Nintex RPA Reviews

We use it for rapid process automation, but we also have Process Discovery. We use it for billing and collections, business administration, and insurance.

We have some idea of what we wanted to start with. We have been able to expand on that since embracing Kryon a bit more. We originally went into this solution knowing there were some processes which were extremely manual and wanted to take on automating. Once we got into using more of the advanced commands, we got through with some of our first, second, and third wizards, then we were able to take a step back, and say, "Here are all the functions that I've now learned to work with. I want to put them into higher level of development." We were able to expand the idea of something very simplistic, a three or four-step process, then move it over to a 50 or 60-step process. Because of those advanced commands, we could condense them down, which was something we didn't know at the time would be a reality.

Kryon has helped our existing workforce embrace the digital transformation of our organization. We now have people who are more interested than ever in moving over to digital processing. We are able to focus on key components of the business which can't be processed through automation.

We have seen some significant drops in employee errors. However, your data is only as good as what you receive. Errors have reduced by 80 percent based on the processes that we have automated by the sheer fact that we don't have people touching so many of them.

We have been able to streamline some processes just by using RPA. That has improved them.

Its ability to work with multiple platforms within the same application or "wizard". Some of the SQL functionality has also been extremely helpful. All of our platforms are homegrown. We don't use an out-of-the-box software, which makes our availability to using RPA software suites pretty limited. Then, you have a product like Kryon which is flexible. We use PowerBuilder as our application building codex. Kryon adds flexibility when we have the functionality of SQL, where we can take sets of data out of the back-end and run complex computations or do a bunch of data validations inside the wizard. It can save us sometimes dozens of steps, then if we were to try and do those same reviews using the user interface completely. The balance that we get from using Kryon RPA, alongside being able to screen scrape and frequent screen, gives us an advantage that we haven't had previously with any of our other attempts at robotic process automation.

Kryon Process Discovery is a very exciting thing. We are rolling it out to approximately 100 VM machines, but we will be using it comprehensively for the next few years, as long as we can get it rolled out here soon and start gathering more information. It's been a very exciting thing for us here at LTCG.

We haven't finished rolling out Process Discovery. We only have it on three computers right now for the test environment. However, one of the most complex tasks that we are using two full-time employees to do was have it record and monitor these employees, along with all its variations, and how they are working through a process. We then exported that from Process Discovery into Studio. Now, instead of starting from scratch on a process that a developer wouldn't know, we have a framework and outline on how to make that work from end-to-end.

The read from screen functionality needs improvement

We still do a lot of stuff in the user interface. Finding UI information and split UI need improvement.

I would like them to add more functionality from Excel, especially when you pull data from Excel.

We've had a lot of good success using this solution for the full-cycle of automation from the discovery of processes to turning on the automation and scaling it up. We would like to see having a little more specific documentation, or some of the examples be easier to find. One of the big things that we get directed to now is the Kryon Community page, but a lot of that wasn't in existence or publicized when we started doing our training and education. Now, we're stumbling through using it. For the majority of the time, we have either had to try and interpret what the instructions meant or do a service desk ticket.

I have had two people go through the online training. My feedback would be that they need to focus a bit more energy on that. I would like to see that online training be a bit more comprehensive in the projects that they create, so we can say, "Here's what we have," or, "Here's what we need." I don't know if maybe they should sit down and try to develop "training" documents as well. Or, like dummy wizards, where you have to copy and paste this wizard, start from scratch and learn these steps, then you put it together to make it work, which would be similar to what we did with the in-house training. 

They could add a bit more to the online training too, since it's still relatively new for us. We don't have a "dedicated" team of people who do this. This has been a learning experience, because we only have a limited number of people who can dedicate hours to it.

It is a very stable process. It has been a learning experience for us. We have learned to make some changes in our system to add stability that users were experiencing. They were experiencing the same instability issues that we were having. RPA shed that light. We've made some changes structurally to our IT and business processes to avoid that in the future.

We have seen bugs and had frustrations. When we've done software upgrades, or opened service desk tickets, things can get frustrating because of a slow response. There might be a system outage, where we weren't informed of it until everything at our site went dark. So, we have had growing pains.

Scalability is still a possibility for us, as we will probably need more of the solution in the future. I don't have any concerns about scalability at this time. We do have plans to increase usage. 

We have two attended machines, because we have such a low demand for it right now. However, we do have nine unattended machines that run daily. We average about 1200 to 1300 wizard runs a month.

We have five developers, all from different subsets of the business. We have some that specialize in finance, account management, or those of us who came from more of an IT background (or a more structured IT role). We have a good mix of of SMEs with some IT mixed in there.

Kryon's technical support is very good. They made some core changes that have improved the solution over the last two years.

We have used other RPA tools previous to my time at LTCG. None of them were successful after the original deployment. Therefore, we decided to wash the project. While I don't remember the name of the software, the reason they were unsuccessful is because of the language that our user interface is built in.

The initial setup was complex for us, but that was, in part, from the way we operate at LTCG. I wouldn't put that on Kryon.

From start to finish, the deployment was four months.

We did the deployment all internally.

We do upgrades three times a year for both Process Discovery and Kryon RPA. Essentially, we have a structured team set up who opens up in a project, then we start reporting against the project. We try to get all the requirements built, but it all runs through me. So, I run it as a type of the project manager. Then, we deploy the upgrade alongside the customer review team. It is not as rigid as some other projects should or could be.

We currently have four total users from IT, who assist us in maintaining the Kryon server, Process Discovery server, and upgrades for deployments, which includes security and overhead. There is also my role, which is just performed by me.

We've more than broken even over on the license. Year to date, we are at $120,000 in savings.

We have been able to alleviate two FTEs, which was a big savings for us. We were able to reuse those resources in other locations. It is over 5000 hours a year in total savings.

We were able to reduce our processing speed in time by 65 percent. That is just simply by using a robot versus a person.

Licensing costs are about $100,000 a year without any additional costs.

We had requests out to four vendors: Kryon, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism. Kryon did not end up being the most financially inexpensive, but it did make the most sense based on the ability of having business users develop, not IT people. The product bridges the gap in terms of ease of use for business users with no tech background, compared to a UiPath or Blue Prism. With those solutions, you have to be a .NET developer to use them. Kryon allows people who are business-oriented people to use it.

Understand that you need to have a very well-documented framework of what you plan to automate. Not necessarily the idea of, "I want to automate this task." But, as a company, don't be narrow-minded to believe that these are the only tasks that we can automate. You'll find that there are a lot of groups which are doing things that you may not know of that you can automate very quickly. Be very open-minded when you start working with the solution, because you'll find that a lot more doors are open than you originally anticipated.

As with anything in software suites, you are always going to have challenges where people didn't know something was a function or didn't know this is how that worked. Kryon has a good start in trying to bridge that gap between the developer, who would look at something, and go, "Yup, I can pull a lot of this data from SQL, and I just need to click these buttons," versus someone who doesn't have a technical background.

There is still some growing to be done. It is necessarily the product that has been the problem. It has been necessarily some of the responses that we have gotten from Kryon itself. 

We use Kryon in a number of use cases. We have done a lot of work in the insurance industry, especially client-onboarding. We are also working on AML, anti-money laundering. Another use case is data extraction from invoices, using the Kryon platform.

To give you an example, we worked on a client-onboarding scenario. Client-onboarding, when run manually, was typically taking about 45 minutes for just one customer, because the process is so lengthy and because of the amount of information required. In addition, it was updating four systems and there was work done to match the systems, which required a migration piece. Now, with automation, we capture it once, in one system, and then onboard this information to two or three other systems. It now takes a maximum of about eight minutes, compared to the 45 minutes of work when it was done manually.

It has definitely also helped our workforce embrace digital transformation. We have implemented this with onboarding processes, email processes, and the like. It has now spread to multiple LOBs and they're talking to us, including HR, finance, and more.

The bots result in a lot of effort saved and that means we don't need to hire people to do certain jobs. It's saving money on FTEs. I estimate that when we run a business use case, the typical savings are four to five FTEs per month. In terms of business analysts' time, out of eight hours, typically four hours are saved. Operational efficiency has increased more than 50 to 60 percent. Finally, it saves us time when launching new automation processes, by about 30 percent.

The best feature is its reporting. The core features of Kryon are the best. 

In addition, the number of commands it gives us to edit and modify is really good. 

It also captures screen activities and plays them back. I'm a technical guy, so it's very easy for me to do it. If I imagine giving this to a business guy, it is really amazing, because he knows what action he is going to perform.

With respect to web-based applications that we have, Kryon may not be able to do certain things in terms of technology and support.

Also, there are limitations on integrations with other platforms like ServiceNow. There are some issues integrating. It's not a really an open system. The product, its design, etc., is really good, but they have to look at the openness, how to integrate with other products which are available in the market, as well as with our own solutions. You can do integration but it is not so easy. You have to build certain things to integrate. It's not like an open API is available. It's there but it's not really open compared to competitors.

The only challenge today is that when we migrate to a new version, there is a lot of work. We need to roll it back. Once migrated, we cannot roll it back easily. There are a lot of things that need to change. We've asked Kryon to build a complete package so that migration can easily happen from one version to another version. 

For example, 5.1 to 5.4 was really a nightmare for us. It was more to do with the number of assets we had. When they changed to 5.4, with the new enhancements, some of the scripts were failing after we migrated, and we had a whole list of issues. We had to reconfigure certain elements. It was effort. It was not an easy migration.

We are now doing close to 20 processes. It still works fine. There are no issues from the scalability point of view.

Technical support is there in some of the regions. In APAC it is good. One or two years back, it was not there. They've improved since then. They are able to support us if that is required.

The initial setup took some time because there are a number of components. There is a server, Studio, etc., so it takes some time to set up properly. But once it is set up, it's easy to work with. But the initial setup requires some time.

Setting up a server typically takes three to five days. We go through a process where we regulate things, we make sure we validate the software, and we that we have approval. 

Our implementation strategy was to first set up a pilot. After the pilot, we wanted to go full-blown. That's when we looked at infrastructure for development, testing, and production. We then started bringing a lot more LOBs in, to grow and develop.

We used Kryon consultants, and some of our team members also got trained and certified so that we could take over that piece. Initially it was a joint effort and after that we took over.

Our experience with Kryon consulting was good. They follow certain guidelines, they don't allow any unwanted consultants to implement or do anything. They make sure consultants are certified in the product and that they have experience. That was good. That's how they start with all customers.

If we look at the number of FTEs saved, there is definitely ROI from those savings. In fact, we are collecting metrics on that now, to know how much value we've had. Over the three years we have had close to $300,000.

Our licensing cost is close to $80,000 US per year and that includes the server, Studio, and both attended and unattended bots. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

We evaluated a few solutions but Kryon was the platform we chose. We evaluated UiPath and Kofax. We found Kryon to be a good platform so we engaged it. It is easy to use, no integrations were required, there are no plugins to download. Our platform includes mainframe and client-server.

At the time we were evaluating, UiPath was not really working out well. If we were to compare now it's a different scenario, but two years back it was a nightmare.

My advice is to follow the right set of instructions and best practices, even before you implement automation. Look at what is available, at how you do it. If you don't follow those instructions, you may find it difficult, but once you know exactly how to use it and what to do, it works. Have training properly done and after that start looking at implementation.

It's really good for end-to-end RPA. The way we work is we do a discovery manually rather than using an automated discovery process. Once we identify a process and we run through a complete lifecycle of it. We then work on the design elements, how to run the exceptions, etc. We make sure that UAT is done, that it is tested well. We then make sure that the business users accept the process, how it's going to work. We then validate the bot, make sure we get a sign-off from them, and then we go to production. We do one week or two weeks off thorough checking on production to make sure there are no exceptions or issues. We then hand it over to the client to run it.

In terms of the ease of use of Kryon for business users with no technical background, that's a key area. What we say to them is, if you're not familiar with Kryon and you want to automate, there is a basic, fundamental, one-day workshop. It will give you at least an idea of how to record, what the options are, what you should look for - the key things to learn about some of the elements of the Kryon platform. Then they're good to go. I see that users are then happily recording things and playing them back. So Kryon provides ease of use where they are not really struggling. If somebody knows Excel, that person can easily run Kryon.

We have business users and we have some developers. It's a small team of five to eight people, including the business users. In terms of deployment and maintenance of Kryon, we currently have a very small number of processes. There is an agenda to grow big. We're looking at more than taking more 30 live so we are bringing in external consultants to help us do that job. We want to keep a lean team right now, because once we go live we will need to do more of the production support and maintenance of the bots. We will only do small-scale development in-house. If it gets to a complex level, we will get a team of consultants to help us. In terms of infrastructure, we have one guy dedicated to that right now.

I would rate Kryon at seven out of ten. There are the migration issues and they need to support web-based apps.

We mainly use it for creating automated processes from previously manual processes, to make existing processes faster, better quality and more efficient. We currently have three processes implemented in production and the fourth is going live next week. It's not heavily used, so far.

The first one is small. It just enters the US dollar currency into our ERP system. It's a daily task each morning. The second one involves an external, third-party systems from which we export a report and import it into one of our systems. It used to be done on a daily basis by an employee and now it's being done automatically. The third one is an automated delivery note. One of our suppliers, provides our tobacco products with paper delivery notes. So now they send us a daily report and the robot enters the delivery notes into the operations system. The fourth one which will go live next week, will upload bank notes of returned payments into our financial system. That was another manual process that will be automated.

The currency automation saves us around five minutes per day, but it has to be done every day. For this one, the amount of time is irrelevant. It's more that there are many processes that rely on the currency. So if it hasn't been done or is done late, it can delay other processes. So the value here is more than how much time it saves us. The second one saves us approximately five to ten minutes per day. The third one, the delivery note process, is more difficult to calculate since we have approximately 200 points of sale. Each one has one to two deliveries per week and it takes five to 10 minutes for each point of sale to create these delivery notes manually. So it saves us 2,000 minutes, about 1.5 times a week. The last one, the one that is going live next week, is more significant. It will save approximately a day per week for an employee.

As for operational efficiency, the automatic delivery notes is most significant. From the 200 managers, the bit of feedback that I have gotten is very positive. From the others, I have to admit that it's more minor.

Of course it has helped to reduce employee errors, especially with the delivery notes, since the correct number is very important. If you enter "11" instead of "one," a type-o, it's very significant because it is an expensive product. Definitely, in terms of user-error, we have improved on that a lot. Before Kryon, there were one to two errors per day, or about 50 per month. We found most of them later on and then someone had to remediate them. It has saved us significant man-hours.

Once I decide a process is suitable as a Kryon solution, the cycle of automation is quite quick. I learn about the existing process and I'm one of the two guys who program the Kryon environment. It's relatively simple. There are many details, but once you understand the concept it is quite easy.

I think our version is two versions behind. I just had a talk about it last week with our account manager at Kryon and we planned together to upgrade the environment once per year. In my opinion, today, if possible, it would be better to have it done automatically, like an application on your smartphone. Or even if done manually, the upgrade should just be "next, next, next," and it's upgraded, rather than making it a project to upgrade. In the digital era, that is one of the expectations, that it would be easier.

Besides that, it's all about functionality: What you can do and what you cannot do. I'm not very familiar with the competitors' solutions, so I'm living in the world or Kryon functionality. Sometimes I'm looking to automate something and it's not there. That doesn't mean that it's not possible.

In terms of additional features, the sky is the limit. For example, we are working with Oracle ERP. It would be great if there were built-in functions or commands to integrate with the Oracle application, and not everything through capturing screens and going from there. Currently, there is only an integration with Office, mainly to Excel. I understand that Excel is much more popular than Oracle in terms of use and in terms of integration. For an organization that works with the Oracle application, I would love to have even a plugin or a tool kit for that - maybe to SAP as well.

There was one day that Kryon had a problem to do with a certificate change or something like that. The whole Kryon environment was down. Aside from that, it's been quite stable and works smoothly on a daily basis. We haven't faced any problems.

We haven't explored the scalability yet. There is room for many more implementations on the one license that we have.

I'm working with the technical support on a few issues. For the issue with the certificate, I sent them a case and they replied immediately saying that it was a global issue and that it would be fixed in the next couple of hours. And it was. Overall, on a scale of one to five, technical support is very close to five. Over the year I have had something like five or six tickets. One of them is ongoing + one bug reported.

As for customer success, we have an account manager. I think she supports all the local market accounts. She initiates meetings once per quarter. She's very approachable and cooperative. She's really great.

For the setup of the whole Kryon environment I was only involved in the framework, just to make sure that our system group prepared the server and installed the SQL server they requested, and to make sure they had all the permissions they needed, but nothing more than that. The consultants did all the rest.

Maintenance requires just my colleague and myself.

We didn't do it independently. We brought in EY (Ernst Young) consultants to do it. It went smoothly as far as I concerned. It was a one- or two-day workshop and it was done. It was really quick.

Thanks to them we have the Kryon environment. They suggested it and we brought them in to implement the first implementation, which is not being used anymore because we replaced the target system. 

They sent two consultants and one intern for the job. 

We haven't calculated ROI yet. I'm quite confident that in the long run it will demonstrate a return on investment. In the first year, at least for us, because there have only been three or four implementations, but nothing more than that, in terms of man-hours the supplier delivery notes is most significant. It's possible it has already given us a return on investment.

We have a yearly license. It's about $5,000 per year. There are no additional costs other than that a server has a license.

Initially, our CIO came up with the idea and brought Ernst Young in to implement it in our organization. In the first meeting we had with EY, they put two RPA systems on the table, Kryon and another which I don't remember. They gave the pros and cons for each solution and together we selected Kryon. One of the factors was that it's an Israeli company, so we thought it would be easier for us in terms of approachability, language and work hours. We believed it would be easier for us to use.

Take the training course. At least the person who is going to program the robots has to have some background in information systems in general and in more specific, operation systems, in programming and in Office, of course. He has to have a technical orientation, database knowledge would help him, as well as system analysis capabilities.

In terms of ease of use for business users, the only users are me and 2 other persons in the information systems department. Currently, we have only unattended implementations and no attended implementations which would require a user in the organization to operate it. As for programming it, it requires up-front training. The e-learning, at least at the time that we started working with Kryon, was not enough. Just the basics were there. When we tried to do some more complicated stuff, we had to understand it better. We took the four days of training. After that we started all of the implementations.

As for helping our workforce embrace digital transformation, I wouldn't relate Kryon to that, at least not yet. We are still not using it for digital processes or a digital environment. But we plan to do that in the upcoming weeks. There is a process to create a new customer, which today is very complicated. The last part is to just type the customer's details into the system. I'm thinking of using Kryon which would complete a fully digital process.

In terms of my rating of nine out of ten, there are many things that I'm not sure of. For example, it takes a while to launch the Studio, something like a couple of minutes. It could be that my laptop is not strong enough. It might be that our virtual server doesn't have all the necessary memory or CPU capabilities. It might be many things, so I don't want to say that it's only due to performance issues with Kryon.

We found a bug in a database trigger with Oracle Database. I know that it works mostly with the SQL server, but we are using Oracle, so that's another issue that came to mind. The fact is that we found this bug something like six months ago and it's still not in the new version. As far as it was communicated to me, it will be part of the next version. If that bug was critical for us, maybe I wouldn't have rated it a nine; maybe it would be a six or seven or eight. But, luckily for them, it's not highly critical for us. I don't know how they prioritize bug-fixing. I suppose that there are not too many Oracle Database organizations among their customers, at least not in our market. Therefore, maybe they prioritize this somewhere at the bottom. But for us it's a bug and we cannot use this functionality, which is required. That's why I took off one out of ten. Besides that, it works, it's stable, it has nice performance, and was, therefore, a good decision to go with it.

The primary use case is process automation. We are a financial institution, a bank. We use it to automate routine processes which don't require any cognitive participation.

One way the solution has improved the way our organization functions is that we have used RPA to align addresses between systems. We have a few central systems which hold the customer addresses. Sometimes the addresses are different in different systems. We find it very convenient to align the addresses by extracting the address from one system and using Kryon RPA to simulate the process of updating the address in the other system. It simulates the work of a clerk who used to regularly do so. We automated it and now the systems are aligned. The alternative was to develop interfaces, in the backend, between the systems, but that would have been very expensive.

RPA is part of the digital transformation. What we are doing is actually advancing the digital automation, and Kryon is a major part of it. When we automate processes, that's part of the digital transformation, making the organization more digital and more automated. The experience of our customers is very influenced by it. For example, we had a process for when a customer needed to deposit money when paying back a loan. If he didn't do it, he was late in his payments, we moved the process to the collection unit. Now, the collection unit uses RPA. The process is more efficient and the customer experience is better.

Because the processes we have automated mostly involve routine work, the solution hasn't saved business analysts' time, since they don't do routine work. But it has resulted in operational efficiencies. For the processes that we have automated, the efficiency has increased by 100 percent. We take processes that require human resources and we make them fully automatic.

We use Kryon Studio to develop new wizards and we use the features to capture elements from the screen and automate processes. We use the product thoroughly. The screen capture allows us to interface with systems which don't have an API, or where the API is very expensive, and it allows us to do on-screen integration.

The automation process is very user-friendly and the usability is very good. Developers are very satisfied with the system.

We have found some difficulties regarding the integration with legacy systems where the screen has elements in the Hebrew language. The connection to Hebrew, right-to-left systems, is more challenging.

We are discussing development of the product with Kryon.

We have been using it for 2.5 years.

We have tens processes in production. As of now, we haven't had any stability issues. It's working great.

As for increasing our usage, we develop two processes per month per developer. That is currently on schedule. We've developed tens processes but we have created interfaces to different platforms in the backend. Now, with the interfaces developed, we expect the next automation to be developed faster. The goal of two processes per month per developer is realistic.

I would rate Kryon's technical support very highly. They are very professional and the service quality is good. They try to solve the issues promptly. We are very satisfied. And that evaluation is relevant regarding their customer service. Their Customer Success provides the technical service.

We did not have a previous solution.

The initial setup was a little bit complex because Kryon needed to obey bank regulations. We have very high security requirements. They were very devoted to solving the issues and it was great.

The deployment took a total of about three weeks. 

Our implementation strategy was done in a spiral way. We started with a single process. It took us two months to install the system, get the knowledge we needed about it, and to analyze and develop the first process. This onboarding process was accompanied by Kryon Customer Success. In the beginning, we had a kickoff meeting and we decided on a day, two months down the road, on which we would have the first process in production. We worked together to make it happen. And we succeeded in achieving this goal. Then we started to analyze two or three processes in parallel, and we continue to develop and analyze the next processes.

We were accompanied by Kryon's Professional Services and we are very satisfied with them. They helped us, first, in teaching our personnel how to work with Kryon, and then they installed the system on our premises. They were very helpful in solving problems. We have a very good relationship with them.

There are other advantages from automating processes, other than saving money. We consider the cost efficiency and other advantages, such as the quality of the process being highly improved. It's very hard to estimate the cost of errors that are eliminated. But we expect that automating processes does eliminate errors.

We have a yearly subscription.

We checked several alternatives but decided to go with Kryon due to their product capabilities and the local support.

We haven't used the Process Discovery from Kryon yet. We started with processes that we analyzed and found to be suitable for automation. We find that the product, the Kryon Studio, to be very good at doing task automation. We are now scaling out and going to new processes.

The decision we made to develop the processes by ourselves with our team was a very good decision. The onboarding process along with Kryon's Customer Success - if you work together with them and consider them as partners - will work very well.

Regarding the solution's ease-of-use for business users, we use unattended automation so business users are not part of the process. For us, businesses users do not interface with the system.

In terms of finding and prioritizing processes that are ripe for automation, Kryon offered its service in analyzing processes and finding the right candidates for automation. But we were working with a consultant from Strauss Strategy. We are working with them in finding the processes.

We have a center of excellence team which contains two developers and there is a team leader who is responsible RPA. So we have three persons working with Kryon.

I primarily use this solution to substitute processes where humans perform checks that do not need human judgment. These include onboarding, offboarding, and changing a contract. 

Kryon will allow you to automate processes fast and easy and you do not need to be a developer to automate processes. The advanced command will let you integrate with other systems quite easy.

Apart from the usual advantages (recording etc), I think the process that is presented as  'Powerpoint' slides makes it really easy to close the gap between the subject matter expert and the person configuring the robot.

It could be more reliable in spying HTML. I did expect this to be better in the 19.4 version.

I have been using Kryon RPA for almost one year.

We're automating a lot of shared services tasks within our homegrown system: payroll, billing, and things like that.

As a company that places temporary employees, we have talent globally. In the UK there are GDPR requirements. Before Kryon, when one of our field employees reached out to us saying that we needed to remove their records, that was all done manually. Now, that’s something done by the robot, giving people time back and reducing possible entry mistakes. It’s the same thing with fee entries within our system. That is something that might take somebody ten hours, whereas a robot will be able to take that off somebody’s hands and ideally reduce the time to complete.

In terms of embracing the digital transformation, there is the question of whether people are going to be accepting of tasks being taken away from them and what they're going to do with that time. But a lot of people have really embraced it, especially people who were taking ten hours to put fees into our system and who will be able to use that time for more productive and less mindless tasks.

The advanced Excel functionalities are really convenient because we work a lot with spreadsheets. It’s also easy to use the HTML selectors on most major sites. It’s just a click and it picks it up. There’s not a lot of no hard-coding with it.

While I have some technical background, everything is self-taught. I'm not necessarily a developer myself, but picking up the tool, with the training they provided, has been pretty easy. I’m currently the only person using the tool in our company.

We use Google Drive a lot. If somebody sends us a spreadsheet or a document, it's going to be in Google’s format. It's not going to be in Microsoft Office format. But currently, there's no integration with Google’s documents. That would be a huge plus to have.

The same goes for, using Chrome natively. There's an extension but it doesn't necessarily always work. We have to close Chrome and reopen it to get it to pick things up sometimes, depending on the page and the IFrames and things like that.

I’m not sure yet what I think about the stability of Kryon because we haven't been able to get things constantly running and working. We initially had the server issue. And then, there have been issues with Chrome crashing and the extension.

Right now our usage of Kryon is limited to our shared services team. We're taking care of those processes first. But we have plans to automate as many processes as we can get on our plate and get through.

We have room to grow. We just have to figure out where we need to go from where we're at now. Right now it's a waiting game to get things fixed and running.

Customer service gets a rating of 100 percent. They’re fantastic. They're always really quick to respond. If we have a problem or if we put in a ticket that is more high-priority, our rep will jump on it and get things escalated. They’re happy to work through issues and take as much time as needed to resolve everything.

The Kryon team has definitely helped prioritize processes that are ripe for automation. It's an ongoing process, but they give us a good understanding of what to expect and how to figure those processes out; what can and can't be automated. It was mostly through the training. Going through that with them gave us a better understanding of what sorts of processes make sense.

We didn’t have a previous solution. We went with Kryon because of

• the ease of use
• the user interface seemed a lot better, more usable
• some advanced features that others didn't have
• the price - can't beat the price.

We had somebody within our department doing the initial setup, although I was on the calls. It was a little bit complex, because there were some issues we ran into with Server 2016. When we tried to run an unattended bot on there it wasn't working so we had to switch operating systems. We've had to go back and forth to get things truly set up and ready to go. We're still working on the deployment, but that's not necessarily because of Kryon issues. It took some time to figure out the issue with the server, going back and forth with screen-sharing, etc.

And it seems that the size of the virtual machine that they provided with us might not be enough. We're trying to figure that out. Chrome keeps crashing on us. Once that is resolved, we have three or four processes that are pretty much ready to go. I just have to get through the actual testing of the running the unattended bots on the virtual machines.

In terms of an implementation strategy, we are working with our shared services teams to identify the processes. We have a daily “stand-up” and a weekly planning session to figure out and prioritize our processes. Then it's just a matter of building and testing and getting them out.

I expect that Kryon will save us money. It's too early to tell, but I would say that once it starts running there are going to be cost savings.

There are different pricing levels for every bot or unattended bot. You can buy however many you want. You'll need an additional virtual machine for it to work on. You can get multiple attended bots if you have users who have Windows machines. You can run those locally on their machines.

Automation Anywhere was one of the solutions we looked at. There were others but it’s been a while since we went through all of them.

Make sure that you have your processes in a good place and that you have them written out. Make sure that you have your stakeholders onboard. And make sure that your bot works on the right server.

We don't use the process-discovery functionality of the tool. We're identifying our own processes by polling various stakeholders to see which processes make sense to automate. But it seems like it's pretty easy. We've hit a couple of snags with our virtual machines and the OS they are running and with the Chrome Extension. We're doing everything with unattended bots since we're primarily a Mac-based company. We're not able to run them on people's local machines other than the machine I use to create the Wizards.

In terms of operational efficiency, it might be a little too early to tell because we're stuck right now. But in the big picture, not only are we identifying processes, but we're also figuring out how to improve the processes, whether somebody is currently still manually doing them or a bot is doing the improved process.

Our company buys products from vendors and sells services to end-users. Most of the RPA processes done in Kryon are related to order raising, as well as retrieving reports. We have automated processes involve SAP, Pegasus, ITSM tool, Words, and Excel.

It takes a lot of work and time to complete the business processes manually. When the users utilize the Kryon solution, it cuts off more than 50 percent of the processing time as the logic has been pre-built. There are less orders being delayed. Adopting Kryon solution has significantly improved the turnaround time.

The image recognition in recording actions is very helpful. It runs stably as long as the graphics on the applications are not changed.

The environment of storing the variables could be defined as local, which will only be accessible within the wizard itself and cannot be read by the embedding wizard.

It will be good if Kryon has a function to find/replace the keywords and collapse/expand the groups.

We did encounter some issues regarding to trigger often but our support team is able to resolved it later. Other than that, it is quite stable.

It is very scalable. All we need to do is to set up the robot accounts and assign the access to it. Once it is done, we have to configure the trigger for the robot. Scaling up and down can be done in just a few steps.

The customer support is outstanding. They are very responsive and will accommodate with our schedules.

No, we started with Kryon.

Setup for Studio and Robot is pretty straightforward. We have to install the Studio and Robot on the machines, create accounts for the users and assign access rights. Then login Studio to develop wizards and Robot to run the wizards.

The initial setup of server was done together with vendor. Subsequently, vendor team came down to help us with the upgrade. They are very helpful and knowledgeable.

I am not too sure how much cost was saved. But there are a few people in the department were redeployed when one of our processes is up and running fine.

I am not involved in any of those.

We are using UiPath in conjunction with Kryon. I feel that Kryon has a better image recognition than UiPath.

I have tried a few solutions and Kryon is the most user-friendly.

The solution is easy to use. Although I felt the solution is a little restricted sometimes as I could not call any external libraries, I am able to use the advance commands, which are the built-in functions in Kryon, to program the RPA solution by changing my initial idea. It makes me think out of the box and test how good my logical thinking is.

We manage customer accounts: their orders, modifications, account cancellations, and back office stuff. For example, our clients are network marketing teams. Therefore, they will have accounts for multi-level marketing (MLM). They want their orders and accounts modified. For some of them, we want to change their subscriptions or cancel their accounts. These are all submitted as requests through online forms. Then, we will take them and do the modifications. We do this process automatically through Kryon.

All our bots are actually licensed for unintended, but we are not able to use them. So, we have currently 15 bots and all of them are attended only.

It has been helpful in reducing the manpower and error rate since we are able to run tasks 24/7 without interruptions. As humans definitely take breaks and there may be absenteeism that is unexpected, the solution provides continuous work. Humans tend to make errors once in a while, but the solution has almost zero percent errors.

We are able to cope with our clients's demands. No matter how much volume they throw at us, we are able to get it done quickly. That is where we see the biggest returns.

If a client gives us a new task, and it is a recurring volume, procedure, or SOP, then we are able to automate it within approximately a week. Then, they will be up and running with that automation. 

If it's a very simple task, we can automate it within about a week. If it's complex, then it will maybe be a couple of weeks to three weeks at most. We mostly differentiate simple and complex tasks by the number of steps involved. Sometimes, we need to cross check multiple accounts for a single request. We need to ensure all the information comes back correctly and that the logical calculations are done correctly. The more number of steps, the more complicated task that we will consider it to be.

We do code level modifications, which are already prewritten, and everything is with us. We don't use any of the advanced features of Kryon.

The simplicity of it: Kryon was very easy to learn and implement. The learning curve was very small. It didn't take a lot of time to set up or go live.

It is easy for business users to utilize. Mostly, it is a visual based tool. You don't need any expert coding knowledge. Even if you don't know anything about coding, a couple of weeks training should do the trick, as long as you are able to identify the logic behind whatever task you're going to automate.

While it does help reduce manpower, we still do require manpower because there are some processes and steps that we cannot do with automation. It may be too sensitive to be done by automated processes. In those cases, we still need manpower.

It does help to identify which tasks can be automated based on Kryon functionality, until you have close to 50 multiple tasks from one client. As soon as we automate any one of our top volume drivers, we try to understand how we can automate the next one orthe next highest volume driver. We have tried to use Kryon's functionality to the max, but still there are some limitations that don't allow us to automate all the tasks. E.g., anything that involves free form text is a major drawback. We use forms which get their data from our customers along with their account details. So, their form details are always the same. They don't change the fields, only the values are different. If it were an email, every customer would use their own words to describe the problem. It's difficult to write simple logic that is common for all types of words. I think free form text requires artificial intelligence. However, the lack of AI is not a big issues.

Another major drawback is OCR. We are not able to read scanned documents correctly in a reliable way. There is always some margin of error. Some of the processes require us to read scanned documents, and you need to ensure that it is 100 percent accurate. Without that level of assurance, you can't automate such tasks.

Our client uses Citrix NetScaler Unified Gateway. It is a virtual machine. All the tools that we use run from the client's location and through a virtual machine called Citrix. It is projecting the remote screen onto our screen. Kryon is not able to identify individual applications behind Citrix. All it makes is a screen by taking the image. So, Kryon's functionality is limited to screen reading. Because of this, we are not able to take advantage of the Windows functionality or web server functionality. like browsers. They are not able to identify whether it's a browser, etc. It can just read from the screen. Being able to identify applications inside Citrix would be a huge advantage for our processes.

Their logging features are minimal. 

Reporting-wise, there are some reporting options, but I don't think they are very practical from the point of developers.

We haven't had any instability. It is very stable.

So far, the upgrade process has been smooth, but it does take a few hours. The upgrade process could be better. Right now, it takes a few hours for them to set it up. We must wait to have a shared meeting. They have to wait for us, and we have to wait for their availability. It would be better if we don't have to wait for them, and similarly, they don't have to wait for our availability.

Everything is managed by our console and the Kryon admin. All we had to do is get a license, add the system name, and the bot is simultaneously up and running. So, stability is very simple.

We have two types of roles: developer and tester. Developer does the coding work and shows new tasks are deployed. Once they are deployed, the tester's work would be to ensure the tasks are running correctly. We have a license for an unattended bot. However, because of the Citrix issue, we still need to have at least one person on the floor to monitor the bots in case anything gets stuck, the tool is not responding correctly, or ground does not direct the total Windows, etc. 

We have seven people covering all the shifts 24/7. Apart from developers, we have four testers. One developer is enough for development and maintenance, but we still have three to ensure that all of our shifts are covered. Thus, we can work on multiple task at the same time.

The customer service is pretty good. The only problem is availability. Because of our high transaction volume, we have to give a scheduled time to them. Similarly, their experts also need to schedule among other customers. So, there is no dedicated support, but I know they are available and very helpful. It just takes a bit of time to contact them with both of us trying together. On average, it takes three or four days to schedule something with the customer services. 

If it is an emergency that makes our bots go down, they will make special arrangements with us. They make sure that they are available immediately. We haven't had downtime for more than 24 hours, so far. The customer service is great in supporting us.

This is our first RPA solution. We did try automation with Visual Studio, like encoding, but it was a failure. We thought RPA would be a better solution: easier to implement and error free. It made sense at the time, and it's still helping us out.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

The deployment took a couple of days: One day to set it up and one day to review.

We just have one environment with multiple bots. We straight away went into production. We didn't have a testing environment or equivalent.

There were Kryon people who took care of everything. They just had to arrange the requirements. Once that was done, they were able to take up a remote connection and set up everything. They were helpful, ensuring everything was properly working and up and running.

At the beginning, we had fewer bots. So, we just went straight into it without a plan. We asked the Kryon team to set up a server, and they did. From there, they licensed us the bots. Once that was done, we started coding and straight away implemented them. Anytime that we have required an upgrade, we will just add additional bots.

If they need to upgrade the version, they will let us know that a version is available. We give them a suitable time and they will schedule a meeting to upgrade it remotely.

Error rate and manpower has been reduced. The error rate has been reduced almost to zero. Though, sometimes, some of the tasks are done better with humans than Kryon.

We are not exactly saving money at this stage, because we have invested a lot in Kryon. Our transaction volume and cost that we are receiving has not yet equated in a profitable way. We are moving to a more profitable way going forward, but it will take a bit more time. In maybe another year or so, we will see some improvement and ensure that this solution is profitable.

It saves our business analysts a couple hours per day.

Our workforce management (WFM) team is managing the licensing costs.

Kryon was our choice. Our project manager brought in Kryon team for a demo. Once we saw the features, we did a test with their training specialist, then we were convinced that we could utilize this for our requirements. We didn't look at any other options at that time.

It is a good solution if you're not using any virtual machines, like Citrix. 

It would be better if you get a demo or automate a simple task using Kryon. Get them to show you a proof of concept so you can understand what other challenges that you will have rather than blindly implementing it. Definitely, get a demo to see how efficient it is. Seeing it in action helps a lot.

We are not completely moving to a digital transformation. Even our management doesn't agree with 100 percent digitized solutions. They still want some level of human involvement, as well as for auditing.

The humans in our company have been concern about the robots taking over their roles. The robots take up most of the redundant tasks and focus on those. This ensures that our agents do the more complex ones or the low volume drivers. The agents do all the ones that require more logical reasoning, installation processes, or secure processes. We train our agents on these tasks and reassign their skill sets. We give them more training, giving them more complicated tasks. We aren't trying to lose our agents, even though manpower reduction is there. We just trying to retain them, but for different types of tasks, ones that require more human involvement and thinking.

We don't use Kryon Process Discovery or any of their web related services.

Automation takes up most of the walling that we get from our clients. Ground is being used extensively. However, the limitations are caused by Citrix, which is making us rethink our strategy sometimes as to whether we will be able to increase with the product. We want it to be faster and more reliable. We want to ensure that with any errors which occur, it is able to identify those errors, and it's able to rectify them or at least log of them. We want to take a look at them or notify people. Currently, only because of the Citrix issue, we are constrained. We might need to take a look at another software that supports Citrix more efficiently. Currently, there's no plan to increase usage, but it is part of our major usage as of now.