UiPath Platform Reviews

We're doing a lot of accounts payable automation and accounts payable invoice automation. 

We have about 70 bots in production right now. They are unattended.

It's helped us to dramatically cut down on the number of people having to key in invoices manually. We've been able to repurpose some of the staff into other jobs and have the bot do all this work for them. It's really changed things. Our staff likes it since they're doing more meaningful work and not keying in invoices all day. I'd say it greatly impacts our staff, and our dealers love it as they're getting paid quickly. The invoices are getting paid much more quickly now.

We know that it's increased the speed of payment dramatically. I'm not sure of the numbers. However, we've processed about 40,000 invoices to date using the bot. We started in January and do about 5,000 invoices a month. That's saved a lot of hours. Our guys were doing this all day, every day, and we've cut back on it dramatically. It's a considerable amount of hours saved.

We enjoy using the AI functionality. The document understanding is the tool we're using to do the invoice automation, so it has an AI piece and machine learning built in. 

The invoices are probably our most complex as there's a lot of information that has to be scraped off the invoice that DU is doing. We started with the hard ones, and we're easing into the easy ones now. We worked backward a bit. We were a little concerned going in that this was a little bit complex; however, in a very short time, we got a lot done. Looking back, it was probably a good decision to start there. With AI, we're looking to do more. We'd like to bring on more invoices and continue to use this throughout the whole organization and in Latin America as well.

Just seeing all this manual work being automated, and seeing how the staff is thrilled that they're actually doing interesting jobs now has been great. They come in the morning, and they're actually excited about coming to work, not keying in invoices all day. That's the biggest benefit I've seen. The staff is really excited about the product, even though, in the beginning, they were a little nervous about bots doing their work.

The goal of the project was to get 75% of our invoices done with no human intervention. We actually hit 90%.

We use the UiPath community quite a bit. We find it very helpful. Most times, when we're having an issue, other people are having the same issue. We have gotten very good insights and have found other use cases. It has helped us a few times to fix an issue. It's a great feature.

The UiPath Academy courses are great. When we rolled out, we did a project with UiPath. We put a lot of their courses in our Academy so that our users could take them through us, and have actually had a very good response. A lot of people in the company took it, and the completion rate was very high.

The Academy teaches people what RPA is, and how to use it. It could be as basic or as complicated as you want. They have a wide range of classes. The fact that people can get in there and start learning for free is also very good.

Maybe we need to rely on our rep a little bit more to find out what's out there and start asking a lot more questions. We don't understand its full potential. However, that's a little bit of us not asking the right questions. What they've been terrific about is coming out with fixes. Every time we have an issue with something, they're quick to fix it immediately or in the next release. 

They're spending a lot of time and effort on unstructured documents or core quality documents. Sometimes things don't pick up right away, however, it is my understanding that they're working on it, and it has improved tremendously. Even since the beginning of the year, we've already seen some improvements.

I've been using the solution for two years. 

The stability is great. What they've done is pretty impressive. They're going to be here for the long haul.

We found it to be very, very stable. We have not had any issues since we went live, so that's also been very impressive for us that it's extremely stable.

From our perspective, there's really no issue with scaling. We're looking to expand, even by putting more invoices on it, and we don't anticipate it being an issue. We're not concerned in the least about how much it can handle. We're looking forward to expanding it a little bit.

Technical support has been terrific. 

They're very quick to react to us, and even if they aren't, our rep is always very quick to help us get a response. 

This was the first RPA solution I've used. 

I work in finance and accounting, and we were chosen to be the proof of concept to use UiPath. We were in very early, so we did a very early proof of concept, built five bots, and presented them to senior management. We gave feedback that we thought it was something that could be beneficial for the company.

The initial setup was very straightforward for us. UiPath worked with us. They were great in helping us out; the reps really helped us through the whole proof of concept. It was very new to us, and we had their full support - even when we were presenting to senior management.

We're looking at ROI on one project right now, and we estimate we will begin to see a return in year two, which is great.

The pricing has been fair. They've been very good to us with the pricing. They let us choose what we needed. They build packages that fit us, whereas maybe the competitors aren't doing that. Others don't give us the ability to buy what we need. We kind of would have had to buy in bulk, and we didn't like that either. UiPath gives us the ability to be flexible with what we need.

We looked at Automation Anywhere. We just had a better feeling about UiPath. Even from the proof of concept, we had a better feeling about UiPath.

The biggest thing we found with Automation Anywhere, for example, was we asked for a demo license so that we could do a proof of concept; we had a very difficult time even installing the demo licenses. In contrast, with UiPath, it took us a matter of minutes to get going. We were on and building bots within a matter of minutes. Therefore, very quickly, we realized UiPath was the right solution for us.

We're on the latest version, I believe.

While our company is very socially and environmentally aware, we're not yet leveraging UiPath on projects that work towards good causes. RPA is starting to get some acceptance into the organization now, and we'll do something in the future. 

I'd advise potential users to set expectations with users. Talk to users. With RPA, people always fear when they hear robots. Setting expectations for your user base. Also, if you're not sure, find a partner that you can trust. We found a very good partner. They were very good to work with, and we really felt like we could trust them. We wouldn't have been able to do this without them. They really brought in the expertise. 

I'd rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The software's terrific. The support's terrific. All the people that are assigned to our account are very attentive to us. Our current rep is amazing. Every time I call him, he always helps. If he can't answer it, he always finds us an answer. They're quick to respond to us, even if they don't have the solution immediately. It's never gone more than two days without us resolving any issues. They've been very, very good.

We're very happy with the overall solution.

We have about 180 bots we're doing now. I think the most interesting one we have is an underwriter bot. It collects information about a person who has just applied for a product, and it does research for the underwriter. It does financial research and medical record research, and it compiles all that into notes for the underwriter. It actually gives them a recommendation on how to proceed with the application. We do all sorts of use cases, including financial and claims, and have a hand in everything that MassMutual does.

In terms of the ease of building automations, we have processed millions of cases through UiPath. It has saved hundreds of thousands of hours for our employees and freed them up to do other tasks. At MassMutual, we have people lining up to have us make a bot for them. So, it's been well accepted.

I like the tie-ins to other languages. Being able to use Python, C#, and VB has been very valuable because I can get a more diverse developer skill set on my team. If somebody's interested in a particular language, I can push them in that direction. If they want to get more into C#, for example, we can do that.

We put all new developers through the UiPath Academy courses. We're trying to get more into attended automations as we're almost exclusively unattended right now. I'm trying to get all my developers to go through the attended automation course. It's only 16 hours, so I can upscale them all on how to build attended automations better. I'm also sending some citizen developers to that course. It's pretty easy for the developers to pick up, and the citizen developers can try it.

We struggle with handwriting recognition. If we had something, maybe in Document Understanding, that would work well with handwriting recognition, it would help us out a lot. Right now, we use an outside vendor for that.

I've been using UiPath for four and a half years.

We've been using UiPath for almost four and a half years, and we've had one outage so far. The stability has been great.

We've grown a great deal in the last four years, and scalability hasn't been a problem.

We have a really talented development team, so we haven't used technical support much. However, they've been useful when we've run into problems. I'd give them a rating of ten out of ten.

Positive

I was not involved with the initial setup, but all other deployments and upgrades have been seamless.

We measure the ROI by how many full-time employees we would need to do the work the bots are doing. I think we're at 90 to 100 covered. It's working well.

The cost of UiPath is much less than that of Blue Prism. They've been very flexible and willing to work with us with our new contractors we just signed on. It's worked out well.

We looked at Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism. We chose UiPath because of the technology that we can use to build things. I like that our developers have marketable skill sets when using UiPath. They can use their SQL skills and their C# skills, for example. With some of the other products, the developers aren't really stretching themselves or making complicated solutions, which is just what they really want to do. It just seems like the other programs are more drag-and-drop only, and I don't think that's great for my team.

My advice would be to start slow and small. Big bots sound like they give you a great ROI, but the complexity and the amount of time you have to spend on them burn through your ROI quickly. We've learned that building small 10-week projects for bots is better.

On a scale from one to ten, I give UiPath a ten. It is very simple to use and easy to pick up, like I'm learning with my new citizen developers. It can get really complex with my advanced developers being able to build some pretty unique things. I like that flexibility.

Right now, we have nine production animations.

Our first use case is to convert video to audio and then upload it to a legacy system. We have another use case that takes an Excel spreadsheet of 2,000 rows and searches one row at a time on the federal court website to get the results of our cases. 

We also have another use case that generates an SAP report daily, downloads a report, and feeds a Power BI dashboard. 

The last use case monitors a client's email, and as soon as there's the form request, we open the request, and we add it to their system automatically.

Thanks to COVID-19, since everything went digital, it added a lot of manual work to employees. It helps reduce manual labor. It just saved time. The robot now does the amount of work that got created due to COVID. It went back to normal in terms of workload now that we can get help from UiPath.

I love the REFramework and the Azure Queue and Orchestrator. Those are great features. They all work well.

The UiPath community is awesome. That's one of the reasons I use UiPath. There's so much stuff available everywhere. For example, if you go on Google and search for a subject, you are going to find information on either YouTube videos or community sites. There's just a lot of information available about everything. Also, a lot of super complete documentation is on the UiPath website. Any question we get, it's super easy to find technical information on that subject.

I've used the UiPath Academy courses. It has helped me start very quickly since they're all free, and there are many courses to choose from. When I started, I used my first two weeks to just do Academy training, and that's how I started. They have a complete curriculum. It's pretty nice.

The speed of upgrades is really hard to follow. It's great that there are continuous improvements just for us; however, it's just a bit hard to keep up with all of the changes.

I wish I could use the SaaS version. Our only con is the SaaS offering is not accredited in Canada, so we're working on that. That's not a UiPath problem.

I've used the solution for about two years.

The stability is awesome. It is very stable. It recovers itself. It doesn't err. It's very easy to carry on, and exception handling is very easy to manage it. I have no problem with it.

It's super easy to scale. I'm sure there are always ways to improve, and we're a small group, so I only have six bots in production right now. However, I already have some processes that could be scaled. They're using two robots now, yet I could easily put that to four or five if necessary. If you create workflows correctly, it's super easy to scale.

Technical support is pretty good. I've used it a couple of times and had no problems.

Positive

I did not previously use a different solution.

I was involved in the initial setup, and it was straightforward. 

The installation instructions were pretty easy to follow. The orchestrator was pretty easy to set up, as were the studio and the system. There's nothing complicated. I find it's just a regular install.

I was given the license information and just went along with it. We are a small department. I was in a team of one. We didn't have a real strategy. We just had to start somewhere and do a proof of concept and move on from that. That was my strategy.

We did not use an integrator, reseller, or consultant. It was implemented in-house.

I have witnessed an ROI. For example, when converting video to audio and uploading it. Each video was taking about 30 minutes to upload manually, and we produce about 280 videos per day. The robot does it in four minutes right now, and it does it across Canada. Three bots do 280 videos in 20 hours. The ROI there alone would be huge.

I don't deal with the pricing aspect. That said, I don't see it as a problem. I see that it brings a lot more value. We save a lot more than the cost of their license.

I touched Power Automate a bit. I heard about Blue Prism. However, I did not really look into it. We just started with UiPath. When I joined them, my company had already purchased UiPath. So for me, I just started with UiPath.

We do not use the AI functionality just yet, although we have plans to in the future. 

I would for sure recommend UiPath. I haven't really tried other solutions. However, I've heard that people were trying them and returning to UiPath.

I'd rate it a ten out of ten. The product is awesome. The support is great. The community is also huge. It's super easy to find information, find support, and find stuff. I find it very easy to start using the product and can show value and benefit to clients.

We automate the entire revenue and order to cash and then process it to payables. It is used for processes, from generating customer invoices to ensuring that all our vendors are getting paid timely. We also use it for data reporting, audit requirements, or whatever information gathering that the company may need.

We've automated about 30-ish processes, and that's just the tip of the iceberg of where it's going.

All of the processes are attended to right now. We're still getting the backend set up to move some of them to unattended.

The solution has improved the organization by providing time savings. That's one of the most fundamental things. We recently had a project that would take a human who's actually navigating through the screens and clicking all the buttons roughly a month's worth of work, if that was their primary focus all day long. We were able to get that completed within two days using UiPath. Therefore, the time savings are phenomenal. 

Also, when you're dealing with all that data, there's a lot less likelihood of human error and missteps. With the bot, we know for sure that the line is the line, and that's it. It's error-free for the most part.

The low to no-code is by far the most valuable feature. Developing a bot in under a minute that saves you an hour a day is phenomenal.

The user community is great. Looking at the forums, when a question is posted, the responses are fairly quick, either from UiPath or the community itself. In my past role, I posted to the community before, and I had been able to answer some questions as well. Then, it's nice to know people are having the same problems you're having and finding solutions.

I've taken UiPath Academy courses. I've taken mostly the developer ones, and then I'm looking into more of the admin side, with the Orchestrator and project management side of it. The biggest value is that it walks you through step by step and you're doing it alongside the course. It's hands-on learning. It's one thing to watch a video. It's a different thing actually to play with it and have something start working.

Overall the training and documentation could be better. There's just so much of it, so a streamlined way to get to the information I need would be ideal.

I've used the solution for about two years. 

It's very stable. Performance-wise and stability-wise, it's great. We're able to access it from anywhere. I have the Orchestrator app on my phone, so I can always keep track of the bots that we've developed and see how they're doing and everything.

Scalability is something we're still looking into. We just started, so we're still in the groundwork. However, in terms of being able to scale, the potential's there. We just need more time to play with it.

I've had one instance with them, and it was great. They knew their stuff, they walked me through everything.

Positive

Before UiPath, we used Nintex RPA, and then an SAP RPA tool as well. We used to UiPath to get more usability and scalability. The user-friendliness of the product and just the engine and the innovations that they're making behind it really placed them as a leader in the sector.

I was involved in the implementation since proposing the idea to start developing and starting a road show to be able to expand.

The process was straightforward. I had no qualms about it.

We started small. We essentially had two developer licenses, a couple unattended, and then a couple attended. We had already identified who would the attended bots go to, and did all that legwork in the forefront. Once we got the license enabled, we could activate it, work in the Orchestrator to assign the specific roles, and then have them start running. Within a week, we were able to get bots out the door and have people actually using them.

Everything has been done in-house. We've been building everything ourselves. 

We've definitely seen an ROI. For example, in one project, we were able to take a month's worth of human effort and completed it in two days with UiPath. We've had several others of a similar nature.

The pricing is a bit high compared to other products. That said, it does offer more. From working with other ones, it is definitely a more powerful tool and well worth the pricing.

We did evaluate other options. We had the ones we used before. We also looked at Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and a couple of others. 

The difference was a sense of familiarity. I had previous experience with UiPath. Mainly the innovations and the fact that since 2019 on the Magic Quadrant, they've been the leader consistently, and they will continue to be, were the reason we chose UiPath.

We do not use the AI functionality in our automation as of right now. It is something I'm interested in, however.

Our company will be involved in an environmental initiative using UiPath. We have an environmental group. As of right now, we haven't thought about taking it that far. We've only had it for about a month or two. It's something we're considering for the future. 

The most important part is going to be the user interface. The people who are developing it, the people who are using it, they're the ones who are going to have the most to say about it. Your business end-user has the most to say about it; if they don't like it, that's all you'll hear. By focusing on that user interface, which UiPath has done, you really get a solid project that people get excited about rather than leaving a bad taste in their mouths.

I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten. I love the product.

Our biggest use case right now is around business development. We use UiPath to run reports that we get off of the internet against our internal databases to try and find anyone who is a client because we're a law firm.

Most of my development right now has been on the business development side. We're helping clients with their cases, whether it's a litigation case, a bankruptcy case, or a real estate case. I use UiPath to help identify potential clients or current clients so that we can help them in their legal space.

UiPath has helped to alleviate some of the workload of our paralegals, assistants, and secretaries. They were going through large files of cell rows, and it was taking up many hours of their day. Using UiPath, I was able to automate a lot of it so that they don't have to spend that time. Now, it's more of a review process as opposed to a daily, mundane process of going through Excel files.

On one of the other processes that I developed, a marketing assistant had to take another daily report, and check to see if any of the companies that were filing for litigation on that report were clients or prospects. It took three hours of her day every day, and it's done five days a week. Now with UiPath, I have it unattended and running at 5:00 a.m. so that when she gets in, all she has to do is review the report that I generate for her. That's a consolidation of what comes off the website, what we have in our internal systems, and anything that matches.

I do all my developing in Studio. I develop and publish into the orchestrator cloud, and then I try and run everything unattended. So, Studio is a very valuable feature for me.

Another feature that I've been using a lot is the new integration app with Microsoft that triggers emails.

The UiPath Academy courses are great because when there are things that you don't know right off the bat, it helps you develop, learn, and grow within the platform. I've done a few courses and plan on doing more. It's definitely helpful for me being someone that didn't come from a development background. I taught myself UiPath in the beginning, and now that I know how expansive the Academy is, I'm definitely going to take more classes so that I can learn exactly how much I can do with UiPath.

I would like to see ongoing integrations with different applications. For example, we have UKG, which is an HRIS or HCM system. I'd love to see if there could be some sort of connection there because there are definitely some HR tasks from onboarding and offboarding that we do in the HCM that I'd love to have UiPath help with.

I like that UiPath is a platform for more than just one specific product. So, I'd like to see continued expansion of the platform and have different APIs connected to it. Different integrations sitting on top of it are just going to make it more beneficial because you'll be able to have everything come into one spot instead of having to buy four or five different products.

My firm has had it since 2019, and I've personally used it for about a year and a half. 

We're in the cloud and not on-premises, and I think the cloud runs pretty well. Up until last week, the stability was great. 

Last week, I had an issue with one of my licenses falling off of the unattended robot. I was surprised that it happened. I don't really know why it happened, and I'm working on getting it fixed.

The scalability is great. There's definitely a lot of potential for it to scale, especially in our environment.

They support infrastructure and not development, which at first was a little bit of a bummer for me. Their tech support has been great when it does revolve around infrastructure, and I'd rate them at eight out of ten.

Positive

We found a couple of clients using the UiPath processes with respect to business development.

I think the pricing is reasonable. I don't think it's too much of a stretch, and I think it's where it should be.

If you have a lot of paper processes or routine processes that are weighing down your employees, then UiPath and automation, in general, are the way to go. There's fear that it's going to take over the human role, which it just doesn't. From a 500 foot view it kind of makes sense, but when you're developing and working on the automations, you realize that you really can't get rid of the human aspect of it. This is because there are always going to be some sort of checks and balances as well as things that the robot can't do and decisions it can't make. So, don't have that fear and push away from automation or UiPath. They go well together, and you should definitely consider it.

Overall and considering the usability of UiPath, I'd give it a nine out of ten. I think there's a lot of documentation out there with the forums and with partners that support as well. UiPath does a really great job, and I'm happy that my firm decided to purchase its product.

We can use UiPath for pretty much anything, including document reading, day-to-day processing, or maintenance cases. For pretty much anything that the business comes up with, we can use UiPath. 

It's the only RPA software I've ever used. It's really given us the capability to help automate a ton of slow-moving tasks.

It is helping to automate some finance processes, shared service processes, and items like that to eliminate some tedious tasks that people don't want to deal with.

The Automation Hub helps prioritize things. I'd say using the community edition to get citizen developers on board has been great. Those are probably the two biggest aspects of the solution for me.

The user community is helpful. The forum is really great. I need to build up a bigger community around me; however, for right now, the users are super helpful.

I've used UiPath's Academy courses. It's great for letting people do training at their own pace. It also speeds up training. I don't have to spend hours teaching people how to do stuff. They can do it whenever they want. That's super helpful.

We'd like more onboarding features for new people. I mostly taught myself. It would help if it was more proactive in reaching out and saying, "Here are all of our connectors. Here's the stuff you can do." The program itself is really easy to use, however, to understand the capabilities, it would be nice to have more of a guiding hand.

I've used the solution for probably two years. 

The stability is good. I've never had a feed down and find it to be rather solid. 

The scalability is pretty strong. It seems to be as scalable as you want to make it. It depends on your design. For example, if you make a shady bot, that's not going to work scalability-wise. However, if you build your bot the right way to handle tasks quickly, it'll do it quickly and will scale well.

Technical support is really good. I've only used it twice. However, both times they have been really quick to respond and help.

Positive

We did not previously use any other RPA software.

I am involved in the initial setup process. I started the CoE of my last job, and I'm doing that at this job now.

We used a partner to help with it, so it was pretty straightforward. If I had to do it myself, I'd probably struggle, however, with partners, it's easy.

I have seen an ROI. The first spot I made paid for the license. It's pretty quick to realize a return on investment. 

We've used Automation Hub to track monetary and hourly savings. My last company probably saved to the tune of $300,000 annualized. I just started this job. I will be able to note an ROI pretty soon.

I need to dig into pricing a bit more. It's pretty affordable for what you get. 

We evaluated the whole market before choosing UiPath. However, I wasn't directly a part of the process and, therefore, can't get into specifics. 

I do not yet use UiPath to automate processes that deal with a good cause that our company is involved in. I've only worked at the company for two weeks. I'm a little new.

I have yet to use the AI functionality in our automation program. 

I'd advise others to work with a partner to deploy it at your company. Don't try to do everything at once. Build a list of ideas before you start trying to get into things. Have a funnel of projects to do.

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. They could improve a couple of things. However, it's really easy to use. You don't really have to learn any code. It is really easy to get people to learn it on their own. It's pretty solid overall.

We have quite a few use cases, and a few big ones are creating purchase orders, reviewing invoice PDFs and extracting information from them, and creating customer orders from forms that are emailed in.

UiPath Orchestrator is a valuable feature for us. We started with all attended bots without Orchestrator, on-premises, or on the cloud. It was almost like a very low-cost way to prove that we needed this technology and that we could use it. So, for our first year, we did that. For the second year, we got Orchestrator, and it gave us the ability to utilize the bots more effectively. I thought we were going to have more attended bots, and we didn't because the process owners wanted things to happen in the background and wanted to be able to schedule them. Being able to do that and not have to have someone worry about triggering the bot or babysitting the computer while the bot runs, etc. have been the biggest game-changers for us.

The biggest benefit we've seen from using UiPath is time savings. Since June, when our fiscal year started, we've saved 8,000 hours so far. We're measuring everything in terms of hours saved, mainly because that's where we see the most benefit. I haven't really seen a big cost reduction, like replacing people with automation. Our teams are pretty slim right now.

A lot of the time what we found was that people were working extraordinarily long days. Now, they're actually able to do their job because they don't have all these other things that they had to take care of before. With some of our use cases in customer service, we've been able to avoid costs by not having to hire temporary staff. This is because a lot of the transactions that they would've taken care of are now done by the bots. They are doing it faster and more accurately. We have automated 36 processes so far. We have three attended, but most of our processes are unattended.

The biggest value of the UiPath Academy courses has been the ability to point new citizen developers to it. They are self-guided and require very little oversight from the team, so it provides the ability to grow a citizen development community with very little time from our team. The UiPath Academy is also useful for onboarding new team members; you can point them to some of the basic courses and have them get an idea of what RPA is all about, what we have, Orchestrator, etc.

UiPath Insights needs improvement. It's been almost five months since we got it, and I'm yet to see a business impact dashboard, which was the selling point.

Trying to get Insights support has been really tricky. The documentation that's out there is not detailed enough, and it doesn't really tell you how to make it happen. I've paid for a product for five months that I still can't present to my senior leadership.

I've been using UiPath for about two and a half years.

The stability is good overall, and we haven't really had any issues. We do have certain processes, especially with certain systems, that are very finicky, and we have to go back and keep updating. I don't know how much of it is UiPath versus just the nature of automation.

We got premium support, but getting the attention of the person that is dedicated to our account has been really hard. It shouldn't be that hard, especially not when we're paying $12,000 a year for it.

We've also had a lot of issues with Insights. When we get to the right person, it's helpful and easy, but getting to the right person is way too complicated, especially considering that we're paying for premium support.

So, I would give technical support a rating of seven on a scale from one to ten.

Neutral

We went with UiPath because they are a leader in the robotics industry.

The initial deployment was complex. We started with all attended, and transitioning from attended to orchestrated was not easy. Nobody understood that we had been operating robots without any orchestration, so whenever we talked to UiPath, they would tell us to get our on-premises Orchestrator and migrate it to the cloud even though we didn't have an on-premises Orchestrator. They should've already known that because they had all the details. It wasn't straightforward, but we did it.

Transitioning to Orchestrator in the cloud, probably, took us three months. 
We had to recreate workflows because the workflows were attended to.

We did it ourselves.

I talked to the CIO of a medical company, and they had implemented Automation Anywhere. They had a good experience with it, and it was good for their use cases. However, their use cases were very different from ours. So, I talked to some of our partners, and one of our partners had a relationship with a UiPath partner, so we did the proof of concept with UiPath. It worked, and so we just went from there.

Understand what your goals are with RPA, and make sure that UiPath is the right vehicle for it.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would rate UiPath at nine.

We have implemented a couple of use cases. One is with our creative collection scenario. We are also working on order automation. That will go live in October.

Since we are fairly new, I will say we have only two scenarios running right now, and they've been going on for almost a year. It's definitely saved us a lot of time. We haven't rolled out too many scenarios yet. When we'll be rolling out our order automation for 15 countries, I will see more benefits in the uses as we go.

The most valuable feature is definitely the document understanding. We have started using it for the order automation project that I'm working on. It definitely has some challenges also, especially dealing with other languages. However, so far, it's good.

We only have our Cash App or our credit collection scenario. We save around one-tenth of the time we typically spend where a lot of transactions happen. We save around 60 hours every month, at least for now.

UiPath's user community is definitely helpful. Usually, I'd look it up there first when we run into a problem.

Our team has used UiPath Academy courses. Academy courses were really helpful in giving us a good start to have a good foundation. Although we use UiPath to develop our scenarios, having that Academy access and going through the training definitely helped us get up to speed very quickly.

I definitely want some improvement on the documentation of the understanding side.

Maybe they should build more out-of-the-box apps rather than companies building their own implementation from scratch and maybe build them as a product on top of the platform. That would save time in implementation.

We're a SAP shop, so I'm looking more at what scenarios can be pre-booked using UiPath. I know there are some escalators that are there in SAP. However, they are not production ready, in my view. That area definitely can be improved since they're all Excel-based, and they're more proof of concept rather than production ready.

I've been using the solution for almost two years. 

Stability is one area where I'm really concerned. Sometimes it does behave erratically and I have to stop everything, and deploy it again, and it works fine. Therefore, I have some concerns about how it's going to scale out when there is a very high volume.

I'm concerned that we may have issues with scalability as it can behave erratically, and I have to stop and redeploy it.

For example, right now, we have a very small implementation. We will be implementing this order automation for 15 countries with a lot of customers. So I have concerns about how UiPath will scale out to these countries plus even more countries that I am planning to implement as well. What will be the process, what will the performance impact, and how is it going to behave? I do have concerns there right now.

I have dealt with technical support a few times. That said, most of the time, I could figure out the problem myself. There is one problem that I'm still dealing with in terms of technical support, and it's been ongoing. They have involved the product team to help resolve that particular issue. I have to say that I'm not thrilled with the support that I got.

Neutral

We did not previously use a different solution. We used to do everything manually.

I lead our automation implementation. For our treasury, it was easy; however, for the automation we are going live with in October, the process is a bit more complex. 

Our implementation strategy involved starting small and starting with a couple of use cases. I decided to use UiPath as our partner to cover our bases since I wanted to ensure we have a good foundation with best practices before we start doing anything in-house.

We had UiPath assist us with the initial implementation. The experience was pretty good. There were some challenges to deal with in terms of having a robust solution with good logging and notifications. That definitely didn't happen right off the bat. That said, overall, it was an okay process. 

We are definitely seeing an ROI. For example, we are saving 60 hours every month, and it's a small implementation. With order automation, we are going to save a lot of time. I don't have the exact numbers yet. However, we are positive about the outcomes we expect.

I was quite surprised at the pricing. We decided to implement action forms, and at that time, I was not aware that there is a separate licensing. It's difficult sometimes when you have to go back to your finance team or the sponsor and tell them that you need more money. Any licensing requirement has to be clear up front rather than being revealed later. I'm not worried about the cost, it's more about knowing what license we need, and in my implementation, we had quite a few mishaps related to licenses.

We looked at a couple of other products.

I don't want to go into what products we looked at. However, I can definitely say the main criterion behind selecting UiPath was its ease of use. We did a proof of concept in-house without any help. That was my main criterion for making a decision. 

Also, there's a good product path in terms of what they're doing next. UiPath is a market leader. We wanted to go with a solution that not only meets our needs for now but also is taking the effort, time, and money in building the product and bringing new capabilities.

We're fairly new to the process and have yet to get into using UiPath for a good cause.

We aren't using the AI functionality yet.

I'd advise potential users to do their homework. Look at other products and make the decision based on what capabilities you are looking at. I will say don't look at only one scenario. Look at the overall picture. Look at what your future plans are. I still believe UiPath is the best product when it comes to RPA. However, you have got to look at the whole picture at the outset.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. There are a lot of good things happening. It's very easy to use, and UiPath has a very good product roadmap. That's the key for me. Especially with AI, process mining, cost mining, et cetera, they're really going to help any company that signs on.