Automation Anywhere (AA) vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere (AA)
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
493
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (3rd), Process Mining (3rd)
Visual Studio Test Professi...
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Functional Testing Tools (6th), Test Management Tools (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

PS
May 13, 2024
Users save time and effort since most integrations come with clear documentation readily available before the standard setup process, ensuring immediate functionality
In the past, these tasks were handled manually, leading to a lot of repetition. Automation Anywhere has eliminated that burden, making these same tasks much easier and significantly faster to complete. We implemented AI-based automation that combines documents using intelligent document processing. This involved integrating generative AI to automatically create responses based on the data extracted from the documents. This automation streamlines the process and delivers the desired business output to end users. Automation Anywhere caters to business users with its user-friendly interface, allowing them to build automation with minimal technical expertise. Our large business user community exemplifies this – after a five-day training program with hands-on exercises, they're empowered to independently develop their own automation within three to four days. This highlights the platform's ease of use from a business user perspective. To ensure our business users can leverage RPA, we provide training through Automation Anywhere University. This platform offers in-depth coverage of both use cases and technical aspects, along with customized training that helps users directly connect their daily tasks to RPA methods. This blended approach has proven to be very effective. Non-technical users can overcome the learning curve in four to five days. While Automation Co-Pilot is a strong solution overall and integrates well with web applications, integrating it with legacy systems may require some effort on our part. However, this effort is typically minimal, taking just a few days to achieve successful integration. We're currently testing Automation Co-Pilot and exploring its potential for AI integration, which reinforces our belief in its overall value. Based on our POCs, we project that Automation Co-Pilot will add value to our projects. Automation Co-Pilot helps free up our staff's time on projects. Automation Anywhere's service and customer support are improving. Their management prioritizes strong relationships with customers, evidenced by frequent collaborative meetings. This focus on customer solutions, along with other efforts, contributes to a clear upward trend in their overall support effectiveness. They've been a valuable asset to our organization. Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize how we implement automation. Our organization sees a significant opportunity to leverage generative AI within the Automation Anywhere landscape. As a bot-focused organization, we have achieved a 30 percent automation feasibility rate. By combining automation with AI, we can achieve a 70 percent rate. This represents the kind of scalability we envision for our organization. Our organization is expanding its use of Automation Anywhere. We have two main approaches: governance is handled through a dedicated platform integrated with Automation Anywhere, while bot deployment utilizes a separate web platform built with XTML or Java that interacts with Automation Anywhere for bot execution and deployment. Integrating automation and APIs with Automation Anywhere streamlines workflows significantly. Users save time and effort since most integrations come with clear documentation readily available before the standard setup process, ensuring immediate functionality. Automation Anywhere's documentation serves as the primary resource for all integrations, and users can find most information there. For any remaining questions, support channels are readily available for further assistance. Automation Anywhere has significantly reduced our operational costs and freed up employee time. With thousands of automated processes running on our platform, we're saving thousands of hours of work every month.
Kevin McAllister - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 18, 2023
Highly stable solution with a rich IDE
We do a lot of test-driven development and acceptance test-driven development, so we write all our test cases for our .net development through Visual Studio Test Professional.  Visual Studio Test Professional has allowed us to increase the quality of one of our web portal products drastically. We…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product has improved our organization cost-wise and bank savings in transactions. Everything has been changed for the better."
"The most valuable features of Automation Anywhere are Excel, periods, database, and email action."
"It is easy to use and deploy."
"It has helped us a lot with our digitized work."
"I like all of the product features, but I mostly like to work with IQ Bots because they have cognitive automation capabilities."
"The solution is easy to learn and with it, it's easy to replicate knowledge."
"MetaBot is the most valuable feature. Other products have robotic functionality but MetaBot is a kind of functionality by which code is created... so business users who do not have coding knowledge can drag and drop."
"The flexibility which has been built into it is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"The interface is easy to use."
"It is very easy to use. You can handle a lot of things together at once in one package, which is a good point for us."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"The whole suite is made for .NET development."
 

Cons

"If I want to do something that is more purely business-related and is somewhat complex to write or is nuanced, I sometimes have trouble implementing that inside of the Automation Anywhere script. I feel limited at times with some of the looping and some of the branching and some of the ways to make procedure calls when I have a complex business issue."
"We have some ERPs tools which are not compatible with Automation Anywhere because they are legacy systems. We find that Automation Anywhere does not work with these at times. Just enabling the usability of Automation Anywhere on some of these legacy ERPs would help us, as we struggle regularly with this issue."
"I would like to see integration better integration with Excel and SAP."
"Their OCR is a bit expensive."
"It has been challenging integrating Automation Anywhere with other solutions, due to all of the controls, as we are a bank."
"We have in-house, a few variables, which we use from technical perspectives. We don't have them in Automation Anywhere, but they introduced them yesterday."
"MetaBot helps getting data from SAP, but we still have some cases where we cannot fetch data from SAP."
"When it comes to Citrix automation, AA should improve or add more features in such a way that all the commands should work when automating a Citrix application."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The product must provide more automation."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"Sometimes, the product is too complex to use."
"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Costs savings have been seen by employing bots for multiple shifts instead of people."
"The price of Automation Anywhere is a little higher than some of the competition, such as UiPath. However, depending on the use case and other factors we are able to receive some discounts."
"It's cheapest among the competition, although bargaining is a must."
"We purchase on a bot basis. Our costs are approximately $5,000."
"Pricing is affordable and I would recommend beginning with the Starter Package."
"The Community Edition is a good offering from the company."
"In terms of monetary savings, we automated a bot in three days that has saved us $30,000 in costs."
"The setup cost depends on multiple factors, so you need to get details before choosing."
"The product is very expensive."
"We use the solution’s community version, and the solution’s pricing could be cheaper."
"The pricing is expensive."
"There is a paid version of the solution as well as a community version that is free."
"For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person."
"There are two versions of Visual Studio Test Professional: Community and Professional. We are currently using the Community version, but if we start working on a commercial product, we will consider upgrading to the Professional version. We need to identify how we will proceed with our projects, and based on that, we will decide on our licensing."
"The tool is affordable."
"The tool is expensive in my region."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is very good in certain situations but lacks in others. For me, it's more the team tha...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applications that AA has limitations for, such as the Oracle. For web-based applicatio...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.
What do you like most about Visual Studio Test Professional?
The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability.
What needs improvement with Visual Studio Test Professional?
The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution. There used to be references material that were incorporated in the solution, but most of it has moved...
 

Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise
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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa
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