UiPath Platform Reviews

Data transfer between different apps is the main use case for us.

We've been using UiPath in plenty of business processes with great results. It's made our lives easier by automating data entry between different applications, reducing to a minimum repetitive work that everybody hates doing. Our teams have won a lot of time they now use in more interesting tasks where they can really make a difference.

• Great UX and very intuitive UI
• Fast and easy to learn
• Simple to configure with Orchestrator
• Works with most web apps and desktop apps, including Citrix
• UiExplorer is a fantastic help
• Can be used in attended or unattended modes.

• Debugging mode has room for improvement
• Sluggish to develop when several XAML files are open
• Price for large projects.

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.

We are developing automation for healthcare claims, insurances, and billing. We are using UiPath for Citrix cloud, web, and desktop automation. We saved 60% FTE by using UiPath.

UiPath is an RPA tool which provides rapid process automation development as compared to other tools and technologies. UiPath provided a platform for interoperability of web, desktop and cloud environment, so we are able to make connections using UiPath.

• Data scraping is a rich feature UiPath provided: We can easily fetch large data from the website. 
• Citrix automation allows us to automate cloud-based applications.
  

• Provide detailed and prescribe 'Debug Mode' i.e Run from step like other debugger and Very useful 'Simulate click' needs to make more stable in next version.
• Cognitive and machine learning features should add to make intelligent automation in Uipath.

The most relevant use cases are business processes that include repetitive human tasks that make use of different apps in a common workflow.

There are lots of opportunities to improve these business processes in terms of efficiency, time taken, and error rates.

• Good workflow capabilities
• E-learning and training academy
• Fully robotized and human-assisted automation
• A broad set of applications supported
• VB.NET and C# for developers make it easy to get started.

• Price could be an issue for large projects, but that's where you'll get a high ROI too.
• The collection of applications supported can grow, but we've seen it's happening in the last versions.

Used widely in automations of business processes of all kinds. 

There's a lot of different useful features in UiPath that makes it easy to use and able to create even very complex process automations.

Working with UiPath on developing automations, I'm able to create intuitive workflows that are easy to maintain and understand. The performance of automations is also one of the best in the market.

I like how easy it is to implement code in the process flow and how great the community is. That helps to solve problems much faster.

I think debugging is the worst part of UiPath. Compared to some different RPA tools, this is not the best, but it's still not a problem to troubleshoot any issues that you might have while creating a flow.

Be it any mundane tasks like invoice processing, document management, document extraction, and migration, order processing, KYC filling, application integration, Citrix automaton, or any such rule-based tasks can be automated with RPA technology. 

Among all RPA solution providers, UiPath is the best choice and market disrupter, from our hands-on experience with the top three RPA vendors while shortlisting UiPath as our RPA vendor. With its intuitive visual coding drag and drop and Microsoft SharePoint workflow foundation technology and open platform capability, code development and debugging are a cakewalk for anyone with minimal or even no coding background.

The software is very effective, and ROI on businesses is very high even from a short period of time. In our company itself, UiPath automation helped different teams to automate their tasks by being within the compliances of end clients with its non-intrusive front office and back office automation. Thus it frees up employees for more productive and creative tasks.  

• UiPath has a Community Edition for learning and trialing out, available free of cost. 
• UiPath also has several dedicated online academies with video tutorials and various courses, which can make you a hero from zero in RPA, again free of cost. 
• UiPath community forum has a lot of active members and helps developers to resolve any query/tips to handle challenges related to development, deployment, and production. 
• The UiPath support desk replies and resolves all of our tickets/issues within a business day and even helped us by coming to our office, for tasks like license renewal, migration of bots, etc.  
• UiPath also has a dedicated marketplace serving as an open platform for sharing different packages by developers around the globe. This helps the developer community with reusability and scalability of features by sharing their own individual packages.

Image resolution affects Citrix automation. Means, the resolution of BOT system and development system should be same in order to successfully run Citrix automations. This drawback is getting resolved in Computer Vision backed selector automation feature for Citrix in 2019 version of UiPath. Also, unknown runtime errors mainly due to application integration issues can cause issues, although it's a very rare scenario. This issue can be resolved to a great extend by using RE Framework in your development, which is also integrated in UiPath in the latest version.

We tried Automation Anywhere also, but shortlisted UiPath based on it's ease of use and the customer support.

Although cost is little high ROI is also too good. Thus my recommendation is go for UiPath!

Yes, Automation Anywhere

UiPath is bringing up a lot of new features and which the competitors have never thought off, maybe releasing in the 2019 last quarter.

This solution is used widely in different areas: from accounting to product order processes. 
I solve different business problems, like processing orders, collecting information, etc. There are many benefits: It's easy to use, exception handling is easy to handle, and flowcharts can be implemented directly.

UiPath has improved our organization by its ease of use, practical solutions to complex problems, and flexible working environment.

I found flowcharts most useful in UiPath. It is the best feature in UiPath, and you can easily create even complicated workflows with just a couple of clicks and dropping built-in activities without coding. You can also implement a state machine; which is also a great feature. Passing through states makes it much easier to design the main part of your process.

What I really don't like is some bugs in UiPath appearing from nowhere. In the new version, I see most of them, like when you are trying to change your variable name, it gives a very long error, etc. But still, there is one area not fixed: importing Outlook templates. 

I had an issue with implementing ".oft" files reading with "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" library. It was a real disaster; I couldn't define anything. I spent quite a lot of time implementing it, and I reached the conclusion that it is very close to impossible to use. They should direct activity for outlook messages and "oft" files. Except for that, UiPath is a great tool for automation. Also, debugging is not very convenient. It is hard to debug with UiPath if you are running a very big process.

• Using it on internal processes.
• Using it for the development of new processes, from an academic point of view.

It helped my students to understand what an RPA is.

Drag-and-drop, and no coding for process setup.

Cognitive services.