IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs NICE Robotic Automation comparison

IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs. NICE Robotic Automation

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IBM Robotic Process Automat...

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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NICE Robotic Automation

Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

23rd

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is 2.0%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NICE Robotic Automation is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Featured Reviews

Karinne Carnevalli De Almeida

Consultant at Universidade Federal Fluminense

Apr 3, 2023

User-friendly interface and good stability

I used it in 2018 in a company that specialized in medical services. They used it for accounting and payments It's user-friendly; even non-technical people can program bots using drag-and-drop functionalities. There are a few areas that could use improvement. Firstly, the cost of IBM RPA is…

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Harish G V

Senior RPA Developer at TriNet Group

Mar 9, 2023

Quicker compared to other bots but not very user-friendly

There is a need for NICE to be more user-friendly. It should be designed in such a way that any developer can easily develop bots. For instance, Power Automate provides a good example of a user-friendly design that NICE can learn from. Moreover, in terms of documentation, there is very little available for NICE, making it challenging to implement the bots. So, documentation should be improved as well. There are a lot of additional features that could be included in NICE. As the NICE Robotic Automation claims, it is a low-code solution, but that is not entirely true. They need to concentrate on the prerequisites and building blocks. There should be more options available internally that are easy to use and well-developed.

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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

"I like the integration with Watson and the possibility to have an intelligent reading of all the customers' documents."

"The good stuff about IBM is the fact that it's very easy to use, there are very nice and smart AI tools within the licensing that you don't have to pay any access. Moreover, it's more precise and more secure."

"The solution's ease of use is its most valuable aspect."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"It is easy to use. We have enabled our resources who don't have a background in automation to be certified and trained, then implement this product within a very short period of time, as it is very user-friendly."

"Integrating the tool with SAP, EBS, or other ERPs is easy."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to automate mundane tasks. This improves efficiency, reliability, etc. You can form critical operations which can be highly automated."

"The solution is scalability."

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"What we've done with the RTI client is that we've brought it into a bit more of a 21st-century feel. Our agents have the ability to move around when they want, click into stuff. They use it according to how their conversations go with the customer."

"Provides good automation features."

"The deployment of NICE Robotic Automation is easy."

"NICE is one of the only vendors that does attended and unattended out-of-the-box. Using the unattended processes we've been able to build a "feature library." We break each process down into workable chunks that we can save into a big library. The next time we come to automate a task, we already have chunks of that automation built."

"It is a kind of desktop automation. Its licensing model is a little bit different. It tends to be individual automation specific to a role. It excels at that."

"It is easy to deploy. To do the automation in NICE, you really need to use your programming expertise. There are no inbuilt features in it, and you have to create all the required features, which can be very interesting for a programmer."

"Through interfaces called Callout (created with HTML code) it is possible to create a strong interactivity with the user. These interfaces can be extremely dynamic in relation to the behavior of a local or remote robotic flow."

Cons

"Needs better integration with artificial intelligence or with machine-learning."

"The time it takes for approvals, and risk analysis could be faster."

"One of the things I would definitely like to see is more of the machine-learning and cognitive capabilities. For example, now that we're starting to automate more and more tasks, there are some things that still require us to go back and modify the robots when we need to. But if we had more of the machine-learning integrated into it, I believe it would be easier to maintain, so that we wouldn't have to go back and adjust every time."

"The users should be allowed to create folders in Control Center."

"We can use its inbuilt activities, and it's a complete package, but just like ElectroNeek, a limitation is that we have to depend on its inbuilt activities. We can't include our own activities or we can't introduce other activities."

"Extensibility is the key, especially in terms of the Recorders feature that we have. That should be browser independent. Enhance it because some people have Chrome, some have Internet Explorer, etc. Also, integration with PDFs: Not just the ability to read information from PDFs but the ability to write information from PDFs, make it secure, sign it, etc. Finally, if they can allow a token exchange inside the tool itself, that would help."

"There are certain limitations in the solution for screen reading."

"The product must be promoted more."

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"The solution is not as intuitive as it could be and integrating took a lot of time."

"There are a few areas for improvement in the installation phase"

"There is a need for NICE robotics to be more user-friendly."

"Its connectivity with other applications should be improved. In the version that I was using, it would just stop interacting with the other application. Its graphical interface should also be improved. It should have a user-friendly interface. Sometimes, people find it very difficult to understand. One of the obstacles that I faced while programming was that if I needed any kind of help, there wasn't much content on the internet. It can be very difficult to find a solution for a particular issue."

"The one thing I'd like to see, and NICE is already heavily investing in it, is improvement in the user interface itself. They call it the Designer and it's what the developers use. It is a bit clunky; that is the polite way to put it. I'd like to see it be a bit more user-friendly, a bit more intuitive, and to move to something a bit more web-based..."

"We haven't found it to be as powerful as some of the other platforms. From a true RPA perspective, it is pretty far behind some of the other solutions. It has emerged as a more desktop automation kind of tool, but it lacks a lot of enterprise features. It is not really a true RPA because of its licensing, which is kind of user-initiated. It would be nice it can be deployed at a more enterprise licensing model versus a user-based model. It didn't have autonomous automation so far, and they have just released this feature. They have kind of hodgepodged a bunch of products together to get there, but it is not as seamless as other solutions."

"[During the upgrade] any issues, where it couldn't remotely connect to upgrade, I needed the floor plan so I could go to that PC and have a look at it. Often it was either that the PC was switched off or had a bug or some other application needed to be reset."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is reasonable for this solution."

"The product is reasonably priced compared to other tools."

"IBM licensing is annual and based on Virtual Processor Cores (VPC). This provides flexibility as part of the containerization environment."

"I rate the pricing ten out of ten. So, the pricing is very good for me."

"The product has a yearly licensing fee."

"The license is paid annually."

"There is a free trial for one month, so you can use it to run your payloads or proof of concept. After that, you can pay for the license on a monthly or annual basis."

"IBM RPA is cheaper than other tools."

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"As per my understanding, UiPath has a much lesser cost than NICE, but I am not sure."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

15%

Educational Organization

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Energy/Utilities Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?

Integrating the tool with SAP, EBS, or other ERPs is easy.

What needs improvement with IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?

The product must be promoted more. There are no promotions.

What is your primary use case for IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?

We're working with different clients from the manufacturing environment. We have implemented end-to-end solutions. We work on web automation and automation of invoices.

What do you like most about NICE Robotic Automation?

Through interfaces called Callout (created with HTML code) it is possible to create a strong interactivity with the user. These interfaces can be extremely dynamic in relation to the behavior of a ...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NICE Robotic Automation?

In the configuration phase, you need to have a certain degree of knowledge of Windows and Linux environments. That said, the wizards and manuals are of good quality. For the price, I would say that...

What needs improvement with NICE Robotic Automation?

There is nothing so relevant to complain about except a few more options in the debug monitor (which is already very powerful and useful right now). There are a few areas for improvement in the ins...

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Overview

IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology that encompasses the use of smart robots in any process requiring efficiency, consistency and speed, with no risk of mistakes. In a nutshell, RPA simulates a human user working.

Today, it is possible to automate processes through the use of digital robots, or bots, which execute pre-programed, repetitive tasks in a safe and mistake free manner. There are literally thousands of opportunities for Robotic Process Automation to make an impact on your organization today, including: automatic invoice emission, system integration, information reconciliation, report generation, intelligent email management to lead generation, and many others.

NICE Robotic Automation is allowing organizations to reinvent customer service in the back office and the contact center. Automation offers an immediate reduction of administrative costs for a quick return on your investment. With robots able to perform tasks four to five times faster than a human, NICE Robotic Automation enables quicker turnaround times for customer requests and improved service-level agreements (SLAs). Routine processes are completed flawlessly every time, reducing the need to allocate time for making corrections. NICE Robotic Automation is highly scalable, so a center's processing power can increase when demand does.

Sample Customers

The Hanover Insurance Group

HelpLine, Telefonica Spain, Banca Popolare Di Sondrio

IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs. NICE Robotic Automation