UiPath Reviews

We are using the unattended robots and Orchestrator modules of UiPath.

We have built close to fifty processes in the three years that we have been a client. Our primary use case, the one the gives us the biggest relief, is the processing of premium border rows. The robot will pick up Excel files with between four hundred and a thousand rows of data, and then does the data entry into our policy issuance system.

All of our automation runs in a virtual environment and we do not have any problems. At the start, of course, there were a few bumps in the road, but we got it figured out and now have no issues at all using the VM.

When we began working with automation, I was the leader and I had three BAs and three developers offshore. When our company decentralized, we created three other robotics divisions. There are now twenty-eight of us including the project manager, the BAs, the testers, and our developers. People are spread across four different divisions within the corporation.

With respect to how easy it is to automate our company's processes, I will consider the individual components. With the Orchestrator, on a scale of one to five, that's easy, it's a five. It is very evident how to use it. The Studio, I am not a developer but I got six developers up and running on it in a very short period of time. It has a very short learning curve, so on a scale of one to five, I would rate it a four.

My rating of four is because I know that we had some challenges with using the recorder. Things would shift and there were a couple of things that had worked and then stopped working. We found a little instability, and it was hard for us to know whether it was us, or the application, or the studio. Ultimately, we were not able to get a final answer on the root cause of those problems.

We are no longer experiencing these problems. When we upgraded, a lot of that went away. Also, when we went to Orchestrator, a lot of that went away. Exactly as UiPath had told us when we went to them with the issue, they gave us some solutions and once we implemented them, the issue was corrected.

I did not attend the UiPath Academy, but my Business Analysts took the BA course and my offshore developers all took the Academy. On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a five easily. Before the Academy came around, they were kind of self-taught. When they took the Academy, it closed some of their gaps.

When we started with this solution, we did a PoC with the help of a UiPath developer. In two weeks we built a PoC for a bank reconciliation, which was pretty fast. That helped us decide whether we wanted to go with the product, and of course, we did. After that, we took the code, which really didn't have a lot of bells and whistles in it, and we gave it to one of our developers to really soup it up and make it more robust. That took them about a month to do.

Orchestrator has given us a huge boost in terms of efficiency.

In addition to the resource-creating benefit that we get from this solution, it has given people the opportunity to move away from those mundane jobs and into something more challenging. Rather than sitting there doing data entry, they're able to move up, re-skill themselves, and add value to themselves as well as the organization.

We have been able to eliminate one hundred percent of human errors. We found that the robot was better than the human because when the human was doing some of the processes, they were supposed to be checking into another system. While testing our robot, we found that the robot's state was different from this other system that it's supposed to check against. We thought that the robot was wrong; however, we found out that the humans were eliminating that step. They were cutting corners. This stage of our development raised a flag to inefficiency on the human side.

In terms of the time that this solution saved, it equates to the equivalent of four full-time employees a year. At two thousand hours per year times four, that's a savings of eight thousand hours.

The Orchestrator is great because you schedule it, and that's it, you don't have to worry about it. It will tell you what passed and what failed if it had any issues. We don't have that dependency on someone needed to schedule tasks.

The code in Studio is easy to follow. I am not a developer, but I am able to read the code. When we have problems, the developer will display the script and I'm able to read it and follow it. Several times, I have been able to see where there was an error and the developer was able to fix it. It looks like it's easy to code.

We had some issues with instability for which we were never able to determine the root cause.

On a scale of one to five, I would rate the stability of this solution a five.

A UiPath consultant assisted us with our PoC, and the experience was incredible. They were really wonderful.

The technical support for this solution is excellent. They're very responsive and we never wait more than twenty-four hours for an answer. The developers have more contact with support than I do.

We did not use another RPA solution prior to this one. Our former CFO went to a meeting where they were talking about robotics, and when he returned from the meeting we had a discussion about it. I was working in Internal Audit at the time, and with his prompting, I left Internal Audit to head up the robotics process. From there, it just took off.

The initial setup of this solution was straightforward. To me, it just made sense.

In our first year, the development was a little bumpy, which is to be expected. I would say that it was fourteen to fifteen months before we hit a smooth path. Even with that, things go smoothly for a while until you start doing more challenging and more complex things, then you're back to a crazy path, then you correct yourself and things go smoothly again.

One of the issues is bad user requirements. Simply put, we don't know what we don't know, and we're dependent on the business to tell us. Even if you ask the same question in a variety of ways, if the business can't articulate it or tell you about it, then we can't build for it. Getting the right user requirements was our biggest challenge.

After that, we were trying to build for everything, instead of just building for the straight path. Trying to build in all of the exceptions and allow room for an imperfect world is what took us down. We've since learned that we're going to build for the straight path, and then look at the exceptions as we start to gather data on them. When we find exceptions that occur at a high frequency then we'll build for that. Failing is fine, and it is expected, as long as you can learn from it. Our approach is based on what we have learned from our mistakes.

From just one of our four divisions, A&H, we saved approximately $390,000 USD. You can multiply that to include the other three divisions (Estimate: $1.5 Million Dollars).

This past July, I completed a cost-benefit analysis and we determined that in the three-plus years that we have been using UiPath, we created the capacity to the equivalent of four full-time employees and have cost-avoidance in that we didn't have to hire five other employees. This is where the value is helping us utilize resources better.

Overall, we are giving ourselves a two year ROI.

We did not evaluate options from other vendors.

We went to Swiss RE because they offered to show us what they were doing. We saw their process and we were impressed by it, and it was a pretty nominal cost to buy the package. We thought, instead of wasting time, which could take months, and management wanted us to hit the ground running, we would try it. If we didn't like it then it wasn't a big loss of money. So, we totally circumvented the traditional route of purchasing and we are happy that we made the right decision.

From what I have seen recently, I'm excited to try the Community and start building my own robots because it just looks like it's gotten a lot easier.

I am looking forward to one of the upcoming options, the dashboard. It will give us the productivity of the robot, which is something that I do myself right now. I record everything on each robot that runs and we keep metrics on it. These include how long it took to run, how many transactions it processed, and what the error rate is. Then I have to figure out ROI. So, the dashboard is huge and at the top of my list of things that I want to see.

We have a process for obtaining the right requirements for someone to follow. We go and observe the business and we record the process. That way, when we have to sit down and write the requirements, we can refer to the video and don't have to keep going back to the business because that is going to annoy them. We include the video when we send it to our developers and that way they have a visual for it, as well. When we put together formal documentation we show screen prints of where to click. After doing it a couple of times, one of our developers had this great idea to make things configurable so that we're not hardcoding a lot of stuff in there. With that configuration file, we just keep improving.

From a cost perspective, I can't speak to the advantages of attended robots because we do not have any. When I look up the pre-automation cost of doing a process versus post-automation, we give ourselves a two year ROI. We're not going to automate everything immediately, so we give ourselves a two year ROI and if it's going to be a positive ROI, we'll go with it. Of course, based on what it is, we'll prioritize. If it's a nominal ROI it will probably go to the bottom of our pipeline, but that's what we do when trying to evaluate initiatives.

My advice to anybody who is researching this type of solution is to try UiPath. Use the free version. I have a friend who does this as well, and I encouraged him to use the free download and do something simple. After it worked, they would up going with the product. With respect to the cost, you're going to recognize the savings immediately for the cost of the tool.

We are very pleased with this product.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

I personally do a lot of process automation and data visualization. I work with a lot of people in procurement and finance to pull data from a lot of different systems, consolidating it, and creating reports, then presenting it. What I do a lot of is taking that consolidated data and creating automated reports with Microsoft Power BI and visualization tools. A lot of where people get hung up is pulling the data and the amount of time it takes to do that. So, people want to be able to automate their processes, as well as have my reports.

When I heard about UiPath, it addresses the initial problem of having to constantly pull data, get updates, consolidate the data, then model it in Excel or other sources, like databases. Being able to speed up that process, then connect it to automated reports, can fully lay out that entire pathway. 

It has a simple user interface. We used to have the training onsite Friday and Thursday, and while I personally have a computer science and web development background, a majority of the people there were finance and were procurement who didn't have any technical background. Yet, they are able to learn it because of the GUI and hotkeys, because it is just enter, drag this there, and do that. 

You don't have to write any code. You simply click function, open an Excel file,  and open web browser, then you just grab and drag it. This makes it easy to understand what you have to do and where you have to put fields.

It could be a little more aesthetically pleasing. 

I would like it easier to find things. How it works now: 

1. You look up all the different built-in functions that they have. Most are pretty straightforward. It is click in an open access web browser.
2. If you don't know the name of what you are looking for, but if you want to be able to do something, then you have to scroll down the page and click it, if it's found.

I would like a better way to find the little things that aren't simply named.

I haven't found any problems specifically using the tool. I have only had a few errors, but that is because of personal mess ups when I'm creating processes and a field is messed up or a variable is incorrect. I haven't had any crashes or faults with the free Community Edition and the bot that it has come with.

I have talked with the UiPath training staff who came to our site and worked with them. They helped us out with any problems that we had learning things.

I haven't communicated directly with any of their support team members.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It was easy for us, and we are government contractors. We had to get all the approvals, but once that was done, it was very simple to get it installed and set up. Then, you just have the desktop client right there. 

I assume going through any of the training on the UiPath Academy that you would have an understanding of how to work through installation issues.

I see the potential for ROI and how much time it can save me on cutting down weekly and monthly reporting. It will probably save me five hours a week and another 15 hours a month.

It is a tool, which does what you need it to do.

I went through two non-technical training course to get an understanding of using robotic process automation because I didn't know much about it before I started using the tool. That set me up well before the UiPath Academy to get an understanding of robotic process automation and where it's been going, because I didn't have much knowledge beforehand. However, I plan to go through the Academy training courses. I've heard that it's what UiPath uses internally to get ready for certifications.

I use UiPath to automate repetitive tasks within our organization. It helps us deploy processes without human intervention for some tasks.

UiPath has helped my organization, especially in the banking industry, by automating processes, reducing manual work, and saving costs. These improvements enhance process efficiency, reduce stress, and improve end-to-end efficiency.

The Studio is a valuable feature because it allows us to automate processes independently. It enables us to configure and manage everything through a web application called Orchestrator, which is particularly helpful for large organizations.

The documentation related to new releases needs improvement. It should provide a clear understanding of what was present in the old release, what's new, and how it affects users.

I have been using UiPath for around three years.

UiPath's stability is satisfactory. No product offers one hundred percent accuracy, but UiPath performs well overall.

The solution is very scalable. I would rate it eight out of ten for scalability.

Technical support comes primarily from engaging in UiPath's forum, where people share insights. I find the community engagement to be more helpful than direct product support.

Neutral

The initial setup was straightforward. Deployment doesn't take much time once the development and testing phases are completed.

The implementation of UiPath saves a significant amount of money and reduces manual errors, improving overall performance.

The pricing and licensing of UiPath are expensive. I rate it ten out of ten in terms of expense.

I recommend using this automation tool based on the specific needs of the industry or organization.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

The primary use case for document processing, automating data extraction from previously hard-to-access documents. This saves time, reduces manual work, and makes hidden data more accessible and usable.

It allows us to extract valuable information from various documents, categorize them based on their types, and make the data within these documents usable for our needs.

Assessing an AI center's role in orchestrating various elements of AI capabilities is quite constrained.

I have been working with UiPath for three years.

I find it to be highly stable.

Scaling on-premises can be cost-prohibitive due to the need to invest in hardware and infrastructure. This cost factor makes transitioning to the cloud a more attractive and well-designed option for scalability.

Our experience with their customer support has been excellent. We've encountered very few issues that required us to reach out, but when we did, we could contact our dedicated representative, and they efficiently escalated the matter, resulting in a prompt response from their support team. I would rate it eight out of ten.

Positive

We have experience with Microsoft Power Automate, but it's important to note that UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate serve different purposes and have distinct target use cases. This uniqueness is a critical factor that sets them apart from each other.

The initial setup process was quite straightforward.

We initiated the POC to test the viability and implementation of automation before expanding the environment. The setup was designed with the understanding that we required distinct test and production environments. It was initially developed as an on-premises solution and is now transitioning to a cloud deployment. We've had a lot of success with Lydonia Technologies as a partner.

We now have access to critical data, and the accuracy has improved significantly. Additionally, the time it takes for processes or submissions to go through has been reduced from three or four days to just one day. While the cost savings in terms of dollar values may not be substantial, the real benefit lies in freeing up employees to concentrate on more meaningful tasks.

I find the pricing to be reasonable, especially when compared to other offerings in the same market.

My advice would be to begin with a small-scale approach and construct your automation incrementally. While it might be tempting to automate an entire process in one go, it's more practical to break it down into smaller components. This way, you can adapt and refine each piece as you go, reducing the risk of issues arising or changes occurring before the entire automation is completed. 

Overall, I would rate UiPath eight out of ten.

We use UiPath to automate various processes across different functions within our organization including back-office operations, with a particular emphasis on finance, procurement, HR, and IT, as RPA technologies initially emerged from the finance sector.

Also, we extend our automation services to areas directly associated with production and supply chain operations.

Our primary goal is process automation, which lowers costs, enhances quality and improves operational flexibility. This is crucial due to our multi-time zone operations, requiring continuous processing. We're also dedicated to integrating various applications within the organization and addressing gaps. While engineering and IT departments have substantial automation, we're working on refining and addressing specific gaps in these areas.

The orchestration process itself offers a high level of impact, flexibility, and ease of development. While we have made significant improvements, particularly in terms of integrations and the seamless connection of integrators to applications, the process remains remarkably straightforward and efficient. It has significantly improved the accuracy of our operations, particularly in terms of quality, and has also reduced the time required.

There's room for enhancement, particularly in the support department and in the area of reporting, to provide a more robust product for gathering insights.

I have been working with UiPath for approximately five years.

The solution's stability is quite commendable and even when we encounter incidents, we consistently update to the latest versions. We typically lag about seven months behind the latest releases because it takes around three to four months for the new versions to stabilize after their initial release. I would rate it nine out of ten.

Scalability appears to be quite robust, especially when we have a solid model in place.

The improvement is needed for their support services. I would rate it seven out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup was relatively straightforward. Back then, we were using a standalone automation suite. While we now have a cloud-based automation suite, the transition wasn't complex, and we found it quite easy to implement.

We've seen a positive ROI. Our organization, with the assistance of skilled consultants, successfully implemented the system and we established a robust business model and have maintained a centralized approach.

We evaluated several solutions available at the time, all of which were related to end automation. Ultimately, we opted for UiPath and that decision was influenced by the learning opportunities offered through UiPath Academy. At the time, it appeared to have the most compelling value proposition, with a strong ability to market and demonstrate the product effectively compared to other options.

The ease of use depends on whether you're a developer or someone who mainly uses automation. Nowadays, it is much more user-friendly compared to when I first started using it back in the day. The landscape has evolved significantly with a wider range of solutions available today and they've made substantial improvements, especially in terms of document standards.

Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.

We have a variety of use cases, primarily in finance and HR, which make up around seventy percent of our use cases.

Our focus has primarily been on document processing and it has significantly reduced the time spent on reading documents and manually inputting data.

The AI center's automation has proven to be highly valuable, although we haven't yet harnessed its full potential. It's exceptionally beneficial, particularly when it comes to handling invoices. 

With numerous hospitals generating thousands of invoices, this automation has made a significant impact. Implementing AI in our automation has significantly enhanced the accuracy of our operations. 

These improvements have resulted in increased efficiency and a significant reduction in the time needed for these processes. The last time we estimated, it amounted to around 60,000 hours saved.

Integrating with tools such as Asana or other service and project management platforms would be a valuable enhancement.

I've been using UiPth personally for approximately a year and a half, while my company has utilized it for around five years.

The stability has been excellent, and we haven't encountered any problems.

Scalability is a bit challenging for on-premises solutions. We anticipate that the transition to a hybrid environment and cloud will provide more flexibility.

When we initially engaged with UiPath Professional Services, the experience was excellent, they replayed and assisted swiftly and seamlessly. However, recently that changed. I would open a support ticket, and it would sit untouched for a week with no response. Even after I inquired or raised questions, there was no follow-up. Sometimes, I had to call multiple times a day to get any action. It seemed that some managers had to step in to take control of the situation, and even then, there were delays in responses. I rate it four out of ten.

Neutral

Overall, I would rate UiPath eight out of ten.

We use UiPath to automate the extraction of information from PDF files and populate websites with this data. 

Our primary goal is to save time for our business users, allowing them to focus on more engaging tasks instead of manually clicking and inputting information on various websites.

The incorporation of AI in our automation liberates resources for other tasks. I believe we save approximately thirty minutes per employee each day.

The most valuable aspect is the ease of accomplishing tasks. It's incredibly user-friendly, making it accessible even to non-developers. Whether it's clicking in specific locations or entering data on a website, it simplifies the process significantly.

Updating the tool across multiple virtual machines can be time-consuming and somewhat cumbersome. It would be more convenient if this process could be automated.

I have been using UiPath for three years.

It offers good stability capabilities.

It is a highly scalable solution.

Their customer support has proved to be excellent. I would rate it ten out of ten.

Positive

I previously used Microsoft's Power Automate tool, but I switched to UiPath because it offers a wider range of features. Microsoft's focus seemed to be primarily on Microsoft-related costs, often neglecting comprehensive support.

The initial setup is straightforward, but the main challenge I encounter is related to updates.

Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.

In my last company, we focused on Document Understanding. We received medical claim forms through Outlook and extracted the data from them. That is one use case. At my current company, I'm doing SAP automation.

My organization has automated around 200 daily processes that were previously manual. Some things that may have taken weeks in the past can be completed in a few hours. UiPath has reduced the costs of digital transformation and improved our productivity because the processes can continue running over the weekend when no one is in the office. 

I like UiPath's Document Understanding and OCR functions. That's UiPath's advantage. It has a native OCR tool, whereas other tools do not, so it provides an end-to-end solution that covers everything. We do not need to integrate other applications. 

It's effortless to build automations in UiPath. Anyone can learn it because it has a drag-and-drop interface. We only use about 10 percent coding. It's easy to understand. The UiPath Academy is also available for anyone who wants to learn the solution. The academy courses are free, and you can get a certification. Anyone can take advantage of it.  

I would like UiPath to add built-in ticketing to Orchestrator so you can raise a ticket directly to the vendor inside the solution and send the error information. We have to build our own error-handling process, which is an enormous task.

I have used UiPath for a little more than a year. 

UiPath is mostly stable, but we have encountered an issue after an update where a process created under a previous version may fail, so we need to update the bot. 

UiPath's scalability is excellent because we are automating processes in India and other countries. We have already automated more than 200. 

I rate UiPath support eight out of 10. 

Positive

I have used Automation Anywhere and Power Automate. UiPath has an advantage over other tools because it can perform end-to-end automation and cover more activities.

Deploying UiPath is straightforward. One person is enough to deploy the solution, but I may need to contact the solution architect if I need access to something. We deploy to multiple locations because we are a multinational company, but we are not providing services to any other company. We have our internal clients, including stakeholders in Denmark, Norway, and some other countries. 

I rate UiPath nine out of 10. UiPath is better than other competing technologies.