UiPath Process Mining Reviews

There are multiple use cases. For example, we have automated shipping process for the operations department, including shipping repairs, production line assembly, and line automation using attended robots. 

Using unattended bots, we have done Engineering, finance, accounts receivable, invoicing, invoice validations, and reconciliations. For sales, we have automated order management and order inquiries. We also have proactive monitoring bots for IT. So daily IT jobs are monitored, and the robot automatically takes action by triggering tickets in ServiceNow. 

Every human-dependent task has been automated and is now entirely done by a robot. Still, the people who formerly did the job are part of the process. They check if the robot is doing it right or wrong. And then, we keep on retraining the robot for any new exceptions that come up, so we are fully equipped to handle new scenarios. So this has fostered a culture change within the organization where people are coming up with ways to automate what they were spending several hours a day doing. Once these tasks are automated, they can focus more on the company's strategic initiatives. And that's a win-win for the company as well as the employees.

With UiPath in place, we are moving away from training people on the core applications, which are pretty complex. We've built a headless frontend (Touchless ERP), so it's really easy for anybody to join our company and be productive. A robot handles shipping, repair, and the assembly line instead of a human. Plus, these processes are executed with high accuraccy, removing human error from the equation. That's how we are mitigating a lot of our human-related problems.

Furthermore, the culture that we've built has helped in terms of the principle of retire, recruit or resign. So when someone quits, retires, or we need to recruit, we first determine if we can automate their job functions. The RPA governance team tries to digitize the person's tasks as well as their knowledge and experience in the organization.

The attended bots have helped a lot, and we have a leveraged concept of touch-less ERP. We can build a UI or a headless frontend, like a popup, that interacts with a human, and then the robot carries out its function. So the person doesn't need to be trained on any core applications like Oracle ERP or customer applications, which would entail additional screening responsibilities and the normal human tendency to make mistakes. 

So we have built a headless frontend that is technology agnostic. And it interacts with the end-user in a user-friendly, straightforward fashion. So it's only four or five steps, whereas it was formerly 30 or 40 steps. And that's how this way of implementing RPA has helped the customer heavily. 

Process mining is something that we are doing, but I think it needs to be more mature. UiPath is still new to process mining. They are decent in SAP ERP when it comes to process mining. But compared to Oracle's E-Business Suite and all, they are still pretty new. And they need to come up with some model templates for how to adopt process mining within your organization. For example, they could use some accelerators to help onboard customers. Right now, it's not that easy. So process mining is something that they need to improve on for Oracle ERP.

UiPath has an excellent strategic roadmap when it comes to features. So if it's not already in the works, one thing they could add is AI fabric, and if UiPath could bundle it into the primary licensing with Orchestrator, that would be great. Concerning artificial intelligence and NLP machine learning, we are getting rid of the requirement where a chatbot can integrate and synchronously interact with the robot in real-time.

The ability to listen to and reply things in real-time would be good to have. They are already doing it, but the ease of implementation and options to integrates needs to be flexible, and the license should be bundled into their current offering so that it's more cost-effective.

Another thing is UiPath's OCR we hope it has the same quality as FlexiCapture, a separate solution by ABBYY. That would be awesome if the UiPath had native OCR functions that were the same level of maturity as FlexiCapture.

I've been using UiPath for three years now.

UiPath Cloud Orchestrator and on premise bots has 100% stability in last 3 years we have faced zero Product related issues. the Platform is rock solid stable robust also upgrades have been very easy to do with zero impact on existing running processes. 

We have around 34 RPA Processes built using UiPath have a very good execution success rate of 94-96% , rest 4-6% failures/exceptions are only due to data or network issues.  

Scalability is great with UiPath. We have a distributed load for robots, so the long-running ones run on a different unattended bot while the fast-running and business-critical bots run on a dedicated VM. So that's how we have distributed the scalability. But if you want to add a new bot, it should take less than 30 minutes to host or create a new machine. And then, the deployment or deployment of the package or the code takes less than 30 seconds. So It's hardly 30 minutes. 

So about 20 attended bots are deployed. Some of them are in two or three shifts. In total, around 40 people are using attended bots, and there are only two unattended bots. So UiPath is running more than 30 processes for 30 different people. We also have around eight business analysts spread out across various departments who use this too. So you're talking about 50 plus people at least connected right now. And these are purely business analysts or  staff on the shop floor, like operators and repair technicians. But the processes that we have developed are helping around 60-plus business users that we use to do something.

So technically, with the deployment that we have done — around 24 robots—the utilization for the unattended robots is approximately 52 percent. So technically, what we have is sufficient for the next year, at least. We can develop more processes with the existing licenses that we hold. So definitely expansion-wise, we'll expand more on the process side.

UiPath technical support is excellent. They have a good knowledge base, and the support team resolves issues fast. Once you create a ticket on cloud technical support, it's pretty easy. You get an email, start communicating, and then it is solved in a day or so.   

The UiPath licensing and product teams have been beneficial. They gave us an option of a free trial where you can download it free and use it for 60 or 90 days. And that trial is extendable. So we got six months of free usage for UiPath Enterprise Edition. And that's how we were able to do things confidently. We could implement things to show to businesses and get funding. UiPath has been flexible when it comes to licensing costs, including free trials. Their e-Team comes in, helps you deploy, implement stuff, and solve technical challenges you have on the ground. 

We hadn't used any automation solutions before. It was always a human. 

Out of all the automation solutions we tried, UiPath was the easiest to install and configure. Within less than 20 minutes, you can set up a machine with the robot and make it functional. For the initial setup, if the Windows machine is ready, you only need to install and set up the robot.

UiPath also has the simplest deployment versus all the other vendors. Deployment takes less than 30 seconds. It's just a click of the button from Orchestrator, where the packages are available to download for the robot. In addition, there is an auto-download feature that automatically installs the packages remotely on several machines.

So the implementation strategy includes unattended bots in data centers, which run on their own. They are in a secure facility and are very hardened machines. They only communicate certain out-call to Orchestrator in the cloud. There are also attended bots sitting all over the warehouses and people using them on their own laptops. So implementation strategy for the attended bots isn't complex because they are overseen by daily users on their laptops and desktops. So it's deployed on those machines. Additional security and hardening will be required on the unattended bots installed on the data center level.

For implementation, we used some outside consultants to set up the governance framework for RPAs and the discovery mechanism. They also helped us identify hotspots, determine ROI, establish the recovery cost in months, and do value realization.

So after going live, they helped us look at things like cost and time savings as well as the actual recovery costs incurred in the process. They also helped evaluate the solution in terms of automatability index, productivity, efficiency, and quality. So, we analyzed all of these factors, which helped to prioritize the processes selected. We did all of this first and then converted everything into a factory model. What we call the digital factory team is responsible for development. And then, the governance and architecture teams orchestrate the development by going out there and doing task mining and process mining. For maintenance, we have five or six people for 32 processes.

Level of expertise with SI which is LTI is excellent

We have an Novigo automation framework that helps us to calculate ROI from UiPath. It calculates ROI based on the time a human would take to perform the task manually versus the time needed for a bot to do it. Then the hours are converted into dollars. Finally, we can get the cost per transaction per hour per dollar spent per record. That helps you calculate an accurate ROI when identifying RPA case, and we can see the value realized every month. We calculate the amount of records and hours saved through automation and convert that into a dollar amount per process. That's how we have been able to do a very accurate value realization based on the number of transactions processed by the robot.

The license is around $40,000 yearly. Technically, that's the lease price. But UiPath told us to go through our distributor, and by doing so, we've saved at least 50 percent of the costs. So it's now around $24,000. That is pretty cheap compared to Blue Prism or any other vendor out there that offers a combination of the same features. 

You do need to purchase an additional license to get Insight licenses. We were the beta testers of UiPath's Insight application, which is purely on the analytics side. A lighter version of insights should be embedded into Orchestrator itself inside the standard offering of the UI without the extra license costs. So that way, we could track the number of processes, exceptions, success rate, and calculations in a single platform without buying any additional licenses. 

Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, WinAutomation, and UiPath were four we considered. We used Novigo Automation Framework Reports to test and evaluate each solution to see which one best suits our requirements. That's how we chose UiPath over the rest. It included deep-dive reports from Gartner, Forrester, Nelson Hall, and many other third-party analysts. These reports featured a highly detailed heat map as well as information about the cost-effectiveness of the deployment model, the development roadmap, and the maturity of the product.  So that helped us to easily compare UiPath to the others.

I rate UiPath nine out of 10 because it's easy to develop, manage, and maintain. That's what sets it apart from Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, or Power Automate. It's a simple drag-and-drop interface, which allows for low code automation development. And that makes it pretty much different from other options that we have. For example, developing basic automation can take few hours in UiPath versus a few days in Automation Anywhere. Implementation-wise, this is a pretty easy model when it comes to having a cloud orchestrator versus on-premise. Going on the cloud has reduced the burden of needing dedicated administrators to manage and maintain the platform. Minimal administration is required to manage and maintain Orchestrator in the cloud.

So that's the fastest way to onboard UiPath. But there is a lot of groundwork on the governance piece. So before even investing in UiPath or any other RPA platform, you need a solid governance framework and a foundation that will help you do the correct automation at the right time. Versus just doing anything using the tool. The tool is designed to do all types of automation but they need to be beneficial for the organization with good ROI and value realization.

The solution is primarily used in a few pilot projects. I don't have too much production experience just yet.

I like how they handle process work. It's amazing. It's very customizable, and you can visualize different items. 

It's very useful in turning raw data into actionable information.

I was surprised at how many possibilities the solution had in terms of removing bottlenecks from various processes. It can help you with a lot of things. 

The solution integrates well with other features. You can create simple RPA bots based on your process filing or task filing.

It's very comfortable to work with in terms of dealing with big data. You can easily visualize it by building charts, graphs, or tables. You can add fields for your data and feed into it. The product makes it easy to quickly modify, transform, and visualize your data. 

The solution can possibly help free up employee time. You can easily decide which processes can be simplified and create a bot to handle the work. It helps create automation opportunities. It can free employees from repetitive work. They can then do something more intellectual and valuable. 

Process planning to utilize for streamlining processes is difficult.

The solution has its own language to process the data, so it can be difficult for people to start using it quickly. It can be difficult to handle the first project until you understand the product a bit better. 

Data manipulation could be improved. It can be very hard to manipulate or work with data sometimes, especially at first, when you are not familiar with the solution. It can be hard to learn the solution. 

UiPath could provide more AI and machine learning tools to analyze processes. 

They could also improve the UI experience. For example, how graphs and charts look and how they can be placed in the dashboard. 

I've used the solution for almost a year. 

The product is pretty stable. I'd rate stability seven out of ten. 

The solution is scalable. I'd rate the scalability seven out of ten. I'd rate it higher, however, there are some limitations to scaling projects and uploading data. 

I've never used technical support services. 

I did not previously use a different tool.

I was a part of the initial implementation. The setup was straightforward.

Maintenance depends on the model of delivery. It can be done without involving developers, or it can be done with support.

I don't directly deal with pricing. 

I'm not sure of the overall transparency offered by process planning in our end-to-end processes and I don't have much experience with the solution. 

The time to value depends on the process and the people who work with it. If you can understand the process, and pick things up quickly, or have a good analyst to analyze the process, the time to value is quick.

Automation is cost-effective. When you compare numbers before and after, you'll be able to see the difference automation can make. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I'd advise users to learn the solution. UiPath has a great Academy for studying the solution. It's important to do some online courses and learn the ropes. Start a project and try it out in real life. 

While we haven't extensively used the solution, our experience with the solution has been good, and we believe it has the potential to meet the needs of our other clients as well. Currently, we are utilizing UiPath Process Mining with several small solutions without facing any issues or hiccups.

One example of this is how we have automated the process of logging in to a website and checking the transaction status of our clients. Our firm specializes in chartered accountancy, which files tax returns and monitors the status of these filings for our clients. With the help of this solution, we ensure that our client's database is automatically synchronized with the login credentials for the respective websites. This allows for the automatic updating of the status of their income tax returns in Excel.

Since we haven't faced any hiccups or issues using the solution until now, I won't be able to provide any constructive feedback about the solution.

Regarding an area in the solution needing improvement, I want the interface to be better and easier. The solution's UI and UX could be made better.

My company is a consulting firm, and we implement solutions for our customers. As a part of a business, we explored whether UiPath Process Mining would help any of our customers. So, even though we are not authorized partners, you can consider us in line with partners. Our organization has successfully implemented a solution to automate small manual processes for three or four clients. So, we haven't extensively used the solution. Also, we have been using the solution in our organization for the last two or three years.

I rate the solution a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is not stable and ten is stable.

I rate the solution an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is not scalable and ten is scalable.

Those using the solution are SMEs, better known as small and medium enterprises.

Only one user is using the solution.

In our organization, we did not need to reach out to the solution's technical support team. Basically, I don't have any experience with customer support.

I rate the solution's initial setup a nine out of ten.

Since it was a very simple solution we gave our clients, the deployment process took less than a couple of days for us.

Two business analysts from my team were involved in the deployment process.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

UiPath Process Mining can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. 

I am using UiPath Process Mining for receiving the financial ledger details from the system because of the end-to-end payment posting. UiPath Process Mining's posting on the account written solutions, we are only using the schedule for process mining.

The most valuable features of UiPath Process Mining are ease to use, the graphical user interface is good, and the level of detail it will bring on the board is beneficial. We will be able to visualize a wide variety of users, what are the bottlenecks, and where it's taking a long time to process.

The installation documentation and guides for users from UiPath Process Mining could be a little better.

I have been using UiPath Process Mining for approximately four years.

UiPath Process Mining is stable.

The scalability of UiPath Process Mining is good.

We have approximately 1,500 people in my company and many have access to this solution to use it.

We have five to six portfolios are using this solution.

UiPath Process Mining's support is very good.

UiPath Process Mining requires customization but with a little guidance with the documentation, we can use it.

We have 20 to 30 people that are managing this solution in our portfolios.

The licensing cost depends on the enterprise, and the discounts and offers available at the time. The price of the solution is reasonable.

I would advise others to look through the catalog of solutions available. They should try UiPath Process Mining out and see what they think of it evaluating the pros and cons. From this information, they can make their decision if it is the best fit for their use case.

I rate UiPath Process Mining an eight out of ten.

We have deployed UiPath Process Mining mostly in banking systems. There are a lot of banks that we work with that do reconciliation, invoicing processes, and loan applications. We use UiPath Process Minings to automate in these areas.

We use UiPath Process Mining in many areas of our organization, such as our back office, HR, and payroll teams. 

In India, the banks forbid the use of cloud solutions.

The most valuable features of UiPath Process Mining are the ease of use, it's provided us with good indicators of which processes can be automated. There are lots of non-value-add activities which are being done that have helped us identify. If we apply lead principles we are receiving a lot of benefits without automating. You are actually getting a lot of benefits even without automating.

We have automated 50 percent of our known processes which is good.

UiPath Process Mining could improve by limiting the number of updates.

I have been using UiPath Process Mining for approximately two years.

The support from UiPath Process Mining is good.

The licenses are flexible, they start once they are activated. The license is purchased annually. The cost of the solution is very good compared to other similar solutions.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate UiPath Process Mining a nine out of ten.

UiPath is a platform that I use for automation in the enterprise.

I mine the process. In terms of Process Mining, I basically do the following: your SME can perform a process in a variety of ways. For example, let's say you call me and ask me a structured question. Consider the possibility that five of your coworkers are performing a similar task. 

They may have their own way of asking questions or carrying out a specific procedure. Then, depending on the type of associate you have, the number of questions you ask. The Process Mining solution will essentially figure out what the process variations are. These variations have been identified. Also, if there are gaps where people may not be following a standard process correctly, those gaps will be remembered as well.

It provides the visualization, the PI data, and all other information.

I believe it is adequate. I don't think there is an issue with the tool.

While it is fairly stable, this is something that could be improved.

I have been using UiPath Process Mining for two years.

We are working with the latest version.

UiPath Process Mining is fairly stable.

iPath Process Mining is easily scalable.

The number of users varies from client to client. There are a number of clients.

Technical support is very useful.

We use everything from Process Mining to RPA to OCR in UiPath. We use UiPath ProcessGold.

It is straightforward to set up. Because it is cloud-based, all you need is the right subscription, account, and set up in your company to use it.

Yes, I have seen a return on investment. The ROI varies depending on the process, but it is really good.

Regarding the price, I'm not sure. My procurement team handles this, so I don't have to worry about it.

I will undoubtedly use them because they are an excellent solution that I believe I should recommend to everyone. In fact, the entire UiPath suite is extremely user-friendly, which is why I consider it to be one of the best tools on the market.

I would rate UiPath Process Mining a nine out of ten.

We use it for getting reports and uploading them to other environments.

Its Artificial Intelligence dependencies are valuable.

There should be better handling of errors or exceptions.

It is scalable. We have eight people who are using this solution.

We have a technical account manager. We write to him, and he immediately gets back to us. Their support is quite good.

I didn't previously use a different solution.

Its setup is easy. You double-click the installer and just click next, next, next. Its implementation took two weeks.

I did it myself.

I would advise checking out academy.uipath.com. There are lots of videos for educational purposes. You can watch them if you want.

I would rate it an eight out of 10. It is a good product for me.

At my company, we use UiPath for almost everything, and not just process mining, which is what we call the discovery part of what we do. Our main use of UiPath Process Mining is as a tool within the field of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) that helps us with automating processes for our customers, where we will often also use UiPath Studio.

A major example of the work we do with UiPath includes automating management information systems for reporting purposes. So if we have to make a few reports, we will go with UiPath to create them. We have also used it for reconciliation, or what we used to call reconciliation until more recently. That is reconciliation between two banks, for instance. We also use UiPath for claims processing, LC (Letter of Credit) issuance, and more.

To date, our services company has automated over 200 processes for our customers using UiPath, all of which has been done by a team that spans over 65 professionals.

For us, the most important feature of UiPath Process Mining is something called Document Understanding. We have found it to be extremely valuable, given that the current situation we have right now is that it's not just pure automation of manual and repetitive tasks. What we're doing is more along the lines of what you could call "intelligent" automation. Document Understanding plays a great role in this type of process automation because it helps us in automating the reading of documents better and, therefore, helps to automate intelligence for our customers.

UiPath also has a certain dashboard called Insights that comes as a package where you can have analytics about how well the processes have performed. For example, if an automated process that runs at night stops midway for some reason, you can check the analytics to see why it stopped. It's a very beautiful analytics dashboard, too.

Document Understanding can read up to a certain amount of accuracy. While I understand that they have already started working to improve that accuracy right now, I think the accuracy is still only around 85-90%. I would call that our main problem with UiPath currently.

Then, in terms of process mining as a procedure, it only helps in terms of whatever processes have already been digitized. In this sense, what we find lacking is that at times when the file is a photograph, let's say a JPEG file, then because of its file type, UiPath's Document Understanding does not read it.

So we'll have a situation where people scan their documents in (or take a photo of the document) and send them across in an image file and not something like PDF, and in that case Document Understanding isn't very helpful.

We have been using UiPath for the last four and a half years now. 

It is extremely stable. The processes which we automated a few years back are still running pretty well. As long as the processes do not change, it continues running the way it is.

The scalability is good. This is one of the aspects which lots of our type of customers look at. When people choose between various automation tools, they always look at the scalability part of it, and UiPath can be scaled up very quickly, especially when it comes to how many bots you can have and how many processes can be performed inside a single bot.

As for staff, we have 65 people working with it right now because we are a service provider. When we get additional customers, we need to have enough people who can start work with those customers right away. For example, we have a pretty big order right now from the Middle East, and we will require about 10-12 people who need to get started on this job. So we simply hired them and scaled up to match the demand.

Even though we have had opportunities to go along with Automation Anywhere and others, we have stuck with UiPath for the last four and a half years because of how easy it is to scale and implement. Because of this, I foresee that we will be with this product for the next several years at least.

They have a 24/7 support service. And if I have a problem in implementing a particular solution, or I have a question which I need answered while I'm automating some processes, they usually reply within one to two hours. If it is extremely complex, I have seen them set up meetings to see how the solution is being automated and they will then provide solutions for it.

The setup was exceptionally straightforward. UiPath can be set up in barely two or three days, and we do it for our customers often. The deployment also includes Orchestrator. Orchestrator is the most complex of all, and it can be done in approximately three to four days' time.

One of the reasons why we chose UiPath is because it is a very stable tool and asset. So the main part of our promise to customers is the return on investment. Of course, you can only get return on investment with a tool like UiPath when you have proper processes. Both the tool and the appropriate processes are essential ingredients to get return on investment.

Our licensing for UiPath Process Mining, and the various tools such as Studio Orchestrator, is all paid for on an annual basis.

However, with the Document Understanding feature, the licensing is per page. So if we're going to read some 20,000-30,000 pages, that becomes one separate licensing stack.

I can definitely vouch for the product. It's extremely good and the R&D is very well done. Their product strategy is also very much on-point, as they keep improving the product year after year. For instance, when we started with it in 2017, UiPath was only able to do most things manually, but now they've got into artificial intelligence and machine learning and their product is able to read and do things that are completely changing process automation.

I would rate UiPath Process Mining a seven out of ten.