UiPath Reviews

We use UiPath for a lot of different scenarios including recording daily time capture, ordering meals for teams, and more technical work related to tax and audit. The most common uses for me personally are for drafting and sending emails. This has saved a countless hours of time. Basically, if it can be automated then we are automating it.

UiPath has opened up a lot of opportunities in our organization to save time through automation, but maybe even more importantly, it has created jobs and opportunities for many who want to work in the tech space. This work is highly satisfying and makes a real impact on the quality of life for those involved.

My favorite features and upgrades that I have found the most valuable are the ability to create custom activities specific to our organization's needs. This ability to customize what we need has really opened up opportunities to automate programs that otherwise would not work properly. Legacy systems can be finicky, but this feature makes it possible to use APIs and get the work done that we need.

I work in a highly regulated field and so many of the features offered by UiPath are not allowed because of one reason or another. I would definitely appreciate efforts to be made to build useful tools that meet regulatory standards in different fields so that we can all get the most out of automation.

We have been using this solution for two and a half years.

We use many different solutions, but I am personally most familiar with UiPath

If you are a smaller organization, use the free community version of the software to get a feel for its features and abilities. Then, once you are comfortable with how it can be applied, work with UiPath to implement it. It will take sacrifice, but the returns are great.

We evaluated all options and decided on different tools for different scenarios. These tools include Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, etc. 

We don't have a single primary use case. We use the Orchestrator studio to deploy attended and unattended robots to relieve the workforce of the mundane tasks that they currently do.

I don't think there is one most valuable feature. From my viewpoint, Orchestrator is great because I'm able to manage and control the robots and licensing. Obviously Studio is very valuable for our developers because it gives a nice visual way of developing the robots. Of course, the robots themselves do all the work. It is really a package that has to be put together.

The Insight product coming out in the next release looks interesting as a management tool, but I haven't dug into it enough to fully appreciate it.

Obviously, the Studio can always be improved. Even though you can drag-and-drop, it's still cumbersome unless you are a programmer. I think the Studio X is going to help tremendously for the citizen developers. I think that is going to be a big benefit in simplifying the interface.

There are currently four-and-a-half people in the organization involved in the automation project and I think we'll have no problem scaling that up as necessary.

We have used UiPath Academy. In fact, we've actually referred our citizen developers there.

On a scale of one to five where one is the least beneficial and five is very beneficial, I would rate the UiPath Academy about a four. It is specifically for developers, so there is a complexity level there that can take a little bit for say the average user who isn't an expert to get through, but for somebody who's already done development, it's good.

We actually signed up as a premium support member and took out a contract back about four months ago. Christopher Wilkins is our liaison and he's phenomenal. Absolutely any time I called Christopher, he has gone out of his way to help us. He's our success manager.

From the time of purchase to deployment took about six months total. We did a quick prototype that I had spent two months to get it up and running and then it took me six months to clean it up.

I thought that the implementation was complicated but that was because they did the prototype and then handed it off and I had to come in and take the prototype and actually make it work in production.

We run the automation in a virtual environment. It was a bit painful to get it all working. We actually use Citrix VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) environment and the problem with that is it uses a storefront. When you log in, it doesn't know which server you're accessing. UiPath had problems with that, so we had to ditch that attempt. What we're doing is we're using the VDI image just to read and chart virtual machines every four months and using those for our UiPath.

We did use a third party. Our experience with them was good and bad. The young man that came in from the Netherlands was extremely bright, but he was all over the place. So he thought he knew how certain things would work and in reality, they did not. So it was painful because instead of having a methodical way of working through the issues, he was jumping about too much and it didn't go very smoothly.

We don't really have exact numbers for the return on investment right now because we are too early into the process. We are still trying to get the whole organization comfortable with the concept. But you can see the processes have helped reduce human error in the finance area. It has also saved our organization time. Anytime you don't have a person doing the manual work, they can go on to do better things with their time.

I inherited a bit of a mess. On a scale from one to five where one is very difficult and five is very easy, I would rate the ease of use of the platform for automation as about a three. Most of the problem is with the processes themselves having not been streamlined. So if there is a bad process in place and we still have to automate it, it will still be a bad process.

On the other hand, we do experience performance benefits using the solution. For mundane processes, the people who no longer have to do them because they are automated are extremely happy about that. The benefits were almost immediate. If we had somebody wasting three to four hours producing a single report that we can have a robot do, it's an immediate benefit.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as a nine or ten. I think the product is tremendous. We're still early in the process. As we get into AI, I think it's going to be a tremendous benefit.

My advice to anyone looking into this as a solution is to let somebody else do the deployment. You really have to make sure you understand the infrastructure required to properly scale up the solution. Make sure that you have senior management on board with the concept and then work hard to get citizen champions out there as soon as you can.

We are using Orchestrator and unattended robots.

We use this solution for automating financial tasks. Some of our use cases including reconciling amounts, such as those related to invoicing.

We run some of our automations in a virtual environment. We have been running into roadblocks with Citrix, so we run them on virtual desktops.

With respect to how easy it is to automate our company's processes, on a scale of one to five, I would rate this solution a four. Building automation using a standard set of rules is not a problem. It can become problematic depending on the data and the types of tasks.

On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a four. We are using it to gain experience with the platform.

From the point that we purchased our UiPath license until we had our first robot was probably three or four months. The first robots that we created were for account reconciliation, and the implementation was straightforward.

At the least, this solution is making us rethink the way our processes work. Putting automations in place not only helps to save time, but it gets people thinking about where else we can use automation.

This solution is improving our employee experience, giving them time to do other things. From a resource perspective, we are staffed the same way, but our employees are able to make better use of their time. In total, we have saved thousands of hours.

In terms of eliminating human errors, we have seen an improvement of approximately twenty percent.

The most valuable feature of Orchestrator is that it gives you the ability to control everything from a centralized location. You can have access to everything that is running.

For unattended bots, the best feature is the value that you get from not needing to have somebody there to do the job. It's a time-saving benefit.

Several areas of this solution need improvement including insights, the dashboarding of results, and process mining.

When it comes to scoring, you receive a score after the intake and a score after you build it, but you should also get a score after you build it.

With respect to the stability, on a scale from one to five, I would rate this solution a four. The system is generally pretty stable. Some of the things that cause instability are outside of UiPath, or the robots interact with them.

There are between fifteen and twenty people involved with the automation program in our organization.

We have used support and they are ok.

We hired LTI to assist us with the implementation. Our experience with them was not good. They had a few really capable people, but not the whole team. They were learning along the way.

We began to realize ROI after six months.

This is a good solution, and the availability of training helped us to get started.

Definitely, the Insights component needs to be improved.

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is that the solution can be great, but it will only be as great as the design of your processes. You have to make sure that everything is done right to get the best results.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Our client's companies have extensive issues with SAP and getting information out of it. They have another technical ERP system with an in-memory database where they don't get the information out of it, then have to add it manually to SAP. That will be probably the first big use case for automation. So, we will get a bot reading it on the database from the Citrix environment and probably moving it to SAP.

The client will probably have it on-premise. They tend to be really risk adverse in terms of Cloud solutions. We have tried to get them to use the cloud more because it's just easier.

We are using Studio Orchestrator, and unattended bots. I have programmed attended bots before.

The client is eliminating human errors as they are eliminating some of the accrual processes from SAP, where a lot of mistakes can be made. If the bot is not making mistakes, then they are eliminating errors by 100 percent, but this depends on whether the bot is efficient or error-free.

You need an understanding of how to code, use the variables and arguments, etc. That was why I was excited for StudioX. I tried it earlier, and it was amazing. This is actually what they were missing. Studio is great because you can do so much stuff.

On a scale of one to five (where five is beneficial), I would rate the UiPath Academy as a four. There is some stuff that they could do better. I sampled the advanced, which is really difficult because it's just PDF. I had to use some YouTube videos to understand the framework that you need to pass for developer. They could do more videos on that.

They have three parts. The first is the foundation, and they are a lot of videos. The third part of it (advanced), there are no videos except one. That's only those PDF files, which you have to look and read through. I was like, "Okay, I probably can't do it." Then, I fell upon some community YouTube videos from other developers who just demonstrated it. This would be great if UiPath offered that, because I found out later that the developers made mistakes in their videos.

In the foundation, they get into much detail in the beginning. You're overloaded with information. You have to go through videos like three times to get it correctly. They could remove some stuff out of there. Those quizzes are really frustrating too. They are too detailed. If you sat with Uipath, you think it's really easy. However, it's not so much, if you get into those details.

Studio is a bit overwhelming in the beginning. They could get add some details, but not so many, into the foundation training. I've seen StudioX and loved the colors. Please get the colors into Studio. I loved the flow and that you got all these activities and colors too. It was so much easier. It was visually easier to understand where to click. It was really user-friendly.

I would rate the ease of use of the platform for automating our company’s processes as a four out of five (with five being very easy). I would rate it as a four because it didn't work in the beginning to get my bots active. I had to get into a lot of videos to get them running. I didn't understand how it needed to be designed or coded.

The Orchestrator training was much better, but I still somehow missed some details which I needed. However, it's not just do it, then it's done. You need some time to get into it. Though, it's much easier than Studio.

The integration with Outlook is not that good yet.

I would rate stability as a four (out of five). I had some cases where Orchestrator didn't work in it. We couldn't login and the platform was slow.

We are still small and just starting out. We have five developers/solution architects involved in automation projects. We have done our certificate through UiPath Academy.

Support is pretty good. It's responsive.

Our client was having some problems. They got a framework running on a scale: 

• Which processes should be automated?
• What are the easiest processes to automate and more difficult?

For our first client project, it took us five months from the time that UiPath license was purchased until we implemented the first bot. 

The initial setup was straightforward. They identified several easier flows, and it was like learning with the client together. I know they are phasing out some more complex issues where you have to get into the details of HTML coding and stuff like that to get some stuff done. That is where UiPath gets difficult, because it's just coding and tech.

Our client saw ROI after one month. They realized after we showed them the first process that three people would be free to do other stuff. They got to sort of afraid of what they would do with those three people, and those people were afraid, which was a big issue. 

We invented RPI and pizza. We all came to those pizza Fridays and showed them that they don't have to be afraid. They benefited from it more than not, and no one would lose their jobs.

We told the client UiPath is best. We looked for the biggest player in the market and decided UiPath was the platform.

We target medium-size companies and have long-term relationships with them. They trust in our opinion. We told them our reasons that we think UiPath is the best.

UiPath is biggest player in the market. They have this platform economy going. I'm really excited to hear that they bought the process goals. There's a lot of potential there, if they integrate process automation with process mining. That is a big thing for me.

We looked into other RPA tools, like Blue Prism. We decided it's harder to learn and implement.

I would rate the solution an eight (out of 10). They need to thrive to get better.

If you have some tech experienced people, then UiPath is the better solution because it's easier to learn and implement.

We are working on changing all the administrations tasks at the college. For example, with travel refunds to the students, students currently have to go from their homes to the school before they can be refunded their expenses. We want to make a robot which does that instead of the people doing it. I'm using a measurement tool for distance to calculate the measurement from student's homes to the school. Then, this should calculate the amount the student should be refunded.

The product is easy to learn and begin using. When you are just getting starting, you can get deep dive and start using PowerShell and other tools.

It is easy to use and understand. You can learn it by yourself.

The reporting task needs improvement. The reporting is boring.

The product has been stable, so far. It is rare that it goes down.

The product will be able to grow with us.

I don't really use the support, because the product is that easy to use.

I have used the UiPath Academy, and it is great. The videos and questions are good in it.

It was easy to get started with PwC's help. It took a week.

We received help from PwC with the setup. They do most of the financing stuff with UiPath.

It has helped us eliminate human errors. People from the school doing the entry do not always follow the rules, and the robots are following the rules.

It is saving us time through compliance.

We also evaluated Blue Prism, Kofax Kapow, and Automation Anywhere.

The biggest deciding factor to go with UiPath was its community.

We use UiPath for backend office automation and website integration. 

UiPath increases the dependability of our operations team and simplifies the coding process for novice developers.  It has freed up your staff time to work on other projects.

It's easy to automate rote tasks with UiPath. 

UiPath Studio could offer alternative coding methods. You could invoke the code with VB or C#, but I'm unfamiliar with either of those languages, and I don't have time to explore them. 

I have used UiPath for a little over a year.

My impression of the stability of UiPath is decent.

The scalability performance is yet to be fully assessed as the environment grows.

The documentation is not impressive, warranting a rating of five out of 10. It is neither bad nor great.

Neutral

I did not use a different solution before UiPath. The acquisition happened before my time.

I do not know of any alternate solutions evaluated as the acquisition was before my time.

I rate UiPath five out of 10. 

We use UiPath for marketing, accounting, and sales.

The solution has helped us save time. 

I like the automation capabilities. I particularly like Autopilot and documentation.

We don't currently use AI Center or process mining, but we want to learn more about these features.

The support team could be more responsive and helpful.

I have been using UiPath for one year. 

I would give the stability of UiPath a six out of ten. I've experienced some issues with it in the past.

I would rate the scalability a six out of ten.

I have had to contact the support team on a few occasions. It was a good experience. But the solution could be better with its support team.

Positive

We switched to UiPath because it's a better fit for enterprise companies like ours.

It might not be a good fit for smaller companies. It's a bit expensive for small companies, but it's worth the money for larger companies.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

UiPath is an RPA solution that is very easy to use and local. It's a good choice for companies that are new to RPA or have limited resources for training.

We use the solution for task automation. 

The automation for building tasks is good. It reduces the manpower needed. It helps us automate large projects. 

It's easy to create automation with the solution. Once we understand the process, we can easily create an automation. 

We use end-to-end automation. It helps us remove the need for manual labor. 

We are satisfied with the user community UiPath offers as well. 

The solution has helped simplify projects and our requirements. 

We've used the Academy courses. Anyone can access it. It's great that anyone can take advantage of it. You don't need to be technical. 

The solution has reduced the cost of digital transformation.

It's helped reduce human error by 100%.

The solution has freed up employee time.

UiPath should improve the document understanding a bit. 

I have been using the solution since 2021.

The solution is stable. 

We have 50+ users using the solution. 

It's scalable. 

Technical support is good. 

Positive

I did not use a different solution. 

The deployment was not complex. It's easy. We had to test it a bit manually. Once we were sure we had the right requirements in place, we implemented it. 

It only takes ten minutes to deploy the solution. 

When you change the version of the solution, there is some maintenance required. 

We've used the enterprise version of the solution. 

We're developers. We have customers that use UiPath. 

We can implement the AI functionality, however, we haven't used it yet.

I'd rate the product nine out of ten.