UiPath Platform Reviews

• Invoice processing
• Claims processing
• Vendor onboarding
• Product fitment analysis
• Database monitoring
• Interaction with FTP and analyzing XML files
• Underwriter quote submissions
• Automating reconciliation of reports.

Ease of implementation.

Extensible framework assists in plugging in required components from existing scripts, and in implementing intelligent automation utilizing the best in class machine learning algorithms.

The framework provided has good recovery mechanism and exception handling capabilities built in. It can be customized based on the requirements and provides an easier start for implementation and to showcase in a presentable manner.

• Excel automation: It has activities related to most of the functionalities in Excel and makes life easier for anyone who spends a significant amount of time in Excel for analysis and reporting.
• PDF automation: It performs well in reading native PDF documents.
• Email automation: It integrates well with IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 apart from supporting Outlook and Exchange which are used extensively in large corporations.
• Web automation: The use of UiExplorer in extracting the properties of web elements and easy modification to improve the re-usability of workflows.
• Windows automation: It works well with Windows-based apps for updating information received in Excel spreadsheets and to capture the information and reports generated in the apps.
• Mobile app support to monitor bot health and status of the workflows.
• OCR integration works well with third-party engines.

• The core product is yet to include machine learning capabilities. 
• Focus on solving domain-specific high volume use cases to target the major pain points in each vertical.
• Simplify the knowledge requirements on .NET Framework for implementing complex automations.
• Including additional visualizations on the reporting side would help. 

POC and implementation were done for the in-house team, automating the penalty system of transportal services where the penalty on a no-show user is being calculated, and every user is intimated the monetary value of a no-show. This is then intimated through the mail, and also, the list of such users is sent to the payroll department to debit the penalty from the monthly payroll. Windows Server 2012 was used and some PowerShell scripting apart from UI automation using UiPath.

As mentioned above in the use case of the in-house development, it really improved the way the organization was doing earlier.

When it comes to RPA, the scalability and adaptability with minimum inputs provided are paramount.

UiPath is easy to use with minimum inputs given, and that's the best part of UiPath as an RPA tool.

Apart from it, the free e-learning videos UiPath Academy is offering is of very much help for the enthusiast and learners. It's a great idea that the UiPath team started and that's the best part where learning a tool is provided free of cost, that too with the diploma.

UI automation is perfect, but the scripting part could be improved. Let's say we need to run some scripts on some server, so the command being sent and the response received over the activities could be improved.

Fast-tracking the interfacing between an in-house planning application and an international partner's planning application.

Using RPA to do check and balances on invoices, and consequently uploading this data to a tax engine and extracting VAT, European sales listing and Intrastat reports. Finally, these reports are uploaded to the dedicated web portals.

Extracting handover data of wagon from a data lake and entering it into the follow-up application, since there is no direct integration yet.

Via UiPath, we were able to save a workload equivalent of multiple FTEs, which can now be directed at other more important tasks.

• The community edition
• The partnership with state-of-the-art applications such as ABBYY or Microsoft OCR.

• When automating complex projects, the application becomes sluggish due to the interfacing load.
• Licensing model is too complicated and has a lot of room for improvement.
  

I wanted to learn this platform to widen my breadth of knowledge and to have more options in my RPA toolbox. 

I am using it to help individuals, entrepreneurs and enterprises achieve the throughput, accuracy and additional capacity they require. I recently certified on the platform and find it quite satisfying to work with.

One great feature is relatively simple, and that is the ability to pause a recording and resume it. When debugging UiPath's ability to slow down its execution speed, visually identify UI elements it's interacting with while simultaneously showing the activity line it is working on is priceless. Coming from a lean process improvement background, I can appreciate this being implemented in a software application.

• The ability to search for activity lines in your code in the outline view would be great. Just type, and it would filter it in a way that you could click and jump to it. 
• It would be nice to have a centralized debugging tool for issues with arguments passing (missing/type) so as to easily detect problems.

• Automating applications that the client requires in the project
• Mostly automating day-to-day tasks which are like user-setup, user termination and password-reset in an application. 

We use the 2018 version. The community of UiPath is very supportive and active; that makes it very much understanding.

It made automation very easy with the help of experts from UiPath. Using this tool made a very easy way to automate the applications that our organization uses daily like time filling. For the beginners, UiPath provides a platform which helps them to have a better understanding of UiPath. Also, it has a community edition that helps to have a good hands-on experience for a beginner.

The OCR capability of UiPath makes it special as this feature was not in my previous automation tool. When I started using this tool, it made it compatible with automating some complex applications like reading PDFs, virtual machines and some more Citrix applications that were hard to automate using other tools. Its recording feature is also one of the best features along with its pricing as it charges money as per robot usage by the Orchestrator.

The tool is perfect as it is a full-on package, but yes it needs some improvements like when we use the OCR feature of the tool it works, but when we try to fetch the data from the image which is of low resolution, its accuracy of fetching the data decreases. Sometimes the data gets some garbage values added to the data that is fetched. This needs some improvement. Also, if the page has some dynamic background, then fetching the data becomes harder.

• Accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Automating the process of extracting data from vendor invoices and onboarding it to the company's financial application.

• It's easy to use and develop the solution, and simple to deploy. 
• It's way too expensive for small or mid-tier organisations.

• Desktop automation features and API services
• Email services
• Third-party vendor integrations, and
• The community.

Pricing and addition of new cutting edge features which it misses from its competitors. If the pricing of the tool is reduced, it would be a big sell for the company.

SAP automation.

Helped to automate a more productive process and cost-cutting.

Orchestrator mobile app for ease of access.

Cost wise and other DB support for Orchestrator.

Automating PDF documents, data extraction, and using it as an input to web applications with efficient time management.

Now we have vendor PDFs that are automated by UiPath which reduce the cost and save time on a three-FTE basis.

Data scraping is used to extract tables in web applications and provide iterative action to the tables based on the conditions.

Selector fails in iterative action so the next release must focus on selector related issue, and also, improvement is needed in its stability.

Poor stability.

The scalability of the product is good during deployment.

We switched from AutomationEdge because of vendor issues.

$100k.

I'm most concerned about Orchestrator's price.

ROI and scalability.