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RPA Developer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Preset activities allow integration of code to make it more powerful and dynamic
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution includes preset activities but allows integration of code and expressions that make it more powerful and dynamic."
  • "The upgrade process could be improved so that it does not require download and reinstall."

What is our primary use case?

Our company uses the solution to process state reporting uploads for clients. 

For one use case, we automated the process of dragging forms, filling in fields, capturing confirmations, logging information, and moving files for upload. 

For another use case, we automated the process of manipulating data, setting filters, and generating reports in Excel. 

We are now moving to another department that uploads yearly tax reporting files to websites. 

We do not yet use AI but have many possible use cases for reading invoices and PDFs so we will try these processes first. 

How has it helped my organization?

We have saved a lot of time on uploads. For example, our state reporting uploads now take only two to four minutes and that saved us 7,500 hours for January alone. We anticipate similar time savings for the automations we are currently doing in another department. 

As we continue to automate our uploads, we will not need as many seasonal workers so that is a big cost savings. 

What is most valuable?

The solution includes preset activities but allows integration of code and expressions that make it more powerful and dynamic. In nine month's time I have barely scratched the surface, but it feels like it integrates to so many things that finding new use cases is easy. 

The automations allow us to better catch errors because data is always transcribed correctly.

What needs improvement?

The upgrade process could be improved so that it does not require download and reinstall. It would be nice to have an upgrade option that talks directly to the orchestrator. 

Some documentation can be improved. For example, documentation for integrations and activities tells you what it does but does not tell you how to fill in variables or fields. I had issues finding some things I needed for new activities or integrations. 

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for nine months. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is pretty stable. You may have version issues because there are a lot of updates, but that is not a stability issue. It is always important to make sure you have the latest updates. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is definitely scalable but it takes time to learn how to best scale. There are many routes you can take which depend on different things. 

How are customer service and support?

The Community is super helpful because they share information that is of great benefit. Forums have been useful when I have needed help. 

I gained my experience through the Academy's courses. I was in a different role at my company but they needed another UiPath developer. For three months, I did a rotation with the RPA foundations course. After that, I was able to start working in the full time developer role. The Academy was very helpful and allowed me to jump in with no UiPath experience. 

Technical support is very helpful. I only contacted them once for an issue with the Salesforce API package that would not run with attended users. They responded in a timely fashion and helped me quickly resolve the issue. I rate support a ten out of ten. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Our company previously did not use an RPA tool but rather used command line scripts and tools with Python. 

One of our developers had been writing scripts and came across the solution. He showed our company how much time it saves while improving accuracy. 

How was the initial setup?

The setup is pretty straightforward. 

It is amazing how easy it is to automate some things. Once you learn the interface, everything is straightforward. 

What about the implementation team?

I assisted our department in implementing the solution in-house. I helped build and run things for our big rollout in January of 2022. 

Since then, I have automated fourteen processes with attended bots. 

What was our ROI?

There is a big learning curve to ensure you get everything invested in the solution to realize ROI. 

For example, my department only had two developer licenses but still managed to save 1,300 hours in the first year. Another department was scaling a much bigger deployment, so it took longer for them to hit returns.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is affordable enough to get a good return on your investment. We get ROI over the cost of licenses. 

We started out on-premises because we did not have attended licenses. Now, we are moving to attended for bots and trying to publish more things to the cloud so others can run them. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I looked at Blue Prism but have not spent time using it. 

What other advice do I have?

Start with a couple of solid use cases that would realize time and ROI benefits so you can see how the solution works. 

Do not go too wide or too fast with deployments. Focus on a few things first until you are clear how you want to expand. It is important to decide whether you want more citizen or RPA developers and whether your bots will be attended. Just take it slowly unless you are working with someone who has high-level knowledge. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Sr RPA Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Process automation platform that has significant ROI and has allowed our team to focus on more valuable tasks
Pros and Cons
  • "The Orchestrator really stands out as the most valuable feature. We don't have to train anyone. They can usually pick it up really quickly. It is easy to use and intuitive."
  • "I would really like to see the package deployment updated. As it is right now, if you want to update something, you have to take down the latest code, sync the packages and re-upload everything back through dev test to prod."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for finance, HR, and for handling invoice reconciliation. We also make use of donation approvals.

I find that UiPath's user community was more helpful a few years ago. When I go to use the UiPath forum, a lot of the answers are copied and pasted from old answers and they don't make a lot of sense. That being said, I do still occasionally get some value from it. 

We also make use of the academy courses. We have put all contractors through the basic courses to make sure that they've got a basic level of competence. The academy courses are useful to test that people know what they should. The architecture courses have been most beneficial to us.  

How has it helped my organization?

We are saving approximately three and a half million annually based on the number of hours saved multiplied by a salary base rate. That ends up being approximately 60,000 hours a year that's being replaced by bots and this is a big deal for us.

What is most valuable?

The Orchestrator really stands out as the most valuable feature. We don't have to train anyone. They can usually pick it up really quickly. It is easy to use and intuitive.

A lot of the packages are very easy to work with. There are some challenges when updating a package that you've built or a library that you've built in UiPath. Overall, the extensibility is really nice. 

What needs improvement?

I would really like to see the package deployment updated. As it is right now, if you want to update something, you have to take down the latest code, sync the packages and re-upload everything back through the dev test to prod. It's a big hassle when we've tested the library ourselves. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for seven years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution is very stable. Any complaints I have come back down to package management and custom issues with custom libraries. Outside of that, upgrades are really quick and really easy. We have bots disconnect so frequently that it is easy for us to catch issues manually.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a scalable solution but UiPath could use some better visualization tools for bot utilization. They do have insights but they are a little bit rough to work with. I wouldn't want to put on a hundred bots at a time, but loading in a few here and there is really easy.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I used Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism for a while. The UiPath Orchestrator far exceeds the functionality of Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. As far as the bot setup goes, UiPath is very easy to install, especially compared to Blue Prism. UiPath is more business user-friendly than Blue Prism. Sometimes it's nice to work with Blue Prism because it has such low-level code that it gives you a little bit more flexibility.

How was the initial setup?

We keep it pretty agile by necessity. We use a lot of contractors to get a lot of different approaches. We have 168 processes on 27 machines. We have some restrictions based on the company requirements but internally we move as fast as we can because we have to.

It is really easy for us to set up a VM and get UiPath installed. It is a five or six-step process. UiPath is significantly bug-free compared to what I'm used to with other products. I haven't had to raise a support ticket yet for UiPath.

Initially, we had a customer success manager from UiPath who showed our admin how to run the installation. At this point, we take care of all of it ourselves. 

What was our ROI?

We've replaced the equivalent of 20 to 30 employees who have all been moved to more valuable positions. We've taken processes that were supposed to take months and reduced this to days which has improved our customer experience. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I would like to see a few more options for developer licenses because we end up swapping them so often. We've tried going through floating robots and a few options that have been not exactly what we're looking for. Price-wise, the cloud offerings are good. 

What other advice do I have?

I'd certainly say UiPath is worth it to save time and effort. The product is really stable compared to what I've worked with before. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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RPA Developer at ChenMed LLC
Real User
Works really well for credentialing and security in highly regulated healthcare industry
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is that it can be integrated with almost anything. We use in-house applications and we're able to integrate them through the database using endpoints and APIs. This sharing of information between systems via UiPath means our staff gets results quicker."
  • "It would be helpful if they made the Document Understanding modules a little more user-friendly. There is a learning curve for using it correctly."

What is our primary use case?

We generally work on integrating it with our support ticketing system, which is ServiceNow. That way, we can standardize our input and get better results. It has been working really well for those kinds of processes.

How has it helped my organization?

A process that we worked on for operations, for example, was the ordering of phones for our new agencies. It accelerates a lot of that process and gets the people onboarded faster, more easily, and with fewer errors.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is that it can be integrated with almost anything. We use in-house applications and we're able to integrate them through the database using endpoints and APIs. This sharing of information between systems via UiPath means our staff gets results quicker. Normally, we have to put in a request with the database team to go in and input the data. But UiPath already has access and it's really quick. It's really responsive and makes the experience easier for the business.

That is also true for third-party vendors. The vendor that we order our phones from has a UI, a website that we use, and we have been able to use the UI to integrate their application.

We can implement almost any interface that we want, in any way possible. It's really flexible.

And given that healthcare is highly regulated, UiPath works really well for credentialing and that type of security. We see that it has protocols that ensure that our data is not going to be stolen. We use the credential assets to save our passwords and sensitive information such as licensing.

What needs improvement?

I've been looking into Document Understanding. I've worked with it in previous jobs, things like AI center and OCR for documents. It would be helpful if they made the Document Understanding modules a little more user-friendly. There is a learning curve for using it correctly. It's a little bit hard, but once you get a feel for it it's good and it doesn't delay the automation process.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using UiPath for almost four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of UiPath is good. I haven't seen any abrupt occurrences in my time using it. Our production environment is always running. It's well-secured.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

In regard to our processes, it's easy to scale. It is not that easy to scale on the business side of things, but the tool itself does provide an easy scaling process.

How are customer service and support?

I haven't had the need to reach out to technical support that often because, with the community, you can find out anything regarding UiPath online. It's the same support team that answers those questions.

I did submit one ticket to support, and it was answered really fast. However, they did take a little long time to get to the root of the problem.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We did not have a previous RPA solution.

What was our ROI?

We do calculate ROI in terms of the hours we're saving the business. For example, with the specific processes that we created for phone ordering, we're saving the business a lot of hours. 

Currently, we're just using it for agencies because we want to see how this can impact things. But it's handling the process for more than 40 percent of our employees because most agency employees get phones as soon as they are onboarded.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have evaluated other automation tools, and I've been asked many times in the different companies where I have worked why I prefer UiPath. It's the best choice because of the community, documentation, and the number of updates they come out with. They're really on top of things.

Other vendors are not on the same level. I have tried Blue Prism but it has poorer documentation and it doesn't have the support that UiPath has.

What other advice do I have?

To get our certificates we had to use the UiPath Academy. The Academy gives you a sense of how UiPath works. It can get really technical, but to get a sense, at least, of how to start the journey of becoming a developer, in my case, it helped a lot.

Overall, it's a great tool to use. It has a lot of benefits documentation-wise and support-wise. It's really stable and it's really easy to use.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Process improvement specialist at The Co-operators
Real User
A solution with 100% stability, a broad range of features, and the best scalability of any product
Pros and Cons
  • "The scheduler tool is valuable because I can slow or speed up run times during peak use."
  • "Our solution is on-premises so we are unable to utilize phone apps."

What is our primary use case?

Our company is in the insurance industry and uses the solution to run RPA processes for the claims department to free up staff time. 

What is most valuable?

The scheduler tool is valuable because I can slow or speed up run times during peak use. 

What needs improvement?

Our solution is on-premises so we are unable to utilize phone apps.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution's stability is 100% and really good because it never goes down.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution offers the best scalability of any known product. 

How are customer service and support?

I have not utilized technical support because that is handled by other team members. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I personally did not use another product prior to learning the solution. 

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

What was our ROI?

We track ROI quarterly and through Q2 we have saved more than $100,000 by using automated processes. 

We are getting to the point of reaching full ROI but need to build more automated processes to reach that goal. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I am sure my company evaluated other options but the solution was already in place when I joined the team. 

What other advice do I have?

I utilized Academy courses to understand the solution's full capabilities but haven't yet used many of those features such as AI. I am currently learning about OCR and plan to use AI in the future. 

Learning the solution is a case of "I don't know what I don't know" so it is important to become aware of all the tools at your disposal. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Software Developer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Reduced our costs, bandwidth, and human errors
Pros and Cons
  • "UiPath has reduced human error by 20%."
  • "The UiPath solution doesn't currently provide unique testing for mobile devices."

What is our primary use case?

We automate everything using the UiPath solution. We have some ongoing stuff, e.g., generating test cases and testing some of our development platforms. We need to define all the parts, such as how to test the entire environment to determine if everything is working okay.

We utilize all our services on the cloud, then they can be easily used across all our offices.

We only use unattended automation.

How has it helped my organization?

If a product is about to go live, we heavily rely on coverage from UiPath. This is during the development phase. However, when onboarding to production, we use other solutions, which don't rely on automation, for monitoring purposes.

When we are in the development phase, we have multiple edge cases, like iOS, Android, and other platforms, checking in. For a tester, it is difficult to check every edge case. Instead, we define automation test tools in UiPath, then our automated work does everything for us. Once it is done, it gives us a detailed analysis about where the product is performing well. We get handy videos before going live so we can improve everything and ensure that our end customer will not be impacted.

Our bandwidth has been drastically reduced, by nearly 60 hours, because of this solution. We have reduced the number of testers by three. 

What is most valuable?

The most useful feature of UiPath is that it is very easy to use. 

It helps us a lot with digital transformation.

What needs improvement?

The UiPath solution doesn't currently provide unique testing for mobile devices.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using it for around six or seven months.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

To the extent that we are using the solution, it is pretty scalable.

How are customer service and support?

We use a third-party for support of this solution.

When we were facing some small issues going to the cloud, we tried to get help from the community. The community has been very helpful. Everyone has been willing to provide some good information to other users.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, we were using an automated script to test everything. Now, with UiPath, we are automating everything. 

How was the initial setup?

We used the community to help us with the setup.

What about the implementation team?

The vendor helped set this up and guided us how to do everything during the onboarding process. Therefore, we didn't have any issues with the setup.

What was our ROI?

UiPath has reduced human error by 20%. 

We have reduced our costs by approximately $200 a month.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Creating our digital transformation didn't require any additional costs.

The vendor gave us a 30-day money-back guarantee. We were fine with that. We saw improvement during that time and kept the solution. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We didn't consider any other solutions.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate UiPath as eight out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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RPA Project Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Easy to use resulting in good development turnaround time
Pros and Cons
  • "Our main projects are mostly around SAP and Excel. We have used most of the features available, especially the ones that support SAP and Excel activities. Those are the ones that we have found to be most useful."
  • "There is some scope for improvement, especially in the area of variables. Some variables are used in specific workflows and some variables are global. It would help if there was a repository that would showcase which variable is global and which is local to a workflow."

What is our primary use case?

We have a variety of projects we use it for. We have automated about 72 processes within six verticals, including sales, finance, HR, and purchasing.

How has it helped my organization?

It has helped our client save thousands of dollars, for sure. That is really what they have found to be the biggest benefit of using UiPath. The cost of the product is low because they're using it continuously. It saves cost and it helps them gain more returns.

What is most valuable?

Our main projects are mostly around SAP and Excel. We have used most of the features available, especially the ones that support SAP and Excel activities. Those are the ones that we have found to be most useful.

UiPath is easy to use and there is less coding. That is very helpful for the development team when it comes to building projects. It's very flexible and really makes our team more efficient. The turnaround time of development is good. 

What needs improvement?

There is some scope for improvement, especially in the area of variables. Some variables are used in specific workflows and some variables are global. It would help if there was a repository that would showcase which variable is global and which is local to a workflow.

UiPath should also help us whenever we are changing versions. Whenever we make those changes, UiPath should help by documenting the versions and sending us comments on the changes made in UiPath. If that were available, that would really help.

I would also like to see something related to auditing. That would really help the development and peer review teams to identify the gaps, instead of going through the sequence one by one. If there were an auditing tool that clearly brings out issues, that would really help.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using UiPath for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

They are plugging in a lot of features that are really helping our teams. It is scalable.

For this year, we don't have plans to increase our usage of the solution, but it depends on our client.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good and they respond to us all the time. Whenever we require support, they are with us.

They have a standard questionnaire that we have to complete and send in, and they come back with standard responses. At critical times, instead of the standard response, if they could do a direct call that would really help us. Instead of one or two levels of questionnaires, if they could directly get on a call, that would help us. Hence I rate them eight out of 10.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

I was not part of the initial setup, but I am involved in the renewals.

The renewals could be easier. The documentation is lacking. When you are renewing your licenses, you might encounter errors but there are no proper documents available to explain how to handle these errors.

In terms of maintenance, our automation processes require some attention but UiPath, as an application, does not, other than updates.

What was our ROI?

There is ROI over a period of years. From the second year onward, it would be around 25 to 30 percent.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing and licensing are okay. It's quite affordable.

There are a few things that come with additional cost. They are mostly features. For example, Document Understanding is an additional feature that you have to pay extra for.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend it to new users who are choosing among automation tools. 

Also, if a company is new to it or the users who are setting up are new to it, they should be aware of the preparations involved in setting up the environment and setting up UiPath. That can be a little challenging if they are not aware of certain things.

I rate UiPath at eight out of 10. There are a few features or approaches they could enhance, such as an option to view all the variables, as I mentioned earlier. Also, since the code can be very big, we might be searching for certain things that are not available. I'm more concerned about the debugging and evaluation parts. 

And in Orchestrator there are a lot of features they can enhance.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Application Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Greatly reduces human error and time expenditure in a user-friendly solution, providing a robust ROI
Pros and Cons
  • "Human error was greatly reduced and the solution saves a significant amount of time, these are the two main reasons we started using UiPath."
  • "Technical support could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We are a financial services company, and our primary use is to increase daily efficiency and create automated solutions for our operations team. Our primary concern is time. By implementing a robotic solution for mundane tasks, it frees up our teams to focus elsewhere. For example, going to a website, extracting data, putting the data somewhere, and manipulating it can all be automated, freeing up the team to focus on data analysis. This makes us more time and cost-efficient. 

As a smaller company, it was very important to us that scale automation would be taken care of by the vendor. It was one of our key points in choosing a solution.

How has it helped my organization?

The solution saved us a great deal of time and money, while teams have been freed up to focus on more important work.

What is most valuable?

Human error has been greatly reduced and the solution saves a significant amount of time, these are the two main reasons we started to use UiPath.

The solution helps us to keep track of tickets and send notifications used within our department. It helped a lot with our back and front-end offices. Our main operations team normally had a lot of data manipulation, which is now taken care of. They can now focus on market analysis.

This product is very user-friendly, it only requires knowledge of the most basic coding and how to work with logic. They are quick to respond to software issues. They either fix them quickly or provide a workaround if there is one. Overall, UiPath makes building automation very easy.

We do use the solution's Automation Cloud offering. Sometimes we aren't informed of software updates, meaning we have to figure that out for ourselves, especially when there are issues. We mentioned this to support, as figuring out solutions to issues brought in by updates sometimes increases our workload. Overall though, I would say the solution does save a lot of time for our IT department.

The solution has increased our TTV significantly.

The Automation Cloud offering decreased the solution's TCO by taking care of infrastructure, maintenance, and updates. 

We used the Automation Cloud to build out our own pipeline and connected it to Azure. This has really solidified our SDLC, which in turn allows us to quickly put out automations whenever we need to. 

My team and I used the vendor's UiPath Academy course. The course was very effective, as none of the team had prior UiPath experience. We trained using UiPath Academy for around a month, which got us to a point where we could start to use the solution for projects, which helped us learn even more.

The community is much larger than I expected. I'm regularly on the forum or the community blog, which says a lot about how good it is, because almost any information you need can be found there. Everything is well documented, there's always UI path support, and people answer questions on there, so it's very useful.

Since UiPath is one of the bigger vendors in the RPA industry, there's a larger global community. Everyone is really helpful and I think that's great.

What needs improvement?

Technical support could be improved.

The setup documentation could be improved to make that process easier. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for two years now. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I'd say the solutions are around 80 to 85% stable. There are some areas that we have to reach out to support for, and they work to improve these areas for the newer versions. For that reason, I can't say the solution is 100% stable all the time. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The features provided by UiPath make it very easy to reuse, so it's very scalable.

We haven't deployed the solution to its full potential at our company yet. It's used by nine to ten teams out of a total of around 200 teams. We have a lot more to do, as we only started two years ago. We are working towards implementing for more of our teams, but we need a bigger team to push out solutions faster. 

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is inconsistent, it can be good or bad, this depends on who you get connected to. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

It was before my time at the company, but I believe they previously used Nintex RPA.

How was the initial setup?

I wasn't there for the initial setup, but I do know quite a bit because we did have to set up more bots later. I'd say it's a little complex if you don't already know what to do, but once you do know, it's very easy to set up. I would say the documentation wasn't that clear.

We're a small team that consists of two developers, one tester, and a manager. This is sufficient for the deployment and maintenance of the solution.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution ourselves.

What was our ROI?

I would say the cost of the software is around 10K and we've had around 50 projects, with probably $500,000 saved per project. That's a lot of money saved that can be diverted to other areas.

The solution has sped up and reduced the cost of digital transformation without requiring expensive upgrades or support. The product has greatly reduced the incidence of human error.

The solution has saved us a lot of time. I would say it saves us an average of 900 to 1000 hours per month. The additional time has enabled employees to focus on more high-value work.

Overall, the solution has reduced the costs of our automation operations.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of the software was around $10,000.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

The solution builds robots and monitors automation. There is a product called UiPath Task Capture which can do process analysis or business analysis, but I would say it's always better for a human to take care of this. For that reason, I wouldn't say the solution is end-to-end, though we could configure it to be. I would say it works very well from building to the end, and in the testing and monitoring that comes after that. 

We used unattended automation and quickly realized we need attended, because with unattended automation projects take up a lot of time. With unattended automation, we can't run two project processes simultaneously, but with attended automation, we can take out another server and give access to the UiPath cloud to our business partners to run whatever projects they need. We can do this at any time, which is very helpful.

RPA generally isn't widely used, and some people overlook it, but it can transform a business. I would say it's an essential part of any digital transformation, and UiPath is a vast vendor with a user-friendly product. 

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Yasser - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Imbassy
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Saves time and money, improves accuracy, and is very helpful for discovering automation opportunities
Pros and Cons
  • "I love it for the deep artificial intelligence that it has. It has the AI to recognize the processes, analyze all the workflows through user interactions, and discover automation opportunities. It is very intelligent in these aspects."
  • "Its deployment is easy but there is a learning curve in the beginning. Its onboarding isn't easy, and there is no onboarding guidance. They need to take more care of the onboarding guidance and improve it. It is user-friendly for me and for most people, but for people who have zero programming knowledge, it is hard. They have to turn to the community and other places for knowledge."

What is our primary use case?

We are an agency, and we implement it for our clients. We are not a direct reseller of UiPath. We manage the marketing services and the operations for some companies, and we provide the service of implementing it without having any contracts with UiPath. It is just a service from us.

It is being used in almost all industries and departments, but we have been focusing on finance and operations, such as handling the orders, getting invoices, reading invoices, and managing the orders. We use OCR to read invoices and process them. We also use it for the service department. UiPath is perfect for service and finance.

It is deployed on the cloud and on-premises.

How has it helped my organization?

It is very easy to build automation by using UiPath. It is very easy to use. It is different from other platforms, such as Automation Anywhere, which are more difficult to use. The user interface of UiPath is more smooth and easier than the rest. It is easy to build automation without any coding knowledge.

It is helpful for end-to-end automation. We can start with the automation of a simple task, and we can get deep insights and discover new tasks to be automated.

It saves time and money for us and our clients. It has improved the data entry accuracy and minimized the work, human errors, mistakes, and risks. We don't have mistakes anymore. The time saved is now being utilized for more logical things that a person should be doing. 

We are having deeper connections and relations with our clients after using UiPath and fully transforming their operations. It helps with digital transformation without needing any other tools. It can be enough to successfully do digital transformation and achieve success, which increases the customer satisfaction score and saves a lot of time and money. 

Their automation cloud offering has decreased the time-to-value. You can start seeing the effect of UiPath and the automation in the first month. Especially the businesses that have never automated their tasks and never used AI and machine learning for their operations can see the effect in the first month. It is incredibly effective in many aspects, such as time, money, operations, and risks of mistakes. We are able to speed up all the operations. It has improved our communication with the clients. We are able to resolve customer errors and deal with tickets faster.

Their automation cloud offering helps to decrease the total cost of ownership, but other tools also have the same benefit. It saves us a lot of money when you use it with big data or a large volume of data sets. We had an on-premises setup for other clients, but it required big servers and containers to handle a large amount of data. 

If it wasn't a cloud offering, and it was only on-premises, we would be spending thousands on other platforms on hosting and deployment. On-premises setup requires a lot of processing speed and bandwidth and large disk sizes. The cloud offering is not very heavy. So, it saves a lot.

It helps with fast innovation when it comes to automation. It has a lot of intelligence. I could find use cases that I never thought could be done with UiPath, or I never thought could be automated. UiPath helped me to discover the use cases to automate almost the entire operation.

We use the UiPath Apps feature, and it has helped to reduce a lot of workload, not only for us but also for our clients. This was one of the main features that everyone loved. We used it at the beginning for building apps for the clients to handle the workflows. We didn't need expert developers to do this because it is low code. It helps us create professional applications for our internal use and for our clients. Our workload is reduced by 250% by using the UiPath Apps.

I can use the templates to create apps in no time. I can prototype an app with drag and drop. There are multiple templates, and with drag and drop, I can easily build apps and put features and automation that are otherwise time-consuming.

With attended automation, we get the benefits of our employees and robots. The robots provide digital assistance to our employees. We can create robots to assist our employees, and we can create integrations with the ERP and other software for a fast and smooth operational workflow.

We love the AI inside UiPath and the AI center. With the preconfigured templates and out-of-the-box models and templates offered by UiPath, we can take everything to production quickly. Its AI is the main thing that helps us discover what automation needs to be done after deploying it for one week or two weeks and letting our users and our clients work normally. From the insights and the screen recording, the AI starts to learn and recommend what we can do. With the very deep insights that it provides, we are able to find automation opportunities.  We can use AI for decision-making. We are able to make better decisions based on the insights from user interactions, data, and performance.

It speeds up digital transformation. I personally find it enough to do simple digital transformation. 

What is most valuable?

The UiPath marketplace is valuable. I can easily find templates. They are easy to use, and I am ready for work. When I implement it for clients who have no experience at all, they can easily work with it by using the templates from the marketplace. They don't need to be an expert or have a lot of experience. Anybody can use it without good knowledge.

I love it for the deep artificial intelligence that it has. It has the AI to recognize the processes, analyze all the workflows through user interactions, and discover automation opportunities. It is very intelligent in these aspects.

UiPath's deployment is one of the easiest ones, which is very beneficial for us. It is the key factor in convincing the customers and clients to do digital transformation. When we explain and show them the capabilities of UiPath and the use cases based on different industries, they get convinced. They ask us to implement it for them, which opens the door to do other services for them. One of the highlights for us was being part of the Egypt digital transformation campaign. As a part of this campaign, we implemented it for three government institutions. It was a big achievement for us to be part of it and do this for them. It was based on the UiPath presentation and the explanation of its capabilities. As soon as they got convinced, they invited us to start implementing it.

The UiPath team is incredibly fast, and they are very good at handling the community and the requests for improvements and development. They do the updates frequently, and they fix bugs and listen to the customers.

What needs improvement?

I don't have critical dislikes, but there is a scope for improving it. Its deployment is easy but there is a learning curve in the beginning. Its onboarding isn't easy, and there is no onboarding guidance. They need to take more care of the onboarding guidance and improve it. It is user-friendly for me and for most people, but for people who have zero programming knowledge, it is hard. They have to turn to the community and other places for knowledge.

Its documentation is good and helpful, but it is not perfect. It is good for people who have basic knowledge about it. 

I have done UiPath Academy courses. I liked them, and for me, they were easy because I have an idea about automation and robotic processes, but most of my team had a hard time understanding and learning from the UiPath Academy courses. They didn't have a fast learning curve. It is not bad, but it is very hard for beginners and starters to learn from these courses.

When it is on-premises, a lot of times, when we are dealing with a large volume of data, it starts to freeze. It also happened once on the cloud. They need to improve the processing and workload capability of UiPath when somebody has a large volume of data. Currently, it freezes, and it is not so stable when dealing with large data.

It is also difficult to extract data from some of the things, such as IFrames. It is not easy to extract the data. 

Their customer support and licensing can also be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

It has been about two and a half years. I started using it at the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is useful for almost all industries and departments. We have installed it for over 40 or 50 businesses. We have installed it for small-sized businesses, and we have also installed it for enterprises. We have gone through many industries, and we have been using it for almost all the departments. 

How are customer service and support?

Their customer support can be improved. Based on the experience of our team and our clients, there have always been delays in answering and resolving the issues. So, we are always the people who fix the issues for our clients. They need to improve the quality of the training for customers and for their support team.

What was our ROI?

It provides a return on investment and solves any problems of operation monitoring and recurring activities. It saves time and a lot of money, but the most important benefit is time optimization. 

In terms of time, we have saved three hours a day daily from manual and repetitive stuff. This was a total transformation that affected our return on investment. We are capable of doing more things. This was the key factor in convincing our partners and our clients to get this solution because we have seen how we are capable of getting a ton of the tasks and activities done without a high number of employees. At the moment, we are a team of 37 people, and we are able to do the work that would usually need over 100 people.

In terms of savings, yearly, we have saved over $10,000 as compared to our previous cost of using different tools.

When I was using other solutions, it was hard for me to keep paying for every individual software to manage the processing, automation, document understanding, and files. All of them were separate, and I had to pay individually for each one, but UiPath provides all of them in one license. It is not cheap, but it makes it easy for me to sell it to my clients because I sell it individually with the license, apart from my fees for implementing and managing it for them. Before UiPath, I had no service like this for clients. I couldn't sell it as a service to the clients for implementing or managing it. After using UiPath, I started selling it to the clients. Now, I have over 40 or 50 implementations, and I am managing about 20 of them. The rest of them are being managed by the clients themselves.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I like that there is one license for all basic needs, but it is still expensive. Sometimes, we don't need all the tools or capabilities. We only need basic automation and processing for certain clients, but we're required to get the full license. They can improve its licensing and provide more flexibility. They can create more plans or packages, or they can let the users choose the capabilities they need and base its pricing on that.

I personally don't find it expensive because it replaces a lot of work. The work done by 5 or 10 employees or team members can be easily handled by UiPath. As compared to other tools, its pricing is not bad. It is fair enough.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate it a nine out of ten. It is very different from other solutions, and they are making a lot of things easier and friendly for customers.

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