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Senior RPA Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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Easy to grasp the basics and to get started; has a very low learning curve
Pros and Cons
  • "The automation Cloud Platform has definitely helped reduce the time it takes to create automation. It brings a lot of things together. It's easy to use for clients and customers. It makes it easy to bring different disciplines together, so I don't need to think about how to reuse my code, or how to explain to the customer, and I don't need to share the processes to be able to release, run, and monitor and to get reports on the results."
  • "I'm trying not to sound negative about it as I like them a lot, however, the process mining and the process mining features stem further away from the development of the robots and the monitoring. The development, run, and monitoring are really closely knit, or really close together, and then process discovery is starting to get there. It's on its way, however, I don't see that it's as closely connected as the other three parts."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use UiPath for outsourcing. Customers call us when they need extra people to fill positions, on a temporary or permanent basis, similar to a temp agency.

The biggest use case that is running right now is that we get job openings or requests from a lot of different third-party brokerages, customers, clients, vendors, et cetera. They all arrive through different platforms. We get an email saying there's a request, please check it out and let us know if you have someone to fulfill the position, and the request is implemented through UiPath. It's automated. We've created all of the mailbox folders based on the sender and the subject, so we know which customer or which broker it is. Then, we make the email follow a link to the information for the job opening or the inquiry and we put it into our Salesforce system.

There are a couple of smaller use cases as well, where we have task operations that have to be done weekly or daily. Mostly it's reading emails or reading schedules and making changes in files.

How has it helped my organization?

The automation of job inquiries has a lot of sufficiency on how we operate as we used to have multiple people need to be available throughout the day to manually check if an email with an inquiry came in, and that would require them to drop work and open the email, check it out and maybe take action immediately. Now that the robot is running and taking care of the need for filtering through all the results for them, employees can stay focused on the other tasks that they have. They don't have to keep an eye on a second monitor every time and drop everything they're doing to read an email only to decide what is relevant or not.

I understand work has to be tested. It hasn't impacted the entire company yet as I've been here a little short of a year now and we haven't made that big of an impact just yet. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable aspect of UiPath is the community in terms of the way they open up their platform to the community and make it freely available for people to try and to practice. The amount of feedback from that community makes it very easy for us to get into UiPath and if you're trying something that you've never done before, you at least have some insights. There's almost always someone who has done it before or who has asked the question. I would say the community is one of the biggest extra treats for UiPath. 

From a technical perspective, I like the learning curve in the Studio and in the orchestrator - or the Cloud Platform as they call it now - due to the fact that it's easy to get into. It's easy to grasp the basics and to get started. You can scale up as fast and as far as you'd like or need to for your customer. It can do everything. You don't have to learn everything in advance to be able to work with it. It makes it really approachable.

Building automation can be really easy. The biggest challenge is to find the easy use cases as the use cases in the company can get quite complicated quite fast. That said, using the recorder in the Studio and then converting that to work in a mobile office is quite easy. I started in 2016 or 2017, and between then and now there's been a lot of changes. It's always been easy for developer-minded people to get started. However, now with the introduction of StudioX, it is even more focused on the different users and they have a different entry point for them. What I like about UiPath is that the training is really comprehensive. You can almost just record what you do by hand and then StudioX will translate that into a robot and then you can fine-tune it to make it more robust. Smaller costs can be easier steps. Just press record, do what you do, and then you're able to work with teams. 

Scaling automation without having to pay attention to infrastructure does make my job a lot easier for now. What I do see in companies is when they've taken the first steps and they start to scale up, a lot of them have policies or ways of working in place where they want to stick to the ways that they know. A lot of time I see customers will, in the end, do it by themselves anyway, so they use all of the upscaling functions that are available as they want to do it the way that they always did. 

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation starting with process analysis, then robot building, and finally monitoring of automation. However, while it does facilitate end-to-end automation, it does take a lot of the development and running and monitoring of the robots on itself. That is something that is facilitated really well by UiPath. The process discovery and the analysis is rather newish within UiPath. Maybe it's not as well integrated into the community platform.

At this time, UiPath has helped to minimize our on-premises footprint as it is a cloud-based solution. It's important that the on-premise footprint has been minimized as it makes it easier for us being a small company. We have 160 people working for us in the Netherlands and then a couple in the Caribbean. Bringing new technology in like robotic process automation and then asking from the IT department to get me free service and results of my configuring and have all the discussions about what goes where, how the security works, how to find the work, who gets access, et cetera is easy. This is due to the fact that UiPath is offered on a cloud basis and I don't have to do all that on-site work, which allows me to get to building and talking about RPA quicker. 

The fact that the vendor handles infrastructure, maintenance, and updates saves time for our IT department. It helps us to implement a lot faster. The client companies can have a reliable cloud solution to help them do at least the first steps to get them acquainted with the product. It makes it a lot easier. It helps me a lot, and it helps our customers in starting out as well.

UiPath has decreased the time to value in that since it's cloud-based, I can deliver faster than I would be able to do on-prem. If we have an idea, or if we want to scale up, we can do so faster in the cloud solution than I could on-prem.

The product lowers the overall total cost of ownership by taking care of things such as infrastructure, maintenance, and updates, however, I'm not sure what would happen if we scale up.

The automation Cloud Platform has definitely helped reduce the time it takes to create automation. It brings a lot of things together. It's easy to use for clients and customers. It makes it easy to bring different disciplines together, so I don't need to think about how to reuse my code, or how to explain to the customer, and I don't need to share the processes to be able to release, run, and monitor and to get reports on the results. 

UiPath has reduced human error. There are fewer errors and the processes are less error-prone and once the technology has proven itself within the company, within the customers, people start to trust the robots to do what they do. Employees don't need to check the work that had been done as they know that if the robot reported that it was done correctly, then it was done correctly. In that way, it has saved a lot of time by not having to check anything. 

It has also freed up employee time. It's a three-person team and it saved them a couple of hours a week doing the work that they used to do. It saved them a lot more focus as they didn't have to monitor the email inbox all the time. They were able to apply more focus to the other things that they were doing. That said, it's hard to quantify the gains. However, overall, it has made them happy. That's one guarantee. They absolutely love that they gave the mundane work away to the robot because it was bothering them to be monitoring an email inbox all the time. It's given them the time to focus on cases that match the right people to the right inquiries or openings. I don't have any metrics on it, however, anecdotally, they tell me that it helped them to do the rest of their work better as they could apply more focus to more important tasks and placements are better attended to. There's much more focus and attention and better matches being made.

The solution has saved costs for our organization.

What needs improvement?

I'm trying not to sound negative about it as I like them a lot, however, the process mining and the process mining features stem further away from the development of the robots and the monitoring. The development, run, and monitoring are really closely knit, or really close together, and then process discovery is starting to get there. It's on its way, however, I don't see that it's as closely connected as the other three parts.

The automation operations have not brought down any company costs. Automation operations have gotten more expensive due to the fact that we added UiPath to them. That said, you do get gains at a different branch of the company. We didn't replace anything with UiPath. We weren't able to skip a step or program or tool, which makes it an added cost.

More documentation would be helpful, as they change rather quickly. There are two yearly stable releases and then a couple of community releases and data releases in between. Sometimes not all documentation is changed as quickly as the features are. Sometimes you can find something in the documentation that is not the answer, or not available in the product anymore. That's simply a side effect of how fast they develop the product. 

Sometimes it's not entirely clear what features are, for example, available in their community edition, or in the on-prem, or in the cloud. The difference between the on-prem and the cloud has become clearer in the past few weeks, however.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for three years now. 

I started out at my previous company with systems integration. We started out with discovering robotic operations, discovering the tools, and suppliers. We chose UiPath and one of the competitors, as we found them to have the best suit with our customers. That was the end of 2016. That's when I started doing training in UiPath and started doing some custom integrations.

Now, I switched to a new job at a different company where they want to start an RPA practice as well and they chose UiPath solely for RPA.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

From the operations standpoint, the stability of the cloud it's very good. I haven't had any issues with stability. The Studio will crash at random times. I've identified two scenarios where I'm able to make the Studio crash every time by just doing the same actions.

However, other than that, the automation was really stable, and I haven't had any issues or incidents. In Studio, I'd say it is good enough, however, there is some room for growth there.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling automation without having to pay attention to infrastructure is a bit pro for UiPath as I'm starting an RPA practice. We don't have a lot of infrastructure engineers to build the project yet. Therefore, a lot of the time, with new customers as well, it will be a bit of a one-man show. Yet, what we can do is communicate to the platform and then make sure the infrastructure is there and then implement the platform and build a business analysis basically in an un-built realm. I have to do a lot of things by myself, so the fact that UiPath brings in the Cloud Platform and the Studio and it's all integrated and you can scale up without having to have too much. You need to know something about infrastructure to understand what it does for you, however, you don't have to do it all by hand. I don't need like three or four DP-trained individuals to be able to scale up or scale out. It's helped me get further faster.

Once you build the infrastructure and you know what you're doing and you know where you want to go with your platform and scaling, it's rather easy.

The only people really using it at this time are me and six trainees. There are a couple of ops people as well that are able to log in. We might have a total of ten people on the solution.

It's not being used too extensively now, however, that's for a large part due to the fact that most of my colleagues are working with our customers, so there are not too many internal processes or tasks. However, we do have plans to increase its priority as the tasks that we do have are at some points largely repetitive. We do a lot of operations and maintenance for our customers as well in different fields, so we are mainly looking at that for further automation opportunities.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support has been pretty good. 

I get a quick response and it's usually constructive. I manage to fix my own problems a lot of the time using the community forums and information from there. I haven't had too much interaction with UiPath tech support.

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

We did not previously use a different solution. 

How was the initial setup?

I personally implemented the solution at my company. 

We currently have it running, so some internal processes. And, we're looking to expand that into the customer landscape.

The setup is simple. They deliver it in a cloud environment, I didn't need to do any installs or make any arrangements.

You need to make an account and get started and watch a couple of training videos that will help you through it. The adding of the robots is very well documented in the forum, in the community, and in the training sessions. They have made it really easy to get started and to get the information you need to take the first step.

The deployment question is a tough one as I started out at this company while already having a communicators subscription on my own account. Therefore, I started out using that one and then gradually shifted toward using more automated resources. I don't have a clear overview of how much time it took to deploy. It might have been a couple of weeks overall, however, I was doing different things at the same time, and I never took a metric of how much time it took. I'd say starting out if the prerequisites are in place at the company, it could be a matter of days.

Tasks such as setting up an account, getting some service, et cetera, if you know what you're doing and you know what to ask a few questions before starting, it's a couple of minutes or hours. That said, in reality, there are always things you forget or things that they didn't do, so it always takes a little extra time.  

My implementation strategy was basically to figure it out as I went, which is not the best strategy, however, it was the best we could do due to the fact that the company didn't really know what they wanted to do with RPA. I was figuring out my own place in the company and then their wishes with robotics with RPA. There were a lot of things at the same time, so there was not a closed strategy other than to start up quickly, as soon as possible, get feedback, and then try again.

For now, I alone handle deployment and maintenance tasks. That will be the case until our trainees finish training.

What about the implementation team?

We did not use a third-party service such as an integrator or a consultant.

What was our ROI?

We have not yet seen an ROI and have no concrete plans for any in the near future.

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

While I have one or two sheets from old presentations that have pricing information, they are over a half year old. I have no current insights. I wasn't included in discussions between the company and UiPath in relation to licensing. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

The company might have looked at other options. However, they did this before I was hired. Ultimately, they did want to choose UiPath, and I was hired based on my experience with the product. They chose UiPath at that time as they were working together with Oracle and that company has always been very Oracle-minded.

What other advice do I have?

I use the community Studio and the Cloud Platform. I take the cloud from UiPath. I'm not sure where they host their solutions. I use the automation cloud from UiPath.

End-to-end coverage is not too important to my work at this time. Maybe if they were more closely integrated, I would be able to offer it more easily to my customers. However, now, due to the fact that I often go in at the first interaction with a customer or at a company, I have to introduce the concept of RPA, I have to introduce the product of UiPath, and I have to introduce or orchestrate the Cloud Platform and Studio. What I've seen is that that's enough for the first steps, usually, the company will have a pretty clear vision of what they want to start out with in terms of automation. However, introducing the process mining capabilities would add an extra step to the start-up that we have to do and what they want to see is faster results in the early phase. It's short the time from when I come in to initiate the first value, so they can appreciate the value and start the business cases and go from there. Maybe, once they are a couple of steps further on and they have a couple of automations, then they go look at the process of task mining as they have the infrastructure, they understand what the process automation is about, and then they start to see the value process or task mining. Therefore, the end-to-end factor, for my job, for now, is not too important as I don't truly use the end-to-end approach. I do the start by myself with the customer and then we go from there. Then, in the next phase, I will build them practices and they will start to automate the beginning of the process discovery as well. There is not something that I have initially do. Once companies start beyond that first phase and the first steps, then process discovery and process mining can be really important in automation. In a later stage, it becomes more important. However, in my case, I work a lot in the early phases and haven't seen too much of the process discovery products in that phase.

Attended automation hasn't really helped us scale RPA benefits as we are a rather small company and there's only a small group that works with the product, and therefore, we haven't been able to use the assistance in the same way a larger organization such as a bank or insurance company might use it.

We don't use the staff solution yet and we have not taken advantage of the AI functionality. While I have played with AI, I haven't had any use cases to implement the AI sensor.

Overall, I am quite satisfied with the product.

I'd advise new users to start by doing instead of only reading. Start small, like finding small processes or if you're an individual, look at your own work. Find something you could do and automate that as it gives you the best appreciation of the value. Try it out in your own environment and just explore how it goes as that gives you the best insights. For me, when I started, it was a great feeling to watch your screen and watch your cursor follow the screen without doing anything. 

Keep asking questions when talking to users. When translating the biggest use case into other processes, spend more and more time talking to the users and going through the processes, and defining and understanding what happens. Otherwise, it's going to cost you a lot of extra time figuring out why you've got all these weird exceptions that you didn't expect. Everyone always talks about how easy robotic process automation is. However, only once you understand your processes from a user's perspective, you'll run into a wall. It's never standardized. It's never the same. I need to warn my customers more frequently about this pitfall, due to the fact that, yes ultimately, it's very fast, but it only is once you know exactly what you want to automate and that's why most of the time it's time-consuming.

I'd rate the solution at a nine 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?

Other
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Reasonably priced, scalable, and excellent for creating automation protocols
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution reduces human error significantly."
  • "The should be more out-of-the-box models if UiPath keeps adding on."

What is our primary use case?

In our organization, we are using UiPath as a service model. It is an on-premise model where UiPath is deployed on-premise. We are not using it on cloud services. 

We have a center of excellence that has been set up to communicate with UiPath for all the licenses, for all the tools, et cetera. Individual teams will connect and will communicate with the development team to get those licenses. For the team structure, we have a COE manager, and a COE is again communicating all the relevant information to the teams.

First of all, you would have to go and submit an idea to the COE team. The COE team will review and see this is the correct candidate for our solution and we can leverage it as automation. They provide us with the required licenses and the cycle continues.

The use-cases for the UiPath are limited. For example, if you are coming from a banking background, there would be use-cases it comes from the data solutions. If you are coming from an insurance background, would have use-cases where you would have benefits that are being reconciled. Healthcare might be dealing with patient data, et cetera.

If I talk about the support teams, in general, the use-case for the UiPath is as a ticketing system, where you have a lot of data to add to the queue to remove the need to add items manually.  

UiPath has the ability to implement with multiple systems. You can extract the data from any other application, click the data to enter the specifications, and start the automation cycle. That way, you have a technology that helps you to build a fully automated enterprise.

Our use case depends on the client and their needs. It's specific to their industry. We basically use the product to build automation for them.

How has it helped my organization?

We have seen the benefits both in terms of cost-saving, and time-saving. If you are doing automation which a human or an entire team is doing, let's say five hours a day, and there are seven to eight people doing the same amount of stuff, then you can automate that. 

When it comes to automating your process where the company is paying for software if you can use it to make robots that take energy away from repetitive tasks, you end up saving a lot of man-hours - which helps pay for the software.

Savings are measured both in terms of active saving or cost-saving. Then again it entirely depends on the kind of automation you're organizing. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of UiPath the process mining. The half capture was a tool that was provided by UiPath in the earliest reviews which simply allowed you to record the operations

It's great for automating tasks specific to business cases. It makes it very easy to do so as well.

The solution offers pretty good analysis capabilities.

The solution ensures there is proper documentation throughout the process.

The product creates a kind of skeleton for developers to help them work faster. 

UiPath is a low-cost platform.

If you are someone who is coming from a business background, and you don't have much coding experience, and you don't want to go through the coding world, UiPath, has UiPath StudioX. With the help of UiPath StudioX you can automate your items to read emails, download specific things, and do other small automation tasks that do not require advanced coding.  

If you are a developer who is more into coding and wants to do more coding, you have Studio and Studio Tool. Based on your level of expertise, UiPath has various levels of product: StudioX, Student, and Studio Pro, for example. It is always good if you have a programming background as sometimes you might need to write a small piece of code, however, it is a comparatively very easy task compared to the other traditional programming languages where you have to write a lot of code to do simple automation.

With the application of AI in recent releases, automation such as document reading can happen faster.

The UiPath app feature has increased the number of automation you can create while reducing the time it takes to create them. Recently, we had a UiPath hackathon which was contacted by UiPath for automation. We went to an NGO, and, for that NGO, we created a solution with the help of UiPath apps. For example, we used to create the invoices that would take seven to eight minutes to manually create. However, with the help of UiPath apps, we were able to do the same path in less than one minute. We have seen a drastic change.

The solution reduces human error significantly. When you are doing a process for more than five hours, you might deal with human error. However, robots don't make mistakes and can run 24/7 without issue.

What needs improvement?

You do need some coding experience.

AI is not available on older versions. I don't know if it is available in the latest versions of this review. Most enterprises, I'm working with still are at the previous version of the UiPath studio.

UiPath needs to enable more of the features which are available. For example, today, if I have to implement an automation path for the mainframe application, I cannot do the mainframe application without the client. I cannot just do a trial. If UiPath could create dummy applications for the developers who want to try new features, that would be helpful. 

The should be more out-of-the-box models if UiPath keeps adding on. Recently they have added a model in their AI section. However, it would be useful to have out-of-the-box models direct themselves towards plugins. 

You need to continually update the solution as, if you don't, after a few months you won't recognize the product due to all of the new releases. It will be like using a completely new device.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for five years. It has been a while.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability-wise, UiPath can handle the different varieties of stability on the applications you are automating. 

For example, if you choose to automate applications that are expected to change in the next few months, then UiPath cannot help you. That takes an entirely different form of planning. However, the more stable the process, the less likely any part of the process will change, the better UiPath can assist. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. If you have to add new functionality to the robots, you will find that is definitely scalable. Let's say you have automated a process and you are getting 1000 tickets only, and then you suddenly get an influx of 10,000 tickets. You don't have to go and run and change your code or anything. Scalability-wise it is just with the click of a mouse that you can handle the change. And, just as easily, you can decrease usage if there are only a small amount of tickets. While developers and coding will be necessary to make it happen, I would say the solution scales extremely well.

How are customer service and technical support?

I have not contacted UiPath via the contact center. The firm I'm working for has a center of excellence. We do not, as individual developers, directly communicate to UiPath. There is a team that sits in the company that communicates with UiPath, as we're an enterprise. We don't have direct access to the UiPath team.

That said, I do interact with them on the community edition, which I also use, and I find that if I raise a ticket, they listen to my feedback and adjust accordingly. They're excellent.

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

I have not used any other solution.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. From an enterprise point of view, from the client's point of view, there are certain restrictions that the company might have in place that could affect the way it's set up. 

The company needs to have a checklist to ensure it's set up optimally.

That said, there are no drivers, no scripts, nothing. Everybody can do it. You just have to click on the approve button, select it, and the job is done, that's it.

We do our own implementation strategy, however, I am not directly involved in what exactly has to be implemented. There are separate teams for that.

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

While I can't speak to how much users pay for enterprise-level editions, I can say that their community version is quite good and free to use. I've used the community license for the last five years and it's been great.

What other advice do I have?

I do mostly 90% unattended automation. I have created only one attended automation for a client and that was a specifically requested requirement. That was a bit difficult to automate. 

One piece of advice to everybody who is working in UiPath would be to practice and keep UiPath updated as the technology is growing and it is getting updated frequently. If you do not keep yourself updated for three or four months, you'll be dealing with a completely different tool. Keeping it updated allows for the gradual changes to come in in a way that a user can handle, as opposed to having to re-learn or re-discover the product if you have let updates lapse for months.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

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User-friendly, reduces manpower for manual tasks, and integrates well with SAP HANA
Pros and Cons
  • "The most beautiful activity is sentiment analysis, where we can predict the good reviews and the negative reviews."
  • "A version history would be helpful because if two people in my team were working on the same project then the person who made the last change, as well as the date on which it was completed, would be recorded."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case for this solution is to reduce manpower and achieve the best result with minimal time compared to doing tasks manually. This is a great advantage of this product because when doing tasks manually it takes many minutes of time but when the bot does it, it is finished in a few seconds.

How has it helped my organization?

I have several examples where UiPath has improved our organization. For example, our organisation was supporting a Japanese customer for handling tickets. Resolving those tickets manually usually took them 10 to 15 minutes but the bot was able to complete the task in four seconds. This is the great achievement.

There are many cases where UiPath reduces our work time and effort.

In our organisation, we have integrated with SAP HANA tools, which makes handling various situations easier.

What is most valuable?

The features like Data Scraping, Excel Automation, Mail Automation, System Automation, Secure credential activities, User events, and App integration are valuable to us. The integration like ABBYY OCR and Tesseract OCR are helpful. ABBYY OCR is a very good activity that can identify handwritten text, but to use this requires a licensed version.

UiPath requires less code writing and is user-friendly compared to some other solutions. The standard things can be automated very easily. The drag-and-drop activities make life easier.

The most beautiful activity is sentiment analysis, where we can predict the good reviews and the negative reviews. This gives us a great advantage.

Integration with different tools makes easier by using APIs.

What needs improvement?

1.For example: If two members are working in one project but different xaml files.

In one xaml file suppose i did few changes and if any more changes are required to do in the same xaml file the next member can see what changes has done in the activity and do the required changes.

Basically i mean the changes whatever we do there should be some place where we can see the history like Modified By, Modified Date and Modified Activity.

Which makes easy to track who is the last member to modify the xaml files.

2. There should be a global search mechanism for variables in the process flow and if the search is found then it should indicate that activity.

3. There should be activity/some mechanism where we can revert back the code of that particular date.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for one year.

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

I have used Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Frontend developer. Now, I have switched because this product makes the life of developers easier with respect to code implementation.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have evaluated Salesforce and RunMyProcess products, which are cloud platforms.

What other advice do I have?

I have found this to be a very good platform to work on. It's in high-trend in the market now and very much a great thing.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

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

Other
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Valuable community, has a simple interface that allows component re-use for other processes
Pros and Cons
  • "I appreciate the simplicity of the interface as I am learning to be a developer."
  • "I would say a better layout or interface between the Studio and Orchestrator tools would be nice."

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath for building business cases for customers and internally building RPA competency within my department. Our organization is just starting to implement RPA. As a business consultant, UiPath is our chosen solution for RPA implementation. 

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath has made it very easy to create business cases to showcase to executives the functionality and benefits of RPA. UiPath was instrumental in my initial business case, as they came in and executed the proof of concept. That was a huge help and my customer was very pleased.

What is most valuable?

I find the community most valuable as it allows you to find your solutions and people to help you.

I like being able to save components to reuse for other processes and not having to start from scratch each time.

I appreciate the simplicity of the interface as I am learning to be a developer.

What needs improvement?

I would say a better layout or interface between the Studio and Orchestrator tools would be nice.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for five months.

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

We did not use another solution prior to UiPath.

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

I'd advise others to consider sharing the costs after ensuring they understand their expectations for utilizing the capacity of the robots. Share the cost if you forecast not utilizing the entire capacity.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We did not evaluate other options before choosing UiPath.

What other advice do I have?

There is already a new release and I am pleased so far. I think UiPath has done a great job making resources and tools available as well as providing opportunities for learning directly from their company and in the same quality as their employees.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
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reviewer1214580 - PeerSpot reviewer
RPA Operations Lead at a energy/utilities company with 11-50 employees
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Offers valuable training and has dramatically reduced processing time
Pros and Cons
  • "Compared to other solutions, training is very valuable. You can easily access the resources. There is a community edition which is a plus and something that other tools don't offer. Accessibility is the best feature."
  • "It interacts with so many products that the robot itself becomes unstable."

What is our primary use case?

I am a developer so I primarily use Studio most of the time, and when the bots go live, they move to Orchestrator.

We have a combination of different use cases. Sometimes it is dealing with Outlook or the Microsoft Office Suite. The idea is to build a solution that integrates all of the applications that are part of the same process.

We are not currently running our processes in a virtual environment but we are currently evaluating how we could make it work.

How has it helped my organization?

Everything was running well but the users had some challenges because they had to spend a lot of their day correcting the things that were misrepresented or not done correctly by another part of the team. The consultants had to manage the changes which were taking a lot of time but weren't on their to-do list for their day. UiPath is helping us save that time. 

It hasn't really helped to eliminate human errors. The processing time is dramatically reduced. It makes it easier for consultants to make things right. If they spent eight hours doing a task, it now takes them two. 

What is most valuable?

Compared to other solutions, training is very valuable. You can easily access the resources. There is a community edition which is a plus and something that other tools don't offer. Accessibility is the best feature. 

I would rate the solution's ease of use as a five out of five. The majority of tasks are done through the recording which saves development time. You just record the things you want to achieve, customize it, and get it going. This reduces development time. 

I have been using RPA training since I was new to the product. I did the developer training. I would rate it a five out of five. It’s very beneficial. You can just touch base with the actual tool and get it done.

It hasn't really reduced human errors but it has reduced the processing time. It's easier to make things right.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see more of the AI Fabric domain feature. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It interacts with so many products that the robot itself becomes unstable.

I would rate the stability as four-ish out of five. There are some features that they are still working on. There will be better features in the upcoming versions.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have around five users. We're in the kick-off stage so not many people are involved. 

How are customer service and technical support?

I have not needed to contact technical support. 

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

We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because necessity is the mother of invention. We saw our consultants spending too much time processing areas of the business, so we knew we needed to evaluate new processes to make their lives easier. 

We chose UiPath because of the accessibility. It's easily available and widely used. 

How was the initial setup?

It took us around six weeks from when we purchased our first license to having our first Robot in production. It was not a complex process.

What about the implementation team?

We used Roboyo for the implementation. We had a good experience with them. I would give them a five out of five. 

What was our ROI?

ROI is not on the grid right now. We hope to have a good ROI. It's a proof of value and it's not in production yet. 

What other advice do I have?

With the existing features, I would rate UiPath an eight or nine out of ten. Once the new features come in, I would give it a ten. They keep improvising. 

I would recommend not only automating the process but redesigning the process. It's not just about automating steps one to ten, you need to improvise your process and then try to automate that. Automating the steps as is won't really help and you can end up spending the same amount of time and money. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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reviewer1214730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Transformation Advisor at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Helps us save time and eliminate errors with repetitive tasks
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is that you can save time when you have to run the same process over and over again with little variation."
  • "It is sometimes difficult to work with the exceptions, which can cause us a delay."

What is our primary use case?

We use Studio, Orchestrator, and robots.

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 two. It's been going for about six months now, and we are still having challenges here and there.

On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a three. The material is on the technical side, and not being a technical person, it makes it pretty challenging to get through. 

From the point that we purchased our UiPath license until we had our first robot was approximately three months.

How has it helped my organization?

With respect to saving time, we have saved about fifteen hundred hours so far.

In terms of eliminating human errors, we have seen a reduction but I'm not sure by what percentage.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that you can save time when you have to run the same process over and over again with little variation. 

What needs improvement?

It is sometimes difficult to work with the exceptions, which can cause us a delay. We have a lot to learn.

I would like to see more options that we can quickly select to help improve the robots.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for about six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

With respect to the stability, on a scale from one to five, I would rate this solution a four. Most of the time it is working pretty well, but there have been a couple of blips along the way.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have approximately twenty people who use this solution in our organization.

What about the implementation team?

We hired a consultant to help us with the implementation. I would rate our experience with them at three out of five. It was successful, but we had to redo some of the stuff that was originally done.

What was our ROI?

We have seen ROI but it is pretty far off right now. After about three months, we began to see ROI. I'd say that it is probably going to be about two years before we break even.

What other advice do I have?

We are excited about the new features that were recently announced.

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to hire a consultant who is familiar with the process. It is such a new technology that getting assistance would be helpful.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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it_user1214589 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Onq technologies
Real User
Saves time and eliminates errors, but industry-specific training and information would be helpful
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of deployment."
  • "More industry-specific training and information would be highly valuable to us."

What is our primary use case?

We use the entire UiPath suite for healthcare revenue cycle management.

Our automations are not run in a virtual environment.

With respect to how easy it is to automate our company's processes, on a scale of one to five, I would rate it a four.

On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a four. The information about the automation processes was really useful. At the same time, I would suggest including more industry-specific training and knowledge sharing.

From the point that we purchased our UiPath license until we had our first robot was approximately one month. I felt that the process was straightforward. It was very intuitive. Most of the resources were available to us and we've got it up and running with no problem.

How has it helped my organization?

We have clients for which we provide people to perform various processes. Parts of those processes are exceptions that could not be done by these people but were very time-consuming. We have automated those exceptions so that now, we don't have a percentage of our staff evaluating those exceptions every day. They now run flawlessly one hundred percent of the time. Our clients are happier and we're happier.

In terms of eliminating human errors, UiPath is excellent at that. We have one hundred percent accuracy on all of our automation.

This solution saves us time and it saves our clients time. I would estimate the savings at ten percent where automation is deployed. Some of the automations run slowly but they run around the clock.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of deployment.

What needs improvement?

More industry-specific training and information would be highly valuable to us. We're a healthcare company, and it would be helpful to know where and how automation is being deployed within a healthcare environment. For example, what have we done that we could share with people, and what are they doing that they could share with us?

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The UiPath platform is stable, but it is dependent on other platforms.

For example, we may be extracting data from or populating data in a customer billing system. That billing system might go down and someone needs to wake up the bots after that happens. It is not the fault of UiPath but it is part of the process.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is easy to scale.

We have approximately thirty people involved in our automation program.

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

We were not using an RPA solution before UiPath contacted us.

What about the implementation team?

We handled the implementation in-house.

What was our ROI?

We are very close to seeing ROI, although not quite yet.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at some different technologies that were out there and it seemed that UiPath was ready. These included Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and one other one. We felt like UiPath was a solid solution that was pretty easy to use and could scale easily and quickly as well.

What other advice do I have?

This is a fantastic solution and we love it, but we definitely see some room for improvement, mainly around interoperability and leveraging intelligent or cognitive RPA and educating their client base around that stuff.

My advice to anybody researching this type of solution is to familiarize yourself with the concepts and all of the market participants, and then choose the one that works best for you.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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reviewer1214547 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Consultant at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
Real User
Saves significant time on manual, mundane, and repetitive processes for our clients
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable aspect is the different capabilities and features that can be applied to different processes."
  • "I would like to have a guidebook of examples that help me to determine the feasibility of specific use cases, based on the tools and the features that are out there."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Orchestrator, Studio, attended and unattended robots.

I am on the business analyst side, so I do not have much experience with Orchestrator.

We are using this solution to automate processes for our clients. They typically have mundane processes or something that's super repetitive, that we're able to quickly automate for them and see that return. We did do an attended bot with them as well, to improve their call center.

With respect to how easy it is to automate our company's processes, on a scale of one to five, I would say it's a four. This is a rating from the business side, as opposed to the development side. We understand what the features are, and when new releases come out we have an understanding of what's feasible. I am not rating it a five because sometimes we do not know whether a use case is feasible or not. It means that I may have to speak to one of the developers to see whether it can be done with the tools and the features that are out there.

We host the UiPath Academy RPA training every other month for our clients. I have not taken the full course, but on a scale from one to five, I would rate it a five. This is based on the number of people who sign up for it and look forward to attending it, just to learn the basics of RPA.

In terms of how long it takes from purchasing a UiPath license until having the first robot, the average is probably four weeks. It depends on the complexity of the process. 

How has it helped my organization?

We have helped our customers to reduce some of their manual work, but they also benefit by freeing up their time to use elsewhere. Some of the processes we have automated have people spending hours locked up trying to finish.

It is also that we are improving areas such as the production line, or even automating some of their dashboard reporting to get more accurate information a lot quicker. We've been able to help cut that down but then also provide accurate data, and faster as well.

With respect to saving time, this fiscal year we were at seventy thousand hours saved across the enterprise. That is significant and has been across different departments and different regions, as well.

In terms of eliminating human errors, we do not have an exact calculation. We do get a lot of good feedback about the bot's performance doing well.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable aspect is the different capabilities and features that can be applied to different processes. I don't consider one particular feature more valuable than the others because they are all relevant to what the need is.

What needs improvement?

I would like to have a guidebook of examples that help me to determine the feasibility of specific use cases, based on the tools and the features that are out there.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

With respect to the stability, on a scale from one to five, I would rate this solution a five. I haven't had much in the way of negative experience with it.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There are approximately two thousand people working on RPA across the firm. On my current project, we are a team of about sixteen people at our client's site.

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

I cannot say for a specific client, but I do know that our clients are constantly looking for what's out there. Whether it is from banking, automotive, or retail, they want to know what they can do to improve their firm or their company. RPA has been on the rise in the last three years, so I would say they want to be able to get hours back and save time so that they can allocate resources elsewhere. They are always looking for a tool out there that'll save them money and time.

What was our ROI?

In regards to ROI, we track it upfront. We have asked for the information to assess if a candidate process is a good use case. Then we track it in our dashboard throughout the year just to ensure that we are actually calculating the hours correctly. We'll then follow up to make sure that they are seeing those changes and they are receiving those hours saved. We have found that over the year, they are seeing a return on investment.

We track data in terms of money savings that the tool provides. I don't have the dollar amounts, but I can say that there are some processes where we have saved $50,000 USD just on a single process. It really varies on the complexity of the process and the time it would take to complete without automation.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have worked with other tools and I see them as pretty similar.

My experience is with Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. I'm not developing, so I don't have any details on the tool itself. My preference for UiPath is based on what seems to be the goal, and what is easier to understand. It rolls out more features and newer features, faster.

What other advice do I have?

I am looking forward to trying the new UiPath Connect feature. I have seen the demo and it seems like that would be helpful for my role, specifically being on the business side. It is able to assess the use cases and determine what percentage they are RPA-able. I think that it will be super helpful.

My advice to anybody who is researching this solution is to try UiPath Academy Live first before they invest in the tool. This will allow them to get a better understanding of how it works, and get familiar with the services provided.

Sometimes I have questions. If I didn't have any questions then I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

Overall, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
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