UiPath Platform Reviews

We primarily use UiPath Platform to replicate business processes in the order management space, the service assurance space, the supply chain and warehouse spaces, as well as the business intelligence space.

Primarily, we utilize the simple UI automation with all of our tools. In our business, there are tons of different platforms and it's not always easy to get the right access to integrate them natively through code. We use UiPath Platform to overcome some of the environmental challenges that we see in the business. Across our automation suite in UiPath Platform, we're saving a little over ten million dollars a year.

We haven't started using some of the newer, better features in UiPath Platform. A lot of the features I'd want to be able to use, they've already rolled out. We just haven't taken advantage of them yet. The only reason that it wouldn't be a ten out of ten right now is that they don't always identify my needs before I identify them to get their help.

I have been in my current role for seven years. I've been using UiPath for four years. 

It has been very stable and reliable, working great for us. We have a couple of redundancy measures set up, but I haven't had to implement them in the four years that I've been running the platform. I basically just have disaster recovery for redundancy.

It scales really well. We have quite a few automations and the team is constantly working to enhance and improve them.

UiPath Platform support has been great. 

We have a technical account manager that we work really closely with. He's helped us to upgrade our Orchestrator and upgrade the platform that we're using. He works through whatever unique internal environment scenarios we have to overcome to make sure that it's doing exactly what we need, even though we're constantly having new security measures to implement on top of it.

We have looked into using Power Automate and Blue Prism in the past, and didn't find enough value in their products versus what we get from UiPath Platform for the price that we pay to really incentivize us to move off the platform we're currently on.

I didn't actually set up UiPath Platform originally. I was not involved in the initial deployment. When my team took it over, we had to redeploy it.

We inherited the UiPath team, and recently we renegotiated our contract to have an enterprise license, and the pricing is great now.

The pricing has been fine.

My advice to others would be to understand the environment you're looking to deploy it in and ensure you don't over-engineer it. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate UiPath Platform as a nine. While there is always room for improvement, based on the industry leaders I've seen, they're not missing anything that anyone else is doing any better.

Our use case is business process automation where we use UiPath Platform to automate different manual processes that are being done today at different business units in the company end to end.

The first best feature in UiPath Platform would be the Elastic Robot Orchestration, ERO, that helps to scale up or scale down robot devices automatically for cost optimization. The second would be the overall tenant concept in the orchestrator that isolates data and view based on function, ensuring security. The third would be its excellent integration capabilities with multiple applications, allowing for easy data pulling in our automation.

We have generally integrated it with most Microsoft-based applications such as MS Dynamics, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook, as well as some non-Microsoft applications such as S/4HANA, SAP, and Salesforce.

For email automation, we are using the Communication Mining feature in UiPath Platform, allowing us to train the email documents to assess tone and content with about 90% accuracy.

In terms of UiPath Platform itself, I think improvements could be made to the UI arrangement to make it more user-friendly and simpler. The operational support is generally good, but often starts from scratch when we reach out with problems, resulting in wasted time. Finally, the cost and complexity of licenses could be simplified as some similar vendors provide features at a lower cost.

We have been using UiPath Platform since 2021.

I would rate the stability of UiPath Platform a nine, stating that downtime, bugs, or glitches are very rare.

The system is scalable. I would rate the scalability a perfect 10.

The UiPath Platform user community has been excellent, being very responsive, and we often seek help there to find solutions. The community team also organizes events regularly.

I would rate the technical support an eight.

Positive

We also use UiPath Platform besides Automation Anywhere.

If I compare UiPath Platform with Automation Anywhere, UiPath Platform's core RPA product is much more mature, with enterprise-grade features that Automation Anywhere still lacks. However, Automation Anywhere offers a simpler and faster go-to-market approach for automation development.

We are using the regular RPA platform instead of the Agentic Automation.

For email automation, we are using the Communication Mining feature in UiPath Platform, allowing us to train the email documents to assess tone and content with about 90% accuracy.

UiPath Academy is a one-stop solution that serves as a proper training platform, which we have integrated with our in-house training platform to keep our developers and solution architects up to date with new features and capabilities.

It depends on the use cases; we perform a cost-benefit analysis for every new use case, determining whether it is related to headcount saving, regulatory and compliance saving, or faster processing. In general, we keep a threshold of 100k US dollars in terms of direct FTE savings for each automation use case.

In terms of processing speed, we see a reduction of at least 50% to 60% after automation, which translates to significant time or effort savings per use case.

I would rate UiPath Platform an eight in terms of cost efficiency, with one being cheap and ten being expensive.

UiPath Platform works when reviewing the solution.

Since it is a SaaS platform, there is no maintenance required on our part, as everything is managed by the vendor.

I would definitely recommend this product to other enterprises as it is an enterprise-grade level RPA software, although it might not suit organizations operating at a lower scale or margin due to cost.

Overall, more than 1,000 users utilize the solution. I would rate this review a nine.

At my current job, my main use case for UiPath Platform is general processes for finances, where many of them deal with finances. We do data entry with UI automation, and I would say the majority is UI automation.

Examples of how the features of UiPath Platform have benefited my organization include tracking, metrics, and analytics. It feeds into Insights, and it's really useful when it comes to dealing with fires that arise every day. Being able to diagnose and actually look inside is good, having it all organized.

The features of UiPath Platform that I prefer most, as compared to Power Automate, include Orchestrator, which is good, and I appreciate built-in data extraction. 

IXP is a good upgrade over Document Understanding, and Action Center is nice. Overall, Orchestrator as a whole is good. 

With IXP, we have a few large processes that leverage extraction from PDFs, which has been pretty helpful. Same thing with Action Center; anything that we do with IXP or extractions we include human in the loop.

To improve UiPath Platform, I would really want to see improvements on Action Center in customization on how it's laid out. They have a layout that makes sense in some cases, but I would want to actually create a custom UI for Action Center because sometimes it does not make sense what they're trying to do, and you want to move things around. If we could edit the CSS, that would be great.

On all of their tools, especially those meant for attended or human in the loop, any interface that we have that is business facing should be customizable. I would prefer to see UiPath hands off on that and just let the user figure out what is best for the end user instead of it being a prepackaged thing. Sometimes it works and makes total sense, but in other cases, it does not. Business users ask, 'Can we change this? Can we do this? Can we do that?' and the answer is often 'We can't because it's prepackaged.'

I have been using UiPath Platform for five or six years.

I have not experienced issues with stability or reliability in UiPath Platform. Orchestrator has been down once in the past year.

UiPath Platform seems to scale appropriately for the growing needs of my organization.

My evaluation of customer service and technical support is overall positive as we have direct communication with the product team, and they are pretty good. 

On a scale from one being the worst to ten being the best, I would rate customer service and technical support an eight. 

They are mostly good, though sometimes we catch them reading off the wiki, and we do not need that when we can read it ourselves.

Positive

When you're doing staple UI automation or data entry, the implementation works well. It's consistent. We've been privileged to use all of their products really early. 

We had a lot of issues with IXP. We've been using it since last October, and it was really just trial and error and figuring out what worked, what didn't work. It's all fixable. It's just a matter of timeline. Some things are quick fixes. Some things take months. 

While we have a hybrid setup, we are moving to the cloud.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, I considered leveraging everything, including Power Automate and the entire Power App suite. 

I have used Blue Prism in the past. I find Power Automate always available. Even when I use UiPath Platform, for any email intake we do, if business wants to do a data entry process with an Excel input file, I pick up that email with Power Automate and create a queue item for UiPath Orchestrator through an API call, which is easier because it's part of Microsoft. 

If I need to use O365, mainly SharePoint, Teams, or Excel as part of a process, I opt to do that portion in Power Automate because it's simpler. For complex code that is required, data manipulation, extraction, and UI automation, I still prefer using UiPath Platform since we already have the environment set up for that, but data manipulation in Power Automate is a nightmare.

My advice to another organization considering UiPath Platform is to make sure you understand what makes for good automation. Don't try to do something overly complex; don't shoot for the stars, as you might have a really bad experience and waste a lot of money and time. 

I would rate UiPath Platform as a solid eight or nine out of ten.

My main use case for UiPath Platform is that we use it for a lot of revenue cycle operations, automating different tedious revenue cycle tasks, besides automation.

The features that I appreciate the most on UiPath Platform are the Orchestrator and the ability to kick it off without having to manually do it. One big benefit of these features on UiPath Platform is that I didn't have to have someone manually kick it off; that's one big benefit that saves time and effort, allowing me to run it 24/7.

It also does a great job providing tracking and history, and we can leave breadcrumbs with it to see where things left off and stopped.

My teams have used the vendor's UiPath Academy course. The biggest benefits I have seen from using the Academy when we first started three years ago with UiPath Platform are that those courses helped a lot with just getting used to it, especially since we had to put our skills in our laps, never having done it before. The Academy was straightforward and helped us get started.

Improving the forms on UiPath Platform so you can easily assess answers could be a big benefit. The different dashboards are not very convenient or handy; you have to do a lot of manipulation with them, and I'd rather have ease of use and them be more user-friendly.

It would also be nice to have better insights into the processes, such as whether they are running smoothly and what the outcome is, because we have to leave a lot of breadcrumbs when we build something and would rather not have to do all that.

I have been using UiPath Platform for three years.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform.

UiPath Platform scales with our growing needs; we have definitely expanded on it utilizing a lot of the current licensing model we had, so we didn't have to buy many new licenses. However, when license time came around or when AI units came around, we did see significant costs and lower ROI.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support for UiPath Platform as very good.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I did consider using a different solution to address my similar needs, as I think the right tool is for the right job.

My experience with deploying UiPath Platform was really simple, and I appreciated how UiPath actually has people who would help you with it as well.

I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform; my first year doing it, we saved about 12 FTEs of hours.

My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing for UiPath Platform is that I think it's very expensive; when comparing it to Power Automate or another company, Power Automate is obviously cheaper. All the other companies are kind of in line with the pricing, but I just think it's a real high cost that seems to keep going up, which reduces my return on investment.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, we compared all the major players and looked at the Gartner scale of who was on top. We did some peer references from people I knew in the industry and the gradual typical approach you would go to. We also got to see a demo of it, and compared to other demos, UiPath definitely looked more user-friendly; that's what stood out the most since the cost was pretty much the same as others.

The advice I would give to another organization considering UiPath Platform is to strongly consider your team and what kind of needs your team has; because with different solutions, there are different levels of computer science background you need, and whether you want low-code or no-code versus having someone who has business acumen with a bit of development skills, or just a high development department—so consider your staff. 

I would rate my overall usage of UiPath Platform as definitely an eight out of ten.

My use cases for UiPath Platform in my organization are to automate process, operation process and the business process.

I find the security features of UiPath Platform most valuable because I don't have problems with UiPath Platform during my journey, and I appreciate the support. The support of UiPath Platform is very fast, with rules and security response, which makes it responsible, and I appreciate this. I have seen time saved and value from using UiPath Platform so far. Security operations are very important for us, but I think the time saved is significant.

I think UiPath Platform could improve in the catalog regarding options and hyperautomation, as I think this is more evaluated, and operations too. I don't want to see additional features in future releases. I don't have current pain points that I would want them to fix.

I have been using UiPath Platform for almost four or five years.

I assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as very good.

The support of UiPath Platform is very fast, with rules and security response, which makes it responsible, and I appreciate this.

Positive

I have considered other automation solutions in the last years, but for RPA, I only used UiPath Platform and Automation Hub among other things.

My experience with deploying UiPath Platform is very good, as my team discusses this, saying it's very secure and fast.

My experience with contracting for UiPath Platform is good, and I think there is an opportunity for price revision, but it's a good negotiation for us because of security.

I have seen time saved and value from using UiPath Platform so far. We have 800 people saved now with using UiPath Platform in terms of FTEs. That is per year, the time I am saving with UiPath Platform.

I selected UiPath Platform over Automation Anywhere because of its security, as I think it's the best.

The price is what would make it a perfect solution for me. I would give UiPath Platform support a rating of nine on a scale of one to 10. I have experience with contracting, licensing, and pricing of UiPath Platform, but I handle this job once a year during the contract revision. I currently have almost 300 robots deployed with UiPath Platform. I deployed a little more than a hundred robots across several years. I plan to expand and deploy more robots next year. I would rate UiPath Platform a nine on a scale of one to 10.

Currently, we are using mostly RPA, which is fixed automation, outcome-based. We know what the input and output are. This will do that regular task, so that is what is current. Earlier I was preferring RPA, however after seeing agentic's potential, I wanted to explore more on agentic AI and how that entire business workflow can be automated. 

Currently, we are in food manufacturing, and we have many business functions such as order-to-pay or procurement-to-order. We are doing all these things by having third-party software such as an ERP suite, Snowflake, and other tools. 

I want to explore how we can use Maestro to bring up that entire business automation workflow. We are trying to achieve the same business flow that is happening. I wanted to try it with Maestro. 

We went with UiPath Platform for a specific use case. We were already doing it, however, there was significant manual involvement. So, for us to implement UiPath Platform was to find software or a tool that can automate all these things. 

For our use cases, we were previously using different tools and a tech stack. It made a difference, though not drastic, with about a 2 to 3% change over in the three or four use cases we are doing. It was previously a manual process combined with specific tools. With UiPath Platform, we are using RPA bots and have removed all other tools.

As a business-based person who handles engineering and IT from the business side, I can say that improvements would be beneficial in the automation of the entire software development life cycle through more agents, similar to the testing automation currently being done.

The activities we have implemented are pretty straightforward. The testing time and process were somewhat challenging. While deployment was straightforward and easy, the testing part, particularly testing the functional use case, was difficult. 

Writing test cases and dealing with failures was challenging. We had apprehensions about whether it would work well with the current setup, even with some latency. 

I have been using UiPath Platform for the past eight months.

We maintain metrics and KPIs for these bots, monitoring their functionality and performance. We compare metrics between previous and current states, which shows significant improvement. We have not experienced any stability issues so far.

While we are not using the full set of functions or functionality of UiPath Platform, only utilizing a limited part of RPA bots, we have experienced good scalability with what we are using.

I have been using the community support, which I would rate between seven to eight out of ten. 

The response is good as they have a large community. When questions are posted, someone always tries to help. The notification system is effective, alerting users when someone from UiPath Platform has posted a potential solution to their thread.

In terms of technical support, we haven't reached out so far so I can't say how they are.

Positive

It made a tremendous change in the way that we are doing the deployments. Right now, are doing on-prem deployments. It's connected, yet we eventually wanted to move to UiPath Cloud or maybe AWS. 

It's pretty straightforward for whatever the activities that we have made, and we didn't have much. Testing was pretty straightforward and easy yet testing the functional use case made it a little difficult.

The change came from business requirements when customers indicated that the current process was not optimal. We then started exploring alternative solutions, which led us to implement UiPath Platform.

We wanted to remove that manual intervention or bring up some human touch there. First, we did a prototype to see how the end-to-end workflow was happening for one use case. Then we tried to derive metrics, such as how much time we are saving in terms of resources and for the entire flow. It made a significant difference for us at that point in time. Usually, it used to take many minutes and had to interact with numerous tools and technologies. When we implemented UiPath Platform and RPA, it showed substantial improvements from a metrics perspective regarding time savings and overall efficiency.

I cannot provide specific advice about certain aspects as we have not extensively explored all features. We have not had to raise any support requests so far. 

Every business and company has its own requirements. The best suggestion is to understand the full functionality of UiPath Platform and carefully consider the areas where it should be implemented rather than utilizing it everywhere without proper evaluation.

Based on the overall functionality and features being used, the reviewer rated UiPath Platform an eight out of ten, indicating satisfaction with the solution.

Clients usually use UiPath Platform for the automation of use cases in departments like HR, Finance, and IT support.

UiPath Platform can handle very complex processes. We have implemented various complex use cases using UiPath, and they are performing very well.

UiPath Platform integrates with several systems, whether they are ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP, as well as other systems.

UiPath Platform utilizes AI features. They recently released a new platform called Agentic Automation, which exposes AI and RPA in one platform, making it something fresh and new.

The most important features of the UiPath Platform are the UI automation capabilities and Document Understanding.

UiPath Platform is doing a good job with enhancements; they are releasing new features almost every six months. However, I would recommend that they improve their ability to be a low-code, no-code platform, as this would be a great feature for their platform.

I have been working with UiPath Platform for about six years.

I would rate UiPath Platform's support a seven out of ten. They need to work on improving their response time for open tickets and handling complex support cases, as I have seen some cases take a very long time to troubleshoot and get to the source of the problems. Therefore, they need to improve their response time as well as increase the teams in their support team, especially when handling complex support cases.

Neutral

Deploying UiPath Platform takes a couple of weeks.

The price of UiPath Platform in the Middle East region is a little bit high; having a lower price for the Middle East region would make it more attractive.

It suits big enterprise customers. However, if the customer is of medium to smaller size, UiPath Platform may not be a suitable choice.

It is an expensive tool. When compared to competition, such as Microsoft's Power Automate platform or IBM Cloud Pak, UiPath is expensive. Both of them are much lower in terms of pricing than the UiPath Platform, so they need to consider this in the enterprise scheme.

I would rate UiPath Platform a nine out of ten.

I initially used UiPath for repetitive and structured or mechanical types of automation. I was a software engineer, and I handled maintenance processes for applications, whether it involved starting up servers, generating reports, or conducting health checks. These repetitive operational maintenance tasks were handled with UiPath. It was a tool for creating workflows to handle such menial tasks. 

Automation must be present in an organization. Without it, you are stuck with manual processes that require lots of manpower for menial tasks. Automation allows large companies to scale their services efficiently, focus on more strategic tasks, and serve their customers efficiently. Its benefits can be seen immediately after the deployment. Your staff does not have to do repetitive tasks anymore.

Communications mining happens at the intake part of an internal process. It helps to classify information coming from various channels, such as an email or a ticketing system. It is useful for triaging and actionable insights. You can action that using a downstream automation. It can help with any process, whether it is a finance, IT, HR, logistics, or healthcare process. They also have IXP which combines Communications Mining with Generative Extraction. Tone or sentiment analysis in documents helps with better redirection or triaging. It goes hand in hand with the capability to classify documents.

Communications mining can help save time for your resources. If about 80% of your incoming communication is related to order management, with automation, the return will be direct. There will be hard savings in terms of people needed to work on the order entry processes. Instead of ten resources, you might need just three resources. The savings depend on the use case or the volume of a particular use case.

A key strength of UiPath is that you can easily and quickly build automation. If you are familiar with UiPath, you can automate simple to medium processes in a few hours. If you do not have any technical background, you can get started with UiPath and be up and running in one week with the help of a foundational course. I had a colleague with a background in political science. He did the foundational course and was able to build a project on his own in just one to two weeks. He is now a successful technical project manager working with UiPath.

UiPath helps to reduce human errors if the process, requirements, and exceptions are properly defined and the process is fully optimized before being automated. The ideal target is 100% accuracy, but that is usually not possible for most processes. About 90% or more accuracy is more realistic. 

We have started to gather use cases where we can leverage agenting automation. It opens up more capabilities or coverage on the existing use cases as compared to before where we could only automate an end-to-end process to a limit. For example, we could only automate entering an invoice into a system using UI or API automation and downloading a report. With Intelligent Automation, they have added the capability to read from structured and unstructured documents and then classify the content. 

Agentic automation now allows us to handle complex tasks like invoice dispute investigations, which wasn't possible with traditional RPA. Using UiPath Agent Builder and Agentic Orchestration, we can automate and manage end-to-end processes across applications and provide meaningful resolutions. This makes workflows more dynamic and flexible compared to rigid, structured automation.

From the early days, UiPath stood out because of its intuitive interface and ease of use, enabling the automation of complex processes without requiring technical knowledge related to development. UiPath has since expanded from simple automation to Intelligent Automation and Agentic Automation. The coverage of more complex use cases has increased, making it more robust. Processes not capable of automation five or six years back can now be automated easily. We can read from documents using Document Understanding or create complex workflows that require many decisions using agents. They are moving towards Agentic Automation.

The UiPath community offers a lot of value for sharing knowledge and networking. It helps you build knowledge and grow professionally within the same company or land your dream job in this space. Many large companies are using UiPath as the main automation tool.

UiPath Academy was my first point of entry when I started using UiPath. With its help, I was able to build my first robot. It has also helped me to be up to date with the latest and greatest features of UiPath.

Now that UiPath is moving towards BPMN as part of agentic orchestration on Maestro, there is a need to make it easier for newcomers in the BPMN space to understand the components of a BPMN workflow. More awareness is needed since even technically inclined individuals are not very familiar with BPMN.

I have probably used UiPath since 2017.

Our clients are large enterprises and small to medium businesses. We are both a partner and a customer. About 90% of our resources are working with UiPath. We are a small company with 200 to 300 employees.

Sometimes the technical support team gets repetitive with the questions they ask, and for complex issues, it drags on too long.

Neutral

Some of our customers are on-prem, and some of them are on the cloud.

If you are on the cloud, you do not need to worry about deployment. On-premise, it is similar to other software where you need to provision an infrastructure, either AWS or any of the hyperscalers. It might require more steps and effort, but it is doable.

For complex cases, it could take an average of three months. Simple ones can take less than a month.

In terms of maintenance, any solution requires some sort of support and maintenance.

UiPath Autopilot saves 20% of my time. Most of my time goes into building projects for customers and not for personal productivity. The only automations that I leverage are the prebuilt ones for my personal use, such as UiPath Autopilot.

There is always an opportunity to improve. They have been trying to improve pricing by consolidating some of these SKUs together. They are trying to bundle more capabilities with the same set of licenses, which is good. However, because things are always changing, it leads to some confusion. They can make it more streamlined and consistent.

Compared to Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere, UiPath is more user-friendly and constantly innovating to lead in agentic capabilities.

Overall, I would rate UiPath an eight out of ten.