UiPath Platform Reviews

Be it any mundane tasks like invoice processing, document management, document extraction, and migration, order processing, KYC filling, application integration, Citrix automaton, or any such rule-based tasks can be automated with RPA technology. 

Among all RPA solution providers, UiPath is the best choice and market disrupter, from our hands-on experience with the top three RPA vendors while shortlisting UiPath as our RPA vendor. With its intuitive visual coding drag and drop and Microsoft SharePoint workflow foundation technology and open platform capability, code development and debugging are a cakewalk for anyone with minimal or even no coding background.

The software is very effective, and ROI on businesses is very high even from a short period of time. In our company itself, UiPath automation helped different teams to automate their tasks by being within the compliances of end clients with its non-intrusive front office and back office automation. Thus it frees up employees for more productive and creative tasks.  

• UiPath has a Community Edition for learning and trialing out, available free of cost. 
• UiPath also has several dedicated online academies with video tutorials and various courses, which can make you a hero from zero in RPA, again free of cost. 
• UiPath community forum has a lot of active members and helps developers to resolve any query/tips to handle challenges related to development, deployment, and production. 
• The UiPath support desk replies and resolves all of our tickets/issues within a business day and even helped us by coming to our office, for tasks like license renewal, migration of bots, etc.  
• UiPath also has a dedicated marketplace serving as an open platform for sharing different packages by developers around the globe. This helps the developer community with reusability and scalability of features by sharing their own individual packages.

Image resolution affects Citrix automation. Means, the resolution of BOT system and development system should be same in order to successfully run Citrix automations. This drawback is getting resolved in Computer Vision backed selector automation feature for Citrix in 2019 version of UiPath. Also, unknown runtime errors mainly due to application integration issues can cause issues, although it's a very rare scenario. This issue can be resolved to a great extend by using RE Framework in your development, which is also integrated in UiPath in the latest version.

We tried Automation Anywhere also, but shortlisted UiPath based on it's ease of use and the customer support.

Although cost is little high ROI is also too good. Thus my recommendation is go for UiPath!

Yes, Automation Anywhere

UiPath is bringing up a lot of new features and which the competitors have never thought off, maybe releasing in the 2019 last quarter.

This solution is used widely in different areas: from accounting to product order processes. 
I solve different business problems, like processing orders, collecting information, etc. There are many benefits: It's easy to use, exception handling is easy to handle, and flowcharts can be implemented directly.

UiPath has improved our organization by its ease of use, practical solutions to complex problems, and flexible working environment.

I found flowcharts most useful in UiPath. It is the best feature in UiPath, and you can easily create even complicated workflows with just a couple of clicks and dropping built-in activities without coding. You can also implement a state machine; which is also a great feature. Passing through states makes it much easier to design the main part of your process.

What I really don't like is some bugs in UiPath appearing from nowhere. In the new version, I see most of them, like when you are trying to change your variable name, it gives a very long error, etc. But still, there is one area not fixed: importing Outlook templates. 

I had an issue with implementing ".oft" files reading with "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook" library. It was a real disaster; I couldn't define anything. I spent quite a lot of time implementing it, and I reached the conclusion that it is very close to impossible to use. They should direct activity for outlook messages and "oft" files. Except for that, UiPath is a great tool for automation. Also, debugging is not very convenient. It is hard to debug with UiPath if you are running a very big process.

• Using it on internal processes.
• Using it for the development of new processes, from an academic point of view.

It helped my students to understand what an RPA is.

Drag-and-drop, and no coding for process setup.

Cognitive services.

I have been working as a UiPath RPA developer for two years and three months. Using UiPath, I have provided more than 20 solutions over six different projects. UiPath was one of the leading RPA tools and it will be easier to develop when compared to other RPA tools.

UiPath has done a huge impact for our customers by replacing the linear jobs with robots. Tasks done by robots were fast and highly efficient.

Invoking VB.NET/C# code is one of the major features over other RPA tools. And recently, UiPath has implemented Citrix native automation for virtual machine automation which is an exceptionally great feature.

So far, UiPath has been good in every area. I would like to get more features in ML-related activities. ML will be the future for processing free text. Like for example , while processing free text from the customer comments, using uipath we cant extract the required data from the free text. Incase if you got ML related activities then it will be easier to provide the solution using UiPath

I'm working in a consulting company as an RPA developer. We have some projects with clients connected with automations. That is my primary case of using this solution daily. 

We help our clients to improve their businesses, reduce costs, for example, hiring new people to automate repetitive work, to be able to run a process when the need arises 24/7. 

The most valuable features for me in UiPath is the ability to use more than one programming language. We can, of course, drag and drop activities, but it's also possible to run our own code/macro. The second thing which I like the most is the recording ability, all steps which we want to automate can be recorded and directly transferred as a sequence into UiPath.

• I think it would be good to add more activities regarding operations on data tables. 
• The product definitely should be improved in the case of throwing more accurate description of exceptions.

Good in my opinion, we have a lot of possibilities, so it's up to us what we decided to use. We can use state machine which works perfectly or in some small processes choose sequence.

Very good, a very well-developed UiPath forum having a lot of helpful guys. The maximum waiting time for a response is around two days.

I use both tools for automation: Blue Prism and UiPath. The current project runs in UiPath.

I have no idea about pricing, cost, and license.

My advice for future UiPath users is to get familiarized with all documents and online courses provided by UiPath because it's very valuable knowledge.

We are automating all transaction-based processes, primarily in the finance department and sales operations. With this, the personnel involved in these transaction-based activities have been able to start working on more value-added tasks like data analysis and performance management of the operation.

UiPath automation has enabled different organizations with the possibility to redeploy personnel involved in transaction-based activities to do more value-added tasks like data analysis and performance management of the operation.

This automation has not only reduced processing time but also eliminated human errors, driving an improvement in quality scores and CTQs.

Development is straightforward and simple; it uses object-oriented coding by doing drag and drop. The deployment process is quick and easy with great features for testing and troubleshooting.

Reusable components library is an excellent source of information and content to ease and speed up the development process. This feature, combined with a robust infrastructure creates an excellent foundation for driving automation to the next level.

Engagement during the proof of concept period could have been better in regards to the implementation and follow-up. Also, after completing the PoC, we should have done a review of the critical learning and aspects of the application to determine the next steps based on the objectives of the company.

• To execute the automation of ticket creation in ServiceNow 
• For the critical situation: creating an incident 
• For the request: creating a request in ServiceNow.

• Return on investment is high.
• Reduces the time for accomplishing repetitive tasks.
• Allows developers to learn new technology and help in implementing the same.

• UiPath free tool availability and free certification for the developer
• Web service activity is helpful in implementing web-based automation.

• It should add the feature of intelligent automation.
• Also, to interpret human decisions using Amazon Alexa as well as machine learning.

Training with automation use cases including files manipulation, web automation and various desktop applications in the supply chain, HR activities, tax, and financial activities.

UiPath created many opportunities for our company to provide automation solutions for customers due to its powerful set of activities and features.

The Orchestrator and many activities such as those related to web automation and information identification within images (OCR), as well as the possibility of integrating external scripts and libraries within the software.

• Adding a "goto" feature
• Adding "run from this activity"
• Logging events/warnings to log files in order to follow the execution
• Simplify Orchestrator.