What is our primary use case?
The primary use case for UiPath Platform is to automate different processes, such as manual processes or time-consuming processes that we have. We try to automate them utilizing UiPath Platform and try to reduce the human dependency in the organization, or at least in business processes.
What is most valuable?
The primary benefit of UiPath Platform is absolutely clear. If you remove people from mundane work, manipulating Excel, getting data from SAP, and so on and so forth, it definitely helps them to elevate themselves and upgrade themselves in order to work on something better.
Studio and its capabilities are still at the top for me because if there is any process that I need to automate or I need to look into, that works really great. Apart from that, the integration service is a really cool thing. We utilize it a lot, and we also utilize the agentic capabilities, although it is kind of limited as of now, unlike if we utilize the cloud's agentic platform or something else that is pretty broad, and you can even integrate it with LangChain. That part is very limited in UiPath Platform as of now. It does give you a little bit of functionality, but not a lot. Apart from that, I really appreciate their Action Center. Orchestrator is another product which helps us act as a command center and helps us to control everything. That also works very well for us. Automation Hub works in order to maintain all of the automation ideas.
Agentic Automation has definitely helped us with a couple of complex scenarios that were not very straightforward to handle just with the help of UiPath Platform, specifically when we have to take some decisions when we are seeing a specific use case in front of us. Those kinds of scenarios we have also automated with the help of UiPath Platform.
What needs improvement?
One thing that UiPath Platform can definitely improve is they are currently making a ton of changes in their core products, such as Orchestrator and specifically in Studio. These changes are good to a point. Something which is working really well should not basically have a ton of changes in terms of changing the entire UI and changing the options. When the developer performs an upgrade, it is hectic. I now have to go through this entire new thing. I have to learn all of it. Things are still the same, but everything is moved. The way that we identify elements and the way that we deal with the identification of selectors and everything also keeps on changing with every upgrade. That is kind of a negative for me because I know how to handle a couple of things when it comes to Studio and those are working very well for me. When it comes to business users, it is even less for them. They do not know much, and when they learn and the UI changes, they are discouraged. They think they have to learn something new. UiPath Platform should focus on improving their product, but making too many changes too quickly in UI, even from one version to another, I think that is not a very good idea. However, it is not a very difficult thing to learn. After maybe a couple of days or maybe after a week, you get used to it. We do notice slowness as well. That is one of the things.
The biggest challenge that we face when dealing with UiPath Platform is the concept of unknowns or basically how different processes are connected to each other. They have tried to handle it to a certain level with the help of Automation Hub, but still the interconnected processes, like how one process is dependent upon another, that is not available. A best way to think about it is how a graph essentially works, with how one point is connected to another. I would really appreciate UiPath Platform to develop something, whether it is with the help of AI or a simple tool that they can develop, that can allow me as a business owner to put in all of my processes in there and see how one of my APIs is being utilized by four different processes. If this goes down, four of my automated processes are impacted. That functionality I would really love to see. They can move insights forward, I think. They can start focusing on it.
For how long have I used the solution?
I am currently still working with UiPath Platform.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I give the stability of UiPath Platform an eight.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It requires too many resources, frankly, with scalability. I would rate it a seven. Because if I have to spin up a new machine, I have to get an additional license and everything. It is a headache. The licenses are too expensive for UiPath Platform. I give it a seven just because of that.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate UiPath Platform technical support a nine, for sure. They are great.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process for UiPath Platform is quite simple. The machines having everything is quite simple. Having that said, a couple of times, the debugging of an issue is not quite straightforward, but the initial setup is quite straightforward in my opinion. You should know what you are doing. You should be aware of the basic things before you dive into anything.
What about the implementation team?
We have both models. We are resellers as well, and we also allow clients to purchase their licenses and then onboard on their self-hosted Orchestrator. However, if it is an Orchestrator that we are managing, most of the time we are the reseller.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I give the pricing for UiPath Platform a four, not even five. I do not think the pricing model of UiPath Platform is good. Moreover, every year they change their licensing model, which directly impacts their pricing, and people are confused as well. That is one thing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I will compare UiPath Platform to products from other vendors such as Power Automate. In one line, UiPath Platform is only lacking in the license cost. Its license is too expensive for anyone to justify automating a small process, and that is where Power Automate has an edge. Apart from that, UiPath Platform provides a mature tool with better functionality and better options in order to automate, and I will say that overall experience with UiPath Platform is much better when you compare it with Power Automate. Having that said, just because of that license cost, UiPath Platform is kind of losing now. I am seeing a lot of vendors, even our clients are requesting to move away from UiPath Platform and try to utilize Power Automate or maybe any kind of agentic solution. That is where we are also trying to explore BotCity and a couple of other things which will not cost as much as UiPath Platform. Maybe in some scenarios, the cost is one-eighth of the actual license of UiPath Platform per year.
What other advice do I have?
We do have some level of success with agentic automation. I will say that ninety percent of it is POC. I am aware of one project in our company which is actually running in production which is utilizing the agentic capabilities of UiPath Platform. With all of that said, I will say that the product that UiPath Platform is offering, personally, I think there is still a ton of work that needs to be done. For example, when we were utilizing their new document understanding offering as well, there were a lot of things which frankly were quite frustrating when it comes to deployment. We had to work with their team to make changes on the fly so that at least we can deploy our solution via the beta libraries that they were providing us over the call. That level of support is great, but it would have been much better if this was not required. We had to essentially delay the deployments and do a ton of things in order to essentially get things sorted out from UiPath Platform's side.
It is useful to monitor the tone or sentiment in messages for our operations. Every company has their own way of analyzing such data. Our company also has a lot of such data available. We do such analysis on this basis. Earlier it was simple reviews, but now we are doing that analysis on even complex data. One example, as I said earlier, is contracts that we are dealing with a lot. It is certainly useful, but it is still a developing technology in our opinion. It is getting matured. We are early adopters for sure. We would like it to improve further.
We did automate actions using UiPath Platform Communication Mining, but frankly, we have not explored it much because it has a very specific use case and we do not want our critical data to go inside their model, be analyzed, and do a lot of things. Most of the clients just back off because of that.
The biggest challenge that we face when dealing with UiPath Platform is the concept of unknowns or basically how different processes are connected to each other. They have tried to handle it to a certain level with the help of Automation Hub, but still the interconnected processes, like how one process is dependent upon another, that is not available. A best way to think about it is how a graph essentially works, with how one point is connected to another. I would really appreciate UiPath Platform to develop something, whether it is with the help of AI or a simple tool that they can develop, that can allow me as a business owner to put in all of my processes in there and see how one of my APIs is being utilized by four different processes. If this goes down, four of my automated processes are impacted. That functionality I would really love to see. They can move insights forward, I think. They can start focusing on it. I would rate this review as an eight overall.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. reseller