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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 23, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
Sponsored
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
668
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)
AutoGen
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AI Agent Builders (12th)
Microsoft Foundry
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
AI Development Platforms (3rd), Low-Code Development Platforms (10th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (10th), AI Agent Builders (2nd)
 

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.
Marián Lojka - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager, Data Architect Accenture Technology at Accenture
Framework has streamlined multi-agent monitoring and now delivers clear, actionable log insights
I appreciate the AutoGen Studio team builder, which is good, but it could be even better. I do not understand the versioning from Microsoft; the version is 0.4, which has been available since February 2025. There are already multiple platforms on the internet for creating AI agent systems, and I think AutoGen is not as mature as it could be. The challenges that other customers might encounter while setting up this solution include understanding how the framework works. The documentation is somewhat available, but it is not perfect, and there are not many running examples because it is new. There is no community yet, so you might be dealing with issues specific to how to use the framework properly to achieve the desired outcomes.
Sudhakar Pyndi - PeerSpot reviewer
Data, Analytics & Ai Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Document processing has accelerated contract reviews and enabled rapid development of AI-driven supply chain solutions
With regard to security, compliance, or governance features in Azure AI Foundry, this is something that we have started looking into, primarily using Microsoft Purview for our governance, data governance. There is this new module called DSPM for AI, and we are exploring it while trying to operationalize it with different policies and so forth, but we're still not where we want to be on the governance, AI governance side. It's a process and a path, and we are trying to work through that right now. Azure AI Foundry can be improved from the governance perspective, as a lot can be done. The promising part is the recent announcement on the Foundry control plane. A couple of days back, there was an announcement regarding it bringing in some of the gaps that were on the platform, so it's a really positive direction in terms of where it's going. More governance is what is lacking, but the control plane will really play a big role there.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The scalability of Automation Anywhere, the framework, and user interface are particularly impressive."
"Automation Anywhere's document automation, powered by IQ Bots and now enhanced with AI, stands out as a particularly valuable feature."
"If we count the integrations that we have done with Appian, which is where a lot of our savings is from, we are well over a million dollars in savings."
"Our primary use has been to automate a few mundane tasks in the organization, which really helped us in this COVID situation, easing everyone's tasks, ensuring they were completed on time and without errors, keeping our customers happy, and enabling our vendors to help us meet customer satisfaction without compromising on anything."
"There are instances where use cases and opportunities have arisen as a result of having Automation Anywhere and RPA in place that have come about through very casual conversations and have actually resulted in increased revenue opportunities that we didn't realize."
"By using this solution for RPA, we can automate a lot of business processes, which helps achieve less time to market."
"Being the end user, we didn't really have to get into a learning curve as such since our vendor partners were able to map everything for us as per our requirements. There was not much training that we had to do."
"By automating most of our LOB's on the healthcare side and putting it on production, we have saved millions of dollars and were also able to achieve FTE benefits."
"The features contributing most to operational efficiency with AutoGen are part of the framework that allows you to create AI agents in an accelerated way and the communication between those agents in the same manner."
"The most beneficial feature for enhancing our customer experience is that it is easy to use for them and for us to implement."
"This solution has given us the flexibility to do what we needed to do, or actually above and beyond with more than what we wanted at a decent price."
"Microsoft Foundry has significantly reduced development cycles for AI applications and agents."
"Azure AI Foundry has helped reduce the time taken for AI app and agent development cycles by approximately 50% for one use case."
"Azure AI Foundry is flexible and helped me reduce the time taken for AI app and agent development through the integrity and integration of various applications that we are able to achieve."
"Azure AI Foundry has affected our management of privacy, performance, and compliance primarily based on our location in the UK, where it is more focused on the region in terms of where that data is being processed and who has access to it, which is hopefully no one other than us."
"What I appreciate most about Azure AI Foundry is that for a single agent flow, the platform provides the ability to build agents quickly, which demonstrates the ease of use for a single agent workflow."
"Having Azure AI Foundry as a tool has benefited our organization significantly because our team has five data scientists, and this type of tool makes everything much faster."
 

Cons

"If I build a bot today and don't use it, however, in several months, someone tries to use it, there's a 30-40% change the bot will fail in one or two areas."
"For the short term, in this pandemic era, they should have a feature to write and save directly into Word documents, Office 365, or Google Docs."
"Regarding the pricing, I think it's high, and it's the same for the setup cost and licensing."
"The scripting can be a bit difficult."
"In the debugging mode, it writes all the logs to text files, but it doesn't ever clean them up. We had one that got to 200K, and it bogged our whole machine down. We couldn't figure out what was going on until we found out that we had a 200K file sitting out there. We would like some sort of maintenance on the log files going forward."
"I am looking into IQ Bot, but I wanted more out of it. I am dealing with a lot of scanned documents. I want to see if Automation Anywhere can scan client emails for us because our clients send emails with some incidents and issues. We want to see how automation can automatically do the processing and create some structured data or automate bots to get work done."
"The initial setup was quite complex. We have faced an issue. During the initial implementation stages, it took longer than we expected. It affected our timelines to a certain extent."
"AA sometimes poses compatibility problems with new web browser versions like Chrome."
"I do not understand the versioning from Microsoft; the version is 0.4, which has been available since February 2025. There are already multiple platforms on the internet for creating AI agent systems, and I think AutoGen is not as mature as it could be."
"Azure AI Foundry could be improved with better integration within all the other tools from Microsoft."
"Azure AI Foundry can be improved from the governance perspective, as a lot can be done."
"My experience with Azure AI Foundry's pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a mess."
"I think Microsoft Foundry's scalability is good but can be improved."
"I have concerns about pricing."
"In Azure AI Foundry, I did not see many tools inside to test it that can really help us. I wish there were more tooling."
"For Azure AI Foundry, there is no actual clear pricing structure, which can be confusing for customers to understand, as every feature that you activate has its own price, and it is not very clear sometimes to define the pricing."
"My experience with deploying Azure AI Foundry is that, at this point in time, given the limited capabilities available in Foundry, we built pro-code agents, hosted them, containerized them, and deployed them."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The certifications are free of cost."
"If you are looking into Automation Anywhere, get the Community Edition and play with it."
"We would like to use Citrix going forward. We use Bot Runners to scale up, and it gets to be expensive. Using Citrix, it can mitigate costs."
"Yearly, our licensing costs are about $90,000 to $100,000. There will be additional licensing costs when we add more Bot Runners to our infrastructure."
"We have saved customers 400% in terms of time saved by implementing this product."
"Licensing for Automation Anywhere (AA) is paid on a yearly basis. Out of all the RPA tools, it has the most value for money, e.g. what you pay is what you get."
"As our team size increases, we may get some more licenses for the tool."
"It costs up to $1,200 per license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
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Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business162
Midsize Enterprise86
Large Enterprise565
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Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise17
 

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 needs improvement with AutoGen?
I appreciate the AutoGen Studio team builder, which is good, but it could be even better. I do not understand the ver...
What is your primary use case for AutoGen?
My use cases for AutoGen involve using it as the framework for building agentic AI systems. AutoGen is a framework fo...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure AI Foundry?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is good and definitely manageable.
What needs improvement with Azure AI Foundry?
I think Microsoft Foundry can be improved by providing integrations with things such as MCP, which is our next goal. ...
What is your primary use case for Azure AI Foundry?
My main use case for Microsoft Foundry is building chatbots. A specific example of how I'm using Microsoft Foundry fo...
 

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
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