UiPath Platform Reviews

Creating proof of concepts for Oracle product integrations and form filling for clients. We are also in the works of using it to automate expenses in-house.

UiPath has helped us link legacy Oracle systems that have little connectivity through other integration methods. We are on our way to being able to link UiPath with machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate expenses.

The ease of use and how easy it is to pick up due to the low code functionality. The Orchestrator is also invaluable.

Making variables easier to find, perhaps integrating a "recommended variable" section for functions, and to filter variables better.

• Automation of a range of processes (35 at the time of writing).
• Utilizing UiPath in a banking environment. 

Processes include areas such as payments, financial crimes, HR, and customer service (middle office).

• Currently, 10 FTE of work has been moved to robots (nearly 10% of operations).
• The staff has been retrained from operations into RPA development roles.
• Improved consistency and cost-effectiveness of those processes.

Combination of the free academy and the graphical IDE with a large number of built-in activities. This creates a low bar to entry, allowing technically minded business users to get involved with the initiative.

UiPath is experiencing some growing pains in their support at the moment (some of this is due to the rapid progress of the tool, I suspect). From our timezone (GMT+10), support expertise has always been a bit of an inconvenience, with the best staff only coming online after our work hours.

To automate the manual tasks at my workplace. Using this tool, we can quickly develop automations.  

At my workplace, I developed three automations which saved a lot of efforts and avoided manual interventions. We saved thousands of manual efforts.

• Screen scraping
• Data scraping
• Web recording, etc. 

The features of this tool are really awesome to use and very helpful to automate tasks.

There are no cons I found in this tool. A free license would help everyone to learn about this tool.

We implement some robots in order to automate a lot of activities that require repetitive actions like manipulation of Excel files.

We deploy robots that help us to schedule activities during the day and to get only the output. In this way, we optimize our time.

The best feature is the ability to schedule the processes and automatize their execution.

• The product could be improved in managing clients from Orchestrator.
• I'd like to find in the next solution the managing of Studio license from the Orchestrator server.

The system is very good. The support works in a perfect way.

It's very easy to increment performance.

Customer service is the best. They work a lot and fix our issues always.

We did not previously use a different solution.

Initial setup is very easy.

We configure it ourselves. In some cases, we opened some tickets with support.

Setup, cost and licensing are good.

We also looked at WinAutomation.

This solution works very well.

It is extremely helpful with our invoicing process. 

The key benefits are the reduction of the non-litigated tasks for our clients. It reduces time and staff needed to deal with these tasks. 

The automation process is helpful. 

I would like UIPath to improve the OCR visuals. Also, I wonder if one day the automation tools will be able to make simple decisions by themselves. 

It scales up easily. 

The initial setup was not complex. 

The pricing is reasonable.

We mostly use UiPath for downloading reports into Excel files, reconcile reports and generate a result which is sent to the users. It is a faster means for automation. 

We like the ability to capture some of the features on a screen for the application. We also really like the UI, and the design is pretty good. 

I think the only issue we have faced is with the upgrade compatibility. 

We are considering other options that are more stable. 

We only have five really small programs right now. So, scalability is not an issue for us. 

We have not had a need for UiPath tech support. 

Other departments in our organization were using Blue Prism. I do not know why they chose that versus UiPath. It is possible that they were looking for a higher level of security and stability. 

The pricing is very good. The license does not have to be in a bundle, like in other competitor products. You only have to purchase at least 10 from the beginning, for one year.

I was giving software training in a company. And in this company, there was a time-wasting chore. At the end of the training, we took note of the students who did not come in the polls, and we were recording the polls on the institution's website. Unit supervisors wanted to be notified of the students who were absent three times in a row. This process is constantly checked and repeated because of the automation that I've done with this chore.

UiPath increased the value added by the company. The reason for this was that the repetitive processes were carried out automatically with UiPath robots. Especially in the field of software, the same processes can be repeated severally. These situations prevented employees from developing as they lost time and prevented them from adding more value. Apart from this, a newly developed platform has prevented some experts from using these programs today.

The most important feature of UiPath is that it is independent of programming languages and can be written with a basic algorithm. Moreover, the new library can be added, and new activities can be added to those who know new programming. This allows the program to be developed and supported.

UiPath comes with an infrastructure suitable for development. It may be a disadvantage that the simple coding sections in the studio environment are with Visual Basic. Nowadays one of the most widely used languages can be supported with C#. Furthermore, it is possible for robots to interpret the information obtained from repetitive operations by machine learning. This is a situation I believe should be directed to the field of artificial intelligence.

Organizational internal processes automation — especially in areas of operation and admin (back-office).

I believe that UiPath opened topics of RPA and AI/ML in our company (which consequently led to a shift and much stronger orientation of our company — globally — towards technologies and technological areas like software development, the blockchain, IoT, etc.). I believe that this role ("enabler" role) was crucial and also helped tremendously in raising overall 'digital'/'ICT' and 'programming/integration concepts' awareness company-wide. You might agree that the impact of this scale might be much higher and more important than any time and costs saved by actual automation.

UiPath Studio as a whole (the very 'core' component of the entire platform) allows you to concatenate all the different pieces/actions/sources you need — and doesn't matter which one that is (API, web, database, legacy system, OS application, email, or anything else like Excel, data transformation or even OCR).

Also, I'd like to highlight Academy (and e-learns) — it's very good and provides you with everything necessary you need to know.

2018.3 and 2018.4 releases made a huge leap in terms of functionality — we're not missing anything currently.

Good.

Very good (up to 10k robots — definitely OK).

Very good.

No.

The entire Orchestrator setup is a bit tricky (a lot of different components — Kibana, Elasticsearch, URL Rewrite, PowerShell scripts), but we had guidance and description on the web which is also very good.

In-house.

One year.

Strategic partnership might bring you a significant discount (it also depends on the size of your company and future potential of the vendor — your business cases).

Yes (Kofax, Blue Prism).