Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
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Automation Anywhere was very informative waking through their software and RPA.
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciated the tutorials online that were free that we were able to do in advance. This helped us to dive right into the tutorials. Also, the people working the event were very knowledgeable.
What do you dislike about the product?
I was trying to evaluate which use cases this would be better for over using a programming language like Python and would have liked to see some discussion on this.I also would have liked a more in depth tool to identify which function within the software to use for each scenario. Or a description of each of them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to pull data from multiple PDFs and then from there take that data to put into an excel sheet to prepare a Journal Entry.The benefit would be not having to manually look for the numbers and open up each PDF.
AA Bot-a-thon Review
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of AA is the ease of use for non-programmers. Coming in with very limited programming skills wasn't a huge hindrance - as long as you understand the rules and the tools within the program and your process doesn't require human decision you are able to get a bot up and running.
What do you dislike about the product?
The major downside to AA is that when you are recording there is often a long delay and it takes multiple attempts to get the recording to work the way it should, if at all. It requires more creativity to circumnavigate the process to get the same end result than I would like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using AA to help automate the tedious processes that are simple and not value-adding to free up time and resources for other value-adding tasks.
Principle Auditor
What do you like best about the product?
The use of the application requires minimum coding skills
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some common functions could be more straightforward, like locating a cell in excel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Auditing validation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Need some basic coding background
Automation Anywhere: Great Tool for Automation
What do you like best about the product?
I like the end result of the using this tool: automation across various software platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like that this tool is not affordable at a individual level to automate personal activities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can automate repetitive work tasks, which would save me more time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There should be individual licenses for users.
Lots of potential, still needs some work
What do you like best about the product?
The recording tools were easy to figure out. The software has a lot of potential to be great. Easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The application often doesn't work as planned. Keystrokes recording doesn't work as well as it intends to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating GL pulls from Peoplesoft. This can save my department alot of time by taking away mundane processes. The application was also slow and can be buggy at times.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a lot of repeating processes that can be automated, Automation may be the application for you.
Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Walking through how to build a bot. The training staff was very helpful and knowledgeable
What do you dislike about the product?
There was a deck explaining the process, however, we didn't not receive copies of the training material. When it was time to build our own bot, we were at a loss. Would have loved to have material handy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running manual reconciliation processes.
First experience with Automation Anywhere
What do you like best about the product?
easy sign on and easy to learn how to create new bot. Getting started is straight forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of functions within the software. The learning curve is high. For users without coding background it takes a while to get use to some of the languages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm trying to automate the email notification step after a task has been signed so the users don't have to separately open his/her email to draft an email every single time a task is signed off. AA can do all the repetitive steps.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
need to consider the ease of use for everyday user
RPA Training
What do you like best about the product?
Opportunity to learn hands on and coaches around the room to support
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that was strongly disliked.
Would recommend that:
- Include an advanced level training. Some of the training felt slow early on and would love to see more examples beyond excel which has it's own commands.
Would recommend that:
- Include an advanced level training. Some of the training felt slow early on and would love to see more examples beyond excel which has it's own commands.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Leadership Reporting
Excel Reconciliations
Data Prepping for database uploads
The primary benefit I've realized from this training is the ability to automate beyond applications. I've written many VBA scripts but I was limited to excel only.
Excel Reconciliations
Data Prepping for database uploads
The primary benefit I've realized from this training is the ability to automate beyond applications. I've written many VBA scripts but I was limited to excel only.
Great experience to learn a new automation tool
What do you like best about the product?
it provided me a new perspective of automation. a new way of thinking. a new experience for me with coding and this automation tool
What do you dislike about the product?
it is challenging to get the code written without errors, still not super user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to automate a monthly manual process. Can auto mate a few manual steps
Designed for ease of use for non-technical business users
What do you like best about the product?
It's possible to customize different actions using insert keystrokes, mouse click, and other stuff. Has Excel and CSV support. For technical users there is also a variety of code-related aspects allowing the user to select HTML tags using ID or class or xpath or any other available tags. Being able to use xpath is super convenient for badly designed webpages that don't denote object differences with id, class, or some other unique identifier.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not as optimized for chrome development compared to IE. Object cloning is difficult when selecting certain tags since they're either enclosed or enclosing something else. CSV is more difficult to work with than Excel. The AI machine learning to read written text is also subpar compared to Instabase or Adobe. Bots tend to be unstable as well and break when running on different machines or when system changes occur such as screen resolution changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scraping screenshots after logging into an internal system to extract user data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
When deciding to use Automation Anywhere, make sure you are using the latest version (AA 2019) since it is incompatible with past versions and you will have to rebuild the bot. Be sure to take some training as well to learn about the large variety of features and best practices in development. There are many ways to implement the same thing but some are definitely better and make for easier maintenance than others.
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