Automation Anywhere vs UiPath comparison

Automation Anywhere and UiPath are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. Automation Anywhere is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while UiPath is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. Automation Anywhere holds a 11.9% mindshare in RPA, compared to UiPath’s 26.5% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Automation Anywhere users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of UiPath users who would recommend it.

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Automation Anywhere

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Automation Anywhere and UiPath compete in the robotic process automation category. Based on user reviews, UiPath seems to have the upper hand due to its robust features and user satisfaction despite higher pricing.

Features: Automation Anywhere offers flexibility, integration capabilities, and affordability. UiPath provides a comprehensive suite of functionalities, seamless workflow automation, and extensive community support.

Room for Improvement: Automation Anywhere users suggest improvements in speed, error handling, and technical performance. UiPath users seek reduced complexity, better documentation, and streamlined usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Automation Anywhere is noted for its straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. UiPath, while slightly more complex to deploy, provides excellent customer support experiences post-deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Automation Anywhere attracts users with its cost efficiency and good ROI. UiPath, despite its higher pricing, justifies its investment with expansive capabilities and substantial ROI over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

522

Ranking in other categories

Process Mining (1st)

UiPath

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

811

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 11.9%, down from 15.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath is 26.5%, up from 26.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

Walter Sitoe

General Director at BCI

May 25, 2022

IBM digital business automation with UiPath vs IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere?

Sincerely we are just using UiPath, I haven't tryied Automation Anywhere however I've heard it's easy to use too.

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Nelson F. Guerrero

Senior Manager & Principal Automation Architect, AI + Automation at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Saved us half a million dollars and 10,000 hours in the first year

There have been numerous improvements in the organization. We have saved hours and time and hard dollars. In the first year, we saved over half a million dollars. That was about six months of time. After that, we have done at least three million year over year, and we have increased that very much. As far as time saved, it is well over 10,000 hours in the first year alone, and we continue to grow. This year, we are projecting 30,000 manual hours saved. Prior to the implementation of Automation Anywhere, we had lots and lots of manual work. People would go into Excel and copy data from one master sheet to many sheets. They would compile data. They would take lots of time to do these things. Today, they can go in, press a button, and launch it. They can download hundreds and thousands of invoices, whereas previously, they used to do it manually. One of our use cases saved two people four days a week of time, which is 32 hours each. We now do that automatically in six hours. The learning curve is initially a little daunting, but after you are in there and you understand how it works, it is very seamless. It is very easy to pick up and very intuitive, and then from there, it is pretty much you go and get your hands dirty. The tools that we integrate with Automation Anywhere so far have been Python scripts and PowerShell. We have got Power Automate and Power Flows from Microsoft. We are starting to do some cognitive RPA. We are implementing OpenAI through Azure. We have got a lot of that going right now. The integration with all of the documents and APIs is very seamless. There are packages available in the store if you do not have the integration built-in out of the box. They are available to everyone. Everything that we have been able to use has been just drag and drop. We can just pop in our credentials and be done. Automation Anywhere has affected us in a positive way in terms of employee capacity and compliance. We have not had to backfill roles. We have not necessarily replaced people, and that is by intent. We did not want to replace people, but we also did not want to have to backfill people. We wanted people to focus on things that they value and be more productive instead of doing mind-numbing things that get no value, but they just have to do it. Our time and cost savings have been immense since the beginning. In our first year, after we started launching the bots in June or July of 2019, we saved half a million dollars and 10,000 man-hours. Since then, we have grown more than 70% year over year. This year, we are on track to go up to about 40,000 man-hours saved and more than three million hard dollars saved. They have been able to provide automation at scale pretty well. We fired up and started off with only three production machines. We are now up at five. Officially, we were going up to seven as of next week. We have heard about people here at the Imagine conference who, for example, have hundreds, so the point is proven, and the facts are there. They can scale up very quickly. The main Automation Anywhere Program offering we use is Pathfinder. We have not utilized our partner services or anything like that, but Pathfinder has been great. Their user groups have been great. To be able to focus and see the product launches beforehand has always been advantageous. The ability to see that has been good.

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Michael-Peters

RPA Architect at Symrise

Improves accuracy and has the easiest interface and good scalability

Orchestrator needs an overhaul. They have added so many functions that it is sometimes quite hard to find the right settings. They have a tree hierarchy with the host and the tenant. Some settings you do on the host, and some settings you do on the tenant. You need to know at which level you are to find what you need. It all looks very same. The other thing that I have been telling them for years is the width of the activity. You cannot change the width. I do a lot of training to show something, and I constantly have to go into the advanced editor to show what is in there, but the big thing right now is Orchestrator.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is easy to fix bug issues which you encounter in the post-production process."

"The core RPA service that it provides and the stability that it has in maintaining that as a cloud service solution is a key enabler for us. Its stability is good, and the low-code/no-code setup that it has is very user-efficient."

"At run time, Automation Anywhere can let you know which line of code the bot is running and what it is doing. It is very clear."

"By using its AI & ML capabilities, we have solved many problems for our clients."

"In terms of development for our developers, it is very easy and quick to learn because Automation Anywhere has provided an online academy where developers can easily learn the features. It is very easy. If someone does not have a coding background, they can also learn from it very easily because it is just drag and drop and very interactive."

"By combining Automation Anywhere and Appian together, we have been able to build a bot that works with Appian workflows to manage all our employees."

"We have automated the equivalent headcount of 500 FTEs since we started. Those people haven't been laid off. They are just doing different types of work activities."

"Toward this life cycle, we have a very structured approach of governing, monitoring, and tracking, that's the approach we have taken. Insights we gain from this governance, we apply towards automation strategy and implementations. We've done this for many clients across the globe. We are happy to share those experiences with some of you as well."

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"The most valuable features of UiPath are the drag and drop activities."

"Compared to our older platforms, UiPath is easy to install and integrate. On day one, you can deploy it to your system in a few minutes. Our previous solution required more infrastructure to do the automation. UiPath has UiPath Studio, so you can play the flow and record all your inputs. The main advantage is that you can build a solution in minutes. It's effortless to get started."

"OCR technologies and computer vision (CV) technologies work very well and produce quality results."

"You can design processes even if you do not know coding."

"Starting with UI automation is valuable as it mirrors users' existing workflows, building their confidence before expanding into more powerful automation methods."

"I like the interface. It's simple to interact with. We can replicate and multiply the robots when we need to change something."

"There are two features that I like a lot in UiPath: one is the Orchestrator option, and the other one is the Studio option."

"The OCR feature is very handy to extract structured and semi-structured data from documents."

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Cons

"My opinion is that we need to have a video or tutorial on how to implement these features, as well as seeing what results to expect."

"The product needs to catch up to the promise of known technology and apply more intelligent behaviors concerning AI or unstructured learning."

"I would like more cognitive abilities, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. E.g., if I see you, your facial recognition has to be there. If I send your picture, it should tell me your name, where you are from, and when I met you because we forget people. It should have these type of capabilities."

"The object cloning that exists cannot capture 80 percent of the objects that we need it to capture."

"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."

"There should be more available Data Analytics and more AI Front and Deep Learn concepts."

"The biggest challenge that I have with Automation Anywhere is the pace of upgrades that they do. We are not an IT company, we are a mining company. We are very conservative in doing our upgrades and moving from one platform to another. Upgrades are one of the challenges we are having with Automation Anywhere."

"We noticed slowness in a few of the commands like Object Cloning, Web Recorders, etc. on which Automation Anywhere can work to make it more robust. There are improvements required in the WLM solution provided by AA, which can make it a more robust queuing system and the system should retry by itself in case of failure due to system error."

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"I would suggest that they improve the UiPath Connect Enterprise because the planning stage is the most crucial in the RPA life cycle."

"In UiPath they should improve the input and outputs of processes. I found it very complicated."

"Building automations can be a little complicated. There are so many variables and commands. We're also trying to integrate new technology like ChatGPT. Although ChatGPT has many APIs, they're not sufficiently integrated. If UiPath could add more API integration and tutorials in the academy, it would help us utilize them more effectively."

"Orchestrator can be improved by making the landing page dashboard customizable based on what information and stats we want to see as an organization."

"Enhanced capability in the document management space would be a huge benefit to our organization."

"Overall, it should be a much simpler process to move a process from Studio to production, specifically as an attended Robot."

"I would like to see them improve the validation part of the data categorization."

"There can be technical issues, but it's rarely about a server quitting. They are more like connectivity, platform, and software version issues, but there are no issues with UiPath performance."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is somewhere in the middle. The price and value of Automation Anywhere are better than UiPath. The pricing is good globally. It could be a little bit cheaper, but it is good."

"Subscription for Automation Anywhere (AA) is paid yearly."

"The cloud-based version comes at an increased cost, although our clients are happy with the new features and have not complained about the pricing."

"If it is saving FTE and Generating a good ROI then it is Worth Investing."

"We have seen a return of investment because it takes less time to market in our current process. I would estimate a times savings between 20 to 30 percent."

"We save 34,000 hours of time per year and have recouped up to $6000 in lost revenue."

"Our annual licensing costs are around $100,000 a year."

"The licensing cost of Automation Anywhere is better than UiPath and Blue Prism."

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"UiPath is somewhat expensive."

"For our first customer, we started with Orchestrator, an unattended bot, and a couple of Studio licenses, all of which cost $25,000 USD for the year. It is definitely worth the money."

"If you are a smaller organization, use the free community version of the software to get a feel for its features and abilities."

"The licensing system is something that needs to be improved."

"I can estimate our licensing costs are approximately $100,000 USD per year."

"Our licensing costs are roughly 1.1 million Danish krones a year."

"We saw ROI in 15 days."

"The main reason we went ahead with UiPath was the pricing... the pricing of the paid version was not that high. It's low- to mid-level pricing."

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Answers from the Community

Walter Sitoe

General Director at BCI

May 25, 2022

IBM digital business automation with UiPath vs IBM RPA with Automation Anywhere?

2 out of 6 answers

Daniel Robus

Go To Market Executive at #Liferocks Consulting

Nov 3, 2020

My question to you would be - Why are you mixing the two vendors? Do you have licenses for both and are trying to maximize investment? If you have IBM automation you probably have other IBM technology - let the IBM automation run on that as its integration is a little more complicated than UiPath and may cost you time in execution. If you have both IBM and UiPath then I would use UiPath for any areas that are not integral to the IBM technology or systems. I would need to know a little more about your strategy before giving a definitive answer to your question but all 3 are good technical foundations depending on the scenario.

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Jack Frano

Principal at Adaptive Growth, Inc

Jul 6, 2021

Although I've worked with UiPath (not Automation Anywhere), my experience is now solely with AutoMate from Help Systems. I would recommend aligning IBM's digital business automation with Robotic Process Automation and how it works. It seems to be a very different tool from RPA. If programming is required in the use of IBM's digital business automation go with RPA.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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...

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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...

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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.

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Best RPA tools for IBM iSeries

I can only speak to UiPath since that is the only RPA solution that I have used. I know that there are specific packages that you can integrate into your project that is specifically made to work w...

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RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?

Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.

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How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?

Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌...

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Comparisons

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Compared 33% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs Automation Anywhere

Compared 3% of the time

SAP Intelligent RPA vs Automation Anywhere

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 28% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Automation Anywhere

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Overview

Automation Anywhere is the leader in intelligent automation solutions that put AI to work across every aspect of an organization. The company’s Automation Success Platform is powered with specialized AI, generative AI and offers process discovery, RPA, end-to-end process orchestration, document processing, and analytics, with a security and governance-first approach. Automation Anywhere empowers organizations worldwide to unleash productivity gains, drive innovation, improve customer service and accelerate business growth. The company is guided by its vision to fuel the future of work by unleashing human potential through intelligent automation.

Learn more at http://www.automationanywhere.com/.

UiPath is a user-friendly automation software that streamlines business processes by automating repetitive tasks. It offers extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and robust security measures.

Users appreciate its intuitive design, ease of use, and ability to automate complex workflows.

Its seamless integration with various applications ensures smooth data exchange and enhances workflow management, while strong security measures protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

1. Accenture 2. Deloitte 3. PwC 4. IBM 5. Capgemini 6. KPMG 7. Ernst & Young 8. Infosys 9. Cognizant 10. Wipro 11. Tata Consultancy Services 12. HCL Technologies 13. Genpact 14. Tech Mahindra 15. DXC Technology 16. Atos 17. NTT Data 18. CGI 19. L&T Infotech 20. Hexaware Technologies 21. Mindtree 22. Mphasis 23. Virtusa 24. Syntel 25. Zensar Technologies 26. WNS Global Services 27. Hexaware Technologies 28. Larsen & Toubro Infotech 29. Persistent Systems 30. QuEST Global 31. Sonata Software 32. Zensar Technologies

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