UiPath Platform Reviews

I started using UiPath version 2017.1 and currently, I am using 2018.4.6.

We had a requirement of fetching emails, which are basically requests from clients filled on our website form. We read those emails and process the data filled by the user in the form. There are different forms like a request to provide reports, a request to add or delete a user, etc.

After reading these emails, the bot has to take the necessary action on our Primary CRM application. Depending on the request type, the bot will navigate to the necessary module in the application and perform the request as defined in the email request. 

Earlier, we had a team of around 20 people working in one shift to handle these requests. We were able to scale back on 15 of these team members and utilize them for other work in the organization.

Five people are still required to process exceptions that the bots are not able to process due to multiple reasons. Additionally, the UiPath bots helped process the requests for the entire day, compared to the processing happening only during business hours. 

We were also able to reduce the time taken to process each request from approximately ten minutes to two minutes.

There are many RPA tools available in the market.

The most valuable feature that UiPath has is the ability to be able to use .NET functions. Basically, all of the data manipulation functions and classes available in .NET are accessible in UiPath and this makes it easier to cast data and use it correctly. 

Apart from this, the Queue is one of the best things that other tools do not have. This enables us to have work items queued and then run multiple bots to pick up items and work on them simultaneously.  

As more and more organization units are trying to use RPA, there might be a need to have separation of data within multiple tenants or organizational units. Not only on the front-end but also the ability to have a separate database for each Tenant. This will leave no room for the enterprise security team to raise questions on data separation. 

I feel that a Host Admin, being a master Admin, should be somehow able to login to different tenants. 

I have been using UiPath for the past two years.

UiPath is quite a stable product. I haven't seen many issues and I rarely had to contact the support team for reporting issues.

UiPath is completely scalable. Right from giving you an option to segregate processes between different organizational units to expanding to multiple robots.

Customer Service is prompt and the technical support team is highly efficient and knowledgeable.

We used Automation Anywhere earlier, which is a more user-friendly and less complex RPA tool compared to UiPath. We finally had to switch due to certain capabilities that were restrictive in AA. Stability was also a factor.

I think the setup cost is quite nominal, but the licensing might be on a higher side when compared to Automation Anywhere. However, we should not forget about the features and flexibility which UiPath has.

We did not evaluate any other options. We moved from Automation Anywhere to UiPath.

I think that for the most part, this product has all of the required features.

We use robotic process automation to automate the business process of the company.

We are using the Oracle JD Edwards. We have automated the HR process for the payroll and payslips.

We used UiPath for the scanning of attachments and uploading/attaching them in the Oracle system automatically. Previously, we used to take a day or two in doing so. Most of the daily human errors are minimized.

We used this for automated internal requests including automatic reconciliation instead of several clicks from the user and automatic correction of the master records or any change required.

It has improved the work process of a task that used to take two days and is now done during the breaks of the employees. This means employees can do other tasks.

It has improved the time it takes to do the bank reconciliation from the system. It now matches the value based on the common transaction number and the reconciliation is done.

Secondly, the attachment of documents to the invoice, which is sometimes missed, is a very basic process to do. It used to take a lot of time, so instead, employees can now do productive work rather than attaching the PDF file to the transactions.

The most valuable features are the UiPath studio tools with the recording feature to capture the navigation of the process on the screen.

The Excel data, which takes a lot of time to upload in software like Oracle and SAP, can be done through the screen instead of the back end.

I personally use the features of uploading the massive records from the front end through the UiPath studio instead of uploading them through the interface table, which sometimes gives an error resulting in having to troubleshoot and check the logs of the application. It has benefits of its own but sometimes in such cases, UiPath is very handy.

It's a very powerful tool but it can still be improved in many ways. In most cases, the results from the software are the same and not variable. This means that we have to define the variable by editing the flow chart. This case happens when we are recording the navigation from the web. Moreover, sometimes there are lots of screens in the process and decision making is required.

I believe in the future this process will be handled by the click of a button or automated in a better way, with minimum human intervention.

I have almost one year of hands-on experience with the product.

UiPath studio and orchestrator are pretty stable unless some human intervention is required within the process workflow.You might face hang or freeze but very minimal.

It can be case to case for the system you are using while i did install it i faced.

The scalability is fantastic.

The customer support is amazing.

We did not have such a process in place before this.

Coming from an ERP background, I did not find the initial setup to be very complicated.

The configuration is easy to do.

We implemented this solution using our in-house team.

We have not calculated ROI to this point.

UiPath is not very pricey. If you purchase an Orchestrator then it's pricey but you receive the benefit that it runs many processes simultaneously.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing UiPath.

I can't wait to have automation with every human in portable devices. It will automate not just the business process but daily life activities.

My primary use case of this solution is automation. Where there are tedious tasks, we use the automation in those areas or sectors. I am a trainer and learner. It also helps others because it does not involve much coding.

UiPath was recently implemented and we have started migrating to this technology. From my perspective, it's useful for solving any repetitive tasks in any field.

The features that are most valuable are Excel Automation, Web Automation, Web Scrapping, and CV Automation. We had small tasks so we used these types of automation. As a trainer, these automation types are useful.

I would like to see improvements made in OCR, Captcha Automation, and PDF extraction. There should be a clearer way of performing web scraping, such that it is simpler to do.

Overall, more add-on features would improve UiPath.

I have been using UiPath for four months.

I'm working at a computer software company, where we're bringing digital transformation using UiPath. All rule-based and mundane tasks are identified and automated using RPA. We have about 25 bots in production now. Data processing, file handling, email automation, and related activities are running in production.

The most valuable features are the ability to interact with almost all applications in Windows, ease of programming, excellent forum support for developers, free academy training, Orchestrator capabilities for BOT handling, and Citrix-supporting features during development.

Robotic process automation should mold and grow into intelligent process automation where a BOT can handle more than just robotic and simple tasks. I'm sure UiPath is working towards it.

A self-coding robot can be a very useful tool in the future.  

We have been using UiPath for three years.

The ROI was quick and measurable. The employee's productive hours increased and they were able to handle more transactions and focused on better quality work that needs human intelligence. Some processes were developed in human-BOT collaboration as partial automation.

The R&D focus of UiPath is really impressive.

I have worked in many industries and domains like healthcare and finance. I have automated web-based applications and Email automation.

Automated an end-to-end process that starts with the user raising a request in BMC Remedy. It handles requests for respective Roles in the GRC System of SAP. This process includes identifying the Request number from the BMC remedy Ticket. The BOT identifies respective control owners for requested roles and requests the controlling owner for their approval. Then BOT performs the Approval/Rejection process accordingly.

UiPath has improved my organization in many ways. With the help of UiPath, we were able to automate our mundane and repetitive tasks and this has saved us lots of time. Also, it has enhanced our productivity and reduces the error rate. We were able to complete our tasks as per client requirements.

Orchestrator is the feature that allows making use of robots for remote location systems. The work queue is the added advantage to maintain the bot data.

The inbuilt RE Framework makes development easier and fast.

UiPath helped me to automate the various complex and mundane processes. You can also run your Python and .NET code in UiPath, which makes the development easy.

The UiPath interface is very user-friendly and also it is easy to learn and use.

There are many online certifications in the UiPath Academy, so it helps the user to become a certified developer and learn everything from the online courses.

Support from the UiPath community is very good.

There are some problems with selectors and in PDF extraction so it could be improved a little bit.

There is a bug in UiPath that occurs when the URL of the web page changes. We are unable to scrap the data from that application page.

The Community Edition is not stable, so end-users working on the Community version may find some errors or issues when using this tool. Also, debugging is not as expected. A lot of issues occur during debugging.

I have been working on UiPath for one and a half years.

UiPath is good stability-wise. I have had a great experience with UiPath.

I find that the scalability of this tool is very good.

Support from UiPath technical community is very good and the response time, I would like to say, is very prompt.

We did not use another RPA solution prior to UiPath.

I was not involved in the Setup part. I had a team for this but as per my understanding, this tool is easy to setup.

I have implemented this through the in-house team.

We did not evaluate other options.

UiPath is a very complete software and allows you to make different robots depending on the system. Its main function is to save time and automate project management, which it does very well. It allows you to remove software and in this way, you will return to Create them but automated so that artificial intelligence (AI) can work correctly. It collaborates with employees.

It is possible to automate, for example, Excel files so that the forms can be filled automatically and not manually.

Overall, I am very happy and I recommend it.

I actually went for a powerup automation hackathon conducted by UiPath, which gave me the idea to implement this in my organization. I used the product, experienced it, and I'm here. UiPath reduced a lot of manual work and I am getting positive reviews from the company.

UiPath has helped with automation to categorize emails, text capturing to get detailed information about the organization, and reduced manual work a lot which can't be said explicitly. We even tried to used UiPath as a testing tool, and it helped speed development for the project.

The most valuable features are Excel Sheet manipulation operations and the Data Scrapping Wizard.

It provides for easy implementation of the project, where we can easily develop without coding, and there is well-defined process management in the orchestrator.

I can easily get support from the UiPath forum and through the mail.

I would suggest that UiPath be released for use on other platforms.

Almost a year I am using UiPath, well developed.

Previoiusly, we did not use any other solution, this is the first.

The new version is good. It met all of the requirements and more features have been added.

UiPath Studio has improved a lot, testing the custom activity. Previously, UiPath would get a few errors while developing the project, but now it's completely gone.

The new user interface is integrated with Orchestrator and it is awesome.

I use it to provide training on UiPath.

In the past, I have used UiPath to automate the debit card activation web portal. The task is to read data from Excel and put it into the web portal.

I used it for DMS portal automation as well, after reading scanned PDFs and updating data in the DMS portal.

Currently, I work as a trainer, and the community edition has helped me train many developers in Uipath.

The most valuable feature is Orchestrator Queues, as it comes in really handy when processing large sets of data.

I find the great GUI of UiPath very appealing.

The training available in UiPath is really awesome and the material makes you automation-ready so that one can work on real-time projects. 

Below are the three features that need improvement:

• Allow "Wait for task" to be used in XAML files other than Main.
• Allow mail-type variable to be stored in Orchestrator queues.
• I would like a way to add priority to the outgoing mails from UiPath studio.

I have been using UiPath for one year.

I would rate stability at 90%.

Easily scalable by buying licenses from platform.uipath.com.

The technical team at UiPath is really very helpful.

I did not use another RPA solution prior to UiPath.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I would rate my vendor team a nine out of ten.

My advice is to use the community edition first to automate a small business process and then go full-on with UiPath.

I evaluated Automation Anywhere.

 Its great software. Just download UiPath and try for yourself.

In our organization (Global Business Services), we do a lot of automations in the Windows environment. In the past, we've used a lot of VBA macros and VB scripts but maintaining support for more than 1000 macros has become a very difficult task. UiPath, as an end-to-end RPA solution, solves many issues and limitations of the previous setup.

We were managing more than 1000 VBA macros and we knew there's even more out there in the business. By deploying UiPath bots, we have standardized the automation approach and it also gave us a centralized view and control of all automations deployed on the platform (Orchestrator).

The drag and drop interface of Studio is very valuable as it minimizes the development time. The Orchestrator is also a very integral part of the package as it allows us to deploy, monitor, and manage all of the bots in the platform.

The capability of creating and using high-density robots makes management simpler and straightforward.

The Studio can be improved by adding certain features like color-coding the activities. By letting the user change the color of the activity box (or by having different default colors for each type of activity), it's easier to identify activities especially when they are nested together.

The Orchestrator can be improved by making the landing page dashboard customizable based on what information and stats we want to see as an organization. The stats shown in the Orchestrator dashboard are very basic. Today, we had to make a separate web app that uses the Orchestrator API just to see the data that we want to see in a format that we prefer. Our business needs visibility on which country the failed/pending bots are servicing and how many jobs were completed based on tower assignments. These stats are not available out-of-the-box in Orchestrator.

My organization has been using UiPath for more than a year now.

The system is pretty stable, the only limitation could be the hardware setup. If there is not enough RAM or CPU power on the machines where the bots are running, then it could result in system crashes.

It's very scalable as you can start with one bot and make it do multiple processes. Adding the next bots is easy too.

We have an assigned Customer Success Manager and he has been very helpful. He used to be a senior developer in UiPath and he's very knowledgeable. 

UiPath is our first official RPA solution.

The initial setup was straightforward. We had to build virtual servers and install UiPath in the machines, then opened up a couple of ports in the firewall and we were ready to go.

We implemented using a vendor team and it took longer than expected despite the initially assessed simple approach. Getting the paperwork done and giving the vendor team access to the system probably took longer.

I don't have direct visibility on the ROI as a different team takes care of it, but since we started using UiPath, we have been more stringent on what kind of automation projects we take in as a developer team.

UiPath has a Community version that is totally free (including Orchestrator) and has all the features. Any organization that wants to get into RPA should try that out and then look into the paid version.

We've had a demo by Blue Prism but ultimately we chose UiPath based on the support we received, as well as its capabilities.

My advice for anybody who is considering this solution is to use the free Community version extensively and make use of the community forums. The RPA Academy is also a great resource, a one-stop shop to get educated in using UiPath and it's also free. Once your organization is ready to scale and go beyond free, UiPath offers reasonable pricing.