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Developer at NDI Solutions
Real User
Top 20
Has a user-friendly interface with extensive library of automation components and robust orchestration capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable aspect is its ease of use."
  • "There is room for improvement in browser automation, particularly regarding access and success rates."

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath for automating tasks for customer operations.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable aspect is its ease of use. The utilization of AI has resulted in a time-saving of either four or eight hours per week. When analyzing a customer's job workflow, it's done promptly.

What needs improvement?

There is room for improvement in browser automation, particularly regarding access and success rates. Success and failure recognition are key areas to focus on.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for four years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is relatively stable, I would rate it seven out of ten, as it should be improved.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate its scalability features six out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

I would rate its support team seven out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

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

We have experience with NTT-AT WinActor and Blue Prism, but we opted for UiPath because it proved to be more effective and reliable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy.

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

It used to come at a high cost, but now it's more budget-friendly. Considering the features it offers, it's definitely a good value for the money.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I would rate UiPath eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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RPA Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Good automation tool that helps reduce labor cost and increase efficiencies
Pros and Cons
  • "There’s a good level of maturity in the UiPath framework."
  • "UiPath is not that fast."

What is our primary use case?

I've been making some accelerators using it. Each Customer Relationship Management page in the telecom industry has a similar kind of structure, so things do not change a lot. I'm creating an accelerator that can log into a CRM and quickly perform specific tasks as per requirements. For example, the robot will log on to a CRM page, will add updated user information, and check the details of user requests. Another case could be creating specified user service requests and monitoring their status for service efficiency. 

How has it helped my organization?

We're automating a bunch of processes in the telecommunication industry. We’re implementing RPA solutions in the biggest telecommunications company in my country. Our main focus was to increase the return on investment. What we tried to do was reduce the time, reduce the manual labor costs and errors, and increase efficiency.

The big picture is to work towards reducing labor costs and creating solutions that are required to enhance your efficiency. This also streamlines process workflows when handling robot exceptions.

What is most valuable?

The drag-and-drop features and the activities that are pre-made are useful. It's a big plus for UiPath. Whenever I use it, I can do all kinds of work with it and it's really easy. For example, if you have to store data in a dictionary or make a list, there are all kinds of ways to do it. You can do almost anything using UiPath.

The community is very good. I get 90% of my questions answered there.

There’s a good level of maturity in the UiPath framework. Once you get hands-on experience with it and once you are a little bit familiar with it, it becomes really interesting to make automation.

Another thing to add would be queues. It gives you the power to assign multiple bots to any item in the queue and you can monitor the activities and status in the queue.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation. Once you have hands-on experience with it, you don't even have to think about the steps. There are hundreds of activities to help you to carry out any solution. It enables you to perform endpoint processes really efficiently.

When you compare the solution to other automation companies, like Automation Anywhere or Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath has the biggest community, and that really helps you a lot. Whatever questions we have will get answered due to the extremely helpful and active community. You get answers pretty quickly as well. Most questions I have are already addressed there. It adds a lot of value to UiPath and plays a major role in our success.

I have done a few UiPath Academy courses. I have not gotten certifications, however, UiPath has advanced certifications and material on the website that lays out those certifications. They have a lot of tutorials to let you get deep into the product.

It's helped speed up our digital transformation. Our main focus has been on automation and increasing efficiencies while reducing errors and costs. Automation helps significantly reduce human error. 

What needs improvement?

The ease of building automation using UiPath is appreciable. In the beginning, it was a bit difficult as you have to know about C# and VB Script. I come from a Python background. If you are making a list, for example, in Python, it’s very simple. There isn’t that much complexity. If you're doing list manipulation and dictionary manipulation, you have all kinds of data structures. However, when it comes to UiPath, it is not as simple since you have to be very certain about what you're writing.

There are some things missing in UiPath. There used to be an activity where you could just add an item. This activity is now gone. Some of the things in UiPath are changing. This is a bit difficult due to the fact that, if a beginner is trying to add something to a dictionary, they'll have to look through the community's communications and then they might figure out that the old ways are gone. But that is not always the case, there have been better and newly modified activities like ones that help choose selectors for UI Automation.

UiPath is not that fast. They do have an option to increase the speed of processes. You can increase their speed in the settings. However, whenever you do that, the chances of it curbing the flow at some point is higher. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using it for the last three months. I jumped into this field of automation about six months ago. I have explored Power Automate, Robocorp, and Automation Anywhere during this time. UiPath, however, has been a good experience so far.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is okay and chances of bottlenecking are not much. Occasionally there are some errors and the robots do crash but overall that is not an issue. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's a mature product; it can scale well. It's pretty sophisticated so you can get a lot of scalability in the automation process. 

How are customer service and support?

I have not contacted technical support. I'm a beginner, and usually, I turn to the UiPath community forums. Many problems are answered right in the community itself. 

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

I was using Autosphere before UiPath. I've also used Automation Anywhere and Robocorp. UiPath is for developers and business users. UiPath is far superior to Automation Anywhere, however, when it comes to speed, I feel that Autosphere and Robocorp are faster than UiPath.

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in the initial deployment. 

They do give a bit of support with processes. However, after a few months, the solution does require some maintenance. We also supply support and our clients hardly need it anymore. 

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

The cost used to be fine, however, Microsoft has reduced its costs significantly and that's going to be a challenge for UiPath. In comparison to other automation products, UiPath is reasonable. 

What other advice do I have?

I'm an end-user and an administrator. 

I'm not using the AI functionality apart from OCR-related solutions. However, there is a huge market for it. 

I would rate the solution nine out of ten. This solution offers a lot. It's a good product to try. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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RPA Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Is easy to use and manage, but more documentation is needed
Pros and Cons
  • "Our profit has increased by around 50 percent using UiPath."
  • "We can not exceed ten records in the UiPath database because the UiPath architecture will become extremely slow and not respond."

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath to automate routine tasks using bots.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath has helped improve our organization by automating routine tasks that can now run 24/7, error-free, and without the need for a salary.

Building automation using UiPath is moderate.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, but the amount of automation possible depends on the process. We can typically automate up to 70 percent of a process using UiPath, but some processes can be fully automated. In my company, we have been able to fully automate medium-sized processes, but only if the data is in a good format.

UiPath's user community is extremely helpful. Whenever I have an issue while developing a process, I can go to the user community and find a solution.

I completed both the UiPath Associate and Advanced Certificates using UiPath Academy. The Academy is helpful in segregating each topic so that we can find the corresponding data.

UiPath has helped accelerate our digital transformation and reduce its cost. No expensive or complex upgrades are required to speed up our digital transformation.

UiPath has helped reduce human errors by 30 percent and helps save our staff time.

What is most valuable?

UiPath is easy to use and easy to manage.

What needs improvement?

We can not exceed ten records in the UiPath database because the UiPath architecture will become extremely slow and not respond.

I would like easy-to-understand and follow documentation for different scenarios.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is stable, and each version comes with new advantages. UiPath supports .NET versions, Windows Legacy, and current versions of Windows.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support has been good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We previously used Blue Prism, but the control room is much more difficult to manage than in UiPath, which is very easy. The same is true for process development, which is much more comfortable in UiPath.

The only drawback of UiPath is that it is not possible to provide a value during debugging, as we can do in Blue Prism. This is the main difference between the two platforms.

How was the initial setup?

Some of the process deployments were difficult. The deployment takes a few hours. We used five people for the deployment.

What was our ROI?

Our profit has increased by around 50 percent using UiPath.

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

UiPath is somewhat expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate UiPath seven out of ten.

We have 70 percent of our footprint on-premises.

Maintenance is required for patching.

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RPA Developer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Top 20
We can easily automate, helps reduce costs, and saves time
Pros and Cons
  • "The automation and the customization of the platform are the most valuable features."
  • "I would like to see improved support and cost management for advanced certification."

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath to automate processes.

How has it helped my organization?

Users who are not proficient in programming can still use UiPath.

UiPath makes it easy to build automation because it can fully integrate with third-party applications.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is crucial because it allows us to focus on other aspects of our work rather than dealing with repetitive tasks that can be exhausting.

It helps to eliminate 70 percent of our human error by automating routine tasks and enabling drag-and-drop activities.

The UiPath User Community is helpful.

UiPath has helped our organization improve by saving us 80 percent of our time through automation, which is vital to us. We no longer have to manually manage hundreds of lines of code and it simplifies our work.

I would rate the Academy courses eight out of ten. The courses are good, but I would like more of them.

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

What is most valuable?

The automation and the customization of the platform are the most valuable features.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see improved support and cost management for advanced certification. The cost is too high for many people to afford.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is an unmatched platform for robotic automation services. One of the most stable and up-to-date databases to automate and reduce workloads for organizations.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial deployment was neither complex nor straightforward. It required around 15 people and took two to three hours to complete.

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

UiPath is reasonably priced.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate UiPath nine out of ten.

UiPath allows me to create automation solutions that are perfectly adapted to my business needs, making my work more efficient.

Fifteen people in our organization use UiPath, and they are also responsible for maintaining the solution and ensuring that it is up to date.

UiPath is used remotely within our organization.

I recommend UiPath to others as it truly saves organizations a lot of time.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Architect in Consulting Enterprise at Wevioo
Real User
Low-code solution provides scraping for data extraction, and Document Understanding for scanned documents
Pros and Cons
  • "The scraping for data extraction is very important. There is also a connection with all Microsoft tools, like Outlook, Excel, Word, et cetera. And OCR, the Document Understanding feature, is important because we have clients that ask us to read data from scanned documents."
  • "We have the new license, the Flex Plan with Automation Suite, but we don't have practical examples and we have found it a little bit difficult when dealing with it. We could use more specifications about it and practical examples."

What is our primary use case?

I create robots for clients of our company. We have an insurance client that asked us to help with sending letters by email and extracting documents related to insurance, between their insurance agencies.

We also do e-signatures using an API with a server to get digital signatures for all the customers of a bank. And with other banks, we have worked on onboarding clients. We have all the information about them and we do subscriptions for them.

We also have a lot of clients that ask for filters and updates in Excel files.

How has it helped my organization?

Employees who were doing the same tasks every day are happy to have time to do innovative things and stop doing tasks that a robot can do. They feel free from those unwanted tasks. These kinds of tasks are often boring, and employees can make mistakes. They spend a lot of time doing them without any benefit, because it's something they do every day. There is no innovation when they have to do those tasks. The most important part is that we can help employees in these situations.

The benefits include managing employees' time. A robot can work at night or even on the weekend, whenever you schedule it to run. It's helpful because employees can let it do their jobs when they are at home. There are also fewer errors because when you give a robot a formula, it does all the iterations in the same way. Even if there is a special situation or an exception, the robot can help itself get through it. So it helps with an employee's time and efficiency, and they are happy about that.

There are two kinds of robots that we deliver. One type of robot works independently, giving our client's employees time while the robot does its work. And there are other robots that do work but need a human to verify things. But even that type of robot reduces the work, leaving only the validation.

And when we start discussing RPA with a client, we can see the difference in the costs. We ask them how much they spend on a task or how much time it takes, because even hours have a cost. We then give them the difference. If a robot does that task, it will spend X amount of time on it and you will save this much money. It depends on the project, but sometimes we save them 30 or 40 percent of their time or even more.

What is most valuable?

The scraping for data extraction is very important. There is also a connection with all Microsoft tools, like Outlook, Excel, Word, et cetera. And OCR, the Document Understanding feature, is important because we have clients that ask us to read data from scanned documents.

UiPath Orchestrator is also important to help us schedule our bots.

In addition, UiPath is a low-code solution, which is very useful and helpful. Given the features and solutions it offers, it's quite easy. The ease is a seven out of 10, or even more. The challenge for us is connected to the demands of the client. Sometimes we work with banks, sometimes with insurance companies, and the challenge is to know what they really require before we start developing. We need to know the exceptions that we might face. But the development part is quite easy thanks to the UiPath Academy and the forum. It's not that hard.

We can even teach our clients a little bit about the use of the UiPath. It's easy and doesn't require an IT engineer. They get excited to use it.

I started my use of UiPath with the UiPath Academy and I'm still learning there because there are updates and new features to learn about. The Academy is very helpful with its videos and explanations, and with the questions at the end of the lessons. I like that it allows me to learn on my own time. It's very constructive because things are explained well and I like that I don't have to be at a school to learn it.

Also, the UiPath community is very good. Anytime I have a problem, or something blocks me, I post a question on the forum and people spend a lot of time helping me. Even if the first solution doesn't work, they come up with another one. When I started working with UiPath, there were only a few people who knew the platform and I had to wait days and days to get an answer, and sometimes I wouldn't get one. But over time, I feel the difference because there are more people in the community and they are more responsive and very helpful.

What needs improvement?

We have the new license, the Flex Plan with Automation Suite, but we don't have practical examples and we have found it a little bit difficult when dealing with it. We could use more specifications about it and practical examples. Sometimes clients ask us questions, but, even on the UiPath forums,  we don't have answers. We have to spend a lot of time trying to find them. Practical responses about installations and the differences between the kinds of installations would be helpful.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with UiPath for almost three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's very stable. I haven't faced a problem with UiPath Studio. I would give it a 10 out of 10 for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's scalable. I would rate it a nine out of 10 on this aspect.

How are customer service and support?

I have needed their help too many times but they have been so helpful. They respond with emails, and sometimes I even talk with them on Google Meet. They are responsive.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

We have worked with UiPath on-premises, on Azure, and on a private cloud. That's where we use it the most. An on-premises setup is easy to do, and on a private cloud, it's not complicated. But with the Automation Suite, it is complicated and we asked UiPath to help us.

When we deploy it for our customers, we ask them to prepare the production environment for us so that it is already ready. For deployment, we have an architecture and an infrastructure engineer. Sometimes we need the infrastructure engineer if something is complicated about the infrastructure. We work with the IT department of the client and our infrastructure engineer.

For unassisted robots, we take the robot from the development machine or the test machine to the deployment machine. For clients using Orchestrator, we create the robot, the job, and we execute the robots from Orchestrator.

Maintaining UiPath is not difficult. One engineer can handle it, for now.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I did some research on Power Automate, but I haven't worked with it. I only saw the interface and some examples. We are planning to learn more about Power Automate and the differences between it and UiPath, but for now, we are only working with you UiPath.

What other advice do I have?

My advice is to use the UiPath Academy and do some practical exercises. And when working with your client, ask all the questions that you have, including exceptions and real cases. Technically, everything is good. Just attend the Academy and use the forums and everything will be okay.

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Head of Intelligent automation at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Enables us to implement end-to-end automation and has very useful templates
Pros and Cons
  • "Document processing is a valuable feature in UiPath."
  • "UiPath needs to improve its onboarding and operational excellence."

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath in the banking industry to help with the loan process. UiPath can check the title and address, and get documents from government and public websites. It can also check UCC scripts and the depth of support before feeding the information into the line of business application for the loan process.

How has it helped my organization?

Building automation using UiPath is quite easy.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation as long as the format is compatible.

Being a part of the UiPath user community is helpful because it provides us with a lot of resources for our internal research. We use the UiPath Academy courses to train our team members when we have new projects or implementations.

UiPath helped us reduce our on-premises footprint. The bots have taken over the repetitive tasks, freeing up our people to focus on other areas.

For some of our digital transformation initiatives, the solution helps reduce costs, but the extent of the savings depends on the licensing costs.

We only require IT application support for some aspects of our digital transformation.

Before UiPath, there was a human error rate of five percent on tasks. With UiPath, the human error rate has been reduced to three percent. UiPath can save people's time anywhere from a few weeks to three months, depending on the complexity of automation.

What is most valuable?

Document processing is a valuable feature in UiPath. It allows us to process various scanned and PDF documents, extract data from them, and further evaluate the data for business purposes. This could include income tax files that are required for load processing or documents for property inspection reports.

The templates are very useful to us. We reviewed templates for almost 400 similar scenarios where changes are made to two configuration files. These scenarios may be helpful to the customer.

The integration is also good.

What needs improvement?

UiPath needs to improve its onboarding and operational excellence.

The licensing cost and technical support have room for improvement.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for almost five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath's scalability depends on how we design the solution. Our clients are medium-sized organizations.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support takes a long time to resolve our tickets. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment usually takes a few hours. Configuration can sometimes be challenging because the deployment is across multiple instances of the orchestrator.

What about the implementation team?

We implement UiPath for our clients. Minimal maintenance is only required for complex deployments.

What was our ROI?

Some of our customers have seen a return on investment within the first eight months, while others have seen it after 15 months.

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

The UiPath license is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I give UiPath a nine out of ten.

Based on the complexity of the automation required, I would recommend UiPath.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
It saves us time and helped us reduce our on-prem footprint, but it could be a little cheaper
Pros and Cons
  • "They offer free courses for developers, and we take advantage of those. The UiPath community has also had a tremendous impact on our operations."
  • "UiPath is quite expensive compared to Power Automate. That's the main difference, and we have to purchase a new license for every feature."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use UiPath for science-related automations.

How has it helped my organization?

The biggest benefit we get from UiPath is saving time. We work with small and medium-sized businesses that need to perform multiple mundane, repetitive tasks. UiPath reduces the time we spend on these tasks by about 60 to 70 percent. By automating low-level jobs, employees can focus on high-priority tasks. Automation has sped up our invoicing because we can process invoices 24/7. We saved more than $200,000 using UiPath.

UiPath helped us reduce our on-prem footprint. Using bots eliminates human error from most jobs if we develop the correct logic and business exceptions, but we still need humans working upstream. 

What is most valuable?

Building automations is quite straightforward. They offer free courses for developers, and we take advantage of those. The UiPath community has also had a tremendous impact on our operations.

What needs improvement?

The artificial intelligence and machine learning features are good, but there is some room for improvement. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used UiPath for more than five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is scalable. 

How are customer service and support?

I rate UiPath support an eight out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

I have used several RPA tools, including Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and Microsoft Power Automate. UiPath is easier to learn and more user-friendly than other solutions. There are also lots of open-source resources you can use. Power Automate was included with our Office 365 license, so we use it for some things. However, it isn't our primary RPA solution. 

How was the initial setup?

Deploying UiPath is straightforward and only takes a couple of minutes. One person is enough to install it. 

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

UiPath is quite expensive compared to Power Automate. That's the main difference, and we have to purchase a new license for every feature. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate UiPath a seven out of ten. I would recommend it to others, but I can't give it a higher score because I'm not happy with the licensing model. That's what bothers me the most about UiPath. 

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Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Speeds up digital transformation and reduces human error
Pros and Cons
  • "The UiPath community has grown and is active. It is definitely helpful to be a part of it because others can assist us."
  • "I would like to see a universal recorder feature added so that we can record Excel macros. You could then click a button to record the screen, and then all the actions across applications would be recorded. This functionality is available already in Automation Anywhere, but the last time I checked, it was not available in UiPath."

What is our primary use case?

We have two primary use cases. We use UiPath to scrape data from multiple websites and platforms, mainly for competitive intelligence and internal use. The other use case is basic automation, that is, moving files from one system to another when there is no direct integration. Through UiPath and leveraging RPAs, we pull data from one system, for example, an S3 bucket or Google Drive, and put it into our database.

How has it helped my organization?

The use of UiPath has resulted in time savings for our organization. It has probably saved us 40 development hours a month.

What is most valuable?

Building automation with UiPath is easy. If you compare it to building these scripts using Python or any other programming languages directly, then it is incomparable. If you write a .NET or a Python code, it will take a lot of time development-wise. The ease of building automations is very high compared to that with programming languages.

End-to-end automation is important to us in terms of deployment and development. Development is definitely easy, but the orchestration of those flows and deployment can be a hassle to maintain and manage. With UiPath, we are able to monitor the workloads and orchestrate the different workloads within the app ecosystem itself.

The UiPath community has grown and is active. It is definitely helpful to be a part of it because others can assist us.

UiPath Academy courses helped reduce the learning curve.

You can speed up digital transformation and reduce the cost of digital transformation using UiPath. It provides a good orchestrator, and the fully managed option can help reduce the burden on IT staff.

We have been able to reduce human error by using UiPath. Suppose we need to move files from one place to another. If we move it through a system and predefined rules, the system will not make a mistake. It will always pick up the particular file and concatenate it where it is supposed to. However, a human can, by mistake, concatenate one file to another.

What needs improvement?

For small use cases, it would be great to have independent runner licenses with costs that are comparable to those of Power Automate. Then, UiPath would be a better alternative.

The AI functionality was not that effective in complex scenarios when I used it some time ago.

I would like to see a universal recorder feature added so that we can record Excel macros. You could then click a button to record the screen, and then all the actions across applications would be recorded. This functionality is available already in Automation Anywhere, but the last time I checked, it was not available in UiPath.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for over a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable tool.

How was the initial setup?

I found the initial setup to be straightforward, and it took less than a week. You don't need dedicated staff to maintain the solution.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented it ourselves. We had a team of three who worked on the deployment.

What was our ROI?

We haven't seen much ROI; it has been average. As a result, we are moving to Power Automate.

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

The pricing is competitive, and for large-scale use cases, UiPath may make better sense cost-wise. However, it is not very viable for small-scale use cases. Power Automate is much cheaper and has similar functionalities.

UiPath offers two options. If you choose the on-premises option, then you would have to manage it yourself, but if you go for the fully managed one, then there won't be any overhead cost.

We are gradually moving to Power Automate and Power Apps because we are already on the Microsoft stack, and it helps us reduce the footprint. If the cost of UiPath were comparable to that of Power Automate, then UiPath would have been the better alternative.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In my previous company, we used Power Automate, Automation Anywhere, and UiPath. The only good aspect of Power Automate is that it has very minimal cost implications. IQ Bot from Automation Anywhere is slightly better than UiPath's AI capability. Also, the ease of building automations with UiPath is comparable to that of Automation Anywhere and Power Automate.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I would rate UiPath at eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

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

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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