

I use UiPath in my company to migrate data between systems of a large telephone company where I use various functions available in UiPath, as well as OCR, PDF integration, email integration, SAP integration.

The return is sensational. We have been able to optimize process time and reduce costs. The robot manages to work 24/7 and with a near-zero error rate.

Integration with OCR, Excel, PDF, SAP, Outlook, since they are primary functions in the day-to-day operations of a company working with PDF, Excel.

Better documentation of the tool, since some frameworks adopted by the community of the tool is still very nebulous to understand. ReFramework, the main framework adopted by UiPath for better use of the tool is poor explained in Academy Advanced Course.

Data scraping. I use UiPath for extracting Twitter and TripAdvisor reviews from hashtag and comments. Then, I analyse the positive and negative data to a table using Python script which uses natural language understanding.

Earlier, we used to extract data using a Python script which uses Beautiful Soup library. Now, we can easily scrape data using a simple tool. It's not only just scraping data, but our non-coder or non-programmer staff is also very happy with this tool. 

This tool covers all segments of people in the industry. Our software engineering intern was also able to perform and design a sequence which could extract review tables from TripAdvisor.

I love the ease and smoothness of the tool. The company has its own academy in which you can learn from fundamentals to advanced level. Each time you complete a level, they praise you with a certificate so that you keep being motivated. Personally, I have half completed level three. The tool can be accessed easily either when you want to schedule a task on VM or on your own computer. Generally, I do data scraping and automation tasks, for example, I scrape the Twitter data using hashtags. I scrape +ve and -ve tweets to an Excel file up to some pages and then analyze the text into +ve and -ve tweets using natural language text understanding.

The first thing I dislike is it is not available in a Linux environment. I prefer to work on Ubuntu and would have liked if it is available for Linux systems. Secondly, There is very limited content on ReFramework on UiPath Academy. Assignments cannot be done just by reading the text. There must be a demo for ReFramework projects.

Suppose you have to work on open source development or Open Source project for a networking community. It requires to have a Bash. You cannot do that in windows. If you are running a script on daily basis for checking malware or something like that on your home networks using Linux (with the support of a GUI tool), you could automate it using UiPath if you had a Linux version of the UiPath RPA.

Secondly, when you learn for certification from the academy you have to pass level 3 in between. Which requires a good hands-on with re-framework.The academy lacks practice material for the same.

'Automation' is the word. It started with the purpose of automating, and now it is used in our company in many areas.

UiPath is used extensively in fields of energy and utilities, banking, finance, operations, paperwork.

• Automating the workflow using all the four types of recorders
• RE Framework
• Citrix automation, as it has unique features that are best in competition.

Whatever happens, happens for best. So far, it's going good. So, its going nicely to one of its goal to replace desktop support & IT jobs. One concern is robot failure. It may be due to any reason like improper scheduling of bots wrt orchestrator. If bot fails, it impacts business, as it does not meets the requirement in a timely manner, ultimately disturbing smooth functioning of business. (Ofcourse, its a good thing that bot is mostly 100% accurate)

With automation, you can create daily reconciliation reports with no errors (UiPath helps to retrieve the report from SAP, mainframes, web sites, etc., and VBA macros help to create reports very quickly — very useful for back office works).

UiPath is about taking the robot out of humans so that humans can work on complex tasks.

• Fast coding: completes the project very quickly
• Easy to understand UiPath Studio and its components
• All components are separate like UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, UiExplorer for creating complex selectors.
• Easy to integrate a third-party library
• UiPath has a community forum, and any member can provide solutions. The advantage of this is you will get a solution in much less time.

Only one cons I have seen so far as No Login Authentication: Whenever we are opening UiPath studio, it is not asking for any login credentials. Disadvantage is any one can open the studio and update the code/ change the code. 

Automating the manual work such as daily work like data entry jobs, accounting work, storing in Excel and filtering the mail.

By working fast and getting new knowledge of RPA with the help of this tool. It reduces the human cost. 

Getting the mails, filtering that and downloading the required PDF and scrapping the necessary details from that, then updating it into Excel. After that, the saved data is updated on the website using Excel. Then giving the acknowledgment to the client, the process is completed or not. Using this overall, three hours of work will be completed in half or one hour.

It can work with all the Microsoft solutions to automate the work without any problem. After a one-step installation and day-by-day automation, it is improving the process.

It has improved the Citrix environment with the introduction pre-release of computer vision which can manage the total control of the image to indicate as a text and all the content. But the OCR engine still needs improvement; it may be in the next release.

Use in a stable website.

than a human.

Easy to install the application using "creating an account"   website.

The license cost is has a community edition.

No.

Don't use the recording for full automation because the 1000-time process records will be developed too slow.

The primary use case of UiPath in our company is to automate rule-based processes with easy decisions.

UiPath improved our company through flexible IT solutions, which offers a fast solution to different problems.

The most valuable feature of UiPath, in my opinion, is that the intuitive handling of the tool offers the chance to learn how to automate processes in an easy way.

In my opinion, the product could be improved in the area of scraping features like OCR. Sometimes, the success-quote is not very good with these features.

The stability of the solution is mostly good. Sometimes there are bugs.

The scalability of UiPath is great. Orchestrator offers many options to scale the business.

The support of UiPath is very fast and competent.

No, I didn't use any other solution before.

The initial setup was a surprise because it was very easy to start.

I am implementing in-house for my own company.

I have no information about this.

The costs of UiPath are very high in my opinion. Small companies may not be able to get many licenses.

UiPath was chosen by the head of our company.

No.

My primary use cases are the change of customer addresses or their banking information in our systems.

Easy to handle software, as the "programming" of the robots is done through drag and drop activities. That makes the processes quick to automate.

The software, in general, is very well done, as there are many add-ins for different use cases/environments to implement robots. Especially Excel and SAP activities are working very well.

OCR and image recognition are already working quite good. But there is still room to improve when it comes to the accuracy, then scraping of scanned PDFs, etc.