UiPath Reviews

We use it for various purposes like account management, finance, HR, and procurement.

We can complete all tasks within a single, unified platform. Whether it's documentation or deliveries, there's no need for multiple tools—it's all streamlined and straightforward. There's been a decrease in human errors which means we can skip the manual revalidation process. It's remarkably efficient, freeing up more than fifty percent of employees' time.

The standout features are data scraping and data analysis. It enables us to implement automation seamlessly from start to finish. It is user-friendly and significantly speeds up the development process.

The primary concern revolves around the high costs of licensing. It would be beneficial for them to develop plans or packages, especially for countries where people are more budget-conscious. Adjusting the pricing strategy could make the platform more accessible to a broader audience. It would be beneficial if there were options to extend the data storage period, coupled with dashboard views and analytic features for a more comprehensive and streamlined experience.

I have been working with it for seven years.

I would rate its stability capabilities eight out of ten.

Scalability is a strong suit; it can effortlessly expand its capacity and functionality to meet specific needs.

Support is somewhat dependent on the presence of a distributor in our region. Dealing with issues often involves going through video communication numerous times. The current setup, due to security reasons, makes troubleshooting challenging without direct access. Having direct access to support through the account holder would make things more convenient. I would rate it four out of ten.

Neutral

We utilized Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and similar options before settling on UiPath. Initially, the prices were acceptable, but lately, they've hiked up.

The initial setup might seem complex at first, but once you get used to it, it becomes more manageable and straightforward.

The deployment time varies, usually taking half a day to two or three hours, contingent on the infrastructure. Maintenance typically requires only one person.

It is quite an expensive solution.

We transitioned from WorkFusion to UiPath due to the superior functionalities offered by UiPath.

It's crucial to evaluate not only the technological aspects but also the pricing structure when choosing a platform. Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.

We use the solution to automate our processes. 

The tool's most valuable feature is its embedded activities. 

UiPath needs to be easier to use. 

I have been using the product for two years. 

I rate UiPath's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten. 

The tool's tech support is good. 

Positive

I have used Blue Prism before. 

The tool's deployment was easy. 

A consultant helped us with the tool's deployment. 

We have seen ROI with UiPath's use. 

The tool's pricing is fairly reasonable. 

We wanted to minimize manual work so that our employees could utilize their time efficiently. 

The solution has helped us save employees' time and money. 

I rate the product a nine out of ten. You should utilize the training, practice exams, and all other information in UiPath. 

I develop RPA processes at a financial services company. We use UiPath for tasks like data entry, image processing, and reporting. 

The biggest benefits of UiPath are fast implementation and the ability to run unattended bots. When they implemented UiPath, my manager was kind of shocked. 

We could run a process to extract every file from the portal each employee needs, which saves almost two hours per employee daily. You could see the benefits immediately. The hardest part of RPA is often convincing management that the expense is justified. The company can hire fewer employees because it's automating repetitive tasks. However, some of that savings is offset by the cost of licenses and hiring developers. 

I completed the UiPath Academy course, but I haven't received a certification. It helped me to understand how to implement UiPath processes. The main benefit is that it contains complete information about the tool. I know enough about using UiPath that I don't need to search the knowledge base when I get a new requirement.

Another advantage of implementing robotic process automation is that you can greatly reduce human errors. The RPA process almost never makes mistakes. It increases productivity and frees up employee time. For example, we have a guy who is responsible for creating memos for the checks. It involves 200 checks, but he was reassigned to something else, and now all those checks have been automated. The organization saved the equivalent of about 60 FTEs. 

The most valuable feature is image processing. It's something I use daily when I need to do some work on a VM remotely. Image processing enables me to locate the connectors and click to perform my job or task. It's easier for me to develop a process using UiPath compared to Power Automate.

UiPath enables us to set up end-to-end processes. For example, I have a process for taxes that gets a statement from the bank, checks incoming and outgoing transactions, calculates the withholding and exemptions, and files it on the income tax site. If I get stuck when I'm working on any process, I can easily ask the UiPath Community forum, and the public can respond to it. 

UiPath's OCR features could be improved. It has to do complex OCR captures with UiPath. I would also like improvements in the dashboard for executing processes. 

I have used UiPath for a year and a half. 

UiPath is stable, but you need to adjust the process when a web application changes its interface. 

UiPath is quite scalable, in my experience. We have a large environment and 150-160 processes. 

I rate UiPath technical support nine out of 10. They're always on our level when we contact them about any errors or limitations we face. They respond consistently, and they're available when we need a meeting to discuss something.

Positive

I have also worked with Power Automate. UiPath is more flexible and dynamic, whereas Power Automate is a little harder to handle.

The initial installation is straightforward. You install the UiPath enterprise license and apply the license key after completing the task. For unattended bots, you need to deploy the Orchestrator on-premises, which is somewhat complicated, but the overall experience is straightforward.

When we implement it on-premises, we need to take some steps for security. We have to configure some ports and connect all the PCs, but everything is under the control of an enterprise security security solution. During the initial installation, we needed five people, but once it's deployed, a single person can administer the platform. 

The pricing depends on whether you're running attended or unattended bots. Unattended processes cost a lot more, and you have to pay cloud costs, too. It's costly. The licensing for the tenant dashboard, developer's toolkit, etc. was reasonable, but unattended bots are quite expensive.  

I rate UiPath nine out of 10. I suggest new users study the knowledge base on the UiPath website. Many people get information from YouTube or another source that doesn't cover all the steps of this tool. However, if you study using UiPath Academy, you can gain complete knowledge of the tool.

I work in the financial sector, so my organization mostly used UiPath for disputes, fraud, and chargebacks. My organization had a pretty straightforward use for the tool as it had rule-based manual processes that required automation; otherwise, the organization had to hire temps for manual tasks. My organization used UiPath primarily for fraud and dispute bots, and chargebacks.

I found UiPath nicer than other RPA tools. I like that its enterprise version is pretty user-friendly, plus my overall experience with other components, such as UiPath Orchestrator, was pretty good.

I also found the tool's basic features, such as extracting values from Excel or PDF files and logging into applications, pretty decent compared to other tools. I haven't explored the OCI feature of UiPath that much, so I'm unable to give feedback on how good it is.

Overall, UiPath was easy to use, and building automation via UiPath was easy, with no blocks or restrictions from an application point of view, except inside a Citrix environment.

The tool enabled the organization to implement end-to-end automation. However, it was just a POC, and later on, the team didn't carry it out because the complexity was too high, not because of UiPath, but because of security reasons. The POC went well, but a closer look at the complexity made the team decide it wasn't a good business case.

As a user, I was pretty satisfied with UiPath.

The tool helped minimize the on-premises footprint, which was important because my organization wanted to go digital and had a target.

The team recommended UiPath Academy courses to some of the newly hired process analysts, particularly the UiPath basic course, but primarily, the developers already had advanced UiPath training.

In some cases, UiPath helped speed up digital transformation; in others, it slowed it. Sometimes manual handling was quicker than the bot because for some legacy applications the organization was using, you had to intentionally put some delays, for example, when pages take time to load.

UiPath also helped reduce human error and increase accuracy. My team didn't encounter any production incidents, but in some cases, when other applications or trusted applications, such as mail services, came in, sometimes the bot clicked the button, but still, the mail wasn't sent. The application was supposed to send an email to the client, but the mail didn't go through, though I cannot blame it on the bot, as it had something to do with the other application or service and not UiPath.

UiPath also helped free up employee time. The team calculated the OMDA for each business unit so each unit could focus on a more critical task, for example, where employees can be more innovative. The reflected hours were decreased by up to fifty hours due to bot usage, but it still depends on the business case. A small bot could save up to twenty to twenty-five hours, and in some cases, a bot can save up to one hundred fifty hours.

Initially, UiPath didn't help my organization save on cost, but in the long run, it did.

My organization hardly faced any issues with UiPath, except for a policy issue, mainly when my organization had to do automation inside a Citrix environment. Before that, the organization had to install another component from UiPath inside the Citrix environment separately. The team couldn't find the selectors it was trying to work with until it installed a component, which may be considered an area for improvement.

There are also many security protocols in the organization, and the team also worked with PCI bots. Sometimes, there was a block if the application didn't have the latest upgrade. There was a security block because, manually, people still worked with the older versions, but the bot wanted the latest upgrade from the application, so in some cases, there was a delay or failure, or the bot got killed. It was a mixed bag, so I cannot say it was one hundred percent successful, which is another area for improvement.

In the future, I would prefer UiPath to have built-in AI activities that an organization can quickly adopt, so you won't have to go to a third party dedicated to working with building AI components.

I worked with UiPath for two or three years until the start of this year, but now I've switched to another technology, such as DevOps.

In terms of UiPath technical support, A dedicated person attends to my organization's needs. You can email that POC, for example, when you need to register a license or device, and the response time is usually one to two days.

My rating for UiPath technical support is seven out of ten. The speed of response could be faster, and it would be better if support were more interactive, where the team could reach out to my organization monthly to check if it needed help or had some struggles with the solution.

Neutral

Before UiPath, I used Blue Prism. I found that UiPath was more user-friendly than Blue Prism, as even non-technical users can use it through the drag-and-drop functionality. UiPath also has a more enterprise approach. The UiPath Academy was also free, which helped a lot of beginners.

My organization had a COE deployment where the COE team was responsible for installing UiPath. My team also builds local robots from some of the ad hoc requests, so my team does the deployment for that.

We've seen ROI from some of the UiPath bots. Still, it was quite a journey because, at first, there were many apprehensions within the organization and the teams, primarily about backups, and nobody understood that robots could be a piece of software and not a physical type of robot. It took over two years to establish trust, and from there on, it was comparatively easy.

We found the pricing for UiPath reasonable. We compared it with Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere, and based on features and pricing, UiPath stood out.

We evaluated Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, but Automation Anywhere had many limitations compared to UiPath. Blue Prism, on the other hand, was expensive, so we settled for UiPath.

If I remember correctly, the version of UiPath I last used was the 2020 version.

I used the UiPath User Community sparingly. I logged in to see what other users were saying, and that was it.

My organization didn't use the tool's AI functionality for automation as it was still experimenting with chatbots, so with a chatbot, RPA, and handshake, my team didn't go that far.

In the organization, UiPath was deployed on-premises.

My rating for UiPath is eight out of ten.

I'm a UiPath customer. It's a tool used in my organization.

We use multiple types of applications, including SAP. I work on contract documents with UiPath mostly. I work with different clients in different companies. We use the solution to automate processes. It helps by reading contract documents and updating details in SAP applications. 

We use a lot of document understanding. It reads the documents for us. I had a document understanding from UiPAth about two years ago. They helped us understand how it would work. With it, we were able to build a solution for invoices and purchase orders.

I like that we can work with different types of classifications. Whenever you classify a document using an ML model, there is a license associated with it. However, the intelligent classifier doesn't consume any of the licenses unless there is a specific amount of usage on the respective document. We process around a thousand documents per day and the classification is free. It helped us process all of these documents. We were able to train our ML models easily. 

Building automation with UiPath is very easy compared to others. The UI is easy. There's a community forum where you can request help. They also have a marketplace to help you find customized solutions. 

Previously, a turnaround time for a particular process was two to three days. Once we automate the process, we can handle the process in three hours. The turnaround times have improved a lot. We've drastically reduced our turnaround time on each transaction we handle. That's reduced our costs by quite a lot. That said, I don't have an exact figure off the top of my head. 

The user community and forums are great. They are really impressive. When I started in RPA, it was difficult to find help or to help others. The forum gives us the platform we need to help each other and source solutions to problems. It's now easy to find answers. It helps a lot. 

We use the AI functionality. I've used it for 1.5 years. It offers good functionality. However, you need to have a good understanding of how to use the resource effectively. 

We've achieved 80% to 90% now using AI.

We can automate more processes now. We need to do a proper assessment first to see what we can get from AI. However, there's functionality beyond document understanding. That said, finding the right use cases can be difficult.

We've sped up digital transformation and the cost surrounding it. It also wasn't expensive to do so. We can go ahead with minimal cost. We just need to align the solution with the right resources.

It's reduced human error. We have the functionality to capture business exceptions. If we need human confirmation, it will get sent to the action center. However, by automating, we've reduced the need for humans. We've reduced human error by 20% to 30%. The bot will capture data in areas where in the past humans may have made mistakes.

The bot has freed up employee time. We do have attended automation. If there are tasks needed for humans, we've created the process in such a way that they can do these tasks and then spend the rest of their time on other activities. It's likely freed up human time by 10% or more. We'd only work on processes where there is a minimum of 10% reduction in human time. 

There are a few bugs and a few things on the technical side where certain features are not available.

There are some functionality limitations on UiPath that we could have access to on different platforms.

If we have to move the model to production, we have to download it and upload it again.  

I've used the solution for seven years. 

The solution is stable as long as you maintain it in a proper way. You need an admin and support team to take care of performance. 

We work mostly with enterprise-level organizations. 

The solution is scalable. 

Technical support is good. If I have questions, they help me. However, I've had colleagues who have raised tickets and had trouble resolving issues. I personally have never had issues. 

Positive

We did not use other solution other than UiPath. However, I have done some small POCs in others. I've used Automation Anywhere, for example. There are different commands in AA and a few different features, however, they are both accurate and efficient.

I've set up the solution. The deployment takes a few hours. There may be software and hardware requirements If everything is there, it might take one or two days to get everything up and running. 

You may need to maintain your production servers after setup to make sure the bots keep running. We might have other weekly or monthly maintenance tasks to ensure everything is performing as expected. 

The solution is growing in price. It's getting to be too expensive. While I like the solutions they are providing, they need to balance the cost so that they can stay competitive in the market. 

I'm a customer.

I would recommend the solution, however, new users need to be mindful of the cost. If they have the budget, they should go with UiPath. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

We use a feature called Document Understanding to extract data from invoices and generate reports. It uses the invoice number, amount, line amount, description, addresses, remit address, and other fields. This is the current project I'm working on. I'm using all the features available in UiPath to train the invoices to identify all the fields. Then, I deploy the training, create a pipeline, and use that ML skill in my coding while developing a project.

We are doing this for our team talent payments team. They usually receive different invoices from vendors for various reasons. My company currently has 700 vendors listed. These vendors send invoices for their services, and the talent payment team used to fetch and extract the data manually before we started working on this project. Whenever they received an invoice, they would open it and write down the data.

We have now completed phase one of the project and are in phase two. For this process, the bot will receive all the invoices and extract all the data needed by the team. We will then create a consolidated report in Excel for each vendor and present it to the talent team. This automation saves the talent team time. In addition, I have used email automation, Excel automation, API calls, and UI automation in this project.

We deploy UiPath on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments depending on the organization's requirements.

Building automation using UiPath is really easy. Studio is a drag-and-drop environment with different palettes, search options, and simple properties, inputs, and outputs. It doesn't take much effort to develop a workflow in UiPath, even complex ones. UiPath also has recorders, so we can perform our actions and start recording before we perform them. UiPath will then develop the workflow for us based on our screen actions.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is important to me from an analytics perspective. It makes it easier for us to provide solutions to businesses, regardless of their requirements. With UiPath, we can keep manual interaction to a minimum, from providing input to getting output. UiPath apps and interactions also make it easier to automate processes. In the past, people would develop scripts to automate tasks, but they had to keep in mind that there would still be some manual work involved, such as preparing an input file. With UiPath, we can minimize this manual intervention and prerequisites. This is a significant advantage.

Everyone on our team uses the Academy Courses when they start using UiPath, and whenever a new feature is added, we search the course list for the updated courses. The biggest benefit is being able to learn UiPath directly from the developers, rather than from a third party. When we learn from a third party, they have to learn UiPath first, and then try to explain it to us based on their own understanding. But when we learn from UiPath, it's like a personal experience, because they developed the product and know how it's supposed to be used. The other great thing about the Academy is that it's very interactive, with question-and-answer sections and plenty of resources. For example, they provide input files so we can try out new features. All in all, the Academy makes it really easy to learn UiPath. We just have to take the startup course, and they explain everything through videos, interactive sections, questions, tests, and data flows.

UiPath helps speed up and reduce the cost of our digital transformation.

It also helps reduce human errors in the normal processes that we develop.

UiPath has freed up our employee time. For example, in the onboarding and interview processes, our organization may have many people applying on any given day. Sorting through applications was done manually, but with UiPath, the process has been significantly sped up. UiPath now performs all of the tasks, such as getting candidate details and making consolidation reports for the hiring team. Overall, UiPath has saved us a lot of time and effort, and it has been a great return on investment.

The most valuable feature is the document understanding feature of this current project, which is better than ABBYY FlexiCapture or Automation Anywhere. It can learn on its own, given enough instructions and data. With training, we can actually train it to recognize the specific fields on invoices that we want. For example, UiPath can still provide information from a few of the invoice fields without training, such as the invoice number and date, which are present on every invoice. However, some vendors have specific fields on their invoices, such as the candidate name, job location, or start date, which we can train UiPath to recognize. This gives us the ability to train UiPath beyond the common things, if we are looking for any specific information or if we want to personalize it for a vendor. We are then able to use this trained model in our code, which is very helpful.

I also like the Excel automation feature. UiPath has recently updated the Excel activities package, which gives us more options with a more modern look and feel.

I find the features UiPath provides to be excellent, but the documentation is difficult to maintain. I have noticed that it can be difficult to find information on some features in the UiPath documentation portal. The document portal needs to be kept more up-to-date. UiPath will release the new feature, but the document portal will still have the older version information. The documentation portal could be easier to navigate if it were redesigned to make it easier to find information about a particular feature. It would be great if the portal were updated as soon as new features are released.

I have been using UiPath for almost three years.

We have occasionally observed some abnormalities, but we have not yet found the cause. For one of the processes, we are running macros and triggering them with UiPath. These macros can take ten to eleven hours to run. Sometimes, UiPath stops while a macro is still running. Once the macro is completed, UiPath is supposed to perform another task, but the macro takes so long to run that this does not happen. I believe this is a problem with our program, as it is taking too long to complete. These kinds of delays can occur, and that is understandable.

There are many areas where support can improve. However, it is not that bad. In terms of sticking to schedules, they are available quickly and listen to all of the problems. Sometimes, we have hit roadblocks because the people assigned to solve a particular support ticket did not have any idea about the feature. This has caused problems for us, as we have had to spend time filling in another person who actually had the knowledge about that feature. We have run into this problem a few times. 

Neutral

Our organization previously used Automation Anywhere, a script-based RPA tool. The fact that we moved to UiPath suggests that we wanted to change products for a reason. We must have heard that UiPath is better than Automation Anywhere in some way, which is why we made the switch.

We have seen a good return on investment.

I would rate UiPath seven out of ten. UiPath has a lot of features they are working on but they take a long time to enter production.

Maintenance for UiPath is minimal. Small things such as changing the passwords because of the password rotation policy. We maintain our bots through VMs that run on AWS.

I recommend UiPath because it is a low-code/no-code solution that can be used by non-technical people. The Academy courses, which train users specifically on how to use the tool, make it easy to develop and automate processes. UiPath also offers a community version that includes most of the features of the paid version. Earlier in my career, I learned to use Blue Prism, which is a closed-source solution that only had basic courses available in its academy. It was difficult to use compared to UiPath, and it was hard to get any information on any forum or from its academy on how to use the tool and update it. In terms of learning, use, and understanding, UiPath is much easier than other solutions.

UiPath is a user-friendly solution.

Sometimes, the company's processes are very complex, and it's very hard to implement UiPath. 

It also makes mistakes. Understanding your systems by yourself and implementing UiPath into your company processes is the hardest part. This could be improved so that the companies can easily implement the solution.

UiPath's stability depends on how you implement it. If the solution is implemented correctly, it will work properly.

UiPath's technical support is quite good and better than other solutions.

Positive

The first step in deploying UiPath is to learn the system you need to automate and then decide what can be automated in it. Sometimes, the processes are complex, and it's very expensive to automate them. When you know how to implement UiPath, it's easy to implement. So, the main study of your processes is necessary for the solution's implementation.

We had to select between Blue Prism and UiPath for our automation processes. We chose UiPath because it was more user-friendly.

UiPath is deployed on our company’s internal cloud.

It is not that difficult to build automations using UiPath.

UiPath does enable us to implement end-to-end automation.

While implementing automation in your company, UiPath gives many benefits, like minimizing FTEs. Many of the employees are doing repetitive jobs on a daily basis, which can be done by robots or automation. Time reduction and error reduction are the main benefits we get from implementing UiPath.

UiPath has freed up employee time for our organization.

UiPath’s user community is very nice. Whenever you have some problems, you can get help from UiPath’s user community. UiPath is also very user-friendly, with many options to search on your own for YouTube videos that will help you.

UiPath has helped minimize our on-prem footprint by decreasing the FTEs and saving employee time, which is important to us.

We have used the vendor’s UiPath Academy courses.

The solution speeds up digital transformation, and it does not require expensive or complex application upgrades to do so. It depends on your work system because sometimes, you have to implement the whole automation system into your computers.

UiPath has saved costs for our organization.

Overall, I rate UiPath an eight out of ten.

We use it for automation with different applications and use Document Understanding, AI Center, and Action Center.

There is a good chance that people will make mistakes in manual operations, especially in whatever data-entry operation they do. By defining a solution in UiPath that is prerecorded and scripted, there is a lot of reduction in manual errors. If you have 100 transactions, 80 to 90 of them can be automated because they are straightforward cases. That means we can eliminate human error from 90 percent of the transactions.

In addition, the automation solutions that we, as a partner, implement for our clients reduce the amount of manual work and they are able to use their critical human resources for other useful processes.

The prebuilt AI models that are available in AI Center are valuable to us for things like invoice processing.

UiPath is also a solution that is user-friendly for developers with a lot of prebuilt activities and ML models. It enables developers to quickly develop a solution.

We can also implement end-to-end automation.

I have been using UiPath for the past four years.

It's absolutely a stable product. It has been in the market for more than six years. Whatever solution we develop for a client is completely stable.

It's definitely a scalable solution.

The first level of support is that we search for solutions in the forum of the UiPath user community. Most of the time, we'll get a solution there. If not, we'll contact the technical support.

If I raise an urgent ticket, they quickly respond. Within an hour I'll get a call, and they'll arrange a team within two to three hours.

Positive

I used Automation Anywhere. Out of 10, UiPath stands somewhere around 8.5 to nine, while Automation Anywhere is around 7.5. The reason for that difference is UiPath's user-friendliness and versatility on the development side. For example, if you want to integrate it with VB code, UiPath provides a lot of options. And on the Excel automation side, UiPath is more reliable than Automation Anywhere.

In RPA, UiPath is far ahead compared to Automation Anywhere.

For some clients it's on-prem and other clients have deployed the cloud option.

The amount of time it takes to set up depends on the components a client purchases. If they only purchase the basic components of Orchestrator, a robot, and Studio, it may take only two to three days, or a maximum of five days, for the deployment. But if they go for high availability and some kind of DR setup, that would take an additional week of deployment. And for AI Center, it will take another week. Deployment usually requires two to three people. We involve the infra engineer, the database engineer, and a solution architect.

As for maintenance of UiPath itself, there are updates that may impact a solution and we will need to upgrade the packages, for example, legacy Windows. UiPath updates very frequently, and they don't support the earlier products. Officially, they are not supposed to support three of the versions. That means customers have to update within a year or two years.

UiPath solutions fit European and American clients, but especially for medium- and small-sized businesses in India, the cost may be the one factor that constrains customers. That's especially true when it comes to AI and ML solutions. It would be helpful for small and medium businesses if there were a reduced level or some kind of modified licensing.

On a scale from one to 10, where one is cheap and 10 is expensive, UiPath is an eight or nine for the region that we work in. But in other regions, it is somewhere around six to seven.

The solutions we provide to clients to automate their business processes need maintenance. They can usually take on a few processes on their own, but if it goes beyond 10 processes, some level of bot admin is required.

We don't need a proof of concept for a product that has been on the market for a long time. In the past three or four years, UiPath has been a proven solution. Customers can rely on the solution. We just have to make sure that their requirements can be met by the solution, and the other aspect is the cost. If these two aspects are taken care of, we can recommend that people go with UiPath.

UiPath is one of the leaders in RPA technology, and we get more business from it. Customers either want UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Power Automate. But most of our business is with UiPath. They keep on updating it and are building their own RPA ecosystem. That makes it very easy to convince clients to stick with this one platform for multiple solutions.