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AppSheet vs ServiceNow Now Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
661
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (2nd), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd), Process Mining (1st), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (1st), Agentic Automation (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (2nd), AI Legal & Compliance (1st), AI Finance & Accounting (2nd), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (1st)
AppSheet
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No-Code Development Platforms (5th)
ServiceNow Now Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Rapid Application Development Software (16th), Low-Code Development Platforms (12th), No-Code Development Platforms (4th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (18th)
 

Featured Reviews

Venkat Sivaprakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at Accenture
Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions
Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.
Varun Kumar Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Information Technology Program Manager at Microtek International
Centralized task tracking has transformed team collaboration and has saved significant time
The features or capabilities of AppSheet that I have found the most valuable include Freeze Panes, which is one of the most valuable features, and Dropdown, which is another valuable feature. Freeze Panes is extremely important because it freezes the first top row of the sheet. When I'm scrolling the sheet and going down, I can see the first row on the screen full time while scrolling to my data. This is a very beautiful feature of Google Sheets. Additionally, the dropdown feature allows me to write yes, no, and not applicable against a particular line item without typing every time by creating a dropdown. I write it once with yes, no, not applicable, and then I select that option. The real-time updates in AppSheet improve collaboration in my team because 40 people in the same department operate on a single Google Sheet. They all update their tasks, their projects, and everything on that same sheet, which is a massive leap in technology. Otherwise, I would be mailing a single Excel sheet to 40 people and getting everybody's input from them all manually, which would be extremely time-consuming. It's a massive technology jump when it comes to collaboration.
Vishal Savajiani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at DXC Technology
Low-code workflows have transformed how we automate processes and build enterprise apps
First and foremost, ServiceNow Now Platform allows us to do a low-code or no-code platform, which is the wonderful first feature. On top of that, if you want to do some customization along with the low-code and no-code, you can do it. Beyond that, if you write a full-fledged customized code and make your functionality, you can do it. Workflow is there, and we can automate our workflows. Flow is there as an option. Apart from workflow and flow, we have many business rules and script includes. These are all the technical components and features of ServiceNow Now Platform that allow us to achieve our objective. ServiceNow Now Platform offers a very easy feature that we call workflow or flow. Using workflow or flow, we can customize industry workflows. The development on that flow is very simple, and you can use drag and drop functionality. If you want to do some scripting, you can do it. This is an awesome feature of ServiceNow Now Platform that allows us to develop or automate any flow in quick time. Internally, ServiceNow Now Platform uses a lot of AI features and machine learning features. This makes it more wonderful. AI and machine learning are the core of ServiceNow Now Platform, and they are using it heavily. It is making a lot of impact on deliverables. You can develop anything whatever you want on ServiceNow Now Platform. If you understand ServiceNow Now Platform capabilities, you can develop a full-fledged application on ServiceNow Now Platform easily. You don't have to write scratch code or do any database operations. You just need to create tables and forms, which are very easy to develop if you are familiar with ServiceNow. Everything is on one platform, so it is a single source of data that you can find on ServiceNow itself for the overall enterprise. ServiceNow Now Platform offers a reporting feature very well. Along with the reporting, they are offering workspace and dashboard. All these UI interfaces you can use to extract precise information for your customer. This is really helping the customer make decisions with the precise and versatile reports. You can have a list report view, a graph report view, or a pie chart. All these features can be developed quickly and used in ServiceNow. This is where ServiceNow Now Platform makes a lot of difference.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Automation Anywhere has and continues to help us deliver multiple complex and very complex use cases in record time."
"The character extraction capability of IQ Bot is much, much better than the other OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engines that you have in the market today."
"Once we implemented the Automation Anywhere into my company, we freed up a lot of their time, so they could work on other processes."
"It has saved us a lot of hours, manual effort, and we can focus on more important tasks, which helps us with our ROI."
"Scheduling helps to generate and send reports without any delay."
"Automation Anywhere, specifically A2019, has helped us in automating a major chunk of such tasks, thus helped in saving a lot of time, effort, and revenue."
"Automation Anywhere has helped in automating business processes for simple to complex business cases and also helped in understanding, learning, and discovering new automation ideas."
"This solution has gives us greater employee satisfaction because manual recurring work has been reduced."
"I chose this solution because it was cheaper than other competitors, more flexible and safe."
"I have found the way they structure the workflow and the fact that it a progressive application is valuable for me. This allows me to be able to build it once and use it in multiple formats."
"The solution is pretty simple to implement."
"With Google, even if you find a bug or something, it is solved quickly."
"The solution has been very user friendly, easy to use, and we are able to use many applications like Excel or Google sheets."
"The solution allows for many great features, including easy column formatting that automatically applies the correct formats for phone numbers and dates, helpful data linking, robust email integration, very good security, and it is a very good no-code development platform."
"The tool's integration capabilities enhance our existing workflows and as far as the workflows are concerned, I think it is pretty seamless, intuitive, and interactive."
"A feature I found most valuable in AppSheet is its intuitive UI/UX design, as that makes the platform very easy for customers to use. The solution also has a drag and drop feature that's quite good. I also found AppSheet integration with the cloud platform to be quite good."
"We work on it directly to send out tickets, it enables us to work seamlessly, we don't need to send them out manually, and we can create a ticket and assign it in the system."
"The level of automation within the platform is great."
"It is a scalable and a stable platform."
"We have seen a big improvement in the experience that we want to create for our end users."
"In ServiceNow, the best features are the reports. We have more options there."
"It can integrate anywhere, and you can make any kind of workflow."
"The solution provides a single platform for multiple systems and software to operate from. We have found the solution to be stable The initial setup and deployment of the solution was very easy. The technical support team are very helpful, we contact them whenever we are unable to fix an issue."
"I'll definitely recommend this solution to others since it's user-friendly."
 

Cons

"Productivity increased when we implemented Automation Anywhere, but it did not meet the client's expectations regarding the number of human workers it replaced."
"In the 10.7 version, the back-end port for the MetaBot password has looping. This has been a type of limitation."
"Having better documentation that is more openly available would help. Often, it feels necessary to contact someone or search for documentation that is stored behind a login or in another location. It would be beneficial to have one centralized place for everything."
"The bot insides should come in the same package versus having it as a different bundle by itself. If we could have this product come with all the inside solutions altogether, that would help."
"The IQ Bot has not yet succeeded in living up to its reputation due to its high cost, low ROI, and its inability to meet client requirements."
"Automation Anywhere is not fully compatible with browsers other than Internet Explorer while working with web extraction."
"I think Automation Anywhere could be improved by addressing the learning curve, as it is a little complex to start using it, especially for people new to automation tools."
"There is still a way to go for Automation Anywhere where we can see improvement."
"If I need more than that figure, then I'm not sure how scalable AppSheet is."
"Stability is the leading risk. We can't ensure that the solution will last since, if Google decides something, it's finished."
"What I think could be improved or enhanced in AppSheet includes the timeline feature, as that is something which is a real pain point and not very efficient in Google Sheets."
"There needs to be an improvement in their operation vision. They need to see things more globally because at the moment they are very North-America focused. We do not always have mobile applications and the way we use them is slightly different in Africa from the way they use them in America."
"No improvements are required as AppSheet is quite efficient."
"There are now a lot of low-code or no-code applications available on the web. AppSheet is working on that path."
"The solution needs to improve its SQL database capabilities."
"They could improve by providing more language support other than English especially the languages that written from right to left such as Arabic , integrate better with other databases, and provide a better UX."
"The UI and mobile UI need to be improved."
"ServiceNow Now Platform's automation process needs improvement."
"The initial setup requires a lot of customization based on the individual company's processes."
"The product's UI is ugly, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be great if the ServiceNow Now Platform supported satellite technologies in its telecom models and integrated with tools like OpenAI, LLaMA, or any Google AI platforms such as Vertex AI or Bard."
"The programming language is currently limited to JavaScript. So I would like to see more programming languages available, especially since they have come up with the machine-learning features. Some more languages would be an additional improvement."
"From an improvement perspective, the product's complicated initial setup phase can be made a bit easier."
"ServiceNow is not open source, so there is a license you must pay. Compared to other contenders who give you the cheapest in the market, you will find a huge difference when it comes to ServiceNow and its subscriptions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If I compare it with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere is cheaper. Blue Prism is very costly. Automation Anywhere's pricing follows the market, not less and not more."
"It is expensive. I would rate Automation Anywhere an eight out of ten in terms of pricing."
"The cost of Automation Anywhere is high in Turkey due to the weak economy."
"The price for Automation Anywhere is reasonable."
"We have seen the tangible benefits of taking monotonous work off people's plates, creating capacity, and cost reductions."
"The solution is quite expensive. Not every organization can consider this option."
"There may be room for the product to be more competitively priced to excel in the market."
"I think it's $5,500 per license."
"In terms of how much AppSheet costs, I'm currently on the free tier, but if I need to add more users to it in the future, I will go with the paid version."
"I chose this solution because it was cheaper than other competitors."
"The tool is available at a low price."
"There is a license required to use this solution and it costs approximately $10 per user a month. I am paying $300 a month for 30 licenses."
"Pricing is based on the number of users and user licenses, but the product is 20% to 30% more than the competition."
"It's expensive and if you need some analytical views of your activity, there is an additional cost."
"The solution is expensive."
"The pricing of this solution is done annually and it is very expensive."
"In my opinion, it is expensive. However, they do offer favorable licensing for charities, for example."
"There are extra expenses for maintaining the product apart from the licenses."
"The product is very expensive."
"The price of the product falls on the higher side of the spectrum."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
26%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business161
Midsize Enterprise82
Large Enterprise558
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise36
 

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppSheet?
The pricing and licensing of AppSheet are quite competitive. Even the Google One membership or its plans are quite ch...
What needs improvement with AppSheet?
What I think could be improved or enhanced in AppSheet includes the timeline feature, as that is something which is a...
What is your primary use case for AppSheet?
My usual use cases for AppSheet involve tracking our IT projects and tasks. All the projects of our IT department and...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Now Platform?
I do not know the setup cost details. I am not at that level where I make decisions on the cost.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Now Platform?
There are areas of ServiceNow Now Platform that could be improved or enhanced in the future. So far, I do not have ma...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow Now Platform?
As a customer of this solution, I use it as a ticketing platform in my projects. I have multiple use cases for Servic...
 

Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
Husqvarna, Solvay
experian, beachbody, health partners
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