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Center of Exellence Lead at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Nov 17, 2022
Automation solution that is easy to learn, but the stability could be improved
Pros and Cons
  • "The task capture and task binding features have been most valuable. These features make it easier for a team who are not that familiar with RPA to successfully use UiPath."
  • "With UiPath, you can learn on your own and expand your knowledge."
  • "The stability of the bots could be improved. The bots could be expanded to have more objects already prebuilt."
  • "Theoretically, it works but as soon as we start adding different invoices, it's a very cumbersome, long, and human-centric process."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution for voice processing, user onboarding, offboarding, marketing, email consolidation, text form generation, text form ingestion, AP, and AR.

We are using UiPath's AI functionality although we have not been able to do much complex configuration. Theoretically, it works but as soon as we start adding different invoices, it's a very cumbersome, long, and human-centric process. Our company is planning to scale our automation efforts.

How has it helped my organization?

This solution is easy to use for the end user. The Academy courses make this possible as well as the community forums. I am a senior manager and my role is building the center of excellence. I learned how to write code on UiPath using the Academy and learned from my peers in community forums. 

This has been the biggest benefit. With other vendors, you had to pay thousands of dollars to learn how to use their solutions. With UiPath, you can learn on your own and expand your knowledge.

What is most valuable?

The task capture and task binding features have been most valuable. These features make it easier for a team who are not that familiar with RPA to successfully use UiPath. They generate the PDD the way it's supposed to be and capture the right screenshot.

What needs improvement?

The stability of the bots could be improved. The bots could be expanded to have more objects already prebuilt. It would be useful if it was clear to the end user that there are objects already built. It should be easily available or there should be a very simple search for objects. Many users don't know that Marketplace exists or that it gives you free bots. 

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for eight years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution and we have not experienced any crashes. The challenge we have experienced is when developers do not document requirements correctly but we have had no issues with the software itself. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is a scalable solution. 

How are customer service and support?

Customer support is provided mostly by a consulting firm. We usually raise a ticket and get an answer. We would like the technical support to be sharper and faster rather than going through the consulting firm as this can take more than a week. 

I would rate the support for this solution a six or seven out of ten. This score could be improved if we had a single point of contact. 

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

Before UiPath, we used Blue Prism. We switched due to the ease of use of UiPath as I could learn how to use it myself and teach the team. This training is free and also offers free software. 

How was the initial setup?

If you are new to UiPath, the initial setup is not that straightforward. It is easier now that I have been working with the solution for a few years. The most challenging part of the setup is getting information on how UiPath connects with other systems. Only 1% of the community actually knows this. 

For the setup, our infrastructure team followed the instructions sent by UiPath. At that time, there was no cloud functionality. UiPath could offer better communication around the overall implementation and where data is stored.  The instructions are very easy to follow but the security approvals cause a lot of blockers. 

What was our ROI?

We have experienced ROI in two ways. Within the first three to six months, whatever we invested came back to us in terms of time-saving and money-saving. We have also seen an increase in client satisfaction in the sense that we can look up client information using attended bots. 

What other advice do I have?

This tool makes it easy to build a team that can manage it because of the availability of the academy and certifications for upskilling. The courses are set up to ensure the user fully understands what the certification is about before they are awarded it. 

It's easy to use and the dashboards give me easy access to insights. This is why I always recommend UiPath to others. Some organizations can waste millions of dollars trying to set up other solutions. 

I would rate UiPath a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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RPA Developer Architect at Western National Insurance Group
Real User
Nov 17, 2022
System automation solution that empowered the automation of key business processes and minimized errors
Pros and Cons
  • "The OCR technology within this solution has been most valuable. We are able to scan handwritten documents and scrape their contents to be captured with in the system."
  • "Our business has been highly satisfied with the RPA solutions that we are providing thanks to UiPath."
  • "The stability of this solution does depend upon the applications we are using."
  • "When I first started using this solution, the OCR technology was not that good, but it has since improved."

What is our primary use case?

When I started at my company, they were building their RPA journey. I was the first person to help them do that. As no one in my company was aware of what RPA is, we needed to showcase and publicize what UiPath is and what RPA is.

I work for an insurance company and there are handwritten scripts that need to be scanned in, and this was the first use case that I had to work on. We used the OCR technology to scan handwritten documents and its capabilities are evolving day by day. When I initially started, it was not as robust as it is today. We had some challenges with the OCR technology, but today we are able to do it successfully with validations.

Right now, there are 24 automations of which 22 are in production and two are being built. These are all unattended bots. I also use this solution in a personal capacity to delete all the junk emails I receive as I usually get 20,000 junk emails a week. This saves me a lot of time. 

The UiPath's user community, in terms of the value that we gain by being part of it, is very helpful. If I'm stuck with coding, that is the place I go to get assistance. The ideas and the solutions that they provide are very helpful. There are a few people in the community who are very accurate and their solutions always work.

I have also made use of the academy. Currently, I'm taking the certification training and planning to get my certification done by the end of this year. It has taught me new ways of doing things including dynamic selectors. Previously, the bots used to break because of a selectors issue, but the dynamic selectors solved this. 

How has it helped my organization?

We have an internal process that is manual and takes three days. The first day involves pulling in the data, the second day involves validation and the third day involves delivering it to the relevant system. We automated this process using UiPath.

The errors have been minimized. Whenever something goes wrong, we immediately get an Outlook notification. This is when our business customers get to know that there's something wrong with the input data that they're getting. They can directly deal with the input information data team and get that information corrected and this usually happens within three hours. 

What is most valuable?

The OCR technology within this solution has been most valuable. We are able to scan handwritten documents and scrape their contents to be captured within the system. 

What needs improvement?

When I first started using this solution, the OCR technology was not that good, but it has since improved. Most of the handwritten documents are easily read by the OCR technology. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for three years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability does depend upon the applications we are using but overall the stability is good. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is definitely a scalable solution. 

How are customer service and support?

The first time we had issues was during the setup and we haven't needed to contact the support team since then. Their support is really good and the solutions that they provided really worked from our side. They provided step-by-step instructions that really helped us a lot and saved a lot of time. Our initial estimate to get that UiPath deployment was two and a half weeks, but we finished that in three days. This was made possible by the support and the instructions received from the support team. 

I would rate the support for this solution an eight out of ten. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

I was the one who did the deployment. During the deployment, we had some challenges but received assistance from UiPath support. Even though we had some hiccups in the initial days, we were able to still overcome those with the help of UiPath support. The deployment took two to three days for an on-premises installation. 

What was our ROI?

Our business has been highly satisfied with the RPA solutions that we are providing thanks to UiPath.

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

The pricing for this solution is reasonable. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Blue Prism but felt UiPath is easier to use and offers better performance.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. I would rate it a ten out of ten if this solution worked better with our other applications. 

I would definitely advise others to consider UiPath because it is easy to learn how to use. A lot of documentation is available and accessible to facilitate learning including YouTube videos. 

When I was evaluating Blue Prism versus UiPath, the training materials were not the same for Blue Prism. Coding using UiPath is really easy and is mostly drag and drop. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Technology executive at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 13, 2022
Speed-to-market automation is amazing and efficiency results are tremendous
Pros and Cons
  • "The speed to market is amazing because an automation can go from the initial planning conversation to production in weeks."
  • "The solution has been a tremendous efficiency game for our company, delivering hundreds of thousands of hours of efficiency over 300 robotic process automations."
  • "Most of our automations have been without a user interface and we need the ability to interact with users directly."

What is our primary use case?

Our company uses the solution to automate processing of intended and unintended regulatory transactions in the banking industry. 

We are just starting to use the AI function of the solution. 

How has it helped my organization?

The solution has been a tremendous efficiency game for our company. 

We have delivered hundreds of thousands of hours of efficiency over 300 robotic process automations. 

What is most valuable?

The speed to market is amazing because an automation can go from the initial planning conversation to production in weeks.

What needs improvement?

Most of our automations have been without a user interface and we need the ability to interact with users directly. That should be coming in the next release for us. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for four years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution has been very stable across hundreds of automations. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We scaled from dozens to hundreds of automations and are very satisfied with the solution's scalability. 

How are customer service and support?

Technical support has been great and I rate it an eight out of ten.

The solution's community forums are great and help solve many issues. We can easily reference documentation for similar issues and that provides a lot of assistance. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We previously used Pega but switched to the solution for its speed-to-market benefit. 

Our strategy is to use automation for maintainable, high-quality, repeatable processes while delivering excellent speed. 

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in the initial setup within our environment, but have managed the deployment of several hundred automations and the process is straightforward. 

It is very easy to use our CICD pipeline to deploy and monitor solutions via the orchestrator tool. 

What was our ROI?

Our ROI is saving hundreds of thousands of hours in time by automating processes that used to be managed by staff. 

What other advice do I have?

Academy courses have been very helpful in preparing our developers for certifications.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Manger of it at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 13, 2022
An easy-to-use solution that processes transactions quickly and saves time
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is easy to use, has a good user interface, and processes transactions quickly."
  • "The solution has cut down the amount of time needed to process certain transactions, freeing up human resources to work on other things and creating a better work-life balance because staff are not stressed when working on a particular process."
  • "Initial deployment is very complex and some integrators aren't well qualified."

What is our primary use case?

Our company uses the solution to automate used to be a completely manual set of processes. 

How has it helped my organization?

The solution has cut down the amount of time needed to process certain transactions. We went from fifteen hours to three hours of processing time. 

The solution has freed up human resources to work on other things. This has created a better work-life balance because staff are not stressed when working on a particular process. 

There is much enthusiasm around using the solution and we plan to take advantage of courses offered through its Academy. 

What is most valuable?

The solution is easy to use, has a good user interface, and processes transactions quickly. 

What needs improvement?

Initial deployment is very complex and some integrators need better training. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for one year. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

Customer service is good and I rate it an eight out of ten. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

The solution is the only one we have used. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was complex because our vendor was not as qualified as we thought and created code that did not work. The process to correct that was hard.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented through a vendor but had many coding issues to correct. 

Our vendor experience was a four out of ten. 

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

The solution has gotten pricier. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We did not evaluate other options. 

What other advice do I have?

So far, we are happy with the solution. It seems very stable and scalable with many different uses. We are still in the early stages of using the solution, but things look promising. We are not yet using the solution's AI function. 

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 Development Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 12, 2022
Allows us to build apps easily and quickly, reduces manual work, and has a great community for support
Pros and Cons
  • "One of the features that I find most valuable is the Apps feature. We can easily create an app, or a web app, that can connect to the robots that we created with UiPath. It is just a drag-and-drop functionality, and we can implement an app with minimal code. Once we have the app ready, we can easily and quickly share it with other stakeholders so that they start using it. The apps are also pretty professional to be used at an enterprise level. That's the main feature I love in UiPath."
  • "Our overall efficiency has improved, and with the introduction of UiPath, we were able to reduce the time by half and also reduce resources with these automations."
  • "UiPath is good in a lot of areas, but as an end user, I feel one thing that can be improved is UiPath Studio. It is an application that we can download to our system and then start building the use cases that we want. Sometimes, it takes a little bit of time to launch, and when we are building a complex application involving a lot of sequential flows, it tends to lag a bit."

What is our primary use case?

We do a lot of manual work on a routine basis. We brought in UiPath to reduce a lot of routine work and mundane tasks that we do. An example would be that we have developed internal tools in our company. We need to back up the logs for these tools. Earlier, we used to log into a system, copy the logs, and then store them at another place, such as Amazon S3. With the introduction of UiPath, we are able to achieve this completely in an automated way. We have set up a UiPath automation to log into a system automatically, take all the logs, and then put them in S3 so that we have a backup for all those logs. This was one of the major use cases that we had, and UiPath helped us to achieve that at scale.

We are using the cloud version. We have more of a hybrid model. We have a pipeline through which we deploy everything related to UiPath. We have a beta endpoint and a production endpoint. Everything goes through the pipeline. Once everything is deployed in beta, we do our testing, and when we know that everything is safe in the beta endpoint, we push everything to the production endpoint. It is basically a pipeline system that we manage.

How has it helped my organization?

Our overall efficiency has improved. Previously, the manual tasks that we had to do consumed a lot of time, and they were also prone to human errors because they were manual. With the introduction of UiPath, we were able to reduce the time by half, and we were also able to reduce resources with these automations.

We don't use drag-and-drop APIs, but there are components that we drag and drop to build a UI that can connect to the backend robots. It has increased the effectiveness of how we implement apps. We can create the UI that we want visually, easily, and immediately. Through code, it would take us more time. UiPath's drag-and-drop functionality has drastically reduced the time because everything is visual. We are able to quickly build the app that we desire.

What is most valuable?

One of the features that I find most valuable is the Apps feature. We can easily create an app, or a web app, that can connect to the robots that we created with UiPath. It is just a drag-and-drop functionality, and we can implement an app with minimal code. Once we have the app ready, we can easily and quickly share it with other stakeholders so that they start using it. The apps are also pretty professional to be used at an enterprise level. That's the main feature I love in UiPath.

UiPath's community is great. It is a place where developers like us post questions and get answers from our fellow developers. We've been using that. Their community is very active. Some of the communities out there in the market don't seem to be as active as UiPath's community. Whenever I post a question, I get a detailed response within 5 to 10 hours, which is very good. My peers have also told me the same thing. We get support in the community, and we can also contact community members for help, and they are glad to help us with any problems.

What needs improvement?

UiPath is good in a lot of areas, but as an end user, I feel one thing that can be improved is UiPath Studio. It is an application that we can download to our system and then start building the use cases that we want. Sometimes, it takes a little bit of time to launch, and when we are building a complex application involving a lot of sequential flows, it tends to lag a bit. 

As a developer, initially, UiPath is a little bit difficult to understand because it has a lot of features and components available with it. Understanding each one takes a little bit of time. After we get into the solution, they can provide more out-of-the-box hands-on. It took some time for us to grasp the concepts and features of UiPath and then implement them. If that time could be reduced, it would be really good.

In terms of features, I'm happy with the features that UiPath offers.

For how long have I used the solution?

It has been around one and a half years since I've been using UiPath in our company.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Its stability has been great. I've never seen it break or crash. It has been very reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

For production workflow, it is able to scale at high volume. It is able to take in a lot of transactions per second, which is really good for us because we have a huge customer base, and more customers are starting to onboard. The more RPA is used in the back end, the better it is. It is scalable as we expected it to be. It is able to cater to all the requirements that we have. 

How are customer service and support?

One good feature of UiPath is that whenever I do a Google search, I get a lot of answers. The community of UiPath is very active, and they're great. Whatever question I post, I get a reply to it. 

They also provide professional service. We have the enterprise version, and they provide professional service and support. Anytime that we have raised a ticket with them, we typically get a response within 24 hours. That has been really good. I would rate them a nine out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We haven't used any other similar solution. We had in-house solutions, but they were not scalable. They couldn’t operate when the user base was increasing on a day-to-day basis. We saw UiPath and immediately went through the documents. Once we knew that UiPath could solve all our use cases, we just onboarded it and migrated all our in-house solutions to it, and since then, we haven't had any problems. It has been great.

How was the initial setup?

I was not a part of the deployment team.

What was our ROI?

We were able to reduce the resources. Previously, if we used five resources, then after we introduced UiPath, the number went down from five to three. We need two less resources with the automation that UiPath provides. There is about a 25% increase in efficiency with the help of the automation that UiPath provides.

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

I'm not aware of the pricing because I'm on the development team. The pricing mostly comes from our marketing team. They handle the pricing with UiPath and give us access to the UiPath licenses as a company. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We didn't evaluate other solutions. This was the first one that we encountered. 

What other advice do I have?

We have not used UiPath's artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, but we are doing research on that. We haven't yet implemented anything in production.

I haven't yet explored UiPath Academy, but I have heard about it.

I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.

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Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Aug 29, 2022
Helps us easily implement rapidly changing new business requirements
Pros and Cons
  • "The best part is the way UiPath provides the ability to automate everything, including the architecture and Orchestrator. The interfaces are very user-friendly and intuitive. It's very easy to build automations. Someone who is not very technical can understand quite a lot and start to automate."
  • "We saw benefits with the first automation that was implemented, because it started to work and free people from routine work, within the first second of the automation working."
  • "I faced a problem when a new version of UiPath Studio didn't work with an older version of the packages that were part of our project. The problem is that when I have to change something just a bit, I actually have to rebuild the automation with new versions of these libraries. There is no backward compatibility."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for the automation of internal HR processes in our company.

How has it helped my organization?

It helps with the ease of implementing new logic from business requirements, which very rapidly change.

UiPath has also helped because fewer people are engaged in the processes we automate, and they can do more important things. It saves our staff time, on the order of 80 percent. In terms of employee satisfaction, I don't really know how they feel, because they are not in my department, but I believe that when you don't have to do such routine, repetitive work, you can have a coffee and come up with ideas on how to improve the automations. That is, by far, better than clicking and typing thousands of forms.

Also, there is less chance of a person making a mistake. If a given operation would take one person, for example, two days to do, the automation can do it in one hour, or even 30 minutes. It is very useful. We saw benefits with the first automation that was implemented, because it started to work and free people from routine work, within the first second of the automation working.

We have a lot of automations that involve filling forms on the internet and creating events in a calendar. There are a lot of fields to fill out. When creating these meetings, you have to add a description and pick the actual time. All this stuff should be done precisely, because if there is a mistake, somebody will not come to this meeting, or the information will not be applicable. Now the number of errors is zero because robots don't make mistakes.

We also don't need to involve the IT department, and we now have 15 automations. The group of people who implement it do the maintenance as well. We don't need IT and, actually, everything works fine without any maintenance. The problems come when there are updates, but the time needed for maintenance is very small.

Because we don't need to create virtual machines to install the solution on-premises, the cost is as little as it can be. Of course, we have to create several virtual machines for actual clicking, because the robot works the way a human does. But it has definitely helped with our on-prem footprint because we don't have to install the core of the system on-premises. I know, from my experience, that those kinds of core components take a lot of hardware resources. They would not require just one virtual machine; it would be a bunch of virtual machines. It is definitely very efficient to use the cloud solution from UiPath.

UiPath reduces costs because it reduces the time it takes to create automations. You don't have to write the actual code. You just build automations with higher levels of abstraction and you don't have to worry about what is done behind the curtains.

What is most valuable?

The best part is the way UiPath provides the ability to automate everything, including the architecture and Orchestrator. The interfaces are very user-friendly and intuitive. It's very easy to build automations. Someone who is not very technical can understand quite a lot and start to automate.

All automations are built starting with process analysis, then robot building, and monitoring. One person can gather the requirements, build the automation, and monitor it. This end-to-end coverage is very important. I can't even imagine how it would work if not in this way. This is the essential part of the automation: the idea, the implementation, and the maintenance.

UiPath's approach allows adding new workers, new agents, or robots to perform quicker and in parallel. For example, if you create two extra virtual machines with two extra robots, a whole bunch of operations will be performed three times faster. This kind of implementation is very convenient. And, we can change the way automations are deployed in Orchestrator and make it more efficient as well. We can do all these kinds of things really easily and quickly, like in minutes or less than an hour. That helps to scale things. You can change something in an automation in several minutes and deploy it or publish it in Orchestrator, and it already works. The challenge of implementing innovation can be addressed very quickly and very efficiently. The challenge is that we have to change our automations because other applications change with time. They have new user interfaces. But we don't need to upgrade anything to automate.

Several of our team members are studying the UiPath Academy courses at this moment. It has definitely helped because they get to know about new features that make automations more mature. One of my colleagues said, "As I read and study more in this course, I begin thinking more creatively and in more interesting ways." That means their understanding is growing and that it is changing their perceptions of what they can do with UiPath.

The information in the Academy is structured, starting with simpler concepts and moving to more advanced levels of knowledge, gradually. Also, you really learn about things you haven't used before. Thirdly, it leads you to the certification exam and getting the certificate on passing this exam. That makes you a good candidate for better jobs.

UiPath also has a very nice community of developers. When I face problems that I can't resolve by myself after several hours, I Google it in the UiPath Community and almost every problem can be solved by searching their resources. I work with different vendors and not all of them have such a big and open community. This is a real advantage. I'm not very familiar with other communities in RPA, but I can say that this community is, by far, more useful and more open than any other vendor's community I have seen.

What needs improvement?

I faced a problem when a new version of UiPath Studio didn't work with an older version of the packages that were part of our project. The problem is that when I have to change something just a bit, I actually have to rebuild the automation with new versions of these libraries. There is no backward compatibility. 

This question was addressed to an engineer from UiPath in the Community but I haven't gotten an answer. This is quite a hard question. So, I just create new automations with new approaches, which takes some time.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for about eight months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable compared to other enterprise tools. Even if there is an error, if you handle it properly, everything works perfectly. From the point of view of UiPath developers, everything is done on a very high level.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. However, to see the scalability you have to use the Enterprise Edition, because the Community Edition doesn't allow you to use more than one robot. But the mathematics are very easy: The more robots you have, the faster everything happens.

The number of automations will grow in our company.

How are customer service and support?

I haven't used their technical support.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy. It took a few hours.

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

We are using the Community Edition. The cost is only that of the virtual machines.

The pricing of the Enterprise Edition is a bit high. It's several thousand dollars a month. That's too much, because not every enterprise or organization can build such useful robots that will make it worthwhile for them to pay this much. Maybe the cost of the program could depend on the number of automations, or the complexity of the automations.

What other advice do I have?

The solution is cloud-based, but you have to have some components deployed on the local computers. That is the architecture of UiPath, but the base of the infrastructure is in the cloud.

My advice is to just implement and begin automating. You don't have to even learn something before it, because everything is very intuitive.

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Director of Software Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Aug 15, 2022
Saved our organization about $40 million last year in operations, and improved compliance, but could include AI and ML-based enhancements in the core product
Pros and Cons
  • "Attended and unattended automation, which support web and email automation, are the most valuable features for us."
  • "UiPath saves us a lot of time, which translates into operational cost savings, and we saved around $40 million in operations last year by operating 140 bots in production."
  • "There are a lot of AI and ML-based enhancements that could be included in the core product and activities."
  • "It can take a long time to get a response from technical support. They have to go through multiple hoops to get a solution, so that could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I use this solution for mortgage loan origination, loan servicing, and IT administration. I'm currently using version 21.

We use the solution on-premises.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath saves us a lot of time, which translates into operational cost savings. We saved around $40 million in operations last year by operating 140 bots in production. UiPath saves us costs, improves compliance, and helps with scaling up and down our operations.

We use attended automation but not on a large scale. We have three or four bots.

Attended automation improves our ability to automate processes that are more complex or involved. We use attended automation for use cases that involve websites that require actual users to log in. It's really helpful because a lot of use cases deal with federal websites and external websites where we need to download client information, credit reports, and fraud reports. That kind of information can only be done by a human, so attended automation is necessary for those types of use cases.

Right now, we aren't completely into AI. We explored document understanding for text extraction, and we know the capabilities. We haven't even started our ML journey, at least from the RPA automation perspective. They're still in the robotic process, so we haven't moved to include automation.

This solution speeds up digital transformation and reduces the cost. It gives leverage for the teams to transform digitally, because the traditional digital solutions take a long time to set up. It can take a few months for a solution to be in place. That requires expensive or complex application upgrades or IT application support to support the digital transformation. If we wanted to add a new app that would have oversight of all the loans being originated, it would take between two to three months to build UIs, dashboards, and all the features around it. With UiPath, the same kind of overview can be set up quickly: within two to three weeks.

The solution absolutely reduces human error. Most of our use cases involve looking at the input data, doing calculations, and updating fields. That always needs to be done by a human, day in and day out, continuously throughout a work shift. This RPA solution reduced that piece of human error drastically. I would say that more than 99% of human error is reduced.

The solution freed up employee time so they can work on other useful tasks. That's one of the main advantages of this solution.

Some of the processes have to be performed after hours and over weekends. When those tasks are automated, it gives valuable work-life balance back to our employees so they can do something useful with their time. The main ROI is saving manual effort, which is how we reduce our operational costs.

We see improvements in saved time, cost, quality, and risk production.

What is most valuable?

Attended and unattended automation, which support web and email automation, are the most valuable features for us. Building automations is easy and quick.

The solution enables us to implement end-to-end automation, starting with process analysis, then robot building, and finally monitoring automations. 
We aren't using the complete suite, like Process Mining, Process Insights, and UiPath Insights, but we use custom tools. Having end-to-end coverage of all these processes in one platform reduces cost and makes maintainability very easy. 

We use Kibana Dashboards with UiPath Insights, which was introduced within the last two years. For process analysis, we still use a traditional business analyst type of setup, but we don't use Process Mining. It's something we are exploring.

We use the academic courses to train all of our new developers and also upscale ourselves with new platforms. UiPath Academy is a single source of training for our team and it's free. We also hire college developers and new developers from other teams who want to work in RPA. We recently started StudioX citizen development. Academy is where citizen developers can get trained quickly.

It covers all of the various products, and it's easy to search through courses. We can skip different sections and get to the part we're looking for.

The UiPath community is a big and vibrant community. I think contributors are being rewarded for their contributions, and that happens in an organized fashion. That's the reason why people are so actively involved in contributing to the community. I would say that 90% of our development queries are answered in the community forum. It's really good compared to other platforms.

What needs improvement?

There are a lot of AI and ML-based enhancements that could be included in the core product and activities. Right now, there are plugins available from external vendors like Microsoft and Google. If those AI and ML activities can be provided out of the box for developers to use, that would really help the product go from an automation RPA to one automation suite.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used this solution for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The latest versions are pretty stable. I haven't seen any issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's scalable. If we have enough bots, we can quickly scale up and down. If it's on the cloud, it's easy to scale up. If it's on-premises, we need to set up the machines, which takes time.

How are customer service and support?

It can take a long time to get a response from technical support. They have to go through multiple hoops to get a solution, so that could be improved.

I would rate technical support as five out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

For the initial setup, we needed UiPath's support team to be on board. On-premises setup is always really tough. I think the cloud version would be really easy to set up, but we haven't explored that.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution seven out of ten. 

It's a pretty robust solution. When it comes to automation, it's pretty easy to set up and easy to use. My advice is that the cloud version is the best way to go forward when you're setting up UiPath.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Blockchain Analyst at Everflow
Real User
Aug 3, 2022
The orchestrator lets you manage your platform virtually, so you can monitor everything and assign new roles to users
Pros and Cons
  • "UiPath is a highly stable solution. We haven't encountered any bugs, downtime, or other issues since we started using the solution. We also don't experience any instability when working with components in other projects."
  • "UiPath is easy to use, monitor, and manage."
  • "UiPath support's technical expertise is impressive, but the response time isn't ideal. When you raise a ticket on the UiPath portal, customer support can sometimes take up to 24 hours to respond."

What is our primary use case?

We're a blockchain company that provides finance and analytics solutions, so we have multiple use cases, including organizational process automation. We do some end-to-end automation and automate some repetitive tasks. In the future, we plan to target some advanced processes like blockchain and machine learning. 

One example of a specific use case is market auditing. We are auditing our sales team and plan to audit our customers. This entails inspecting data produced by two third-party platforms, Salesforce and SAE, and combining that data into one Excel workbook to perform some calculations. We perform some analytics and then export the data from Excel to our CRM. Transferring the customer data to our CRM is incredibly time-consuming because we deal with more than a thousand lines of data. It takes a minimum of two hours to upload all the data to the portal.

UiPath helps us extract the numbers from the CRM side and share them with our marketing and financial team. This involves four processes that we combine into one automated endpoint process. The reduced workload across the three involved departments translates to cost savings equalling about 2.6 FTE monthly.

Another use case is to promote our components, services, and products. We are building a promotions portal that is attached to Excel. The promotion will involve maybe 500 line items and multiple roles. While you can do this manually, there is a significant potential for human error that could mean a loss of revenue. For instance, if we accidentally offer the same customer two discounts, we have to honor that. We haven't had any errors using UiPath in the last six months. 

We have three offices in our country, but the solution is deployed on a virtual machine in the head office. If a branch location requires process automation, we automate that solution at headquarters, and all the infrastructure is centrally managed. The primary users are six people from my team, including me, a business analyst, a developer, and three consultants. There are also two people from another group managing the UiPath infrastructure. 

We use UiPath Action Center, a capability that allows us to engage businesspeople and incorporate them into our automation. In total, we have about 12 to 15 people using UiPath, but some of them have limited privileges. 

How has it helped my organization?

Management prepared a presentation last week detailing how we've benefited from the start of 2021 to June 2022. We uploaded 149 processes into our unattended environment, and the robot runtime is 15,028 minutes, so we saved 75,114 hours. In the last year and a half, we saved the equivalent of 43 full-time employees.

 We have automated many tasks that would've been done manually, and we are reassigning our employees to other valuable tasks. This translates into a cost savings of about $98,000 for the last two years. Performing repetitive tasks is also demoralizing. If you're constantly performing representative tasks, your motivation level very goes down, so keeping our employees motivated is an added benefit. 

What is most valuable?

I am not an experienced developer, and working with UiPath has taught me a lot. We use UiPath Orchestrator with a combination of unattended and attended bots. That functionality allows you to manage your platform virtually. You can monitor everything and assign new roles to users. 

What needs improvement?

I would like to see more native AI and machine learning functionality. UiPath doesn't cover all the options for a few tasks that we require, so it's hard to do advanced automation. For example, UiPath chatbots are one area where machine learning capabilities could help. Users ask the robot questions, triggering those kinds of processes. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We started using UiPath in September 2020.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is a highly stable solution. We haven't encountered any bugs, downtime, or other issues since we started to use the solution. We also don't experience any instability when working with components in other projects. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is a highly scalable solution because some of its capabilities can be used in other projects. This means we don't have to rebuild the solutions we have already developed. With the help of these solutions and features, we can reduce the development time. 

How are customer service and support?

I rate UiPath support eight out of 10. Technical support is generally good, but there's one thing I don't like. UiPath support's technical expertise is impressive, but the response time isn't ideal. When you raise a ticket on the UiPath portal,  customer support can sometimes take up to 24 hours to respond. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

Setting up UiPath was highly straightforward because we had help from the vendor team. Our deployment team had eight people total, including me, a business analyst, a developer, and two IT people plus two people from the UiPath side. It took approximately one month because we implemented the UiPath solution on-premises. We had one or two technical meetings with the UiPath team and we needed to build some architecture. They suggested that we leverage our existing servers on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.  

Then, we integrated all those solutions on the UiPath side. We installed a UiPath solution in the dev environment where we were developing the processes and one in the live environment. We have more than 32 licenses, so we created 32 virtual machines on Google Cloud and Azure. 

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

Every organization needs to cut costs, and all customers try to negotiate a discount on licensing. When we initially tried UiPath, they offered a discount of nearly seven percent, but they haven't since. UiPath's price is a little high compared to other solutions, but it's easier to use and maintain. We purchased a three-year license.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We tried Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and another tool by IBM, but I didn't care for those solutions because they were too complex. UiPath is easy to use, monitor, and manage. Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism lacked some of UiPath's features. For example, UiPath allows us to maintain our environments remotely through UiPath Orchestrator. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate UiPath nine out of ten. It's a great solution. I highly recommended UiPath over other automation tools I've used.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Senior Software Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Aug 3, 2022
The AI functionality saves time and reduces the number of errors
Pros and Cons
  • "The AI functionality saves time and reduces the number of errors. It also reduces our costs in terms of human resources. It has reduced our costs by thousands of dollars."
  • "The community can be increased and enhanced. That way, if we are facing an issue and need an easy solution, we can then use the community."
  • "They could make the solution better by improving the latency."

What is our primary use case?

Our use case for this solution is for hosting and deployment purposes of web applications.

We are using the latest version.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath is a good solution for automation. Our time management has improved by using the UiPath solution. On a monthly basis, it reduces one week of a developer's time.

It helps reduce human error. 99% of errors can be avoided by using this solution.

What is most valuable?

It has a very good, user-friendly user interface. This is its best feature - it is very easy to use. There is not much complexity when using it. For the beginners, this is also good.

For building automations, we can use a task manager because we also have job management or support in the development phase. We can apply first-in, first-out with work in UiPath.

For the automation, we do not require anything to be manual. We only need to set up the configuration. UiPath follows the instructions given by the developer or engineer. It automatically follows the instructions from end-to-end given in a set of files. 

The unattended automation helps improve our time management.

We are using the solution's AI functionality, which helps us automate more things. Now, nothing is complex. We just need to drag and drop things to create a flow. Everything is done automatically by the automation. It reduces our effort on these types of things.

What needs improvement?

They could make the solution better by improving the latency.

The community can be increased and enhanced. That way, if we are facing an issue and need an easy solution, we can then use the community.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using it for a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is capable of doing various tasks at the same time.

We have not experienced any downtime or issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. We can add any number of users. This is the most scalable solution that we are using.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good. I would rate them as eight out of 10.

We would like them to increase the community. That way, if we need 24/7 tech support due to an error or issue, we can resolve it as soon as possible.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We did not previously use another solution.

How was the initial setup?

The deployment was neither straightforward nor complex. Some skills are required, i.e., basic courses are required for a developer or engineer using this solution. For a person who has hands-on experience with it, the deployment will be simple for them.

What was our ROI?

The AI functionality saves time and reduces the number of errors. It also reduces our costs in terms of human resources. It has reduced our costs by thousands of dollars.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We have a team who decides the software that we use. They chose UiPath because it was better than the other competitors. They conclude that UiPath was the best one, which is why we use it.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate UiPath as nine 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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IT Lead Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jul 31, 2022
Improves the sharing of information between healthcare systems, and saves our employees notable time
Pros and Cons
  • "The tenant concept, where you can have everyone working in their own space, is valuable."
  • "We've saved the equivalent of five or six FTEs, and that's in the short amount of time that we've been using UiPath."
  • "One area that is challenging for me is tracking licenses."

What is our primary use case?

We are using UiPath as our RPA solution for finance, supply chain, revenue cycle, HR, and IT. At the moment, we're using it mainly for unattended automations of big jobs.

How has it helped my organization?

In the healthcare field, where systems often don't talk to each other, UiPath helps data to be shared between systems. My colleagues have been talking about that and there has been an improvement. That's important because it helps us to keep in line with one another.

Also, security and compliance are a big deal in our organization, especially because we are in healthcare, and we keep it as secure as possible. UiPath assists us with that in terms of credentialing and separation of duties. We don't take security lightly.

What is most valuable?

The tenant concept, where you can have everyone working in their own space, is valuable.

For how long have I used the solution?

We're just starting to implement UiPath on a larger scale. We've been using it for about nine months maybe, so we're new to it.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We really have not had a lot of hiccups or anything that's been difficult. The stability has been good. On a scale of one to 10, I would give it an eight right now and that's only because we haven't really tested the boundaries.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good. It's easy to do. It will get pushed a little bit more as we get more mature with the product, but so far so good.

How are customer service and support?

We had a different solution prior to UiPath, and what we've really liked so far with UiPath is the way that they interact with us in terms of customer support and satisfaction. They're very in tune with what we need. They have a lot of experience in the RPA world.

Our TAM is Micah de Boer and our sales engineer is Mick Taylor. Our account manager, Garet Wright, has been outstanding.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

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

We previously used Automation Anywhere. One of the reasons we switched was that it didn't seem to be as mature as UiPath. Another was that it does not have a citizen developer program or even the concept of a citizen developer. In addition, it didn't seem to be as stable. We had a lot of issues with the system going offline or having problems. And when it came to customer service, they were not responsive to our needs. It would take days for them to get back to us on questions or issues that we submitted.

How was the initial setup?

Right now we are an on-prem model, but we are switching to a SaaS-based model in the cloud.

From what I have heard from my team, the deployment of UiPath has been much easier than the deployment of Automation Anywhere. It is much more straightforward, clearer, and easier.

The team that supports the platform is a team of just two people. Both are senior analyst programmers and they are responsible for the deployment and the infrastructure set up of everything related to the UiPath product. We have two other individuals on my team who are the RPA developers, the ones writing the bots.

The deployment has been pretty lightweight so far in comparison to what we had to deal with when we used Automation Anywhere.

What about the implementation team?

We did it ourselves.

What was our ROI?

It's returning hours back to employees so that they can do more tasks that involve thinking, and not have to do so much mundane, repetitive work. That gives us a good return on investment because something that might have taken an individual an hour to do can be done by a robot in five minutes. It's definitely freeing up some actual work time for people.

We've saved the equivalent of five or six FTEs, and that's in the short amount of time that we've been using UiPath.

It has also improved our employees' joy at work because they aren't having to do some of the mundane activities that they had to do in the past.

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

Licensing allocations are easy. We also have the ability to have a robot license be fully utilized, meaning it can do more than one thing. If it's idle, we're able to use that robot for some other automation, rather than having a one-to-one relationship between automations and robots.

We just moved to their Enterprise licensing model and it seems fair at this point. It will be interesting to see where we are over the next three years and if we're able to show a return on that hefty investment.

One area that is challenging for me is tracking licenses. It would help to have a license dashboard so that we would know how many licenses have been allocated, who they're allocated to, and when they were last used. Right now, to gather that information, I have to go to four different screens in UiPath and then consolidate all that. A licensing module that we could look at from administrative and management perspectives, would be awesome. That's the main thing I have been hearing from my staff.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

When we first chose our initial vendor, Automation Anywhere, we had done an RFP process and had gone through pilots. It was close in terms of which was number one and which was number two. When we discovered that Automation Anywhere wasn't meeting our needs, we contacted other folks who had used Automation Anywhere and had switched to UiPath and asked them for feedback and what their experience had been. We did some benchmarking with others around us to see what they were doing.

What other advice do I have?

Comparing UiPath to what we had before, it has been a cakewalk. Be sure that you work with your leadership and with your IT areas to pick the best deployment solution for your company.

We haven't had an opportunity to use all the features and functions, but in terms of the robustness of the product and the communication we've received from our teams at UiPath, we've had an outstanding experience with them, and we really look forward to keeping that going in the future as we build out this program.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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