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Software Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
It eliminates redundant work from our offshore team to free up FTEs, but the technical support has been slow to respond to our inquiries
Pros and Cons
  • "The speed of the delivery is its most valuable feature."
  • "It eliminates redundant work from our offshore team to free up FTEs."
  • "The solution doesn't offer all the capabilities that we need, so we have to use it in conjunction with other software."
  • "The technical support has been a little slow to respond to our inquiries."

What is our primary use case?

We want to automate our business processes.

How has it helped my organization?

It eliminates redundant work from our offshore team to free up FTEs.

What is most valuable?

The speed of the delivery is its most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

The solution doesn't offer all the capabilities that we need, so we have to use it in conjunction with other software.

The bot creation process is a little tricky, since our company is not setup to accommodate a bot. Therefore, it has been a bit tricky and time consuming. However, we are getting there.

I would like to see more capabilities in the next release.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We started with a complex process, so it has taken us over a year to scale our bots.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support has been a little slow to respond to our inquiries.

What about the implementation team?

We used a combination of employees and consultants for our deployment.

What was our ROI?

We measure ROI through our FTE savings.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Discuss the solution with other companies before purchasing. 

What other advice do I have?

Learn from their website what other people have already developed.

We are headed towards integrating the solution with other software.

The cognitive document processing is new for our company.

I started, but didn't finish Automation University University. I have taken more classes with Automation Anywhere vendors.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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IT Director at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
It helps to improve and optimize processes
Pros and Cons
  • "It helps to improve and optimize processes. It eliminates some of the manual tasks, so we can save costs."
  • "We are still looking into some of its current capabilities, like IT Bot."

What is our primary use case?

We have use cases in multiple groups: Supply chain, HR, and finance, which has three or four currently identified. We have already implemented a few use cases. E.g., we are automating the entire payment process for accounts receivable.

How has it helped my organization?

It helps to improve and optimize processes. It eliminates some of the manual tasks, so we can save costs.

What is most valuable?

It's eliminating the manual tasks that accounts receivable does.

It was pretty easy to get a new team of developers set up with the tool and using it. 

The bot creation process is reasonable simple. It was very easy for my team to pick up and start doing it.

What needs improvement?

We are still looking into some of its current capabilities, like IT Bot.

For how long have I used the solution?

Less than one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We are in our initial phase with a few bots live. So far, we have no major issues. Keeping our fingers crossed.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The architecture allows us to scale. We are still working to get it to a right level of scalability for our environment.

How are customer service and technical support?

I haven't heard any complaints from the team about technical support. I haven't interacted directly with the technical support, but the team hasn't complained.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not previously use another automation solution. I heard about this solution through conventions. When we were looking at optimizing our processes, we talked to few vendors and eventually selected Automation Anywhere.

We started our evaluation about nine months back. In the last six months, we started the process, and now we have a few bots online.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We had an implementation partner who helped with the deployment.

What was our ROI?

We measure ROI based on the optimization that we have done and how much cost we can save.

  • With the rebate processing automation that we did, it has provided us a savings of around an hour or two a person on a daily basis, which is quite a lot of savings. 
  • With our accounts receivable process, we are still in the process of implementing it. Once it will be implemented, we are expecting about 30 to 40 hours a month in time saved.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We had a detailed analysis process on all the capabilities of Automation Anywhere, UiPath, and a third vendor. Based on their scores that they got in each area, we eventually ended up selecting Automation Anywhere.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend evaluating all the vendors in this category and seeing what best suits your needs before making a selection. 

It was reasonably simple to integrate. This was our first time with it, so we had learned our way through.

The Automation Anywhere University was useful and a good head start for my team. I haven't taken of its courses yet.

We are not using IQ Bot. We are evaluating it, but we haven't made a decision yet.

We don't use Citrix automation.

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Senior Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra
Real User
We wanted to run the Automated TestCase prepared in TestingAnywhere from another tool. So the *.exe file came in handy.

Valuable Features:

TestingAnywhere is an Scriptless Automation Tool which is easy to learn and implement. A lot of features present in this tool are effective during automation. Test cases are created using one of five methods (web recording, object recording, image recognition, Smart recording, editor). These test cases are recorded, saved, and can be edited and enhanced. 

One more feature that is very unique is the conversion of Automated TestCase in to Executable (EXE) files so that testers can run them on remote machines too. 

Improvements to My Organization:

We wanted to run the Automated TestCase prepared in TestingAnywhere from another tool. So the *.exe file came in handy.

Room for Improvement:

I haven't gone deep in the tool, but so far it looks good.

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Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Offers a Community Edition for new users to learn on
Pros and Cons
  • "Most clients prefer Automation Anywhere because it is easy to implement. You don't need to know rocket science to learn this solution. If you know logic, that is sufficient. Automation Anywhere is more user-friendly."
  • "It would be really good if they could give more priority to tickets which are raised by partners. Right now, Automation Anywhere customers and employees have higher priority."

What is our primary use case?

We are currently doing automation on the ground level. There are a lot of unexplored areas of RPA (different scenarios) that we have not captured yet. 

How has it helped my organization?

On a daily basis, we had to update a few things on SAP where we had slight challenges. With the help of scripts and DLL, we could solve these problems.

What is most valuable?

The main things that we give to our clients are its Excel functions and the terminal emulator.

What needs improvement?

The main problem that we see is migrating data from one system to other system. This is where a human comes into the picture. While we can do Excel crude data going into an ERP system, we would like it going forward if the Excel to SAP integration had a higher focus in the coming features. 

The Excel functions that we see are currently very limited. While I have not tested it, I have seen these functions expanded in version A2019.

I would like more detailed activity logging of what the client does. Currently, it just shows that a task started, then a task has ended. We want more detail around this for our clients, especially for error logging. E.g., we had to create an encrypted log for our clients to see what happens every second for every step. We made this in a CSV, and that CSV can be accessed by anyone who can change it. If Automation Anywhere could integrate this into the Control, that would be great.

For how long have I used the solution?

I started learning this tool three years ago.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

You cannot expect an ERP system or any third-party system to remain constant. You have to stay on top of those. You spend about 20 percent of your rebuilding or changing something.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have no issues with the scalability. For a current client, we have deployed easily around 100 to 120 bots which are running in production.

How are customer service and technical support?

It would be really good if they could give more priority to tickets which are raised by partners. Right now, Automation Anywhere customers and employees have higher priority.

As a partner, we usually use whatever is online or the Automation Anywhere website. We search that to see if anyone else has already faced this issue and provided a resolution on the site. 80 percent of the time it is there. If it is not there, then I raise a ticket or call a hotline number.

How was the initial setup?

With our current knowledge, the initial setup process is fine. The setup was easy for me.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

With the Community Edition, a new user to RPA can utilize the tool and start learning how to use it.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

As a partner, we work with other competitors as well. Most clients prefer Automation Anywhere because it is easy to implement. You don't need to know rocket science to learn this solution. If you know logic, that is sufficient. Automation Anywhere is more user-friendly.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
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Quality Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
A user-friendly dashboard that can be accessed anywhere
Pros and Cons
  • "We can access it anywhere. E.g., I can access dashboard from my Control Room on my mobile app using Automation Anywhere."
  • "From a QA and development perspective, we would like to communicate with the tech support through email and have that put in the dashboard. This would let us better track the ticket and make it easier for us to communicate with Automation Anywhere."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for the mail merge process, specifically for renewals. Each month, it could be a tedious process to check all the documents and PDFs for each iteration. The creation of a bot for these task leads to better than expected results.

What is most valuable?

We can use the current manuals to make sure the bots are working at 100 percent before the next release.

It is user-friendly. Everything is under a single dashboard. 

We can access it anywhere. E.g., I can access dashboard from my Control Room on my mobile app using Automation Anywhere. 

What needs improvement?

From a QA and development perspective, we would like to communicate with the tech support through email and have that put in the dashboard. This would let us better track the ticket and make it easier for us to communicate with Automation Anywhere.

They recently integrate Oracle and SQL. I would like to have more integration and feature going forward.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good.

How are customer service and technical support?

Automation Anywhere team is ready to support us if we encounter any issues.

We recently encountered some issues in the navigation controls that our dashboards were unable to change. So, we contacted the Automation Anywhere team and they helped us to get it rectified.

How was the initial setup?

It is easy to set up. You can do it from anywhere using the Control Room. It is not a tedious process. 

I am used to these types of setups as an SQL engineer.

What was our ROI?

We save time with the solution, so we have more time to reuse and spend on our clients. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Talk to your manager and try to procure an automation license for training. This will allow you to train people, so you can move to automation.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

If we try to use another product, there are additional product costs. Automation Anywhere uses a single dashboard that you can access anywhere. It also provides more insights versus other products, which is an advantage of using Automation Anywhere.

What other advice do I have?

I have recently gone through the Automation Anywhere training to receive some certifications.

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Real User
Allows us to reclaim business hours that were used for repetitive tasks
Pros and Cons
  • "By automating processes we give back valuable hours to business stakeholders, which can be spent on value-adding activities instead of repetitive tasks."
  • "I would like to see them expand the service catalog with RCA add-ons to the current RPA package."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for building RPA to automate business & finance processes.

How has it helped my organization?

By automating processes we give back valuable hours to business stakeholders, which can be spent on value-adding activities instead of repetitive tasks.

What is most valuable?

The total package is valuable for us as an organization.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see them expand the service catalog with RCA add-ons to the current RPA package.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for approximately a year and a half.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated both UiPath and Blue Prism before choosing this solution.

What other advice do I have?

My advice for anybody implementing this solution is to set up from the start with large scale in mind.

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Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
The control room access gives the ability to create different roles, which helps when purchasing additional licensing
Pros and Cons
  • "By using SNMP configurations and Excel, I was able to read the mail. I used this functionality to categorize the fabric, then I used this information to correlate the value to Jira along with Excel."
  • "We have HTML mode and Window mode, but Automation Anywhere is limited in this. It would be better if they were able to provide different specification modes."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case is for ticket creation. They send in an email, then based on the priority, it creates a different ticket in Jira as well as the ticketing tool. In the end, they must consolidate all the tickets, whatever it has created, and sends that information in an Excel sheet to the stakeholders.

This was for an internal PoC.

How has it helped my organization?

It was a value-add for the organization. For each ticket, they would have to create a ticket for each of the three portals. However, after the PoC was done, then they would send a mail to a board, which will now send out the ticket number.

What is most valuable?

By using SNMP configurations and Excel, I was able to read the mail. I used this functionality to categorize the fabric, then I used this information to correlate the value to Jira along with Excel.

They must create the same ticket in three portals. Instead of that, they are now sending the mail to support. Support needs to take that mail and each bot needs to check the inbox. It will take that mail and categorize the subject, then prioritize it. We will take that description, paste it, and create a new ticket on these reporting tools.

The UI is very user-friendly, even for someone who doesn't have much coding knowledge. They can easily pick it up. Or, get training for two weeks, then pick it up. Someone from a coding background can pick it up easily too.

The MetaBots and IQ Bots are advanced tools for the market.

What needs improvement?

The functionalities and UI could be improved.

We have HTML mode and Windows mode, but Automation Anywhere is limited in this. It would be better if they were able to provide different specification modes.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used Automation Anywhere for three months at work about a year ago.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The version that I used (10.3) was not that stable. It easily crashed in-between processes. 

In later versions, they have come out with better updates with things like MetaBot. I feel that version 11 is a robust solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is really good. 

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support team was very good to work with, as they were knowledgeable and provided good explanations. They were quite responsive.

How was the initial setup?

The initial channel setup for was quite easy. However, we had to configure the control room. With that, we had to be very careful.

It took me half a day to deploy. I installed the SQL Server, the control room, etc.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The control room access gives the ability to create different roles, which helps when purchasing additional licensing.

Their overall pricing falls in the middle of the market. Cost-wise, Automation Anywhere is quite expensive because of their analytics, IQ Bots, and MetaBots. For a standalone machine, the pricing is okay. When adding in the licensing for IQ Bots (or MetaBots), it can become quite costly.

They recently launched a Community Edition, which is okay, but they should have done this a long time ago.

What other advice do I have?

It is a very handy product.

As of now, Automation Anywhere has a very good place in the market.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
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Assistant to GM, IT & Business Transformation Division at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Gives us the ability to define RPA tasks automatically

What is our primary use case?

RPAs are often used in administrative processes, but we have applied it to our master data management for manufacturing. At manufacturing plants, there are not a lot of administrative processes. However, there are many tasks dealing with what we call our master data, so that’s where we have implemented RPA, to collect, search, as well as register the data.

How has it helped my organization?

In our efforts to efficiently manage the master data at our factories, the biggest benefit is the fact that we have been able to rein in what was an increasing number of engineers who were needed. We have been able to do so on the order of some 100 people, so that’s a major result.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the ability to define the RPA tasks automatically. There is a major benefit in the fact that it can be done without human effort. As long as the instructions are error-free, the bots will make sure it gets done. That’s where we see a big advantage.

What needs improvement?

I have submitted requests to Automation Anywhere regarding feature expansion. There are two major issues. The first is that I would like to see functionality that will improve development efficiency.  The second is to be able to schedule the management of bots. I asked for functionality that would reinforce the scheduling.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

One of the characteristics of RPA - and it really can’t be helped - is that it is easily influenced by the application that works along with it. This is something we need to be aware of. For example, we had an occurrence where it stopped due to an error because the application it works with had been changed and there was a lack of communication with the IT department.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The capabilities for developing similar tasks are there and it's relatively easy to do. However, to accomplish that we’d need a group of IT engineers. That’s where we are not up to par.

How are customer service and technical support?

We do utilize Automation Anywhere’s technical support via our partner. Since Automation Anywhere's Japan office was only recently opened, it seems the support has not been as good as support for other package applications. I feel that we haven’t been able to fully take advantage of the support yet.

It’s important not to just implement bots just for the sake of implementing them but to think about how bots can be used to make processes more efficient.

The reason we chose Automation Anywhere is that it’s easy to develop with it. It also covers the widest range of functionality and it is enterprise oriented. Furthermore, a group in Toshiba started using it too, which made it possible for us to share information with one another. That’s why we decided on Automation Anywhere.

How was the initial setup?

The setup itself did not take that much time and effort. In general, members of our IT staff do the actual setup, so we had no issues with it.

What was our ROI?

We do see ROI in the sense of staff reductions. However, if we are to apply it to the general administrative area, I think it’s not as easy to get a real ROI.

What other advice do I have?

In our line of work, we don't have that many simple administrative processes. I’m sure companies like banks have enormous numbers of such processes, but in our company, our staff would spend less than an hour per day on delivery slips. If we got RPA and a bot, that would end up being more expensive. 

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この製品を主にどのように使用していますか?また、パフォーマンスはどうですか?

一般的にRPAと言われると事務処理に使われるところなんですけど、我々は製造のマスター管理と言われているところに適用しました。製造業で実際の工場の運営ではですね、事務処理的な要素は非常に少ないんですね。ただ、マスターと呼ばれているデータを扱う業務は非常に多くあって、そこでのデータの収集検索だとか登録という業務のところにRPAを適用しました。

当ソリューションはどんな点において最も役に立ちますか?

RPAのタスクと呼ばれている部分ですけれど、その定義が自動でできる、人の手をかけずに自動でできるという所に大きな効果を感じています。で、さらに指示する情報さえ間違えなければ、ロボットが確実にこなすという所でも、大きな効果を得ています。

当ソリューションを使用するとどのようなメリットがありますか?御社が機能する上でどのような改善をもたらしましたか?

工場の先ほどのマスターデータの運用の効率化という意味では、エンジニアの増員抑制ですね。百人規模の増員抑制が可能となったと言うことが一番大きいと思います。

当ソリューションの安定性に関して、どのような印象をお持ちですか?

安定性ですか?RPAの特徴と言うか、構造上やむを得ないんですけど、相手のアプリケーションの影響を受けやすいというところではその注意が必要だなと感じています。

そういったアプリケーション側の影響で安定性の問題が発生したことがあるということですか?

IT部門で連携が不十分で相手アプリケーションの変更があったのが情報がなかったりすると、エラーをして止まるということがありました。

当ソリューションの拡張性に関して、どのような印象をお持ちですか?

考え方だとか、類似作業への展開は比較的容易だと思います。ただ、それを実現する上でITのエンジニアの部隊を育成していくと、そこがちょっと今の所、なかなかうまくできていないところかなと思っています。

このソリューションにテクニカルサポートを利用したことはありますか?ある場合は、サポートをどのように評価しますか?

パートナーさんを経由してAutomation Anywhereのテクニカルサポートを受けているんですけれども、日本法人がまだ立ち上がったばかりということもあって、若干他のパッケージアプリケーションに比べると、まだ弱いのかなというのは感じています。

感じているというか、まだ十分、我々も利用できていないんじゃないかなとは感じています。

初期セットアップには関与されましたか?セットアップは簡単、それとも複雑でしたか?

セットアップ自身はそんなに手間がかかったとは思ってないです。基本、我々のITのメンバーがセットアップを実施していますので、さほど問題はなく、セットアップはできました。

テクニカルサポートと安定性の改善点以外に、当ソリューションの次のリリースに含まれていたらいいなと思うのはどのような機能ですか?

先ほどの発表でもちょっと最後に付け加えましたが、Automation Anywhereに対するさらなる機能の拡張をお願いしたいです。そこは大きく2つほどあって、開発効率を上げるための工夫が欲しいと、いうようなことと、あとボットのスケジュール管理ですね。スケージューラじゃなくて、スケジューリングをしたいというところを機能として強化して欲しいということをお願いしました。

RPAをお使いになって投資対効果は見られていますか?

先ほどの省人化という意味では非常に効果があったという風にみています。ただ、一般の事務職的なところに、投資してやろうとすると、なかなか投資対効果で良い結果を得られるのは難しい状況もあります。

事務関係では難しいのはどうしてですか?

我々の会社の社員がやっている業務は単純な事務処理っていうのが少ないんですよね。証券会社や銀行だったりすると、膨大な事務処理があると思うんですけど、例えばスタッフの調達部門であっても、調達の伝票の処理をするのは、本当に一日のうち、一時間もないくらいなんですよね。その作業をRPAに1台、ボットに1台にしたら、ボットの方が高くついちゃうとかですね。

Automation Anywhereの前に別のソリューションをお使いでしたか?

RPAを導入する上では、代表的な5つのパッケージの検討を合わせて行いました。

Automation Anywhereを選ばれた理由は何ですか?

Automation Anywhereを選んだ理由はですね、開発する上での容易性が結構高かったということと、あとエンタープライズ志向と言われることで、機能的に網羅している範囲が広かったなというところ、でさらに、東芝、会社のグループの中で導入を始めたところがあったので、情報を共有しながら進められるかな、という点でAutomation Anywhereに決めました。

ベンダーを選ぶ上で最も重要な条件は何ですか?

機能とサポート体制、この2つが大きな…

実際に導入をしてやっていくと、サポート体制はまだまだ。これはRPA全体ですけど。

このソリューションに1から10の評価(10=最高)を付けるとしたら、どのように評価しますか?そしてその理由は何ですか?

8ぐらいですかね。

サポート体制の強化というところと、もう少し機能が欲しい、先ほど言ったような。

このソリューションあるいは同様なソリューションを探している、同社あるいは他社の同僚の方に、どんなアドバイスをなさいますか?

RPAを、ロボットを導入するということでなくて、業務の効率化にロボットをどう使うかということを考えて進めることが大事だなと思います。

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