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reviewer2208123 - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Real User
Top 20
Has a powerful design process and organization and has helped reduce human errors to zero
Pros and Cons
  • "RPA is a valuable feature for interacting with GUI interfaces."
  • "AI machine learning has room for improvement."

What is our primary use case?

50 percent of our business involves Digital Integration Automation, specifically in the banking and finance sectors. In this domain, we automate various processes, primarily focusing on banking processes such as lending and loan administration. Our operations primarily revolve around the core banking systems of the banks. Essentially, we maintain complex systems and infrastructure utilizing over 20 automation robots through UiPath.

We deploy on-premises, in the cloud, and also utilize hybrid models.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath is one of the most straightforward tools when it comes to starting and modeling processes. Most of us here are experienced programmers who are also using UiPath. However, I have also noticed that people from our sales department or accounting department are beginning to automate their own processes.

We use UiPath to automate processes in healthcare, where we manage the patient's programming for medical systems and other related tasks. By determining the appropriate waiting time to access the necessary data, we aim to minimize delays and fulfill our social responsibility for a good cause.

In the past two years, our customers have shown a preference for comprehensive digital transformation rather than simply being informed about our RPA activities. This necessitates expanding our scope to achieve a more holistic view and address end-to-end automation. This can be accomplished using UiPath alone, if applicable, or by combining UiPath with another BPMN or local platform's console. An open-source file like Camunda can be utilized for this purpose. We have projects where Camunda effectively controls UiPath robots within a browser-based process, regardless of whether it is a bank or a smaller company. Camunda enables the modeling of complex processes that may span days or weeks, but eventually, RPA automation is required to deliver the desired outcomes. This has been the prevailing trend in the last two years. We are not solely relying on RPA components but also integrating them into a broader system, be it a BPMN or a local no-call system.

We derive great value from UiPath's user community. We are one of three Gold partners in Romania. I always find the information I am seeking within the UiPath user community. The user community offers a comprehensive documentation system, community forums, and other resources, allowing us to obtain what we need.

Now, engaging in automation forces us to standardize our work to a certain extent. Perhaps we should consider documenting our processes and adopting a mindset that prioritizes automation. While this doesn't necessarily mean being overly strict or inflexible, it does compel us to become more organized, and efficient, and encourages critical thinking. We find ourselves questioning why we are performing certain tasks and exploring ways to improve them. UiPath introduces us to concepts like lean management, providing further benefits from this perspective.

The UiPath implementers made significant efforts to educate us on working more in the cloud and fewer on-premises, transitioning from on-premises infrastructure to cloud ecosystems. There are several advantages that we may want to consider when deciding to do this, such as minimizing maintenance costs and scaling in seconds. Just to provide an example, we currently do not have any deployed infrastructure on-premises.

UiPath Academy courses drive us to approach and think in a way that helps increase the feasibility of automation and develop a mindset oriented toward automation. Additionally, they provide education in various technological aspects found in different fields such as business analysis, infrastructure engineering, software development, advanced development, solution architecture, and more. Therefore, apart from the technical knowledge, these courses also cultivate a mindset focused on automation and digital transformation.

We utilize AI functionality in our automation and integrate with Microsoft Cognitive Services for compatibility with Google and AWS installations.

UiPath helps us accelerate digital transformation and decrease the cost associated with it. This is one of the reasons why we are continuing to adopt this solution for our partners. Moreover, when we engage in such endeavors, we often need to demonstrate a valid return on investment or the value added to our services, including the tangible benefits we obtain through the use of this technology. This approach ensures that people are interested in not only witnessing the advantages but also the specific, concrete benefits we derive from utilizing this technology.

UiPath has helped reduce human errors to zero, which can be tracked through the dashboard. 

UiPath assists in freeing up employees' time by automating manual tasks.

It has saved our organization costs.

What is most valuable?

RPA is a valuable feature for interacting with GUI interfaces. We utilize it when there is no available API or alternative automation method, such as the previous automation stage using Java or any other means. In such cases, we rely on the interface we have been using for the past few months. The robotic process automation component proves to be powerful.

The design process and organization are powerful. When we design the workflows, we have what is called a framework that is essentially based on transactions that can be used. In case of failure, the group offers a complex and comprehensive system of logging and UI programming that is useful for debugging and so on. UiPath Studio and Designer are powerful components of UiPath, as well as the entire ecosystem that has evolved from a solution based on the Orchestrator and Studio. This ecosystem now includes the Automation Hub, machine learning, AI, and process mining, as well as tools for task discovery, and so on. It has grown from something smaller to a complete ecosystem.

What needs improvement?

AI machine learning has room for improvement. We use Google and Microsoft services. In some ways, Microsoft is more straightforward when we need to train a model compared to UiPath. There comes a point when we integrate UiPath with Microsoft Cognitive Services. For instance, we will also pay for these Microsoft Cognitive Services, not only for the UiPath license. It has an additional cost. However, in terms of usability, my impression is that Microsoft Cognitive Services are faster to configure and provide quicker results than UiPath document understanding, for example. 

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is generally stable, although occasional issues may arise during upgrades.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling UiPath is easy. We can scale within minutes or hours, depending on the requirements. We simply need to provision additional machines, obtain the necessary licenses, and we are good to go.

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

We are also partners with Automation Anywhere, and we utilized Camunda and FlowX AI as well. In our consulting company, my line of business comprises ten percent of the organization's operations, with a specific focus on automation utilizing UiPath.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is moderate. We require knowledge specific to each cloud provider, databases, iOS servers, Windows administration, and so on when deploying in the cloud.

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

UiPath is more affordable than Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, which is the most expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate UiPath an eight out of ten.

We deploy UiPath in multiple locations.

The maintenance level depends on the criticality of the process and the Service Level Agreement for each client. Some clients may require 24/7 maintenance, while others may only need it during their work hours each week.

I recommend familiarizing oneself with UiPath and then moving to an integration partner when ready.

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Works at Tech Mahindra
MSP
User-friendly and offers time-saving benefits compared to other industry-presented software
Pros and Cons
  • "The user-friendly interface allows users to visually plan and design various automation processes through it."
  • "The support provided by UiPath could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

UiPath is a robotic process automation tool used for large-scale end-to-end automation. It provides solutions for businesses to automate routine office activities.

How has it helped my organization?

It is easy to implement building automation with UiPath. This solution provides two million automation processes, which is a higher number compared to any other automation solution.

The app enables us to implement end-to-end automation for accelerated business exchange and the robots are used to translate the strategies into the task.

The user community of UiPath offers an environment filled with information for us to work with.

UiPath can help reduce automation costs by 80 to 90 percent compared to other software solutions. Additionally, UiPath offers time-saving benefits compared to other industry-presented software.

We utilize UiPath Academy courses to assist our organization in sales, banking, systems, and trade execution.

AI has helped us automate processes by using machine learning and complex algorithms to analyze certain data, and we can develop a business knowledge base by formulating predictions based on data. 

UiPath has significantly reduced costs and time consumption compared to other automation tools like Blue Prism, which is a Microsoft tool that I have also used. UiPath offers unique features that Blue Prism does not provide. Although Blue Prism may reduce costs by 70 to 80 percent, UiPath's cost reduction capabilities are also noteworthy, with reductions of up to 70 to 80 percent reported in industries and organizations that use it.

UiPath has minimized the occurrence of human error as opposed to machines that do not make mistakes.

UiPath has saved our employees a lot of time and our organization a lot of money.

What is most valuable?

UiPath offers features that are not available in other automation solutions, such as Blue Prism. Unlike Blue Prism, UiPath provides recorded playback, advanced scripting options, high security, and awareness. Additionally, UiPath offers 24/7 support through chat, providing solutions to any problems we may be facing.

The user-friendly interface allows users to visually plan and design various automation processes through it.

What needs improvement?

The support provided by UiPath could be improved. It would be beneficial to have a more effective forum where users can ask questions and receive precise responses to their concerns.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for eight months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support can be slow at times but the issues are always resolved.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

I previously used Blue Prism. If we consider a key feature that UiPath has over Blue Prism, it would be cost savings. UiPath has the ability to save up to 30 percent of the organization's costs, while also increasing speed compared to Blue Prism. It can be said that UiPath is much more efficient than Blue Prism, saving a significant amount of time for the user.

What other advice do I have?

I give UiPath a ten out of ten.

UiPath is deployed in the cloud and consists of a server-side and client-side. Developers communicate with UiPath directly through a browser. Additionally, UiPath has agent support that allows the service to search all currently available data on the device before it is moved to SQL Server.

The solution is maintained by UiPath in the cloud but it is slow.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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reviewer2125275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer
Real User
Makes development easy, saves effort and time, and provides good ROI
Pros and Cons
  • "With UiPath, development is easy because they have their own Studio. We just run UiPath Studio, drag and drop the components that we require, and connect all the dots. When we're doing website automation or web app automation, we can use their UI-based Studio and grab the elements from the web application using XPath, which makes the development easier."
  • "It would be helpful if UiPath could provide developers to help us with the on-premises setup. Without that, we have to figure out how we do the setup."

What is our primary use case?

We do workflow automation for some of the functions such as form-filling or filtering data accession on the client's web application. We use UiPath RPA for data accession and other processes. We have done workflow automation that:

  1. Opens a client's website.
  2. Filters out the current data.
  3. Lists out all the records that need to be processed.
  4. Opens each record.
  5. Enters the details gathered from a spreadsheet or somewhere else.
  6. Submits the application. 

It does that for all these users that have been filtered out. That's why we're using UiPath.

How has it helped my organization?

We're able to automate manual processes and save the effort of our employees. We're also able to save our and our clients' time. With these automations, we could also save the time of healthcare workers and patients. For example, we did automation of insurance claim processing, and based on the feedback that we received, they said that insurance claiming is safer and faster as compared to the previous manual process. For example, previously, if they were processing 100 insurance claims per day, they can now process 250 to 300 claims with automation.

UiPath helps to implement end-to-end automation. We don't have any tool other than UiPath for automation. We build the bot through UiPath and run it on the client's application. We don't have any other automation tool. This end-to-end automation makes up 95% of our business. End-to-end automation is the only thing that we're doing in our current company.

When we started and got our angel funding, we planned to build our own RPA tool for workflow automation. We did the development for almost six months, but we faced a lot of issues. We then decided to use a top, third-party RPA tool. So, we decided on using UiPath. We now have seed funding. UiPath was a savior when we were starting out. Otherwise, we would have faced a lot of issues, and even the company might not have grown without UiPath. UiPath has helped us a lot because they have years of experience building the RPA tool, and they have a lot of features to make the development process smooth.

We have been using NLP for understanding the signature in one of our documents. We just want to get the text out of the documents that have been uploaded to our claims application. For this, we use the UiPath AI functionality. If UiPath doesn't have the AI feature, we might have to get help from the cloud vendor providing AI, but because the AI is built into UiPath, it supports document understanding or language analysis that we're doing. Because AI is integrated with it, we don't have to learn anything, other than UiPath, to get the task done.

One of our workflows is extracting text from images and PDFs. We use UiPath document understanding for that. If they didn't have this feature, we might not have been able to create a workflow for the client for running a process. UiPath has helped us implement more workflows and do more processes.

UiPath has definitely reduced human error. We did have some unattended automations with UiPath but not everything can be automated. Some issues might arise that need to be resolved by a human, but 100% of the things do not need to be done by humans. Because of that, human error gets reduced. For example, we have thousands of documents that need to be classified based on the text they have. If we give that task to humans who have to handle more than 20,000 documents in a day, they will get exhausted and might make errors in classifying the documents. With UiPath automation, it can be done without any human errors. It definitely reduces human error.

UiPath has freed up employee time. The workflow automations that we have done save the time of our employees and our clients. We save approximately two to three hours per day per employee. In a week, there are 10 to 15 hours, and per month, it comes out to be about 100 hours.

UiPath didn't save the cost for us because we're not using UiPath to run the workflow. We just build the workflows and give them to the clients, but it has saved the cost for the clients. For us, it reduces the development effort. It has a lot of tools to build applications.

What is most valuable?

When it comes to UiPath, the custom robots that we can run in an EC2 instance and the on-premise support are valuable. UiPath has cloud as well as on-premise support. We have some companies that ask to run the application on our own server, so we just install UiPath in our own system and enter the UiPath key. We're running it on-premises on our own bare metal server. We can also do asset management where we can store the credential for the client's application that will be used in a runtime environment. We like credential management. 

We also have queue support in UiPath. We can just put the data in queues, and it'll be processed in a transaction manner. 

With UiPath, development is easy because they have their own Studio. We just run UiPath Studio, drag and drop the components that we require, and connect all the dots. When we're doing website automation or web app automation, we can use their UI-based Studio and grab the elements from the web application using XPath, which makes the development easier. However, for that, the initial setup is required to be done in a certain way. After we have done the setup, which includes running UiPath Studio and connecting the robots, everything is easy.

We did the UiPath courses for onboarding. We onboard many developers regularly, and every developer has to complete the course before getting started with the development. UiPath Academy was useful for learning about UiPath and getting started with the development. If we had started development without UiPath Academy courses, we wouldn't know which tools are beneficial for which use cases. Otherwise, we would've ended up using unwanted features for the use cases, which would have increased the development time. UiPath Academy gives us a list of features and tools. We get to know which tool would be suitable for a particular use case. This way, it reduces the development effort.

What needs improvement?

In the UiPath Community, a few questions get resolved and a few questions remain unresolved. UiPath has a big user community, but it needs to grow more. For example, during development, we might face some hurdles or hiccups while doing some of the tasks that we don't do on a daily basis, such as executing some API calls and getting some data. We faced some issues related to that, but when we searched for or asked about such issues in the UiPath Community, out of 10 questions, five to six questions remained unanswered. We had to resolve them on our own. So, UiPath needs to improve its community. They can offer some kind of reward for answering the questions asked in the community.

It would be helpful if UiPath could provide developers to help us with the on-premises setup. Without that, we have to figure out how we do the setup.

Its cost could also be better. We need to have a license for every robot, and it isn't possible for us to be able to run UiPath in our on-premises environment based on our usage. Even if we need to run a robot for an hour, we need to get a license for one year.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using UiPath for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath has good stability. They have monthly software updates, but they haven't caused any issues with our system. We didn't face any issues so far because everything runs smoothly. It's 99% stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is scalable. Because our setup is on-premises, we manage the Orchestrator or Studio as our own. When it comes to running the bots or workflows, every time we want to run more automations, we just buy a new robot and attach it to the pool. They run smoothly. UiPath is 95% scalable.

We have about 200 users using UiPath. It's deployed at only one location.

How are customer service and support?

I've contacted them. They're definitely helpful. Whatever issues we have had, they try to debug and resolve them as soon as possible. They're good. I'd rate them a nine out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We didn't use any other solution previously. We started with UiPath.

How was the initial setup?

It's on-premises with the AWS-managed cloud. While setting up the on-premises environment, UiPath documentation helped the most. Without that, we wouldn't have been able to set up the on-premises environment. We had the help of the DevOps team for setting up UiPath with AWS services because we ran our UiPath environment in the AWS cloud in our account. For 60% to 70% of tasks, we used the UiPath documentation, but for setting up the reusable services and scalable machines, we had to take help from the DevOps team for the setup. If UiPath had a team to help us set up the instance in the cloud, it would have been better.

It definitely requires maintenance. They have a monthly patch for the features and software updates. We need to install those patches. We have two to three people who are involved in maintenance.

What was our ROI?

We have definitely seen an ROI. We're investing a lot in the UiPath license. It gives us two to three times more than what we invested. We're giving the workflow solutions to clients, and they're giving us the money for the workflows that are running. The UiPath is running smoothly, and we're getting two to three times more than what we invested in UiPath.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We thought of Automation Anywhere and IBM RPA. That's all. These were the ones for which we planned to do a PoC and evaluate.

What other advice do I have?

I'd advise going with the cloud version of UiPath instead of the on-premises environment because it'd save the development effort and the setup time and cost. In the cloud environment, you can also run the bots on a usage basis. Going with the cloud version of UiPath would save a lot of time.

Overall, I'd rate UiPath a nine out of ten.

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Associate Software Engineer at Nagarro
MSP
Enables automation without coding knowledge, is easy to use, and reduces human error
Pros and Cons
  • "UiPath is straightforward and easy to use, even for those without coding knowledge."
  • "It would be good if the product could work locally, without depending on the internet, as connectivity issues can cause problems."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution as an automation platform that even those without coding knowledge can use for automation-related tasks, such as PDF and Excel extractions. We're an IT services provider and use the tool for insurance data and other client requirements.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath significantly improved our organization's productivity and strengthened our client relationships.

The solution reduces the cost of digital transformation, and we can now expect to see a 300-400% ROI. Doing so did not require expensive or complex application upgrades or IT support. The complexity of performing automations depends on the project size and ranges from very easy to moderately difficult on larger projects.    

The product reduced human error, improving the quality of service we can offer our clients and resulting in higher output accuracy. 

UiPath freed up employee time due to reduced errors, less human involvement, and less manual work. The time saved depends on the project size, but generally, it's approximately 40-50%.  

What is most valuable?

UiPath is straightforward and easy to use, even for those without coding knowledge. 

The solution's drag-and-drop functionality and templates save a lot of time.

We can easily build automations, removing humans from the loop, reducing human error, and saving time, to deliver positive outcomes for our clients.  

The solution enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is excellent for reducing human error as there is no human involvement. It also reduces our dependency on humans and rapidly provides us with extracted data without manual work. End-to-end automation is essential because it allows us to carry out projects even if no team members are present, making it easier to conform to client deadlines.    

What needs improvement?

It would be good if the product could work locally, without depending on the internet, as connectivity issues can cause problems.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is highly stable; I rate it 10 out of 10 for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is very scalable; I rate it 10 out of 10 for scalability.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is excellent and responsive. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

UiPath is the first RPA solution I've ever used. 

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the development, testing, and deployment. The initial setup was neither remarkably straightforward nor complex; it was moderate.

What was our ROI?

Our ROI is in the region of 40-50%. 

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

The product is very affordable, not costly at all.

The solution is very cost-effective for us.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated a few options, including Microsoft Power Automate, but it's a little more expensive than UiPath. UiPath also looks more modern, has a vast developer community, and excellent customer support.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution 10 out of 10. 

Being a part of the UiPath user community is valuable; sometimes, when we encounter issues or have queries, we can quickly get a response from the community.  

My team and I have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses to improve our skills and knowledge of the solution. This was especially useful when I first started to use the tool, as I needed to gain experience in RPA. Anyone can take a UiPath Academy course and learn to use the platform without any additional hassle or training, regardless of coding skills and previous experience.  

My advice to others evaluating the solution is that I rate it very highly, and it's great for automating manual work. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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Software engineer at State of New York
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Great support with a helpful community and useful Academy training
Pros and Cons
  • "Eight to nine times out of ten, if I have a question or I'm stuck, I can go to the forums and I can find experts or I can find YouTube videos and I can talk to other people."
  • "One thing that I would really like to see is some migration processes between environments."

What is our primary use case?

We started with a pilot for our payroll department. It essentially takes the transactions that come into our payroll department on Fridays and Mondays, and sorts through those transactions. If there are any discrepancies or errors based on the defined criteria, it notifies the payroll department, and they can rectify those. Otherwise, paychecks don't process. 

Other than that, we have some data migration between Excel spreadsheets that we do, and we have contracts that we host on a web server that, if they don't have transactions for the same period of time, we have the automation go in and close those contracts out so the transactions can't go against them.

How has it helped my organization?

This was pretty much our first experience with automation. There wasn't anything prior. As far as UiPath is concerned and how automation has transformed the agency, we've found that hundreds of thousands of hours are being saved every year now, thanks to these processes. On a division-by-division basis, hundreds of thousands of dollars are being saved every year.

What is most valuable?

The wide variety of activities that are available for third-party applications has been quite useful when it comes to APIs. It's allowed us to leverage the other applications that we use within the agency. We can actually utilize the UiPath Suite over things like Microsoft Power Apps, Blue Prism, or Automation Anywhere, where they didn't have the capability to really interact with a bunch of third-party applications. 

UiPath helps save taxpayer dollars, which is a good, socially responsible, cause.

The UiPath community is very good. Eight to nine times out of ten, if I have a question or I'm stuck, I can go to the forums, and I can find experts, or I can find YouTube videos, and I can talk to other people. The contractors that we've worked with in the past were super helpful, and everybody's cooperative. Everyone wants to share ideas. At the end of the day, we all want just to make everyone's lives easier.

I've used the UiPath Academy's courses. I was thrown right into the fire. This was thrown on my plate, and they said, "Hey, you're going to be working with the contract; you got a month to spin up an automation." 

I learned while I did; however, as our center of excellence has grown within the agency, we've decided to adopt some new developers into the program, so we don't have to run into that same issue with new people. With the two or three that are coming up to be trained for the end of this year, it's definitely proven a lot of value, since we don't have to sit around and have people sit over shoulders for projects. It allows them to take their time, go through it, and practice. For me, going through some of the advanced courses, for the most part, I found them very well run and have been satisfied with them.

What needs improvement?

One thing that I would really like to see is some migration processes between environments. Right now, we either rely on a very rough CI/CD pipeline and/or manual efforts to transfer packages from one environment to another. Having some in-suite migration process would make our lives so much easier. 

The education aspect is probably the hardest part of getting people on board. Our server administration is separate from the rest of our CoE. We have to rely on them, and they're not necessarily privy to the UiPath Suite in general. Making it easier for them would make our lives easier, thus making our customers happier.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've used UiPath for about two and a half years. We adopted it in late 2019, or early 2020.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We host on-prem, so I can't speak for the cloud support, though I've heard only good things. As far as stability is concerned, in terms of everything that we've moved into production, the only reason anything's ever broken, the only reason anything has ever not worked in general, has been due to agency oversight of people changing things without notifying the proper teams. As far as the UiPath's concerned, I would say it's pretty close to 100% stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability question is hard to answer. The bottleneck is the fact that we are in the public sector, and we're dealing with a lot of state bureaucracy. We're limited in scalability, due to constraints that are outside of UiPath. I will say that as time has progressed and the more this technology's been adopted - including education and business awareness - the technology itself is very scalable. What's holding it back is general knowledge and public knowledge.

How are customer service and support?

Most of the technicians I've worked with have been very helpful. Even if they don't have the answers, they're usually pretty good at getting back to me within two to three days and have relatively good answers. Or, if they can't answer it, they might steer me in a direction that will help me. 

As far as our accounts are concerned, we actually just received a couple of new tech advisors that deal with our agency. The team has been nothing short of fantastic to us. There have been times when we'll have our weekly meetings where they won't have the answer for us, and they'll say, "I'll get to you by next week." There have been times he gets back to us an hour after the meeting, and have detailed everything, or scheduled a call, so we can work on something together. That's been fantastic.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

I did not previously use a different solution. 

How was the initial setup?

I did the development, and I worked with our administrative team to deploy that automation.

It was straightforward. The education part and trying to have our center of excellence be centralized and having people all on the same page takes time. It came down to that whole migration where we are either working with a third-party application or system, like GitLab or some CI/CD pipeline, to get those packages migrated, or doing it manually led to a lot of hiccups throughout the course. 

What could have been done in a matter of hours or maybe a day or two, ended up taking, for almost every one of our automations, about a week or two, thanks to meetings, communication, and lack of education.

We have two environments. We have our Test DEV, then we have our production.  Once the developer completes the testing, it's sent over to our BAs; our BAs test it, then they verify that information with the customer to ensure the results are satisfactory. We then contact our server administrators, migrate the package over, and discuss the run time with the customers. 

Also, all of them, up to this point, have been unattended, so they're able to select a time and a date, whether it be daily, or weekly, or whatever that case is, and a time. We settled on a Thursday implementation date, no matter what, and the server administrators above the back page, then it goes on from there.

What about the implementation team?

As far as consultants were concerned, they worked with us on the initial pilot. Everything else was done in-house. We have taken a step back to readdress our statement of work and how we plan on governing RPA going forward. We are working with a consultant company now to deal with more of the administrative overhead that was involved with this. However, we do plan that moving forward all development and deployments will still be held in-house by our developers and our administration.

What was our ROI?

My understanding is we are expected to hit the ROI that we're projected to hit next year. Even this year, with only three automations running for the entire year, we were able to cover our costs in that aspect essentially.

There are no more than five automations in full swing, and we would like somewhere between 15 and 20 next year. Likely, the ROI will continue to snowball. 

One of the automations that we put live essentially monitors updates to vendor contact information and conversations that are held with the vendors in our agencies and uploads that to a web database. Then, those conversations are logged in an Excel Spreadsheet that managers like to keep updated. This is roughly saving, on average, about 40 hours a week. Multiply that by 52 work weeks, and it's a lot of savings. It's roughly the cost of two full-time salaries that we are saving.

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

I am not super privy to pricing information. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In the beginning, we were choosing between Blue Prism and UiPath, and keeping Microsoft Power platforms on the side burner to possibly automate things that were specifically within Azure and AD. 

While those three were being measured and worked through, we had to go through the bureaucratic chain of state government. It turned out that the UiPath suite, in general, was covering the bases we needed to cover with the third-party application integration. At the same time, the ease of getting everything up and running, the fact that we had a one-stop shop, and we didn't have to buy all these extra additional components just to make simple automation was worth it. Then, just talking with different industry leaders, contractors, and consultants, everybody suggested UiPath when it came down to Blue Prism and UiPath. That was the route we went.

What other advice do I have?

We have yet to use the AI's functionality.

If you were a company looking to expedite as well as remove the monotony of a lot of the work that gets done, especially in the public sector, this is a good option. You likely have the same thing written down probably five times in 16 different places. Getting rid of that workload to free up people for doing other things, is the way to go. 

The most important aspect of all of this isn't having an amazing developer. It isn't having your great server admins or whatever the case is. It's making sure that the people you want to work with are educated and on board before it even starts. Making sure that people understand what RPA is and what UiPath can do for them is the most important thing. Our biggest roadblocks and the biggest things that have sprung us forward are all based on that educational aspect.

I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten.

If you asked me that question two years ago, I probably would've been closer to a six out of ten. The product improved, and the overall competence in the industry, and within the company in general, has improved across the board. The people I've worked with, including our tech advisors or sales rep, are great. There's a lot more confidence and stability. It's definitely given our agency a sense of confidence, and it's much easier to see where this is going. The results are what we've imagined. Everything seems to be much more real at the tail end of 2022. We're hoping this will be stable for our agency in 2024 as well.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Brent Williams - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Paramount Residential Mortgage Group
Real User
Automation software that delivers great ROI and has led to greater job satisfaction for our team members
Pros and Cons
  • "One of the most important features of UiPath is the transactional basis of how it works. I can see which ones are successful, which ones are not, and then have the bot take care of 98% of it. Our staff only deal with the exceptions and this has led to greater job satisfaction."
  • "UiPath could be improved by offering overall solutions instead of just having the RPA process."

What is our primary use case?

I use this solution to download investor suspenses from 35 different investors in warehouses and populate those suspenses into our loan origination system. Once those suspenses are cleared, we get purchase advice to receive money and give capacity back to the warehouse lines to continue lending. 

We have 10 operational robots as well as other automations. These automations include populating interim servicing payments that come into the LOS, so we have a historic record of it. I am working on a project to reduce the amount of new folders or maintain existing ones. This helps us reduce the cost of document storage in our LOS. 

We make use of UiPath's user community to see different people's insights, exchange ideas, and identify features that could work well for our business. We also make use of the UiPath Academy.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution has reduced our expenses by $30,000 a month. It has helped us reduce the costs of labor and continue to grow and scale.

What is most valuable?

One of the most important features of UiPath is the transactional basis of how it works. I can see which ones are successful, and which ones are not, and then have the bot take care of 98% of it. Our staff only deal with the exceptions and this has led to greater job satisfaction.

This solution has empowered us to take care of and create new integrations and help facilitate different processes and workflows to continue to streamline and scale our business.

In the future, we'd like to make use of the machine learning capabilities that UiPath offers and AI to scrape data off of different documents, log into different websites and populate the information where relevant. 

UiPath's AI functionality enables us to automate more processes overall. It allows us to pull information from various documents and populate it into different systems. This has enhanced the user experience. 

What needs improvement?

UiPath could be improved by offering overall solutions instead of just having the RPA process. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution since 2020. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution. The bots in the system are stable and function according to their instructions. They only stop when they encounter a new scenario they have not dealt with before. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a scalable solution. We're also looking to expand our center of excellence to be able to take on all of UiPath's functionality and features.

How was the initial setup?

I deployed the software and the Orchestrator Studio. I run eight or nine virtual machines that I have our LOS on and created processes where the LOS can feed the work queues so it takes care of different processes on schedule every day. The deployment took four months. 

What about the implementation team?

We worked with different contractors to complete the deployment. 

What was our ROI?

I was allocated $50,000 to buy bots and create processes. I created about six or seven processes and then we calculated the savings. For the 50 grand, we had realized $1.5 million of savings. Although we don't always achieve this, it is possible to get a $7 return on every dollar spent. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated many other tools including Automation Anywhere. One of the things that I love about UiPath is that the whole community and the company continue to deliver new cutting-edge tech. Every month we have a preview of new releases. It's not just one thing being released, there's a whole plethora of things and functionality being released.

What other advice do I have?

On a scale of one to 10, I would rate UiPath's solution overall an 11. I would advise others to just get started. It'll more than pay for itself and you'll be amazed at the capabilities and functionality that you'll soon have in your arsenal to execute different projects. 

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Jitendra Kumar Saroj - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Consultant Automation Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Saves time, helps to automate repetitive tasks, and allows us to build applications without coding knowledge
Pros and Cons
  • "We are able to remove all repetitive tasks. We are using RPA for HR, salary generation, interview process, appointment, etc. We are using RPA everywhere. We are in the top five just because of RPA. It's very important for us."
  • "I have been working on UiPath Apps for the last six months, and there are a few things to improve. The tables are not working properly. There are issues with the table display and the filter function in the tables. There is also an alignment issue. You can't edit the alignment of buttons."

What is our primary use case?

We provide RPA solutions to different companies in FinTech, finance, and other fields. We are mainly working on their recently launched product called UiPath Apps, and I'm designing apps with UiPath Apps.

How has it helped my organization?

I'm not from an IT background, but I'm still able to do development by using UiPath because of their minimum coding approach. They have a drag-and-drop facility. You just need to create the logic. You just need to imagine the data workflow, and then without using any code, you just create a workflow in UiPath Studio, and it'll start working.

It has been helpful in automating repetitive tasks and invoice processing. We are getting very good results, and we are continuously improving the processes in our office.

We are able to remove all repetitive tasks. We are using RPA for HR, salary generation, interview process, appointment, etc. We are using RPA everywhere. We are in the top five just because of RPA. It's very important for us.

UiPath Apps has increased the number of automations we create while reducing the time it takes to create them. We have saved approximately 30 minutes because with the use of UiPath Apps, we are not going to open any browser, and we are directly launching our processes by using UiPath App. There is no third-party integration. That's why the process is quite fast.

We have some automations that require collaboration between the robot and humans. The representative sitting in front of the system is now free for other work. The repetitive tasks are done by the robots. If there is any error in the workflow, the robot sends a message to a representative. The representative only needs to get involved when there is an issue, and the robot will start again. So, most of the time, our representatives are free for other work, and most of the work is done by the robot. It has reduced 50% to 60% of day-to-day office work. People have a lot more time to do other important tasks.

Our AI department with 20 to 25 members uses its AI functionality, which has enabled us to automate more processes. With the help of AI, we are able to do more complex automation. We are also able to process unstructured data.

It speeds up digital transformation and reduces the cost of digital transformation without requiring expensive or complex application upgrades, or IT application support. It's all included in the same price.

It has definitely reduced human error. We are now able to improvise our document understanding. We are also able to read handwriting with 90% to 95% accuracy. There is no intervention of humans in the onboarding process, and HR is now free for other work. The joining process, appointment letters, document verification, and other things are automated. Previously, just the document verification would take an hour for a single employee. They're now using their free time to upscale and broaden our company's business. They can take on extra work or projects during their office time.

It has been quite good in terms of employee satisfaction. We have a rating of 4.8 out of 5 in terms of employee satisfaction.

It has reduced the costs of our automation operations by 5% to 8%. It's not much because there are very few people involved in the HR department for the onboarding process.

It has saved costs. The organization is able to reduce the number of non-skilled people. That's quite impressive. They are saving a lot. They are hiring only skilled people. Previously, they needed four to five people for all the repetitive tasks, and now, a single person can do that work.

What is most valuable?

Their AI center is quite good. It provides a very efficient way to work.

UiPath Apps is a recently launched app by UiPath. It has lots of great features, such as direct integration of data in their UIs. It's very easy to display the required data, and the integration of the processes is also easy. It's easy to integrate the processes or workflows designed in the Studio with UiPath Apps. You don't need any coding or complex scripts behind this.

We are using the UiPath Academy. We are doing some on-premises training and online training to give the intro about RPA to our employees. UiPath Academy is completely free. The idea of role-based learning is very impressive and effective. If you are a developer, you just go and click on role-based learning. You will get all the data in a format required by a developer to learn and get to things.

The UiPath community is quite impressive. We get the answers within minutes or seconds. It depends upon how to post or publish on the committee forum. When I compare it to other industries, the UiPath community is categorized according to the technology. They have every category. For the UiPath App part, they only have the UiPath App experts. Similarly, in the Studio part, they have only studio experts. The UiPath people are already available in the forum. If you didn't get your answer, you will get the answer from the company itself.

What needs improvement?

I have been working on UiPath Apps for the last six months, and there are a few things to improve. The tables are not working properly. There are issues with the table display and the filter function in the tables. There is also an alignment issue. You can't edit the alignment of buttons.

There is also a lack of tutorials. They have a lot more functions, but there aren't enough tutorials to know how to use all the functions. They have free training in UiPath Academy, which is good, but the way of training is not impressive. They're using the textual format. They are providing lots of documents to read. It would be more effective if they were in video format. It takes more time to read and understand the content in text format.

For how long have I used the solution?

It has been four years. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's completely scalable. We have approximately 150 users. We are mainly a UiPath organization, and it's being used daily. Our company started in 2017 or 2018, and we are only providing the RPA solution. In the last five years, we are one of the growing industries in India. We are in the top five companies in India in RPA.

How are customer service and support?

I would rate them a 10 out of 10. Even their software developers are ready to take the questions. Many times, I've also talked to the developers from UiPath about our doubts and problems.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

I have worked with Automation Anywhere. I switched because of the ease and less complexity of UiPath. It's easy to use and easy to install.

I have also tried Blue Prism. Blue Prism is more complex. It's even more complex than Automation Anywhere.

How was the initial setup?

It's simple. It's a one-click installation. It takes a few minutes or even seconds.

It can be deployed by a single employee. The solution architect can deploy it.

What other advice do I have?

Before searching anywhere else, just go for the UiPath Academy training. You will get all the things there. After finishing the training, you can switch to YouTube and other resources. The UiPath Academy is sufficient to teach you about any launched product.

I would rate UiPath a 10 out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Other
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Susang Ramesh - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Marketing Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Easy for beginners to learn, and saves us significant time in both development and as a result of automation
Pros and Cons
  • "One thing that I personally like very much is the drag-and-drop capability in UiPath. I don't have a coding background. One of the major selling points of the solution is that it requires very minimal coding to create a program. It's very easy to drag and drop to create the required fields from the tool."
  • "There are two editions of UiPath. One is the free Community version and the other is the paid Enterprise version. I have used both. The feature updates in the Enterprise version are very regular and the support is quite fast. That's not replicated in the Community version."

What is our primary use case?

My company's major use case for UiPath is to create automations for web and desktop applications. For example, we use it to automatically download content from another page or PDF. It's creating automatic programs to help us download data from the website or application.

How has it helped my organization?

For our organization, it has made our work a lot easier. Before UiPath, the tasks that we are automating were done manually and they were very time-consuming. Things were inefficient and many errors and bugs popped up. With the automation that UiPath has provided, the time required for those tasks has dropped significantly. A task that required four or five hours is down to 15 or 20 minutes, with zero or a minimal number of errors. That is one of the major impacts that UiPath has had. It has improved our overall efficiency.

The time we have saved can be invested in other aspects of our business, like lead generation or preparing the website. UiPath automation has saved us a solid amount of time.

Within a week of deployment, we were able to see results.

Another feature is the ease of creating programs with UiPath. Other RPA solutions are not that easy to use. Any person who is a beginner using this platform can learn it very easily. The deployment time and implementation time are greatly reduced when it comes to training our employees on this software. We are able to do our work much more quickly and efficiently with UiPath.

What is most valuable?

One thing that I personally like very much is the drag-and-drop capability in UiPath. I don't have a coding background. One of the major selling points of the solution is that it requires very minimal coding to create a program. It's very easy to drag and drop to create the required fields from the tool. That is one of the key and interesting features. The entire user interface and user experience is enhanced because of low-code and no-code abilities.

Other similar software solutions that involve coding take a lot of time because once you start coding there are errors that pop up. With the drag-and-drop feature there is nothing like that. It's instant. When you drag and drop you can see an immediate preview of what the output will look like. Work that would take two to three hours is done in 10 to 15 minutes, so that much amount of time is saved when creating a workflow.

Another feature is the Activities menu. It's a type of log system in which I am able to check what activities have happened. It keeps me updated.

The things that I use in UiPath are very comfortable for me and I find it very useful. I'm pretty satisfied with the current feature list. I don't think anything else is required.

What needs improvement?

There are two editions of UiPath. One is the free Community version and the other is the paid Enterprise version. I have used both. The feature updates in the Enterprise version are very regular and the support is quite fast. That's not replicated in the Community version. They could bring both versions to an equal level so that people who are just starting, with limited staff and a minimal budget, can use the entire feature list of UiPath in the Community version. 

Apart from that, in terms of the features and the simplicity of the product, it's on par with all the other top solutions out there.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using UiPath for 15 or 16 months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

They do monthly product updates and, after an update, the system doesn't lag or crash. It's pretty stable for the updates that they provide. 

Until now, I haven't faced any bug, software, or performance issue with UiPath. It has been a smooth ride and I hope it continues like that.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I believe it is a scalable solution.

In our organization, it is deployed across multiple departments. Different departments use UiPath for different purposes. In our department there are 12 end-users of UiPath, but I'm not sure how many users there are in the other departments.

I don't think, in the near future, we plan to increase the number of users because, for our bandwidth, these people are using it concurrently. But when our business grows beyond a particular limit, obviously, the number of users will increase, but that won't be for another six or seven months.

How are customer service and support?

For the Enterprise solution, the technical support is a 10 out of 10, but for the Community edition it's a six out of 10. It's not that quick with the Community edition. They respond after 48 hours when you raise an inquiry, but with the Enterprise edition, it's instant.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We didn't use a different solution. We took a manual approach before.

How was the initial setup?

I wasn't part of the deployment, but since it's mostly a cloud-based product, I don't think maintenance is required. All the updates are over the air.

What was our ROI?

We have definitely seen a return on investment by using UiPath. We have saved a lot of time with it and that has ultimately resulted in our employees focusing their time on other important aspects of growing the business.

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

The main reason we went ahead with UiPath was the pricing. As I mentioned, they have a free version as well as the paid version. And the pricing of the paid version was not that high. It's low- to mid-level pricing. They maintain the pricing to cater to small and medium-level companies.

Aside from the standard licensing fee, there was an additional training fee but that was optional only. UiPath has its Academy where we could attend courses on how to use the software, but if you want additional training, you have to pay extra. We did that and took some additional training on UiPath to feel confident.

What other advice do I have?

I don't use the machine learning and AI capabilities in UiPath because they require a little bit of coding, which I'm not very familiar with.

But one thing that I have personally taken out of my experience with the solutions is that people with less coding knowledge or with no coding background should definitely consider using UiPath. It reduces a lot of the dependencies needed to produce automations. In the past, people like me who are not from a coding background, had to be dependent on others, and a lot of manual work was required. But with UiPath, I get to do it myself. I'm not depending on anyone else. That way, there is no time constraint for me. That is the major piece of advice that I would give to people without a coding background: You have complete control and can get things done in your own time. It is much more efficient and simple.

Try the Community version as soon as possible and get used to the entire workflow of the product and then make a decision. It is pretty easy to understand the entire workflow. Play around with it and you will fall in love with the package.

All the features are very good. It's a cool application to use and it's one of the best out there in the marketplace.

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