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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
662
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 (1st), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (1st)
Clarity SM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
107
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (17th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (20th)
Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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.
Türker Kara - PeerSpot reviewer
Application & Software Architect at Turkiye Finans Participation Bank
Quite good back-end architecture for end users but the API is very, very bad
Our company uses the solution for system, program, service request, change, and knowledge-based management.  We perform CMD authorizations and use a lot of integrations for our in-house or third-party applications. We also use Salesforce automations and Microsoft orchestrations.  We have about…
it_user568017 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is accurate, secure and stable.
Anything that can basically reduce the amount of time that the guys spend working on a specific problem or task. There is always room for improvement that can be in terms of functionality, cost of market, ease of use, training of the product and so on. If it brings functionality into the solution, that would be good. I'll leave it at that because there's so much that they can offer, it's unreal.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Automation Anywhere's OCR functionality stands out as the most valuable feature for us, as it allows us to swiftly extract data for repetitive tasks, significantly boosting our efficiency."
"Several manual, repetitive, time-consuming processes were automated, giving back time to the process owner, and for most of them the process now follows a single standard with additional controls created."
"The dashboards are excellent."
"The core RPA capability is valuable."
"IQ Bot is the most valuable integrated feature of Automation Anywhere."
"When our organization switched to Automation Anywhere, the accuracy rate improved and consequently, there has not been much data loss."
"Now, rather than the team going and collecting all of that information, we can have the bots do it, and that has been fantastic."
"What really helps RPA to grow is the cognitive part of it. That's where the product is really good. Initially, it started out as RPA, but now there is a cognitive aspect to it. That's a key value to it."
"The product is quite stable and highly scalable."
"Service Catalog is one place where you can do things for the entire organization."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate many processes – like change management, incident management, problem management, CMDB, all of them – in the same tool."
"What I find comforting is that CA has been around for decades and therefore it is seen as a reliable partner, so companies buy their software even when there would be possibly better alternatives available."
"For organizations that are beyond the startup phase but are still not very huge, this is the ticketing system to choose."
"One of it's kind."
"We have decreased training and talk time, and all those good stats, just by reusing information, not reinventing it, every time we get a call."
"The major improvement in functions is their ability to track, report incidents, problem, changes and configuration management."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"For me, it saves time; it is accurate, secure, and reduces overhead cost."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
"We've got faster time for our agents to open tickets, they find the screens really easy to use, and they're pre-populated with information about our users which our old system didn't have."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
 

Cons

"The basic features are acceptable, but advanced tools often require deeper technical expertise, which can slow adoption. Additionally, some users experience delays in customer support for complex issues."
"My experience has been that if the person who codes the bot is not very well-trained, then they might create unstable bots."
"OCR technology could be more inclusive by offering a wider range of supported languages, as its current selection is limited."
"Cloud was one of the features we wanted to see, because it makes it much easier. The second feature is ease of use in terms of agnostic operating system."
"We have explored the AI Agent Studio in our automation process, and we have done some POCs with a couple of use cases that created value for us. However, we have encountered some technical challenges, which is why we haven't proceeded with production yet."
"The older versions, like version 8 and 9, were not very stable."
"There is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of stability. It is a concern, because right now we are close to 20 to 25 percent false negatives that are coming up."
"Overall improvement is needed for non-technical users who face challenges with how to use it and how to perform more tasks."
"The initial setup can be complex, especially if you want to track and notify on a variety of granular controls. However, the vendor oversells how easy it is and the training from CA is terrible."
"I noticed more crashing for some strange reason, being that it's on our own servers and we don't know why."
"Service Desk is not perceived as one of the better products in this space."
"We would like more information about all the configurations that we have on our infrastructure side."
"It could improve in maintainability and customization of features with a better and simpler GUI."
"Doesn't scale well."
"More user experience in the look and feel of the application. ​"
"The setup was complex. Out-of-the-box was definitely a difficult configuration because a lot of manual configuration needs to be done."
"One area that needs improvement is the means of moving code from the development to production environment."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"It's not as mature, and so we have got a few things we're looking for there that we're working with HP on."
"The technical support could be better."
"They're terrible as there was just a lack of response. We had to go through other avenues to get responses from the first level support."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost can be reduced a little for users."
"I don't know exactly what the pricing schemes are for the product as this type of negotiation is not my responsibility, but I think the basic pricing comes to $15,000."
"Annually, we are paying almost one million reais."
"Time-wise: We have saved hundreds of thousands of hours."
"I am not sure about the costs, but two Bot Runners and four Bot Creators may cost approximately 1CR."
"When I started working on it, it was difficult to obtain a trial version (barrier to entry). Now, they have a Community Edition, which may make it easy to get started."
"We have seen about a 10 percent monetary savings."
"The price is very reasonable."
"It is a bit expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. It is worth it!"
"I don't see anyone other than large companies being able to afford this system."
"The solution is quite reasonable compared to other solutions in the market."
"Clarity offers a perpetual license. Customers purchase the license once and then pay for maintenance. CA provides a subscription model as well. Both models are available for our customers."
"Pricing is simple, as it’s per concurrent analysts."
"The pricing is based on a subscription model."
"There is a subscripted needed to use Clarity SM. The price of the solution could be less expensive. ServiceNow is less expensive and BMC Helix is priced similar to Clarity SM."
"I think pricing of this model is suitable for growing corporations."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business157
Midsize Enterprise81
Large Enterprise558
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise66
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

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.
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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
CA Service Desk Manager, Clarity Service Management, CA Service Management, Unicenter Service Desk, CA SDM, CA Service Catalog, CA Business Service Insight
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