I'm working for one project where we're trying to automate processes for a logistics company, specifically in their back-office accounting processes.
We're using Studio, Orchestrator and the bots. In other words, we're using the whole platform.
I'm working for one project where we're trying to automate processes for a logistics company, specifically in their back-office accounting processes.
We're using Studio, Orchestrator and the bots. In other words, we're using the whole platform.
When we were implementing it, we were empowering people. In this company, everybody has their own work and they were really in their own area. Then we started this project and they got empowered to change the way they were working. UiPath is so open that everybody can take part in it.
That was one thing that changed right away. Another thing was the way they think about processes and where there are possibilities to automate has really changed. Before, they never thought about automating all these processes but we told them there is a possibility. Now, when they're having strategy meetings, they have dedicated time slots where they're just talking about processes that could be automated. The whole mindset is changing now.
We have a virtual environment that we use.
We haven't touched the processes where there would be human errors that much. We started with the really basic ones that are so easy that people don't make errors there. We will get to the more complex processes, but we haven't yet.
The solution has definitely saved time.
Orchestrator lets you start a credential stair, so you can get the credentials in a safe way. Before this, they were afraid that credentials would be stored somewhere and people could see them. I think it's really important for our customers that you can do that in Orchestrator. The scheduling feature is also valuable of course.
In terms of ease of use, I would rate this solution as four out of five. I think it's very easy, but our customers are sometimes not so technical. When they come from the business side, it's somehow hard for them to understand.
I would give the RPA Academy training program five out of five. Without it, I don't think I could have started implementing this solution. I did the developer program just for a general understanding of how everything works: how Orchestrator works and how it all works together. For me, it was really important to do the training then. It was very good, so I really liked it.
It's really hard for me to get all the machine learning and AI parts. I think maybe that's going to get a little bit easier for me to understand how to really use it in the company. I don't really know what to do with it at the moment. I think that is something that could be improved.
I tested the live sessions and we saw some parts of StudioX. There were some things that were so easy there. I think it would be good if they would put it also in Studio, for example. The carts they have are in color. We try to get people in the company, even if they're not technical, to implement the bots or processes by themselves. I think some parts they changed in StudioX could be really helpful in Studio skills.
I would rate their stability as three to four out of five, but I would say that's probably because we don't know how to use it best. That is why we sometimes have issues that something's not working.
We are a consultancy firm but the customer that we are working with has about five people in the core team that are working with this solution.
Both customer support and technical support are very good. I think the chief from my customer and the UiPath technical team had many phone calls because the virtual machine didn't work at first. They were in contact and I think two days later it was working.
I can only speak for my client, who is undergoing a huge digital transformation. They're a small German company and they just know if they don't change something other companies will get ahead. In Germany, there are many family-owned firms and the owner just saw the need to change. We told them about RPA and they got very excited. We showed them the first pilot bot and they were set.
We chose UiPath, for the same reasons you can read on the internet. If you look at the Gartner and Forrester reports, I think they all say UiPath. Also, it's just so easy to get started. You just download the community edition and you're starting. Then you do the Academy and you actually know how to do it. It's very easy and very fast. All the statistics say it's the best.
In terms of the setup, because we were using the community edition first, and then we licensed it afterward, we had the first bot running in about a month.
We have seen ROI and performance benefits. We are still at the beginning but we can definitely see it. I think we could see after about a week that we had processes that the company didn't have to do anymore and so they had more time.
So far, our first customer started with just Orchestrator and an unattended bot, along with a couple of studio licenses. I don't know the cost. Maybe $25,000 for the year.
I would definitely say it's worth the money.
We did a little research obviously. We looked at Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, but that's it. We didn't really look too deep. We just saw UiPath and said, "Okay, I think that's a fit for us." And then we went for it.
I would rate this solution as eight out of ten because of what I see from the stage we're in now. There are things that can improve and they are all working on improvement. I still think that at its current state, it's really beneficial for a lot of companies.
I would recommend UiPath. I like the company and I like their products.
Currently, we're using Studio and soon to be using Orchestrator. We have not actually deployed any bots yet, but we have looked into both Orchestrator and bots. We have just looked at the solution set of that on why do we need to deploy in the future.
Our primary use will vary from department to department. We have what we call 11 global practices. These range across different platforms, but the underlying theme of that is we want to automate different items which might be finance or accounting or HR or whatever. But where I think it will be most useful is in our core business where I'm looking to apply it to engineering project management.
The most valuable feature for us has been the ability to take data out of where we have it — Excel sheets or wherever it may be — and translate it into customer-owned Citrix environments. Our primary core is engineering. A lot of our business requires us to take data what we have developed as part of the design process and relay that into work orders or other process triggers, ordering triggers, or material ordering, or different things for our clients. Allowing us to interface local data with Citrix environments is going to be a big deal.
I'm not exactly sure what I want to see enhanced yet. I know that we do a lot of small processes. Depending on how good Studio X is and how easy that is to build and manage we could potentially do a lot of small little things inside of various design tools like Excel, Word, and Outlook and to be able to kick out the workflows from that.
We like to do a lot of the design side locally for Excel, whether that be in a BBA or an add-in type environment. Being able to manage and deploy or build those will be helpful. Maybe we won't call them bots, maybe we call them processes that are centrally managed. In addition to the Microsoft stack, we use many other vendors like AutoCAD, Bentley MicroStation, Revit Inventor, BIM 360 and Autodesk Forge. To us, the CAD world is where we can see a lot of time savings and benefit ROI on a solution. That would be our next horizon.
I think this solution has room for improvement in the area of ease-of-use. It does require a little bit of coding background to be able to get in and really build out the solution. After I get in and look at Studio X a little more, I may change my opinion on that.
We have six people working in the organization involved in our automation program. We are pretty confident that can scale easily.
Since we have not deployed to production yet, we are not sure which direction we'll be going in. We were looking on-premises but the software as a service cloud deployment will likely be a hit with our IT department. We plan to run our automation in virtual environments through a Citrix interface but not in Citrix.
On a scale from one to five where one is very difficult and five is very easy, I would rate the ease of the use of the platform as a three or four for now. I saw some things today I'd like to dig into a little farther, and I think that that Studio X would make it a whole lot easier for citizen developers to get in and do small tasks. Rebuilding tasks for accounting and finance where there are fairly rigid rules will be great. In the engineering world, our interfacing with the clients sometimes changes on a weekly basis. So having something that is very flexible like Studio X will make it possible to flex and change with those environments very quickly, very easily, very nimbly, and to deploy and redeploy. So if Studio X is what I hope it is, that rating may be closer to a five than not.
We are using UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, and attended bots.
We are automating 12 shared services processes. They are from the finance, HR, and procurement areas. These processes are run at a high frequency and are required to be captured on two different platforms. We have implemented this solution to stop entry clerks from having to do the same job twice, on two different platforms.
We run automations in a virtual environment and it is successful. The implementation was fast and we realized the benefits quickly. Currently, we have deployed three processes and we are going to roll out more processes in patches.
With respect to how easy it is to automate our company's processes, on a scale of one to five, I would rate this solution a four. Some of these processes have difficult exceptions that had to be handled, which is why we opted for the attended robots.
On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a five. The training is rich in content and the material, products, and methodologies are explained well. The concept of automation can be very easily digested by anyone, even if they are non-technical.
From the point that we purchased our UiPath license until we had our first robot was approximately a month and a half. I was not the person doing the configuration, but I managed the process through interaction with the technical team. It was a straightforward and easy process.
We have realized performance benefits through the use of this solution. We were able to decrease the processing time of one of the processes from 15 minutes, under certain assumptions, to one minute and four seconds.
One of the calculations that we have done to determine the time we have saved is for one type of process. It used to take 7,000 person-days each year but now takes only 160 person-days a year.
Using this solution has eliminated a lot of human errors. It is now done based on preset values, activities, and rules. Exceptions are properly handled and the robot will take the information from the source system, which is fundamentally correct all of the time. The robot only needs to capture the data as it is from the source, and copy it to the destination, and this eliminates the errors. When humans are in the middle of the process, mistakes can happen.
The design capability in Studio is great.
The way that you can monitor the robots within Orchestrator is helpful.
Together, the aggregated features add value to the day-to-day operations of the business.
I would like to see more options in terms of configuration.
More information should be made available on the AI Fabric features, and how it can be used as part of a larger ecosystem.
Unattended robots could be cheaper.
So far, we have not noticed any crashes or any issues with the platform itself.
In total with the partner that we are working with, we have 12 team members.
We did not use another RPA solution prior to this one.
RPA was on the strategic roadmap for the transformation of the organization. When we came across this plan for the shared service teams and operations, we started to build a use case and try to see how RPA can help us. Basically, it's a strategic thing for my organization and we will continue scaling it up to other business areas.
We had assistance from a local partner in Saudi Arabia. I would rate our experience with them five out of five. They have the right capabilities and the right knowledge. They were committed and dedicated to the successful completion of this project.
We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution. The capabilities of the platform are good, as is their presence in the market. They have a very qualified team that gives you all the possible support, can answer your questions, collaborate with you, and ensure that you are on the right path to completing your automation projects. They try as much as possible to make your story a success.
They handled the PoC for us, and we implemented the full solution as soon as it was successful.
The time freed up for our employees allows us to enhance and scale up their competencies and capabilities.
This solution is very good. The team is effective and they are constantly focusing on the product's roadmap and enhancements. As a platform in the ecosystem, this is a promising product for anyone who is considering automation projects in any organization.
My advice to anybody who is researching this type of solution is to have a look at UiPath. Take an in-depth look at their fabulous knowledge base that is available on the product.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
We don't have a single primary use case. We use the Orchestrator studio to deploy attended and unattended robots to relieve the workforce of the mundane tasks that they currently do.
I don't think there is one most valuable feature. From my viewpoint, Orchestrator is great because I'm able to manage and control the robots and licensing. Obviously Studio is very valuable for our developers because it gives a nice visual way of developing the robots. Of course, the robots themselves do all the work. It is really a package that has to be put together.
The Insight product coming out in the next release looks interesting as a management tool, but I haven't dug into it enough to fully appreciate it.
Obviously, the Studio can always be improved. Even though you can drag-and-drop, it's still cumbersome unless you are a programmer. I think the Studio X is going to help tremendously for the citizen developers. I think that is going to be a big benefit in simplifying the interface.
There are currently four-and-a-half people in the organization involved in the automation project and I think we'll have no problem scaling that up as necessary.
We have used UiPath Academy. In fact, we've actually referred our citizen developers there.
On a scale of one to five where one is the least beneficial and five is very beneficial, I would rate the UiPath Academy about a four. It is specifically for developers, so there is a complexity level there that can take a little bit for say the average user who isn't an expert to get through, but for somebody who's already done development, it's good.
We actually signed up as a premium support member and took out a contract back about four months ago. Christopher Wilkins is our liaison and he's phenomenal. Absolutely any time I called Christopher, he has gone out of his way to help us. He's our success manager.
From the time of purchase to deployment took about six months total. We did a quick prototype that I had spent two months to get it up and running and then it took me six months to clean it up.
I thought that the implementation was complicated but that was because they did the prototype and then handed it off and I had to come in and take the prototype and actually make it work in production.
We run the automation in a virtual environment. It was a bit painful to get it all working. We actually use Citrix VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) environment and the problem with that is it uses a storefront. When you log in, it doesn't know which server you're accessing. UiPath had problems with that, so we had to ditch that attempt. What we're doing is we're using the VDI image just to read and chart virtual machines every four months and using those for our UiPath.
We did use a third party. Our experience with them was good and bad. The young man that came in from the Netherlands was extremely bright, but he was all over the place. So he thought he knew how certain things would work and in reality, they did not. So it was painful because instead of having a methodical way of working through the issues, he was jumping about too much and it didn't go very smoothly.
We don't really have exact numbers for the return on investment right now because we are too early into the process. We are still trying to get the whole organization comfortable with the concept. But you can see the processes have helped reduce human error in the finance area. It has also saved our organization time. Anytime you don't have a person doing the manual work, they can go on to do better things with their time.
I inherited a bit of a mess. On a scale from one to five where one is very difficult and five is very easy, I would rate the ease of use of the platform for automation as about a three. Most of the problem is with the processes themselves having not been streamlined. So if there is a bad process in place and we still have to automate it, it will still be a bad process.
On the other hand, we do experience performance benefits using the solution. For mundane processes, the people who no longer have to do them because they are automated are extremely happy about that. The benefits were almost immediate. If we had somebody wasting three to four hours producing a single report that we can have a robot do, it's an immediate benefit.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as a nine or ten. I think the product is tremendous. We're still early in the process. As we get into AI, I think it's going to be a tremendous benefit.
My advice to anyone looking into this as a solution is to let somebody else do the deployment. You really have to make sure you understand the infrastructure required to properly scale up the solution. Make sure that you have senior management on board with the concept and then work hard to get citizen champions out there as soon as you can.
We use this solution mainly for data validation.
To start with, we are using Studio for many of our processes.
It reduces human efforts so our employees can put effort into other quality work.
I'm a manager, so we have UiPath for the team and my clients. I am a mediator. We are using Citrix for our VDI environment. We are going to implement the VDI.
Our client already has the UiPath Academy set up. It has been very beneficial in training our team, with its live involvement features, etc. It is good.
The solution has helped us eliminate human error. I would say, as it's now in its initial phase, this is somewhere around 80% to 90%.
It has also saved time for us.
We're just starting to use UiPath now but the automation process which reduces human intervention is the one we like most.
It's also very easy to use. I'm not directly involved in the program side. We have a team. I am the intermediator between our two teams. Those guys prepare the documentation and solution.
I would like to see them improve the validation part of the data categorization.
I would rate the stability of this product as five out of five. The team that works on this told me that once they come up with a use case, they can immediately implement it in UiPath. They have an idea and then can put that feature into practice. This can reduce many efforts.
We have about 500 people in our organization that are involved in the automation program.
We knew we had to invest in a new solution because when there are two categories of data, it is very useful to implement them with UiPath. We previously did this manually, as in with Excel and similar tools.
The initial setup is straightforward.
Every customer in our current scenario is looking to move to digital. They want to make their manuals digital. UiPath is one of the best solutions in the current market industry. That is why we chose UiPath. It is easy to use, plus it gives a lot of benefits to our clients and our own organization as well.
I would say that for the people who are using UiPath without any automation knowledge, the tool will be very useful. Apart from the UiPath platform, there are a lot of videos on YouTube. People can see a session from start to end. That will be useful.
I primary use Studio, but I also use Orchestrator.
I develop robots for reducing tasks for our business users.
We run some of our automations in the Citrix virtual environment. We have found that the Citrix environment tends to present challenges, so it can take a little longer.
With a year and a half of experience, I am still learning with this platform. I find that the ease by which processes can be automated is not as much of an issue with the platform, but rather how it behaves with other applications that the robot controls. The learning curve is mostly how the robot behaves in maybe a Citrix environment, or in how it behaves with the applications that it's controlling. Sometimes they have their own little quirks that you have to learn.
I got started with this solution by using the Academy training. On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a three. It is easier to get started because you are learning by experimenting.
From the point that we purchased our UiPath license until we had our first robot was approximately seven or eight weeks.
Some of the robots handle high-volume processing, where people would take months but the robots are doing it in weeks. We have probably saved two hundred hours so far, using robots. Timing is a big issue. The tasks can be completed quicker because robots can do it on-demand, rather than having to schedule a person's time. I would say that for the tasks, they are saving forty to fifty percent of the time by using the robot.
Not all of the tasks we have automated were existing in-house processes. In some cases, after using the platform, we thought about ways to create automated tasks that were never being done before.
Human errors have been reduced, if not eliminated by using the solution. When users have to complete a task in a timely fashion they sometimes miss one of the steps, but this is solved using the robots.
The robots that I have developed can take a process that is normally very complicated and simplify it.
The licensing process is complicated and needs to be improved.
With respect to the stability, on a scale from one to five, I would rate this solution a four. The tool itself is quite stable and I haven't had any real issues with it. The issues that I have had tend to be with Citrix or the environment that the robots are running in, and not the platform itself.
In the US, we have two developers who are working with this solution.
The installation was straightforward but activating the license was slightly complicated. I'm not sure if it was a UiPath issue or something at the company.
We are definitely seeing performance benefits for users and the turnaround time for tests that we have to do.
I have seen a demo with Studio X and it should help with the coding so that we can go live quicker than we do.
Using RPA has given us another tool to offer with respect to business solutions. Automation is something that we're actively looking for places to make use of.
This is a good solution, but there is a learning curve. One you are familiar with it, this solution works well and it is fun to work with.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
We are using Studio and the attended robots, but we haven't implemented Orchestrator yet.
Our primary use is to automate tasks within the accounts receivable, accounts payable, and trade settlement realm that we work in. We're also getting into some more internal audit automation.
We run automations in Windows Virtual Machines. It was a long process for us to get started, getting our IS to buy into letting us set up this environment and get started with it.
With respect to how easy it is to automate our company's processes, on a scale of one to five, I would rate this solution a two or three. They offer upfront training, the UiPath Academy, and that makes it easier but you still need to have a technical mindset to understand it, as it is now.
We have all used the Academy. On a scale of one to five, judging how beneficial it is, I would rate the training a five. It's a great experience and very beneficial.
From the point that we purchased our UiPath license until we had our first robot was approximately six months. It took us a while because we had a bunch of other projects in front of getting our first automation. The process was hard, although it was not complicated. The approval process involved going through a security review.
We have not found that our automations have saved us money, yet. However, it's giving people back the time so that they can do more value-added work.
With respect to saving time, we have just measured the out rate. We're probably saving thirty hours a week with what we have going now, so almost one FTE.
This solution has absolutely helped reduce or eliminate human errors, although I cannot estimate by how much at this time.
Using this solution has definitely increased the confidence and communication that we have between departments because we're saving a lot of department time, and they can focus on their value-added tasks. With this, they're a lot more willing to work with us, and they're happier employees.
The most valuable features of Studio are all of the activities that UiPath and their partners have developed.
The biggest problem that we have when working with this solution is the selectors. If there was a little more flexibility with the selectors, and they were a little bit more adaptive, I think it would be helpful.
With respect to the stability, on a scale from one to five, I would rate this solution four and a half to five. We haven't had any problems.
Currently, we have twelve automations running.
In our organization, we have three people directly doing automation and design work. There are probably six or seven more than are trying to get the larger enterprise into UiPath and get their departments set up with it.
The technical support for this solution is excellent. They got back to me really quickly and provided the solutions that I needed. It was very helpful.
We were not using another RPA solution prior to this one. In deciding to invest in this technology, we recognized that people were doing a lot of tedious processes and that we can make better use of their time.
Huron Consulting assisted us with the implementation and deployment, and they were very helpful. On a scale from one to five, I would rate them a five.
We have been asked to start measuring for tracking ROI but have not yet begun. However, I can say informally that we have seen performance benefits. People are very happy with the things we've automated so far and they're just glad to be relieved of some of that tedious work.
Right now we only have a couple of Studio licenses and a couple of bots, so we're at about $8,000 USD per year. We're hoping to ramp that up pretty soon.
We evaluated Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere before choosing this solution.
One of the major reasons that we chose UiPath was because they gave a free trial at the time when we were looking at it, and none of the other vendors did. Then they also have the UiPath Academy, which allowed us to look at it first and then learn how to use it before we actually had to make an investment.
From a cost perspective, the unattended robots are going to be of more benefit because they can run twenty-four hours a day. At the same time, the attended robots are pretty affordable. I think we're coming up with more use cases where people have it on their desktop and want to be able to run it on demand. We have definitely benefited from both types of robots.
We are looking forward to some of the new features that are going to be released. One of them is in the UI, where you can document what your processes have and figure out if any have the potential for automation. That is going to be very helpful.
My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to first speak with a partner. If someone is new and hasn't been in this space before, it's going to be kind of confusing and they're going to need somebody to guide them it setting it up.
This is a really great product and there's a lot of potential for it.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
We have robots and we have Orchestrator and we are exploring the new analytics model over the next few months. Right now, our primary use is mostly operational processes and deploying apps for the global operations team. We have multiple automation processes in place for them already.
The product has improved the way our organization functions in a lot of ways. Mostly, I would say it improves our processing efficiency. When you have one person working eight to five to take care of tasks and can replace that, instead, with a bot that can work 24 hours a day to onboard customers or entering information to a form, that drives a lot of value for the organization. With that benefit and decreasing human error as well, that turns into a lot of value for a global organization like us.
The most valuable feature in UiPath is different from one process that we build to the next. I would say that the ease of configuring new processes may be one of the most consistently valuable features for our robot production. Creating a process is just a drag-and-drop solution most of the time. With this automated feature for process creation, it is very easy to make what we need, and that ease-of-use is valuable.
There are a few areas where the product can be improved for our use. Invoice processing, for us, is a major use case. I saw some examples in our research that mentioned machine learning models and how to implement that in the new, upcoming version. It seems that the machine learning would solve some of our current issues in processing. That is one feature that I would like to see and experiment with when it is released. I want to explore that to see not only what it can do, but how efficient it is and how it affects the performance of invoice processing models. The other feature we are interested in that is promised to be in the next release is the VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) desktop.
Those two features, for us, are critical. But we also need them to be fast and efficient for us to be able to use it in practice. Otherwise, we are going to continue struggling with the solutions we already have. The solutions are kind of already there in UiPath, and I think they need to work hard on the performance of anything they release. This is especially true for those two solutions. For us to have a good business case for deploying them for use, we need them to be efficient.
A feature that we tried to use that clearly has room for improvement is the UiPath Computer Vision component. We have tried to use that but it was not efficient enough for our planned applications. It was a little disappointing. It needs to be improved in performance and in the design of the machine learning models. It is pretty easy to use for people considering the technology. I just don't think it is quite to the point where it should be.
On a scale from one to five with one being the least stable and five being the most, I would rate the stability of UiPath as pretty stable. For us, it has really been a five.
We have 35 employees involved in the automation program doing configuration. We also have three platform administrators and a bunch of automation champions right now — there are quite a few of the latter.
Customer support, in general, is pretty good. They are very responsive. We have one dedicated support person in New York and we always get support right away. But there are other facets to UiPath technical support.
The classroom and Academy training are both easy to use and beneficial. On a scale of one to five where five is the best, I would rate these resources as a five-out-of-five. It was and is beneficial and it is available to help the staff get oriented to the product and resolve production issues.
We have 35 configurators. Of those 35, I will say that only five or ten of them were formally and personally trained by a trainer at our site in Costa Rica. The rest — and really most of the configurators — have been trained only using the UIPath Academy suite. So, with some senior resources available and the Academy, you can establish a team of proficient configurators in a very short time.
The reason why we choose UiPath was because they let us play with the tool before we bought into it. We were looking at many vendors for an RPA solution, but the other vendors wanted us to pay first before they would let us explore the products and what they could do. With UiPath we were able to play first without paying and that's something that was attractive and showed that the company was forward-thinking and confident. We explored the product and saw that it was something that could help us to solve some of our problems. So that is why we identified it as a solution and eventually selected it as the product that was going to cover our processing needs.
The initial setup was pretty easy because we had the assistance of UiPath experts on-site. They helped us with the first deployment. They did a lot to help make it pretty easy. It might be more accurate to say it was not easy, but that because of them it went smoothly. That's what their group was there to do: sort out modeling problems pretty quickly and get the product to production.
We used a consultant and our experience with them on a scale from one to five where five is the best, I would say they were a five-out-of-five. They knew what they were doing and were excellent in promoting the deployment. We have no complaints about their services or the result.
We have automated a lot of things and realized about a million-dollar return on investment in about a year-and-a-half. There is still a lot more to do in our company. We are big, so we have a lot of opportunities for automation and we are expected to be producing even more benefits than we already have. But a million-dollar return on investment is pretty good and is only the beginning of what we will eventually realize.
Right now we have around 200 licenses in terms of the bots we have in production. I know the cost is about $200,000 or $300,000 per year. I am not sure about additional costs.
From what I understand UiPath is cheap when you compare the costs to other vendors in the same market. In any case, the price seems to be good in comparison to the actual benefit. We also have some type of special agreement for pricing discounts because we are one of the early adopters who engaged with UiPath for use of the product. I feel we have some very special treatment and the price, for us, is reasonable and convenient.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as an eight out of ten. The reason why it is an eight and not a ten is because there are some specific considerations — especially in performance and machine learning — that we believe has a lot of room for improvement. They are starting to introduce the functionality, they are doing a good thing in introducing it, but there could be a lot of improvement.
If I would make a recommendation for people considering automation options, I would say that they should take advantage of manufacturers that let you play with their product to evaluate if a particular solution is convenient for you. This is the reason why UiPath became the more convenient option for our company when we were looking to start with process automation.
For us, the virtual implementation has been working well because we have deployed everything that we automated in our Citrix environment. Now the new question is how easy it will be to interact with target applications through our VDI desktop. Resolving that to this point has been pretty tough for us and it is actually one of our constraints in making processes work efficiently.
Robotic processing has helped to eliminate human errors and reducing human error is definitely one of the basic benefits that those moving into robotics should expect — if they are approaching automation correctly.
The solution also saved our organization time. For example, we had the one case where we had to onboard around 2 million customers. What that would take in terms of manual hours is about a month and a half. Instead, using RPAs, we were able to complete the task in one week. That is just one example. We have multiple examples in three years of automation.