UiPath Platform Reviews

• Manual processing of invoices
• Outlook lookups for invoices
• Automatic online checks of Oracle, Hyperion, and SAP platform.

We provide a fast and solid robotic process automation solution to our customers. Robots are easy to understand and deploy. We also perform KT for customers IT department.

UiPath is not an open-source project, but it supports private enhancements and plugins. These allow the community to grow and encouraged people to contribute, with best practices. In my experience, the technologies that are supported by an active community, are those ones destined to succeed. This is clearly a great feature that the UiPath Studio platform has. Also, providing free training courses eases interested developers into adopting the technology.

Having an online Orchestrator instance for training purposes is great also.

I think that a great, nice, must-have feature should be to allow other languages to invoke code blocks beside for VB.NET. I'm confident that this feature can empower more developers to perform tasks and activities that other tools do not support.

• Automatic filling of web forms for request of services
• Searching customers' and providers' information on government websites (to validate registration numbers and expiration date).

It offered us a new perspective for business processes improvement, looking not only for cost reduction but better accuracy and customer experience.

• The Studio tool: an environment for development with a lot of components.
• Easy to test or simulate the process.
• Flexibility to use attended or unattended robots on desktops and cloud.

The solution architecture should be reviewed to offer more opportunities to small companies or small entry level projects. For example, they could accept SQL Server Express Edition or other open software database engine; and allow all components installed in only one server, at least up to 10 robots.

They offer a lot of resources before you have to call them: great written material, videos, training courses and a forum.

No, only evaluate.

Initial setup is not complex. You can start learning to use the Community version of Uipath  Studio, before deploy production environment.

In-house.

The ROI was not calculated.

Uipath is competitive when you have hundreds of robots, but it is expensive to small companies or entry level projects up to 10 robots.

WDG (Brazilian solution)

YANK (Brazilian solution)

AUTOMATE

The Community Forum and the Academy are great resources to get users experiences and support and should be consulted before starting new projects. 

Creating proof of concepts for Oracle product integrations and form filling for clients. We are also in the works of using it to automate expenses in-house.

UiPath has helped us link legacy Oracle systems that have little connectivity through other integration methods. We are on our way to being able to link UiPath with machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate expenses.

The ease of use and how easy it is to pick up due to the low code functionality. The Orchestrator is also invaluable.

Making variables easier to find, perhaps integrating a "recommended variable" section for functions, and to filter variables better.

To automate the manual tasks at my workplace. Using this tool, we can quickly develop automations.  

At my workplace, I developed three automations which saved a lot of efforts and avoided manual interventions. We saved thousands of manual efforts.

• Screen scraping
• Data scraping
• Web recording, etc. 

The features of this tool are really awesome to use and very helpful to automate tasks.

There are no cons I found in this tool. A free license would help everyone to learn about this tool.

I've used UiPath Studio to develop Automation projects that help me automate repetitive and manual tasks. This lets me focus on other, more important jobs to do.

I've been able to automate some tasks and projects both for me and my colleagues to help us with boring repetitive work. From jobs that require reading and processing emails, to jobs that require scraping information from web pages, this tool allows us to do anything that can be done by a human. 

UiPath studio recorder allows us to automate jobs very quickly and very easily.

The tool is intuitive and precise. It is easy to use with not a lot of programming knowledge needed. Also, there many built-in activities that let us automate tasks. If there is no activity available then it is probable that somebody has built one already.

Definitely, the machine learning engine should be improved so that we can process more invoices and purchase orders in PDF format with ease. There is a beta version but it is not stable. This is the only place where UiPath needs to improve because their competitors have this option and it is useful.

I've been using UiPath and UiPath Studio for more than a year.

The primary use case of this solution is to generate a report by scraping data, filtering it and combining the data for input to another system.

UiPath has improved our organization; the primary difference introduced by the application of the UiPath tool is the speed of processing and accuracy in the data processing.

The most valuable feature is the unattended robot, it adds a lot of value. Besides, there are certain situations where attended robots are employed to perform specific tasks.

Making improvements in the processing speed would be a good idea. I have experienced that sometimes during the development of robots, it becomes prolonged and unresponsive. Also, sometimes errors pop out of nowhere for already working simulations. This is not a significant limitation, but it would be nice if these instances can be eradicated. 

We use UiPath mostly for automating data entry forms and automatically copy-pasting between different apps.

We reduced a 10 people team to just one person, who just stands by most of the time and monitors the robotization process in action.

• It's very easy to set up an automation process. 
• The application is very intuitive and user-friendly. 
• There're also lots of training classes and training material available.

Our developers experienced some sluggishness while developing a very large automation. This only happened during automation though; the actual automation was not slow at all while running.

Development of bots to increase the posting of payments in a billing software for clients. This software is completely controlled via remote desktop, so there are sometimes that the speed of the bots is affected. We also review medical documents and save the records in this software. Currently, we are implementing the bots to check some docs and save them in batches for better control of the files.

Now we can process more payments in a short time, and use our human agents to take care of other tasks. Also, we handle better the exceptions that the billing software throws and can restart the job, giving some extra rules or parameters. We are still evaluating in which other processes we can run the bots for automating. We have got a server to increase the number of bots and make even more number of tasks. So far we configure bots for the jobs, more volume of files and information can be taken care of.

For our specific case, as we work with virtual and remote desktops, we find quite useful the new features that UiPath brings to work with such environments. The most recent is the computer vision package that uses a powerful OCR engine to recognize more accurately the elements in the remote screen and get the values we need or consider appropriated. Also, in general, this software is so easy to use and learn. How to use it takes no more than a full four weeks during the official training. The interface is so friendly, and the workspace is customizable.

Even though the new features of OCR recognition have improved, they still are incomplete and do not recognize some elements. Fortunately, they included an error report system to notify these issues. Also, UiPath has to develop a better way to show us the errors and where are they located in our project files. Finally, it would be great if they add new and powerful programming languages like C# or C++, to have more options at the development time.