Blue Prism Cloud vs UiPath comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

UiPath and Blue Prism Cloud are competing automation platforms in enterprise automation. UiPath seems to have the upper hand in pricing and customer support, while Blue Prism Cloud leads in feature robustness and scalability.

Features: UiPath provides an intuitive design, an extensive suite of automation tools, and comprehensive workflow solutions. Blue Prism Cloud focuses on scalability, sophisticated AI-driven capabilities, and strong AI application in large-scale automations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: UiPath offers a straightforward deployment process with quick setup and strong support for smoother transitions. Blue Prism Cloud is designed for enterprise-level deployments with flexible solutions, but it requires detailed planning and more customer service involvement.

Pricing and ROI: UiPath features competitive initial setup costs and focuses on maximizing ROI through efficiency and support. Blue Prism Cloud may have higher initial expenses but emphasizes long-term ROI advantages with its premium features and scalability benefits.

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Blue Prism Cloud vs. UiPath

December 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Blue Prism Cloud

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

UiPath

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

815

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Blue Prism Cloud is 1.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath is 26.4%, up from 25.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Featured Reviews

Keith Mcdowell

Chief Executive Officer at Keith F Kube and Associates

It helps us save on staff costs

I rate Blue Prism Cloud eight out of 10 for ease of setup. It's a cloud-based solution, so it isn't hard to set up. The deployment time is hard to quantify because I work for the government, and we need to go through all these internal reviews, but the technical part takes three to four weeks. The biggest challenge is security because we need to integrate it with Active Directory and set up VPN tunnels, security profiles, etc. We deployed Blue Prism in-house and used three people to set it up. One solution engineer is enough to maintain it.

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NicolasSandros

Director of Data ANI at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies

Has a lot of use cases, great automation capabilities, and helpful support

I'd rate the initial setup eight out of ten. It's pretty easy to implement. We use Azure Virtual Machines to deploy the robots and usually use a lot of the Azure services in conjunction with the robots. The cloud is on UiPath's automation cloud. That's where we have our servers - to manage the robust deployed data on multiple virtual machines. In terms of maintenance, there are always releases and updates, and then you can usually design your own robots to watch over the other robots, which is really interesting. You have the flexibility to make your own monitoring; if it sees something wrong, you can enter a ticket and then dispatch it to the support team to respond to it. My whole developer team is involved in maintenance; however, I have specific support team members. There's 28 developers and seven support team members in that group.

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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

"Blue Prism Cloud is an easy to access and user-friendly solution."

"It’s scalable."

"Blue Prism Cloud is a stable solution."

"Its AI features allow customers to find specific documents via an index."

"It's easy to use, the interface, the the the the queries is which we use. It's user friendly."

"This product has additional functionality over Blue Prism Cloud Enterprise."

"Blue Prism is able to scale up at an enterprise-level. It's what I used when I was working for a big bank in Belgium."

"This solution comes with a lot of good features."

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"UiPath is a tool which is mostly used for process automation."

"It is really easy for people to learn the basics and the learning curve is not steep."

"The document understanding feature is perhaps the most significant and useful use case for UiPath."

"The biggest advantage of UiPath is its user-friendly environment."

"UiPath is a low-code solution that allows us to build automations fairly quickly and see the results promptly."

"The automation Cloud Platform has definitely helped reduce the time it takes to create automation. It brings a lot of things together. It's easy to use for clients and customers. It makes it easy to bring different disciplines together, so I don't need to think about how to reuse my code, or how to explain to the customer, and I don't need to share the processes to be able to release, run, and monitor and to get reports on the results."

"This solution saves us time in all areas."

"It helps mitigate the risks. With traditional native active directory delegation, it becomes real messy, real fast. You lose oversight on who has access where. We are an acquisition merger company, so we let go of certain companies and onboard new ones. With native delegations, you lose track on who has access where. With Active Roles, we can always see who has access and what they can do in a very granular way."

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Cons

"Decipher, one of their solutions, is a waste of time."

"Blue Prism might consider adding package options to allow users to come onboard in different ways that meet their needs rather than buying in to the whole package."

"Selecting the right business processes that are stable enough to automate can be challenging."

"I would like to see a web-based control room, rather than the one that is in-built with the desktop version."

"The version control could be improved and made consistent. There is a discrepancy between the versions on premise and the cloud versions."

"I think that there are some improvements in the product performance that are needed in Blue Prism Cloud...The initial setup of the product needs a lot of time and effort."

"Blue Prism Cloud needs to improve its AI capabilities."

"The main issue is screen scraping with Blue Prism gives us a big challenge because we need to define which technologies are web-based have been built instead of by itself discovering the technology that it is built on."

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"I am looking forward to new cognitive and artificial intelligence capabilities."

"There should be a little bit of a longer trial version. I know that their existing trial version is around 30 days. I think it would be very beneficial to make that a 60 day trial for active POCs."

"The Orchestrator is in drastic need of improvement. Three or four years ago, the Orchestrator UI was very simple and comfortable to use but now, they have added so many features that it is difficult for new users to quickly understand it."

"I would like it to be more user-friendly."

"UiPath could do some optimization of how you search through your process flows."

"UiPath has to run on some infrastructure, and that infrastructure and security is not scalable yet."

"There are a lot of solutions in UiPath where we have to know some programming languages. I'd like to cut some of that out, with features that perform those tasks without having to know programming languages. I work a lot with my team members who don't really know programming that well, and I have to walk them through how to do different coding things to effectively develop their RPA."

"It could improve the service by resolving the bugs and providing the fixes as soon as possible."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is fine."

"I rate the platform’s pricing a seven out of ten."

"Blue Prism Cloud’s pricing is fine for commercial usage."

"There are costs for the machine to run the robots."

"There are many RPA solutions available from different vendors and the pricing for Blue Prism is competitive."

"The price is very competitive when you are comparing to other providers."

"The default configuration does not include large-scale log injection, but if you require, such integration, it may incur additional costs per gigabyte. I don't have the exact pricing information for log injection, but it is possible that it varies depending on the volume of data. While there may be a basic service included, additional features might come at an extra cost. When working with cloud environments like VMs, calculating costs involves considering factors such as usage duration, network traffic, inbound and outbound data transfer, as well as network access control. The pricing structure for cloud coverage solutions follows a similar pattern, although specific pricing details would need to be obtained separately."

"Annual licensing costs were somewhere between $5,000 - $10,000 for the development tool. For the control tower, I think fees were about $50,000 annually."

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"Before we procured the license, the pricing they quoted was too high. We continued to negotiate for almost a month. This is something they can improve from their side. If they had quoted the right price, we would not have had to negotiate. We got more than a 50% reduction in the price, which is bad on their part."

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

"On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the most expensive, I would rate the price an eight out of ten."

"We are using the Community Edition. The cost is only that of the virtual machines. The pricing of the Enterprise Edition is a bit high."

"It is not a cheap solution. There is an annual licensing cost for all the components."

"I wasn't surprised by the tool's pricing. It was comparable to my expectations."

"I believe that the price is on the higher side."

"There is some initial sticker shock from a lot of people regarding cost, until you show them what the actual benefit is. Initially, people are just going, "Why?" So, the retort for that is, "Look how much you will save, time, and budget-wise with one bot. If one bot costs X, this is how much it will save you over one year. This alleviates the "Oh my gosh" face, when it's 1200 dollars for a bot."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Blue Prism Cloud?

It's easy to use, the interface, the the the the queries is which we use. It's user friendly.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Blue Prism Cloud?

If we utilize Blue Prism's full capabilities, then it is cost-effective. Otherwise, the pricing can seem high. It requires the right processes.

What needs improvement with Blue Prism Cloud?

Decipher, one of their solutions, is a waste of time. Other than that, there's nothing specific I can think of.

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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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Also Known As

Blue Prism Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce, Blue Prism Virtual Workforce, Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce

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Overview

The Thoughtonomy Virtual Workforce is a highly flexible intelligent automation platform. It uses software to replicate the way people work in existing applications and systems, the processes they follow, and the decisions they make, to deliver automation without disruption.

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.

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