UiPath Reviews

We use all of the UiPath products: UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, attended robots, and unattended. Primarily, we use them for financial liquidation. Our customers frequently use it for different cases. Some use it with chatbots.

Sometimes, our customers run automations in a virtual environment. In terms of implementing UiPath within a virtual environment, UiPath staff are working on the cost. Currently we have UiPath with a Citrix client and you need to go to the Citrix virtual station to activate. It's more difficult to implement as a user.

Our customers' organizations have involved about 15 to 20 people in their automation programs.

I would rate its ease of use as about four out of five. It's not so easy, but it's also not difficult. We have a great UiPath Academy and it's really useful and helpful. Sometimes we need to do difficult operations and use other frameworks, through activities in UiPath. I think this mechanism is very nice, but in implementation, the customers are pretty close. Sometimes we must do it.

This solution helps to eliminate human errors. The amount depends on the process and the customer. Even unattended robots don't provide 100% automation. Sometimes a robot interrupts and waits for a human to make a decision. There is a process when unattended robots do fewer steps and after ten interruptions are waiting for a human to go on. I would say there is about a 70% reduction in human errors when using an unattended robot.

UiPath also helps save time. One unattended robot works 24 hours a day because a robot doesn't get ill or need to sleep.

All of the features are valuable. I think the best feature for Russian government customers is security. Security in Orchestration for requiring credentials. Our customers are usually serious about security.

I would like to see more AI features with data classification and computer reason. I think it would be great to have more features in full monitoring robots.

I would rate their stability as four out of five.

In cases of high scalability when we have one process and many of us use that process, we sometimes have problems. When one process uses about 24 robots for 24 hours, we have problems with it. I think when many robots work at the same time, something goes wrong in orchestrating tasks between robots.

I am happy with the support. For me, it's okay.

The initial setup can sometimes be complicated, depending first of all on the environment, as well as the implementation strategy of the company. Too many processes or only one PoC could lead to a more difficult implementation. Sometimes, customers try to automate a lot of the big processes. When we try to automate the complete process, we understand with the customers how many FTEs you can get from it. Everything depends on the customer's requirements.

It takes about six months from the purchase of a UiPath license until our customers have their first robot in production.

UiPath is a data mining solution. Our company tries to explain why RPAs are useful.

I don't know which other solutions our customers evaluate. Kofax might be one. Sometimes we work with a customer to make a decision about which platform to choose. Sometimes we do a PoC for Blue Prism. In the Russian market, there are two major vendors that are competing against each other: Blue Prism and UiPath. Usually, customers go through a PoC to choose the best vendor. UiPath wins because you can automate more processes with it.

I would rate UiPath as nine out of ten.

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 am working for a client. I am using on-premises UiPath Orchestrator. I have installed UiPath Studio and deployed some processes for automation. 

I have used it for SAP automation, Excel automation, and web automation. I have not yet used the AI functionality. I might use it in the future.

Manual tasks are reduced, and in less time, I can complete a task. 

UiPath has sped up our digital transformation by 20%.

UiPath has reduced human error. With automation, correct values get entered, and there is a reduction in human error. There is a 10% reduction.

UiPath has saved us money because there is a reduction in manpower. It has saved about 20% on costs.

In terms of time savings, for Excel automation, the backend activities are much faster, whereas web automation takes time because it requires loading the screen and capturing the elements. For Excel automation, the backend activities take 30% to 40% less time.

UiPath Orchestrator is very user-friendly and easy to understand.

The interface is very good. In the latest one, they have added many more activities, which has made it even easier to do automation.

While doing web automation, I am facing a selector issue. In the web portal, we need to capture a screen element. For capturing the screen element, when I run the job the next time, it fails because the limit is not recognized. It is very difficult to make the selector stable. It is not easy.

I have been using UiPath for more than two years.

At times, when I restart the system, the deployed robots take time to connect to the UiPath Orchestrator. Overall, I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten in terms of stability.

It is scalable. We can use it in different companies or industries, such as hospitality or finance. I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten in terms of scalability.

It is deployed at one location, and we have four to five users of UiPath.

I am satisfied with their support. Whenever I raise a ticket, they provide the required support. 

UiPath has a user community, but I did not use it much. I used the UiPath documentation.

I have also used UiPath Academy and completed three courses. I have done the foundation course, the advanced course, and the continuous learning course. I am satisfied with the UiPath Academy courses.

Positive

I have also used Automation Anywhere. Compared to Automation Anywhere, UiPath is more user-friendly. In Automation Anywhere, we have to do lots of things, whereas in UiPath, we have to do fewer things, which makes it easier to do automation. Also, capturing the screen is much harder in Automation Anywhere. It is easier in UiPath.

The deployment of UiPath Orchestrator only takes one day. 

In terms of maintenance, it only requires yearly license renewal and making sure it is up to date.

We have two people who are involved in the UiPath deployment. 

Overall, I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.

I have done the certification in Microsoft Certified Solution Associate (MCSA) and Microsoft Azure Administration. I look after the actual environment site where we can run the bots. We watch the environment's behavior, and we operate the Orchestrator, which is connected to the AI system. We run different types of processes through Orchestrator, and I am the administrator of Orchestrator. I give the rights and assign roles to the users. 

UiPath has been performing very well. It is very easy to learn and understand. We are going to move the most work done by employees to the bots because the bots get work done in minutes instead of hours. An eight-hour job can be done in three to four hours. 

We plan to bring more bots for efficiency. We would like to add more bots and reduce the time taken for various tasks.

We can design bots in a static or dynamic way. We can use the dynamic way to perform the actions in any environment or platform.

UiPath has freed up employee time. The time saved depends on the complexity of the process.

UiPath is easy to work with and understand. If anything is confusing, we just send our questions, and we get the answer as soon as possible. Designing a process with email, Excel, and any other application can take more than 15 or 20 days.

UiPath saves costs. By using bots, we can save the costs of services provided by humans, but I do not have the metrics. We have many departments, such as finance and global compliance management, and it is hard to know how much cost it has saved.

Orchestrator and features such as Queues Triggers are helpful in monitoring the ports and looking after the performance.

I have done the UiPath Academy course to learn how to manage the environment and Orchestrator. I was able to learn many things through UiPath Academy, and I was able to work on Orchestrator myself. The benefit of UiPath Academy is that it is accessible from everywhere. You can continue watching the videos at home or in the office. The explanation, presentation, and instructors are very good. You do not have to watch the videos again and again. You can just watch it once, and you understand everything.

For UiPath Orchestrator and Studio, if I want to watch the performance of my machines at a specific time or time range, there is no option for that. There are options for one day or week, but there is no option to specify a date such as from Nov 1 to Nov 3. This option should be there for queues and monitoring.

It has been more than one year since I have been using UiPath.

I would rate it an eight out of ten in terms of stability.

It is a scalable solution. I would rate it a nine out of ten in terms of scalability.

We do not need much support to use UiPath. We are not getting many errors.

Positive

I have not worked with any other similar solution. I have only worked with UiPath Studio and Orchestrator.

We have worked on the Python scripts to design the bots, but it was complicated. We had to write more and more scripts and make them efficient. It was very hard. With UiPath, we found a very good option to perform the activities in an easy way. We do not have to code much. We can just drag and drop things and have a solution. 

It is mostly straightforward. We just need to call IT to install UiPath. I give the license via a machine key.

We have it on-premises. We have not connected it to the cloud or third party. 

In terms of maintenance, there are certain packages that we have to download for running the activities. For example, if I am using Python with UiPath Studio, I need to download a specific library.

We implemented it in-house. For deployment, there are two or three members of the team who work with UiPath and provide the infrastructure, and then we have about 25 developers. We have a development team and an operations team.

The development team develops the processes and the operation department runs those processes via triggers or manually. They are usually run on the Windows environment. There are multiple bots working at the same time, and we have the monitoring tool by UiPath, and we are also working via Kibana. Kibana works with Elasticsearch. We have all the logs and bots' performance metrics. We can view it all with one dashboard in Kibana.

RPA is the future. Every bank and organization is looking for bots to perform their jobs because bots are more efficient than humans.

It is an efficient and easy-to-use tool. If needed, you can get a lot of support through UiPath forums and other resources on the web.

We have not used the AI functionality in our automation program, but we plan to use it.

Overall, I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.

We use UiPath to minimize human effort by automating repetitive business processes.

For a technically sound person, it is easy to build automation using UiPath.

We send out live surveys to thousands of people, and we use UiPath to develop bots that can take the information and create graphs that individuals can easily analyze.

We see good value in UiPath's User Community.

In most situations, end-to-end automation is possible using UiPath.

UiPath has helped improve our organization by automating sales scripts and performing daily calculations to provide quarterly profit analyses to our clients.

It has helped reduce our on-premises footprint and increase our digital footprint.

All of our users must first complete the Academy courses before working on any tasks involving UiPath.

We use AI Center and machine learning to extract more complex information from our image-based PDFs and purchase orders.

During the first six months, we faced many challenges and had to improve our processes. However, since then, UiPath has helped us to accelerate our digital transformation and reduce costs.

UiPath has helped our employees save 60 to 70 percent of their time. Tasks that used to take one hour to complete can now be done in one minute with UiPath.

Excel, PDF, and email automation, as well as document understanding, task mining, and process mining, are valuable features of UiPath.

We have two versions of UiPath: on-premise and cloud. With the on-premise version, we have good control and flexibility. However, the cloud version is less flexible and we often receive errors. We would like UiPath to make some enhancements to the cloud version to provide more flexibility for OCRs, email models, and AI centers. This would allow us to provide better service to our customers.

I have been using UiPath for two years and nine months.

UiPath is not as stable as I would like, and I hope to see improved stability going forward.

UiPath is scalable.

Technical support is good. We receive a response to urgent tickets within an hour.

Positive

The on-premises deployment was complex, but the cloud deployment was straightforward. Five people participated in the deployment.

The pricing for UiPath is reasonable.

I would rate UiPath eight out of ten.

UiPath is deployed across multiple locations. We have around 45 people that are currently using the solution.

The cloud deployment of UiPath does not require any maintenance. 

I recommend UiPath for organizations with multiple daily tasks that can be automated. However, I would not recommend it for just one task.

I am a developer, and I use UiPath to extract PDFs for invoices and logistics in the banking industry. 

UiPath can be deployed either on-premises or in the cloud, depending on the customer's requirements.

There are times when the logic is difficult, but the majority of the time, it is easy to build automation using UiPath.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is essential for our customers. We gather all the requirements from the customer, analyze their feasibility, and proceed to the development phase where we build bots according to the customer's needs. After that, we move on to User Acceptance Testing to ensure the bots meet expectations. Finally, we deploy the automation into production.

UiPath aids in enhancing organizations by cutting down costs and saving time. Without UiPath, a task like collecting and uploading information that typically takes humans around 40 minutes can be completed by the UiPath bot in just ten minutes.

Our customers primarily use UiPath for cost savings.

In addition to saving time, UiPath also eliminates human errors by consistently processing 100 percent of the tasks each time without requiring any human intervention.

UiPath helps reduce our customer's on-premises footprint.

UiPath Academy is excellent for learning about the solution's capabilities and how it works, especially in the beginning. It provides end-to-end courses and certifications for both beginners and advanced users.

UiPath accelerates digital transformation and reduces costs by eliminating the human element. However, this transformation does require IT application support for configurations and security.

UiPath's most valuable feature is its ability to view and extract any data throughout the entire development process in the automation framework.

The document understanding has room for improvement. 

I have been using UiPath for three years.

UiPath is extremely stable and that is why customers ask for the solution.

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

The technical support is good.

Positive

I previously used Microsoft Power Automate. When comparing it with UiPath, one significant difference is that we can use UiPath on a local machine to easily build a process, upload it, and create schedules effortlessly. Microsoft has an advantage in the cloud, but it is not as effective on-premises.

The number of people required for each deployment depends on the complexity of each project. For more complex projects, two to three people are required, and it can take up to three weeks to complete.

Our customers experience a return on investment when using UiPath, owing to the time saved in performing tasks and the improved accuracy compared to manual efforts.

We can start to see value after one month of using UiPath.

There are two versions of UiPath; the first is the free community version, which is limited, and the second is the premium version which requires payment but is recommended for large-scale productions.

UiPath's cost is acceptable.

I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten. UiPath is reliable and accurate.

The maintenance is easy. We only need one person to monitor and maintain UiPath.

I recommend trying the free community version first to ensure that it meets the organization's requirements and then consider upgrading to the premium version in order to handle larger projects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have been using UiPath for eight months.

UiPath is stable.

UiPath is scalable.

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

Positive

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.

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.