Automation Anywhere Reviews

We use Automation Anywhere to automate web-based administrative tasks. For example, we have a task to extract Excel reports from a site to gather issue tickets information, filter and compute the data, and store it to the SharePoint site. This is done manually and takes five hours to complete daily. Using Automation Anywhere, we created a bot that extracts the data from the site, filters and computes the extracted data to generate the report according to required output and format, and uploads the report at SharePoint.

With Automation Anywhere bots, we are able to cut down the manual efforts by 80% in generating Excel and Power BI reports, extracting and uploading files to various sites, and many other web-based administrative tasks. This also makes our report more accurate since it eliminates miscomputations of reports due to human error. Automation Anywhere also allows us to train our team members in creating bots of their own since it is very easy to use and has a user-friendly interface and it requires less coding.

The most valuable features for us are the Image Recognition and Object Cloning. We used this feature to automate our web-based tasks with repetitive actions or complex conditions. These features are very easy to use and do not require you to have deep knowledge in programming to understand since it has a drop and drag feature used to control it. It is also very reliable in recognizing images and locating objects on a web page, client software, or local files, so we have very little hiccups in completing the tasks with the bot we have created. 

The Web Recorder should also include a feature where the user can select what browser you want it to run since it is currently using the Internet Explorer browser as default. Some of our web-based systems are currently not compatible with Internet Explorer and can only run using Firefox or Google Chrome. Image recognition can be improved if it can still run the created bot in a different PC with different resolution sizes as it is currently very dependent on it and will not able to recognize the image you need if there are changes to resolution size.

I have been using Automation Anywhere for two years. 

The stability of the automations created using Automation Anywhere is very impressive. It provided us reliability in running the bots using Automation Anywhere where we have problems in using our previous RPA platform.

Automation Anywhere allows a very wide scale in terms of providing automations to our daily tasks that we thought were not possible before.

We previously have an RPA platform but it is not very reliable especially in recognizing images.

It lessens the FTE required to complete our daily task and provided more time for us to expand our capability to accept additional tasks.

I am not in charge regarding this matter.

No. Automation Anywhere was our first choice.

I started my career in RPA and the first tool I learned was Automation Anywhere v11.3. Within a month, I learned the tool and was Master Certified in it.

I had noticed that the majority of clients for my company demand developers who know AA well. I wondered why, with so many other tools available, why clients are so interested in AA as the only RPM. This is when I realized that AA is much easier, more reliable, and has value for money also with good and vast customer support.

In the past two years, I have become somewhat of an expert with Automation Anywhere. As a senior RPA developer, I deal with clients alongside my project manager and I always suggest AA. It is worthwhile to know that most of our clients are already aware of this tool, its market popularity, and its capabilities. This makes it easier to solidify a business relationship with them.

Thanks to the benefits of Automation Anywhere, 90% of our clients trust and use this tool.

I love its reliability, ease of use, and the vast customer support that are always present to help us.

In the new cloud-based version, A2019, some good upgrades have been added. I feel that everything has been covered in A2019 that was missing in the older v11.3. These advancements have helped to impress our clients and create new business opportunities with them. As a cloud deployment, it saves clients problems with desktops that occurred with the previous version, v11. There are also more commands and features that have made it more awesome for me to explore and play with new commands.

I love the user interface and the automation commands they have provided in the AA 2019 version.

Especially while using v11, I often experience freezes with OCR extraction from PDF files. It just didn't work properly. I had to work around this using Python scripting. It would be a big improvement to have the inbuilt OCR capability work seamlessly. A perfect OCR would be awesome. 

I have been using the Automation Anywhere tool for the last two years.

The new version offers no compromise regarding stability. 

I will rate this product a ten out of ten for scalability.

I had contacted technical support two or three times and they solved my problem on the same day. I will rate them a ten out of ten on support. In my opinion, they are the best and I hope that they maintain the same.

I started working with AA and have moved to the A2019 version. I never switched to another tool, as AA is one that I have found reliable, and has everything that I need for RPA.

ROI is something my management knows, but as a developer, I cannot say for. However, I am pretty sure that AA has benefited our company.

The cloud-based version comes at an increased cost, although our clients are happy with the new features and have not complained about the pricing. Precious things are valuable, and they know that.

I started with AA and have not evaluated other RPA products.

It has now been two years and I have migrated to AA 2019. I now consider myself an expert in Automation Anywhere. Thanks, AA, for providing such a big and powerful platform to us.

I always recommend this product, and that clients implement AA first.

Our primary use case is the comparison of field-level capture status of English invoices done using UiPath Document Understanding, with a converted CSV header and table-format CSV file of invoices done using IQ Bot A2019.

Automation Anywhere (AA 2019) IQ Bot has improved efficiency and is very useful for the Conversion of Invoices to CSV files and JSON files to PDF boxes.

The most valuable feature is the conversion of PDF Invoices to CSV and to PDF Boxes.

The conversion time of invoices to JSON File should take less time using AA2019 IQBot, the report file creation feature should be added into IQ Bot A2019.

We have been using Automation Anywhere for the past four months.

Our use cases include email filtering to get rid of spam, phishing, and many more.

Workflow automation has helped a lot with cost reduction, greater accuracy, and delivery speed. It then continues to add value as it picks up momentum and spreads across the organization.

Workers now have more time on their hands to use their intuitive minds to think about great ideas. All we do is train our digital workers, then they do the work 24/7- 365 without any errors, unlike humans who need time in the day to rest. They are the best part of the business.

All of the business processes we can automate, such as the digital forms you can create, have improved the way we function. The digital forms reduce a lot of paperwork, as well as the stress of losing or misplacing important data.

The sales team is also doing great because their sales operations are improving with the usage of AA.

It offers insights on how to improve with the dashboards that represent your business KPIs. You get information about the trends and know exactly where to improve, and even how you can achieve that.

The sales process is also automated in instances such as follow-ups.

The marketing automation software provides easy workflow creation and management. It increases productivity and it is easy to follow and optimize. Use workflows to set priority, status, and route incoming tickets to ensure your SLAs are met.

Trigger responses are real-time responses that are easy to send to customers. Every response needs to be prompt because even a five-minute delay can lead to a lost customer opportunity. The software has a feature that allows you to time and schedule your responses so that they can be sent in real-time. 

In the control room, the manual bot update should be looked at. I would like to see a technology where they can automatically update or upgrade themselves to the latest version, without having to uninstall the current bot.

Bots should also be automatically downloaded to all computers or devices in the organization without people having to individually install them on their machines.

The device connection can also be improved, as I happen to lose connection most of the time. 

My company has been using Automation Anywhere for a while now, but I have only recently joined and I'm still in training.

Stability is high because these are machines with fewer errors compared to humans, and more production time because they work 24/7- 365 without taking any breaks. 

Scalability is very high and there is no need for numerous source codes. Should the size of the organization go up, there is no need to worry, as AA can handle any size.

They solve tickets quickly and are always ready to attend to any queries, concerns, etc. The service is excellent.

This is actually my first real job and I'm currently doing an internship, so I have not used other RPA products.

The initial setup was straightforward and the instructions were easy to follow.

The implementation was through an in-house team.

Our ROI is an average of 6.5%.

There is a free trial so that they can get an overview, and there are different licenses that are very affordable and can suit every business model.

The company that I work for has evaluated other options and they were also using Zoho.

My recommendation is that more businesses should use it. AA doesn't require any prior IT or developer experience, and it has lots of tutorial videos of how-tos. 

Our primary use has been to automate a few mundane tasks in the organization, which really helped us in this COVID situation. As most of the people are WFH and we were not able to connect to each and every individual, it helped to ease everyone's tasks and ensure they were completed on time and without errors.

Because of this, our customers are happy and our vendors were able to help us in terms of meeting our customer satisfaction and not compromising on anything. This has become the new normal for us and we have started adapting to it.

Human hours are saved and are utilized in other tasks. Since we all are in a critical situation, our office was shut down temporarily and functioning over the cloud. Employees were facing several problems like network issues and we couldn't arrange things for them, so we ended up taking their tasks and start automating them.

This ensures that they were utilized in customer satisfaction roles and that the issues were not left unattended.

A few reports and emails were automated to communicate with customers because our US server was offline.

The most valuable feature is recording in the Control Room, as it allows me to chose what I want to have recorded, ensuring that I get the right thing on time.

All of the options are available in the control room and with the search capability, even a person who is not from a computer background can easily create bots.

Certain areas of the user interface require improvement. Most of the time, it's pretty easy to drag and drop the required field but it would much better if we had voice commands so that I save time instead of using my mouse and keypad.

It would be better if it were digitally designed so that users can feel the live experience as if looking at the exact interface, rather than the logo.

Replacing the list of search options with voice commands for each item would be great.

I would like like to see changes made to the appearance of the control room. Although we all love the brownish dark mode, it would be better designed with white and orange instead of the dark brown colour on the left side of the panel.

We have been using Automation Anywhere for two years.

My primary use case is for Medical Content validation and Ecommerce Process follow execution and analytics with data available.

It improved on 40+ % of manual effort which was a pain point for project budget and Project team SMEs.

• Control Room 
• Bot Creation 
• Logging Scheduling Task 
• Trigger for Monitoring.

• Available Data Analytics  
• More on AI Front and Deep Learn concept

I have been using AA for two years. 

• Automate and Digitization
• Process understanding
• Finding gaps in process
• Process re-engineering
• Process mining

All customers were happy after automating using AA because:

• Better accuracy
• Easy to develop and manage
• Easy to manage orchestrator
• It's an automated simple process within the organization.

Metabots and IQ bots.

PDF extraction and cognitive automation need improvement.

I have been using Automation Anywhere for one year. 

The stability is awesome.

Scalability is good.

Their technical support is very good.

We used Ui Path. We switched because of the cost.

In-house.

We have seen good ROI.

• Automating frond end and back end office jobs.  
• Automating tiring jobs - Automation Anywhere is used to Automate many jobs that are repetitive. 
• To deploy a digital workforce and optimize productivity.
• Report generation.
• Revenue forecasting.
• Beneficial to QA processes.
• Data validation and auditing.
• Data replication and migration.
• Customer Relationship Management and other operational sales activities                               

RPA helps to Automate these jobs perfectly.

With better technologies and research at its disposal, we will see a decrease in the cost of RPA tools.

With it, the other processes on work, the automation cost will dramatically reduce in the upcoming years.

Moreover, as the number of robotic vendors grows, the RPA licensing will see a significant decline rate in RPA licensing and with more space for changes.

RPA Security:

With more significant responsibilities on the robots’ shoulders, the bigger are the possibilities of a breach and system failure.

There will be an improvement in protection measures from the new types of cyber threats or any internal faults will see an increase due to a constant rise in security requirements.

Better Cloud-Based RPA Platform:

According to “Robotics Process Automation (RPA) – 2018 Annual Report,” Everest Group, 2018; currently over half of all RPA processes (~57%) are attended.

Including cloud-based, unattended RPA represents the remaining 43% (33% on-prem, 10% cloud-based).

The growth of IoT and improved cloud services gives more flexibility and security to Robotic Process Automation.

The cloud supplies unlimited, off-site storage, and on-demand access to data.

Automation at its best:

About 70% to 80% of rule-based processes in a business can be automated. RPA has a good hold in both the back- and front-office with advancements in AI, big data, speech recognition technologies, machine learning, and deep neural networks.

As a consequence of predicted growth in the field of Cloud-based tech and natural learning processes, RPA tech is positioned to be even more integrated, automated, and independent.

Workload management is a cool feature of Automation anywhere.

Automation Anywhere is one of the most popular RPA vendors offering powerful and user-friendly RPA capabilities to automate the business processes that are performed by humans. AA is a web-based management system that includes a control to run end-to-end automated business tasks for companies. Over 500 leading brands across the world use this tool to handle and scale their business processes with near-zero error rates and minimizing operational costs. AA allows building scripts to perform repetitive tasks instead of writing code. They can automate a broad range of chores from basic level Windows configuration steps to the ultimate networking and remote database processes. The three core components in the AA architecture are:

Bot Creator – It allows the developers to create bots to automate their desktop-based applications.

Control room- An application that works as a controller and handles the entire execution and management of clients, scripts, credentials, roles, security, etc.

Bot Runner – A machine that allows us to run the bot. The status of bot execution is reported back to the control room.

The company offers various products to support enterprises in their journey of digital transformation. They are as follows:

Automation Anywhere Enterprise RPA

The product is dedicated for the business user and comprises advanced capabilities to offer an intuitive interface for the business user, bot developer, and automation administrator. This platform is easiest to use, supports to avoid complexity, and ensures fast adoption & rapid deployment. It not only fulfills the requirement of the digital workforce but also be flexible to evolve with the business needs.

2. IQBots

IQBot is a cognitive bot designed to support as well as learn from business users and enable the business user to experience the power of advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Integrated with the automation anywhere enterprise RPA, the IQBot offers enterprise massive gains in productivity, as it includes competence of automating complex tasks involving unstructured data. The table below explains the different types of bots in automation anywhere: Task bot, Meta bot, and IQ bot.

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3. Bot Insights

The platform displays statistics and graphs to analyze bot performance in the system. It also allows calculating the time saved in the automation process. It is the first analytics solutions build for bots. Bot Insights tightly integrates the real-time business insights with the digital workforce performance.

4. BotFarm

It is an on-demand enterprise-grade platform for RPA bot. The platform scales the capacity of the digital workforce by deploying bots anytime, anywhere with a single click. It can create, deploy and handle thousands of software bots and can ensure resilience, elasticity, and scalability.

5. Bot Store

The first marketplace for plug and play bots dedicated to business automation initiatives. It enables enterprises to discover, deploy, and mobilize bots, including process bots, application bots, and cognitive bots in a fraction of seconds.

I would like for AA to add an inbuilt debug log that has functionalities to view the values of variables during run time in order to have a point-to-point debugging in case of an error.

I have been using Automation Anywhere for one year.