At my company, we automate everything, including the ERP. It's for logistics as well as the production. 90% of our use case is automating SAP and the bonus software.
Automation Engineer at Danfoss
Great automation and AI functionality but is a bit pricey
Pros and Cons
- "They are providing an architecture that is really amazing."
- "UiPath updates its software every year. The problem is the support for the old code. For example, right now I'm using the 2021 10.3 version. If I have developed a code three years back and I want to update the packages, it won't work as expected."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The user interface is amazing. If we want to look at the conditions, we can do so easily. We can just search and we can find it. It's very simple.
They provide architecture that is really amazing.
It is quite stable. It is really good and very reliable, which is what I really want.
You can scale the solution very well.
I have used automation. The report was helpful. It trains employees - even those that didn’t have any experience. In UiPath, it’s not as clear how you go about things or where to click. It's very difficult to change items. The best part of UiPath is the automation.
I have a downloaded code. When you ship the plan from one country to another country, there will be a lot of historical data in the item. Typically, we have to delete this manually. It is a lot of data. We have exclusively recruited people for this job in the past. Then, we came up with some designs for the automation and it has saved them plenty of time. We are able to finish all the deletion of unnecessary data in record time. That was a really easy way to help save time and human resources. Automation Anywhere is really helpful financially.
Manually, a task like this would have taken around 30 days to deal with 10,000 lines of deletion. Now, with automation, the same task can be done in two days.
In the past, our recruits have come from Ireland. I’m not sure how much labor time we’ve saved with UiPath, however, it’s significant.
I have tried UiPath’s Academy. I got certified from UiPath. The best part is that the lectures are really good. They also provide the trial motions, which is really helpful when learning.
I have watched UiPath Academy’s orchestrated videos and done the pre-development. I completed the entire video and then did the test. They have certified me for Orchestrator and the developer parts.
One really good thing about UiPath is the user community. We can just search for a term and get help with questions. Most questions will be answered by the community. That is really amazing and helpful. Participating in the community makes UiPath really easy. It's very easy to find solutions to questions you have.
The UiPath community compares well against other RPA communities out there. On a scale of one to ten, I would say that the automation ranks at a nine. It’s a helpful tool.
We use attended bots as well as unattended bots.
Attended automation has helped to scale RPA benefits in our company by automating departments or all specific processes that require human-robot collaboration. We know how to use automation with merchants so that they help you with authorization for the end-users. The robots have really helped us in specific use cases, especially around logistics, for example.
We have just started using UiPath’s AI functionality. We are exploring it now after we got some orientation from UiPath. Within one year, we'll start using it for the plans that we have created for this year.
UiPath automation has reduced human mistakes. That is the best part. If somebody, a human, does the same continuous actions, mistakes will happen. With automation, we’ve had zero errors at this point.
What needs improvement?
UiPath updates its software every year. The problem is the support for the old code. For example, right now I'm using the 2021 10.3 version. If I have developed a code three years back and I want to update the packages, it won't work as expected. They do not follow up with support for the old version. Therefore, a person has to exclusively work again with the old robot to make it compatible with the new version.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for four years now.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I would say, for an ERP, UiPath is good. If you are going to automate some websites, the stability is very bad, however, for ERP it is really good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good. Based on the demand, we can actually scale up things. Again, it depends on how we implement UiPath in the organization.
How are customer service and support?
We pay extra for UiPath support. For us, it's really good.
Since we are paying extra money for support, whenever we have a problem they exclusively send two people to our organization. They elaborate and explain the solution to the problem. That's only due to the fact that we pay extra money. We have experienced only positive scenarios with support.
While I'd rate paid support eight out of ten, when you don't pay for support the service may be only a five out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I also have Automation Anywhere and Microsoft.
Microsoft's solution is better than UiPath. However, UiPath compared to Automation Anywhere is better.
With UiPath, they should have at least some basic knowledge of .NET. It's very different from Microsoft. Somebody without any background can develop robots.
Compared to Automation Anywhere, UiPath is really good. Especially the user interface. Some of the Orchestrator functionality is also really good compared to Automation Anywhere.
How was the initial setup?
We had used an earlier version (8). We had to use that and log into the Orchestrator, et cetera. At that time, all versions were difficult. Now, they have the availability to make the setup easier and we have the entities to deploy the package. It's now very easy and very convenient.
The deployment takes about two minutes maximum.
For the deployment strategy for UiPath, we did a QA first. We had a tech that would create the instance, we'd deploy the Orchestrator and then just do the QA. We'd create another code request for the master branch.
What was our ROI?
I have seen some ROI, however, I have only high-level ideas about what it is. Our team is in Denmark and in India. From what I heard, we are getting considerable value for money at this time.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is a bit pricey.
More and more companies are coming out with similar solutions, and therefore the space is likely to become very competitive.
What other advice do I have?
I have used the cloud deployment at well. Now I use the on-premises version.
If anybody is going to evaluate UiPath, first, I would say, you need to look into what kind of automation you are going to do. If it's ERP, I would definitely recommend UiPath. If it's something, like a PDF or insurance kind of use case, then I wouldn't recommend UiPath. From my experience, what I understand is that UiPath is good for SAP. However, you can use it for any other kind of ERP as well.
I'd rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Senior Consultant Cybersecurity at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Saves time, reduces maintenance costs, and has a helpful online learning academy
Pros and Cons
- "The process design work and the workflow management and the custom templates, those features are the most valuable to us right now."
- "They could work to improve the user community."
What is our primary use case?
I mainly use UiPath for all automation tasks. We focus on the security automation side. We are doing some research on security automation regarding incorporated SIEM. We mainly are focusing on the security automation side using UiPath.
What is most valuable?
The process design work, the workflow management, and the custom templates are the most valuable aspects to us right now.
In terms of the ease of building automation using UiPath, it's easy to use. Previously, we had to do everything manually. When it came to automation, we had to design it manually and we had to have the documentation and everything in a separate place. By using UiPath, we can collaborate with everyone in one single system and we can maintain everything in one repo. Everything in one single system makes it easy to use and reduces our time spent creating automation while also improving effectiveness and efficiency. In terms of time saved, while previously it might have taken us two to three days to do perform a task, we now have it down to one.
The automation cloud offering helps to decrease UiPath's total cost of ownership by taking care of things such as infrastructure maintenance and updates. We don't have to host in our environments. They are responsible for maintaining everything. We can also connect from anywhere, which is very useful. The automation cloud offering helps to decrease UiPath's total cost of ownership as it reduces maintenance costs.
I use the UiPath Academy to learn more information, get new features, and learn about them as I go. UiPath Academy courses have been extremely helpful in getting up to speed and getting updates on the new features.
These days, once they release the new features, we can immediately learn about them from the Academy. We have everything, including guides, in one place. We don't need to search here and there and go and search features and ask for help from someone else. Once we first log in to the Academy, we can see everything that's saved there. We have one single place from which to learn.
The UiPath user community, in terms of the value that we gain by being a part of it, is good. The forum is also there. If someone needs help they can put the question on the forum as well. While there's no extreme support, for mid-level questions, we have some sort of support there right from the community.
We use attended automation. Attended automation has helped to scale RPA and has benefited the company by automating department or role-specific processes that require human-robot collaboration. UiPath helps to improve the effectiveness of the processes. Time is saved and human errors are reduced when we leverage this aspect. We've likely seen a drop of 50% in human error. It's also freed up 50% of employee time.
We do use some of UiPath's AI functionality in our automation program. I use some subject features. While using complex processes, we can segregate them into different parts and we have more visibility of the processes. When it comes to automation, we can make decisions such as how these processes are aligned and how to rearrange them. The AI functionality enabled us to automate more processes overall.
UiPath has reduced the cost of digital transformation so far. Some upgrades were required, however, they weren't massive. Most of the stuff can be managed.
What needs improvement?
They could work to improve the user community. For example, having a common place to discuss items. They could improve user forums. That way, we can share knowledge and experiences across different industries.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using the solution for around six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In terms of stability, it's really good. I haven't come across any problems.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is really good. We can change anything we want with minimum time.
The cloud offering allows us to scale up operations. When the number of users increases and the number of tasks goes up as the business expands, we can easily, with the cloud subscription, share it with more users. It's really easy.
I currently use the solution daily, which will likely continue. Many people use the solution in our organization, including all developers and project managers as well as IT admin. Around, altogether 80 to 90 people are using UiPath. I've automated two processes so far, however other departments also use it and they are doing their own automation projects.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support has been very helpful.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. For implementing and getting support and we could directly work with the company. UiPath was very helpful.
Deployment was done by a separate IT team, however, we are used to testing the product and giving feedback. We provide the feedback, what we use, and everything, and it can get tweaked. It's quite straightforward and easy.
It took about three months to deploy UiPath.
The implementation strategy was to communicate with IT. They know the whole solution, however, we were participating in the process to witness how to use the software and how it's helpful. We give feedback on how it feels to do our work. Therefore, I don't directly install it; I only advise on my findings from a usage standpoint.
What about the implementation team?
UiPath helped to deploy the UiPath solution in our organization.
What was our ROI?
UiPath has helped save 60% of costs for us in our organization.
We have seen an ROI. Considering the overall cost we spent before vs after and considering our increased accuracy and the time savings when you see the bigger picture, it's worth more than what we spent.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing and licensing of UiPath seem to be affordable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The IT team may have looked at other options, including Blue Prism. I didn't directly participate in the evaluation process.
What other advice do I have?
We are UiPath customers.
It's a good process automation tool. I'd invite anyone to consider this tool if they are planning to go into automation tasks. However, they definitely need to have a trial period. After that, if it suits their goals, then they should acquire it for their organization.
I would rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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Application Support Engineer at Centene Corporation
Unattended robots completely take tasks out of the user's hands so users don't have to spend time doing mundane things
Pros and Cons
- "Unattended robots completely take tasks out of the user's hands reducing error and unnecessary effort on mundane tasks."
- "While it is still the best, the usability for end-users without programming experience can be improved."
What is our primary use case?
We use Orchestrator, Studio, and Robot to work with automation in our finance department.
How has it helped my organization?
The product improves how our organization functions by automating tasks so users aren't having to spend time doing mundane things.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the unattended robots as they completely take tasks out of the user's hands.
What needs improvement?
In the next release of the solution, I'd like to see process mining to analyze business processes through event logs. It would help the end-users determine what processes need to or can be automated.
As for areas of the solution that have room for improvement, the usability for the end-users could improve so that they will be better able to program on their own. Coupled with process mining capabilities, that could remove the need to involve programmers or IT in the automation of simple tasks. The cloud platform could be improved so we would be able to deploy through that with sufficient security.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
On a scale from one to five where one is not stable and five is very stable, I would rate the stability of the platform as a four. It is a four because I haven't seen any outages yet but we may need more experience with the product to be sure it is totally stable when we are completely live.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have about four people are in our organization who are currently involved in our automation program and I can see that expanding as the company improves ease-of-use.
How are customer service and technical support?
Our team has used UiPath Academy RPA training. On a scale from one to five where one is the least beneficial and five is the most beneficial, I would rate the UiPath Academy RPA training as a five. It is very good and very detailed.
We have also used customer support and it is good. When I called in they were helpful with answering questions that I had and they responded quickly. Usually, we had one person assigned to us that kind of helped us implement and who was familiar with our needs. This helped in several cases.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was involved in the decision process to move to UiPath. We knew that we needed an RPA solution to take care of repetitive tasks that could be automated and we had been using solutions in other departments. We went through an RFP (Request for Proposal) process when the finance senior leadership wanted to see what RPA was about and how it could help in their processing. UiPath was one of three products that made it to the next stage of evaluations for this use case.
We did simultaneously use a different solution, which was Pega. UiPath was actually already being used in the company but the idea was to expand into the finance processes.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process was straightforward. The complexity that we met with was because of the requirements of our own company. The setup, as far as the installation, was straightforward and simple. From the time we purchased the UiPath license until we had our first robot in production was about three months.
What about the implementation team?
We did use a consultant for the deployment. The company was PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited). On a scale from one to five where one is very bad and five is excellent. I would rate our experience with PwC as a three. They are not rated higher in our case because they didn't provide us with the best resources. They sent a younger team that seemed not to have really ever used UiPath.
What was our ROI?
We have only projected a total for return on investment and performance benefits from the solution through testing and past performance as we are not fully live yet. It will probably take six months to see the actual ROI when we know more about the performance benefits of full deployment. The solution has already helped to eliminate human error by about 25% and has saved our organization approximately 2,000 hours.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
As far as pricing, I don't know what the company spends on the license. I do know about the robots. I think the attended robot is a little bit too pricey. With the unattended robots, we can put them on virtual machines — not really Citrix but regular virtual machines which are a little bit cheaper.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The vendors who were on our shortlist were UiPath, Pega, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism. We chose UiPath because we already had the product in-house and we had already gone through all the security checks for the company requirements.
What other advice do I have?
On a scale from one to five where one is very difficult and five is very easy. I would rate the ease of use of the platform as a three-out-of-five. I give it that rating rather than going a bit higher because it is a little bit difficult for the regular users to automate. In some cases, you have to be more of a programmer to automate successfully. Even so, it is better than other RPA tools.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate the product over-all as an eight. It gets the job done, but there is still a lot of room for growth in the capabilities so that is why I think that eight is a justifiable rating.
The advice I would give to a colleague at another company who is researching RPA solutions is to read up on what RPA is and what it can do for your company. That is where I would start. Then try to go to as many meetups or conferences as you can to find out more about the products and how they are being used.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Senior Hyperautomation Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Questions on the user community forum are typically answered within minutes
Pros and Cons
- "We've seen a significant return on our investment. For example, when we needed to do a lot of data migration because we were transitioning to a new platform, we previously had to hire outsourced contractors to do that manually. This cost a lot of money and involved some data security risks because we had to share access with them."
- "UiPath should make more of its advanced capabilities available to non-technical users through additional low-code features. They should also enhance their AI features and make more machine learning models available out of the box through the UiPath store."
What is our primary use case?
UiPath is a general automation tool that's useful in multiple cases, such as finance, HR, and cybersecurity. We have around 8,000 indirect users. Thousands see the reports generated by UiPath daily.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath has helped my company to increase productivity, and it has financial implications. We can reduce the number of full-time employees we need, and existing FTEs can concentrate on more important work. It has reduced the time spent on repetitive tasks by about 30 percent. UiPath is particularly beneficial to employees who work night shifts. They don't need to wake up early to run the reports. It's automated, so they have the reports in their inboxes as soon as they wake up.
It gives us the power to scale up because we can process a greater volume of tasks by adding more bots, and we can accomplish things we could not do without adding staff.
UiPath reduces human error in terms of understanding what is written and changing it. It does not have the intelligence to think or manipulate the values that it sees, but it can change a value from x to y, reducing human error. It depends on the use case, but a bot is a lot less likely than a human to make errors when performing certain tasks, like converting a dollar amount to euros or pounds.
We have a hybrid environment with a small on-prem installation and AWS, but we plan to transition fully to the cloud by next year, so it has definitely decreased our on-prem footprint and the maintenance requirements from our side. We don't need to do as much stack maintenance on our physical infrastructure.
The UiPath Academy courses help the team to learn and understand what is going on. The great part is that it's free. With some products, you can only access the learning materials with an enterprise license. However, UiPath enables you to take the courses even if you are only using the community version.
We have experimented with UiPath's AI functions, but we have not used them in production. We are working with the solution's Document Understanding capabilities, and our AI team is creating a few use cases for us.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the UiPath Community, where developers can share and collaborate. We realize a lot of value and utility from developers coming together. That's a significant advantage UiPath has over its competitors. It has helped us understand what other people are doing and contribute to the community. Aside from that, the UI automation is pretty good with respect to error handling and other stuff.
The UiPath user community is pretty engaged. You rarely see this level of engagement on other platforms. There are thousands of questions, and when you post a new one, you can usually get an answer within five minutes. That shows how engaged the community is. You can also get a fast response from the company itself. They connect with their users through regular seminars and events like mini-hackathons and demos.
Building automations in UiPath is simple. It's a safe, low-code platform. The drag-and-drop workflows make it accessible to non-technical people, and it's becoming even easier with the advent of generative AI. You can just type whatever you want to create, and it can do it for you.
We have been developing some processes that can help with climate issues. UiPath can help us track our carbon emissions. We have various portals where we report our progress on our climate goals, and we can gather the data using UiPath quickly and provide timely updates to the government.
With UiPath, we can implement end-to-end automation involving integration with multiple products. We can add chatbots in the front and process mining or data mining. Through process mining, we can automate use cases as we get them. This capability was not available earlier. We can analyze the bots and derive insights from UiPath, which makes it end-to-end.
What needs improvement?
UiPath should make more of its advanced capabilities available to non-technical users through additional low-code features. They should also enhance their AI features and make more machine learning models available out of the box through the UiPath store.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using UiPath in 2016 when I was with a different company.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is a stable product, but there are still some areas where it could improve.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability depends on the design of the board. If I follow single designs, there might not be a possibility to scale it. But if I follow a design where I have Master, the pro producer, and consumer problem where I have some bots that are just collecting the information and some parts just processing that information. That way it can be scaled, but that will be dependent on the design of the problem.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath support nine out of 10. The turnaround time is typically a day. We might get a callback the next day if it's something more complex, but the ticket is usually closed within two days.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have previously used Automation Anywhere but not at my current company. A lot of people use Automation Anywhere. However, it's more of a closed ecosystem, so you don't have access to the creativity of other developers. With UiPath, developers can publish their processes to be reused by others. That is not available in Automation Anywhere. It's like the Android store where I can publish my app in the store, and people can use it whether it is monitored or not.
How was the initial setup?
Our deployment took around four to six months. The initial deployment was simple, but it took some time to set up the architecture. We needed to get approval from our cloud team to set UiPath up and integrate it. Around five to seven people were involved. The solution is deployed across multiple locations and departments.
We have to perform some maintenance on the software that UiPath is automating. When we build a database, we need to archive it so that we don't exceed the requirements. We have to delete logs regularly, and the machines require software updates. It isn't specific to UiPath.
What was our ROI?
We've seen a significant return on our investment. For example, when we needed to do a lot of data migration because we were transitioning to a new platform, we previously had to hire outsourced contractors to do that manually.
This cost a lot of money and involved some data security risks because we had to share access with them. They would need to migrate the data manually using some tool, but we can now do that internally with UiPath. No one is looking at our data, and it can be done fast.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath is on the higher side compared to Microsoft Power Automate and Automation Anywhere.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10. If you are considering UiPath, you should think about whether you have strong use cases that can't be handled by a competing solution. For small use cases, your needs might be better met by another tool that is native to your environment.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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RPA Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Is beneficial in the financial services industry, especially for security clearing divisions
Pros and Cons
- "A lot of our back-office business is driven around emails right now, and there's no automation whatsoever around any of that at the moment. That's where we're really looking to go."
- "The biggest struggle that we've had is understanding how to get in and properly set up all the architecture and orchestrate everything correctly from the get-go rather than trial and error and then fixing it as we go."
What is our primary use case?
The use cases have been really broad for us. We have been trying to go in a bunch of different directions. The use cases started out small with attended automation, trying to automate a bunch of reports for our operations departments. That's where we started just to prove the concept, and now we're branching out into some of the document understanding.
How has it helped my organization?
We're in the financial services industry. I work specifically for our security clearing division. I do stock trading, bonds, and all that kind of stuff. Our main objective was productivity, trying to prevent from having to hire so many people to run our ops department.
We have also done task mining. It has been really great for us. It's helped not only document what we're going to do for automation but also document processes in general. There are a lot of departments that just don't have any documentation.
We've really been leveraging it in that way to try and get better documentation around all processes.
What is most valuable?
The features we've used are somewhat limited at the moment. We've been doing a lot of basic reports. We automate daily reporting tasks.
A lot of our back-office business is driven around emails right now, and there's no automation whatsoever around any of that at the moment. That's where we're really looking to go.
What needs improvement?
The biggest struggle that we've had is understanding how to get in and properly set up all the architecture and orchestrate everything correctly from the get-go rather than trial and error and then fixing it as we go.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath for a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't had any issues with stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have a very small team at the moment, so we're still trying to scale up.
Scalability is open to interpretation because it depends on how your environment is set up.
Personally, we have to deploy a lot of our stuff on our own servers, behind our own firewall. It's left up to us to maintain the scalability, whereas other firms may be able to use more of the cloud robots and not have to worry about it as much.
Scalability has been a little bit of an issue, but it's our own issue, not really UiPath's issue.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are very responsive and helpful. We have run into a few issues where they haven't been able to give us a definitive solution.
For example, one of the biggest issues we've had is that we have a lot of integration issues with our Outlook. I don't know if it's how we set it up or issues with UiPath activities, but we've been struggling there and going back and forth with support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We use Microsoft Power Automate a little bit. Power Automate has a little bit of orchestration. UiPath is definitely a lot more sophisticated. That's definitely a big advantage at the moment.
Our use case for Power Automate has been very limited at the moment. Mainly, we've been targeting areas where we struggled with UiPath and using Power Automate, mostly in the Microsoft integrations where that works seamlessly out of the box. In contrast, we've run into some hurdles around certain Outlook and Teams-type activities with UiPath.
How was the initial setup?
We're using Cloud Orchestrators so the setup was pretty straightforward. We have its cloud Orchestration by all of our robots running on-prem servers.
What about the implementation team?
There were two people involved in the deployment process.
Initially, nobody bought in on the idea of automation so we started building small tasks that we could show to people. It was mostly attended automation on desktops to let the users see how the program works and get comfortable with it.
We started building a bunch of little automations that aren't huge time savers but demonstrate how UiPath can work for people. That was the implementation approach we took.
Now we've got some buy-in. People understand who we're starting to reevaluate, try and scale the program, and do it the right way this time.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment. We're mostly calculating the time saved at the moment. Now we're starting to get a little more into the cost-benefit analysis of things because we have a a program running.
For this first year, our biggest metric has been showing upper management the time saved so that we can calculate the number of employees that we need.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is justified at the moment. It's definitely significantly more expensive than other competitors out there, but at the moment, its technology is good enough to where UiPath can justify it. It'll be interesting to see in the years to come, once Microsoft starts competing more, what the pricing ends up looking like.
What other advice do I have?
UiPath is definitely the leader right now. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
If you have the resources, try UiPath. Get some consulting to set everything up properly from the get-go, so you don't have to go back and redo it the way that we've done.
No matter what approach you take, you're going to see some benefit from using it.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
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Tech service manager at Victoria's Secret
Helps to achieve time savings and user satisfaction
Pros and Cons
- "The tool's most valuable feature is RPA."
- "UiPath should improve its licensing structure."
What is our primary use case?
My use cases for UiPath include finance, HR, SAP, and technology.
What is most valuable?
The tool's most valuable feature is RPA.
What needs improvement?
UiPath should improve its licensing structure.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product since 2018.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The selectors and modern UI are not stable yet.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's support is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The tool's deployment is straightforward. We started with contractors and built some POCs. We had a pilot to select the business criteria.
What about the implementation team?
UiPath's implementation team helped us with the deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's pricing is a challenge. Every time I go to renew my contract, the prices increase. It is getting expensive.
What other advice do I have?
The business objectives we tried to achieve with UiPath include time savings and user satisfaction.
Automation has freed up our employees' time.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Developer manager at First Horizon Bank
Comes with document processing and AI Center features that helps to automate business processes
Pros and Cons
- "The tool's most valuable features are document processing and AI Center."
- "I want a dashboard on pending and ongoing automation in Orchestrator. Currently, we have to check folder by folder to see them."
What is our primary use case?
We use UiPath to automate business processes.
What is most valuable?
The tool's most valuable features are document processing and AI Center.
What needs improvement?
I want a dashboard on pending and ongoing automation in Orchestrator. Currently, we have to check folder by folder to see them.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's tech support team is helpful. They will jump on a call immediately in case anything goes wrong.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath's pricing is expensive but reasonable for the quality of service that it provides.
What other advice do I have?
We have saved more than 1000 hours with automation. We have around 100 automation. We save a lot of hours.
I rate the product a nine out of ten. I recommend it to my friends and clients.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
RPA Specialist at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Has multiple features, many connectors, and good support, but the debugging process takes longer and could be improved
Pros and Cons
- "I like that UiPath makes life easier through its multiple features. It's easy to use through its Excel functionality, a basic application you need. UiPath also has many connectors available, so using the solution is easier."
- "Debugging needs improvement in UiPath because I need to do it from scratch whenever I have to debug a code. I have to run the entire code from the start and then check the pointers. If a specific action can be developed in UiPath, instead of running the code from the beginning, it would allow you to debug the code from the point that needs debugging, saving a significant amount of time."
What is our primary use case?
I've worked on many use cases for UiPath, primarily automation use cases, but the most recent one was for the HTS sector.
The customer was inquiring about payments, whether the payment was fully paid, partially paid, or whether there was an outstanding balance or payment discrepancy.
It was for a US client, and based on some validations, checks, and settings, I needed to identify if the payment was on time, delayed, or never paid. I had to commit to determining the information or data for my customer, which included many validation business rules. I had to consider the checkpoints before replying to the customer's query.
The query used to come through email, and I needed to extract the emails, identify what the query was for, and then go ahead and provide the solution.
How has it helped my organization?
Many new improvements in UiPath after 2018 have helped end users stay competitive in the market, such as document understanding and process mining. UiPath has also helped significantly in documenting scanned invoices and restructuring processes. UiPath is continually growing and updating, and that is a big help to organizations.
What is most valuable?
What I like best about UiPath is that it's undoubtedly the leader in the market.
I like that the solution makes life easier through its multiple features. It's easy to use UiPath through its Excel functionality, a basic application you need. UiPath also has many connectors available, so using the solution is easier.
I also found the document understanding feature of UiPath helpful in automating data from PDFs, whether it's to classify or extract information from documents. The document understanding feature also has many extractors, making data extraction easy to apply to the existing company processes, one of the best features of UiPath.
Compared to other RPA tools, such as Blue Prism and Power Automate, UiPath stands out in terms of the scalability of automation that you can do on the platform. UiPath is more reliable and has many actions available for almost every application, which is why the solution stands out.
Building automation using UiPath is simple, but it would still depend on the developer or designer. If you do not plan the process correctly, it will be messy. Regarding the actions for building automation, you can pull and drop into boxes, so it's easy.
My company used UiPath to automate processes dealing with a good cause, mainly giving people more free time to focus on learning new skills and growing professionally rather than spending all the time working on repetitive, mundane tasks. My company automated a process for the customer and delivered that to the customer.
UiPath enabled my company to implement end-to-end automation. Still, there may be a few requirements that would make the solution not feasible, for example, applications where it would be challenging to use UiPath, even with plug-ins.
The UiPath User Community is the biggest out of all communities by other platforms, and I found the community helpful. Many experts in the UiPath User Community are ready to help.
I've used UiPath Academy. Its courses helped me in understanding UiPath in detail. I started learning the solution from the academy itself. It is great because it covers all the basics and advanced topics. UiPath Academy is a one-stop solution for learning UiPath and its products, services, and offerings.
The solution has also helped in speeding up digital transformation.
Uipath has helped reduce human error in any process or task that is rule-based, which doesn't need any human interference or judgment. My company developed tasks on the platform and created code to handle specific situations or scenarios that completely took care of manual intervention or manual efforts plus, the deployment was easy, and the solution saved a lot of manual effort. UiPath reduced human error by up to ninety percent.
The solution helped free up employee time by up to forty percent after the automation by reducing the need for employees to work on repetitive tasks so employees could focus on other, more challenging tasks, including learning new skills.
What needs improvement?
One area for improvement in UiPath is that the orientation could be better.
Debugging also needs improvement because I need to do it from scratch whenever I have to debug a code. I have to run the entire code from the start and then check the pointers. If a specific action can be developed in UiPath, instead of running the code from the beginning, it would allow you to debug the code from the point that needs debugging, saving a significant amount of time.
My company has tested the AI functionality of UiPath, and for complex processes, it takes a lot of time to develop the processes from a development point. When a process is complex, it depends on the end users or developers on how to break the requirement into small pieces. Suppose you do not break it into small pieces and create a single push out of it. In that case, it will become a lengthy code inside UiPath Studio, making maintaining and monitoring that code difficult inside UiPath Studio. Locating the error or actual information would also take more work, so UiPath could be challenging to use in complex process automation.
Pricing for UiPath also needs improvement as it becomes expensive in large-scale implementations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started working with UiPath in 2018, so from that time, it's been five years of working with the platform.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is a stable tool.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath is a scalable tool.
How are customer service and support?
I found UiPath Support good.
UiPath consultants provide good support and are readily available via email.
It takes about ten to twelve hours to receive a response from UiPath Support.
I'd rate support as eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
My company used Blue Prism before UiPath. I work for a service-based company, with clients choosing the tools based on priorities. UiPath was cheaper than Blue Prism, but when you use it for a large-scale RPA implementation where you deploy hundreds of robots, UiPath becomes more expensive than Blue Prism. However, development on UiPath was significantly faster and more reliable compared to Blue Prism. UiPath also has a larger community offering support versus Blue Prism and even has free training on UiPath Academy. UiPath also offered a free trial, which Blue Prism didn't offer. These are the reasons for switching to UiPath.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up the UiPath infrastructure was a little tricky, but the deployment was much easier. It usually takes one month to complete the deployment if the process is simple, but it could take up to three months for a complex process. Compared to other tools, the deployment and development of UiPath was faster.
What was our ROI?
In terms of manual efforts, realizing the benefits of UiPath was immediate, but for the financial benefits or ROI, it took some time, as the solution has a huge cost. It required you to purchase the UiPath Studio, Robot, and Architectural licenses. You also have to pay for the development costs, so the monetary benefits took time to reflect in the cash flow.
My company did notice between sixty to seventy percent ROI from UiPath, which was calculated around the number of FTEs, mainly how many FTEs were released from a specific task. For example, there was a big project with sixteen FTEs released from a repetitive task.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
When there's a massive deployment of robots, pricing for UiPath becomes costly, as you must purchase different licenses for UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, etc. I noticed that it would solely depend on how service-based companies negotiate with UiPath and that each client could have a pricing disparity. A client with a more significant implementation could get more discount, pricing-wise.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I had the chance to work with Blue Prism and Power Automate.
What other advice do I have?
UiPath does not require extensive or complex application upgrades and support, at least not for every application. Sometimes, support is needed depending on the project or application, but the chance of it would be very slim.
UiPath was deployed on-premises. In terms of environments or locations, the solution was deployed in three different environments: in the Studio, Orchestrator, and Testing.
The number of users of the solution varies per project, but the maximum number of users I've worked with on a single project is about thirteen or fourteen.
My company has worked with small, medium, and large enterprises using UiPath.
The solution doesn't require maintenance. It just requires license renewal.
My rating for UiPath is seven out of ten. I'd make it a ten if UiPath improves the appearance of the Studio. Its debugging process could also be improved, as it's currently complex. It could be easier.
My company is a UiPath partner.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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