I use the solution with different customers. Sometimes it's used for financial organizations, or for accounting or ecommerce. It can be used for mortgages, or loan processing for example. 

We use the automation a lot. 

It's very good at document understanding. Training machines and utilizing machine learning models is very easy compared to other models. 

The product offers easy integration with APIs. 

It helps with email automation and PDF automation.

It is easy to build automation using UiPath in comparison to, for example, Blue Prism or Power Automate. 

We use it to implement end-to-end automation. Internal automation is rather important to me. It's something the customer needs. There are multiple processes that are automated and involve API integration as well as document understanding. At the final stage, we'd need reporting as well. 

The user community of UiPath is very good. We have access to partner portals and learning portals. The forums are also very good. They have a good support system. If we get stuck, we get extremely helpful answers. In the community, there will be videos about new features coming out and will show the use cases. They show their plans in advance, which is very helpful.

I've used the UiPath Academy classes. There are lots of courses and I have an advanced certificate. The biggest benefit is having some training rather than going into the product and trying to learn it by trial and error. You can either get basic knowledge or do a deep dive. It gives you options to go as deep as you want.

We use AI functionality in our automation program. We use machine learning models, for example. Document understanding uses AI as well. It helps us automate complex and difficult processes. If I have to create complex logic or do some new API integrations, with the help of AI, it's easier. We can automate more processes overall. As you train the machine learning model, and do the right test cases in the right way, it begins to work really well.

It has helped to speed up digital transformation.  

The solution has helped us reduce human error. It's helped prevent us from fixing errors and reworking things. It also helps remove people from mundane tasks. It's helped people save time. How much time is saved depends on the process. Sometimes some human intervention is still required, however, it can typically save three and a half to four hours. 

The cost can be a barrier. Power Automate from Microsoft, for example, comes at a lower cost. 

The automation hub and the architecture around test cases could be improved. They should offer more videos that would help us implement various scenarios. We'd like to see information about use cases specific to different industries. If there are use cases that have worked at different companies, we'd like to be able to see them to learn from what others have done to help us grow our business as well.

I've been working with the solution for the past seven years. 

The solution is very stable and good. 

The solution is quite scalable. It's no problem. With architecture on the cloud and the fact they support VMs and Azure, there's no issue with scaling. 

I used to contact support a lot. I don't do it so much anymore. 95% of the time they are very good. There have been times when we have faced roadblocks, however. 

Positive

I've used Blue Prism in the past and I am exploring Power Automate as well. Power Automate is expanding quite a bit. It's very good. The UI isn't quite up to the mark. It still has limited features, however, it is easy to use and the price is good. Blue Prism is still a very complicated tool.

I've been involved in the initial setup. I've created things in the development and test environment and then moved them to production. The process could be improved a bit. It would be nice if there was a button you could click to replicate across environments. 

We have senior developers that can handle the setup and integration process.

As consultants, we do not need to handle any maintenance tasks. 

We handled the initial setup ourselves. 

The pricing can be a barrier. For most clients, it is pricey compared to other solutions. However, it offers great features. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

If a company has a lot of use cases where automation features are required, they should try UiPath. However, it depends on the company's requirements. 

We use UiPath to minimize human effort by automating repetitive business processes.

For a technically sound person, it is easy to build automation using UiPath.

We send out live surveys to thousands of people, and we use UiPath to develop bots that can take the information and create graphs that individuals can easily analyze.

We see good value in UiPath's User Community.

In most situations, end-to-end automation is possible using UiPath.

UiPath has helped improve our organization by automating sales scripts and performing daily calculations to provide quarterly profit analyses to our clients.

It has helped reduce our on-premises footprint and increase our digital footprint.

All of our users must first complete the Academy courses before working on any tasks involving UiPath.

We use AI Center and machine learning to extract more complex information from our image-based PDFs and purchase orders.

During the first six months, we faced many challenges and had to improve our processes. However, since then, UiPath has helped us to accelerate our digital transformation and reduce costs.

UiPath has helped our employees save 60 to 70 percent of their time. Tasks that used to take one hour to complete can now be done in one minute with UiPath.

Excel, PDF, and email automation, as well as document understanding, task mining, and process mining, are valuable features of UiPath.

We have two versions of UiPath: on-premise and cloud. With the on-premise version, we have good control and flexibility. However, the cloud version is less flexible and we often receive errors. We would like UiPath to make some enhancements to the cloud version to provide more flexibility for OCRs, email models, and AI centers. This would allow us to provide better service to our customers.

I have been using UiPath for two years and nine months.

UiPath is not as stable as I would like, and I hope to see improved stability going forward.

UiPath is scalable.

Technical support is good. We receive a response to urgent tickets within an hour.

Positive

The on-premises deployment was complex, but the cloud deployment was straightforward. Five people participated in the deployment.

The pricing for UiPath is reasonable.

I would rate UiPath eight out of ten.

UiPath is deployed across multiple locations. We have around 45 people that are currently using the solution.

The cloud deployment of UiPath does not require any maintenance. 

I recommend UiPath for organizations with multiple daily tasks that can be automated. However, I would not recommend it for just one task.

My previous company was a share market or brokerage company, and we used UiPath for the client's reports. We used automation to get the records of their clients and get their financial reports in the desired manner. We go to the company database, get the proper data of the clients, and arrange it in the desired manner of our company's officers or the manager for the back office or the accounting department.

We arrange the data in a particular manner. We give it to them so that they can analyze and get the record for themselves, analyze their market reports, and get the desired result. We use automation to get the data in the Excel database so they can use that data in a particular manner for the future aspect of the company's client.

My current organization is a service-based company. Our client is a US-based company that manages the insurance portal of the US. They arrange the insurance portal for their US insurance client. We go to their particular portal and automate it, get the desired data, and save it to the database of the client's company.

Firstly, we used Excel for database use. We are currently managing SharePoint using UiPath and arranging the data on SharePoint, where all the clients can access their data and save the record on their own.

In my previous organization, one process took a person two to three hours to complete. With automation, that process could be done in only 15 minutes. Two to three hours of hard work could be utilized with another process, and the person is free from that particular complex process. In my current organization, the user needs to log into every portal, get the details, and arrange data in a particular manner.

It took almost four to five hours to get all the insurance details and fill up in a particular manner. This process is now done through automation within one hour or half an hour so that the person can utilize that time with other work. UiPath automation provides optimization, accuracy, and a three-fourth reduction in working time. Compared to other tools, UiPath automation immensely helps a person or an organization.

The most valuable features of UiPath are Excel automation and web portal automation. There are many complex details and works in Excel that the operation department does manually. They arrange the data in formulas or in a particular manner. Through automation, Excel work is done very smoothly.

After that, we can arrange the data and save it in the desired manner. When using the web portal, the manual person needs to go to the portal and get the desired information. With UiPath, a lot of work has been done through automation so we can get accurate data in the desired manner.

UiPath is a user-friendly tool compared to other automation tools. UiPath can be made easier to learn. There is a lot of complexity in the things we can do in UiPath, like connecting to an organization's databases or using APIs in the process. We are now using SharePoint. There can be more simpler things to connect with SharePoint. We have to go to the SharePoint website, get the client ID or the user ID, put it on UiPath, and then connect every time we start the process. So, there are a lot of things that can be simplified.

I have been using UiPath for more than three years.

UiPath is much easier to use. Stability-wise, the solution has a lot of scope because there are many complex things in other tools. UiPath is a stable solution.

I was involved in the solution's deployment. We had some difficulties at the start of the deployment process. Firstly, we deploy our code on the UiPath orchestrator. But there is a lot of complexity to organize that orchestrator through our organization. We found the solution by deploying our codes on our own Windows server and running it through them.

At first, we did all the R&D on deploying the code ourselves. Then, the DevOps team came in, and they did the rest.

It doesn't need a lot of people to deploy because it is easier to do once you understand the deployment.

We are using on-premises servers to deploy our codes on UiPath. We are using our own server to deploy the code for automation.

Not much maintenance is required for the solution from our end. We deploy the code on the server, and the process runs smoothly after the deployment. However, if there is a change in the process, website, or the way in which we get data, we need to make necessary changes to get the data in a particular manner.

Although I am an engineering person, I was out of touch with technology for eight years. However, I didn't need proper experience to use UiPath because UiPath is a coding-free platform. We can learn UiPath even if we don't know coding. It can be difficult if any nontechnical person wants to learn UiPath, but they can properly understand the UiPath. Other automation tools like Automation Anywhere or Blue Prism are complex tools. But UiPath is the most user-friendly tool for automation.

One process in my previous organization took two or three hours to complete. A person needs to sit at the table and do what's needed for two or three hours, which is a complex process. Once automation was introduced in our company, the process was done in only 15 minutes with accurate data and reports arranged in the desired manner. People don't need to sit at the table for two or three hours; they can be utilized for other things.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation. In my current organization, I use web portal automation to log into a particular website or portal page and deliver the data to a person who can share the data with higher management. There's no need for human effort to arrange the data for that particular person.

There's a UiPath forum where people can go and ask questions. They connect you with the proper answers as much as possible and give you the proper solution to your problem. Communication with UiPath's user community is much easier.

I've done the foundation course from UiPath Academy, and I'm currently pursuing the advanced certification from UiPath Academy. UiPath Academy courses have benefited me a lot. I was out of touch with technical things, and UiPath was almost a new thing for me. I learned a lot of things through UiPath Academy. It helped me a lot because I learned many things from there and implemented them in the processes.

We are not currently using UiPath's AI functionality, but we are considering using it in the next one or two months.

UiPath has greatly helped reduce human error because UiPath performs the processes accurately. A lot of complex operations are performed on Excel. Through UiPath automation, all the permutations and combinations are applied, and we get accurate results.

UiPath automation has saved us a lot of time because the process takes almost half the time to get things done.

Overall, I rate UiPath an eight out of ten.

We use UiPath to automate processes.

Users who are not proficient in programming can still use UiPath.

UiPath makes it easy to build automation because it can fully integrate with third-party applications.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation, which is crucial because it allows us to focus on other aspects of our work rather than dealing with repetitive tasks that can be exhausting.

It helps to eliminate 70 percent of our human error by automating routine tasks and enabling drag-and-drop activities.

The UiPath User Community is helpful.

UiPath has helped our organization improve by saving us 80 percent of our time through automation, which is vital to us. We no longer have to manually manage hundreds of lines of code and it simplifies our work.

I would rate the Academy courses eight out of ten. The courses are good, but I would like more of them.

UiPath has helped speed up and reduce the cost of our digital transformation.

The automation and the customization of the platform are the most valuable features.

I would like to see improved support and cost management for advanced certification. The cost is too high for many people to afford.

I have been using UiPath for three years.

UiPath is an unmatched platform for robotic automation services. One of the most stable and up-to-date databases to automate and reduce workloads for organizations.

It is scalable.

The technical support is good.

Positive

The initial deployment was neither complex nor straightforward. It required around 15 people and took two to three hours to complete.

UiPath is reasonably priced.

I would rate UiPath nine out of ten.

UiPath allows me to create automation solutions that are perfectly adapted to my business needs, making my work more efficient.

Fifteen people in our organization use UiPath, and they are also responsible for maintaining the solution and ensuring that it is up to date.

UiPath is used remotely within our organization.

I recommend UiPath to others as it truly saves organizations a lot of time.

Our use cases are generally related to front-end UI-based automations that emulate tasks done by teams. For example, we do front-end SAP automation for data entry and scraping or posting data to websites that are related to the organization. We use UiPath for other automations like extracting and manipulating data from Excel. The primary use cases are in finance, HR, and operations. In logistics, it's used in full-sprint solutions.

UiPath's ability to do end-to-end automation is crucial. If we do the automation in bits and pieces, it's challenging to integrate it. The best part is that the turnaround time is drastically reduced because the process isn't being put on hold in between two manual interventions. The more permissions we apply, the more we reduce the turnaround time. However, the smaller automations don't impact the turnaround time that much. If the logic is set correctly, it can completely eliminate human error. 

The UiPath community development forum is helpful. Developers can access all the information they need if they get stuck. For our use case, we refer to OpenMedia, not any particular program. To understand what are the RDP use cases. I personally follow primary and secondary research forums as well as McKinsey's technology consulting newsletters and documentation.

The UiPath Academy explains various use case scenarios through videos and training sessions. It's all practical, hands-on instruction instead of purely theoretical. That made a significant difference by increasing our confidence in the product and ability to create our own automation. You can track each team member's training steps in parallel because everyone needs to be on the same page.

Uipath doesn't necessarily reduce our on-premise footprint. We use UiPath to automate configuration integration, so I can't say there is any direct impact because RPA is now just part of our on-prem ecosystem. The solution doesn't require expensive or complex application upgrades, but certain applications need scripts to be enabled to get UiPath working on their front end.

It saves time, but the amount varies. Each process has a different impact depending on the frequency of that process. If a process is running daily, the values are high, but sometimes it's low. The organization aims to have one bot per person, so everyone has one attended bot that can replicate their monitor network. It's the equivalent of adding one FTE per year by default per person. Every person can have a bot, scale up the work, and get more done in a day. 

The amount of money saved also depends on how often the process runs. We pay per bot, so if the bot isn't running frequently, we might not save any money. However, if the requirement is to do many more tasks than a single person can handle, it makes sense to use a bot, and we can save a lot of money that way. Sometimes, we have different goals beyond just saving money or reducing the time that our staff members spend on tasks. We might deploy a bot to improve the user experience and save the user some time. In some cases, we might not see short-term savings, but we'll see a benefit from it in the long run as the process volume increases.

The feature I like the most is ONEWEB UI automation. UiPath's OCR technology also works well. There is another feature called Action Center that lets you decide what happens after the data is captured. It passes the data into Action Center, where a person can review and approve it before it goes to the next step. It helps us manage our attended bot processes.

It's generally easy to build processes because of the drag-and-drop configurable suite. However, more complex expressions may require some kind of functional coding. UiPath also has some prebuilt functions in its training module that can be utilized to enter the expressions and get the job done. That's one workaround.

UiPath's built-in integration with Python scripts could be more robust so that I do not have to depend on another technology and I can do everything on one platform. 

Each program you write on UiPath contributes to bot consumption and utilization. As you add more bots, your costs will increase for more actions. Python is open-source, so it is totally free. Depending on our automation needs, we go back and forth between these two technologies. Better integration between these two tools will help organizations cover all areas of automation without more cost-effectively. 

I have used UiPath for approximately two years.

I rate UiPath nine out of 10 for stability. We haven't faced any challenges with UiPath's stability because it is a SaaS product. It runs on the UiPath cloud, and things are working fine. 

UiPath is fully scalable. I haven't faced any challenges in terms of scalability because the cost is not per user or per process. It is priced according to the amount of bots being consumed, so it all depends upon the complexity of your own project. If the complexity is lower you can reuse and share 

I rate UiPath support nine out of 10. They always respond with solutions within the time established by the SLA. 

Positive

We were working with Power Automate. It has benefits from a cost perspective. The cost per developer is much lower relative to UiPath. Power Automate is a more cost-effective solution for larger enterprises. However, UiPath has more technological capabilities, and it's more user-friendly for developers, which is why UiPath is being adopted more over Power Automate. At the same time, Power Automate is continuously improving, so it may reach the same level as UiPath in the future. 

We are using the cloud version of UiPath, which is hosted by the UiPath team themselves. We do not use a private cloud. The network configuration didn't take much time. The deployment involves setting up a UiPath account and configuring permissions. It is a SaaS platform like Office 365.

The deployment time is just the amount of time required to develop processes for the project. It depends on the size and complexity. A project with hundreds of activities might take a few months, but a simple project with only two processes can be done in a few hours. 

I rate UiPath eight out of 10. 

We use it for automation with different applications and use Document Understanding, AI Center, and Action Center.

There is a good chance that people will make mistakes in manual operations, especially in whatever data-entry operation they do. By defining a solution in UiPath that is prerecorded and scripted, there is a lot of reduction in manual errors. If you have 100 transactions, 80 to 90 of them can be automated because they are straightforward cases. That means we can eliminate human error from 90 percent of the transactions.

In addition, the automation solutions that we, as a partner, implement for our clients reduce the amount of manual work and they are able to use their critical human resources for other useful processes.

The prebuilt AI models that are available in AI Center are valuable to us for things like invoice processing.

UiPath is also a solution that is user-friendly for developers with a lot of prebuilt activities and ML models. It enables developers to quickly develop a solution.

We can also implement end-to-end automation.

I have been using UiPath for the past four years.

It's absolutely a stable product. It has been in the market for more than six years. Whatever solution we develop for a client is completely stable.

It's definitely a scalable solution.

The first level of support is that we search for solutions in the forum of the UiPath user community. Most of the time, we'll get a solution there. If not, we'll contact the technical support.

If I raise an urgent ticket, they quickly respond. Within an hour I'll get a call, and they'll arrange a team within two to three hours.

Positive

I used Automation Anywhere. Out of 10, UiPath stands somewhere around 8.5 to nine, while Automation Anywhere is around 7.5. The reason for that difference is UiPath's user-friendliness and versatility on the development side. For example, if you want to integrate it with VB code, UiPath provides a lot of options. And on the Excel automation side, UiPath is more reliable than Automation Anywhere.

In RPA, UiPath is far ahead compared to Automation Anywhere.

For some clients it's on-prem and other clients have deployed the cloud option.

The amount of time it takes to set up depends on the components a client purchases. If they only purchase the basic components of Orchestrator, a robot, and Studio, it may take only two to three days, or a maximum of five days, for the deployment. But if they go for high availability and some kind of DR setup, that would take an additional week of deployment. And for AI Center, it will take another week. Deployment usually requires two to three people. We involve the infra engineer, the database engineer, and a solution architect.

As for maintenance of UiPath itself, there are updates that may impact a solution and we will need to upgrade the packages, for example, legacy Windows. UiPath updates very frequently, and they don't support the earlier products. Officially, they are not supposed to support three of the versions. That means customers have to update within a year or two years.

UiPath solutions fit European and American clients, but especially for medium- and small-sized businesses in India, the cost may be the one factor that constrains customers. That's especially true when it comes to AI and ML solutions. It would be helpful for small and medium businesses if there were a reduced level or some kind of modified licensing.

On a scale from one to 10, where one is cheap and 10 is expensive, UiPath is an eight or nine for the region that we work in. But in other regions, it is somewhere around six to seven.

The solutions we provide to clients to automate their business processes need maintenance. They can usually take on a few processes on their own, but if it goes beyond 10 processes, some level of bot admin is required.

We don't need a proof of concept for a product that has been on the market for a long time. In the past three or four years, UiPath has been a proven solution. Customers can rely on the solution. We just have to make sure that their requirements can be met by the solution, and the other aspect is the cost. If these two aspects are taken care of, we can recommend that people go with UiPath.

UiPath is one of the leaders in RPA technology, and we get more business from it. Customers either want UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Power Automate. But most of our business is with UiPath. They keep on updating it and are building their own RPA ecosystem. That makes it very easy to convince clients to stick with this one platform for multiple solutions.

We have been using UiPath to automate regular activities for a business. I'm currently working for a vendor that has a contract with a business. We are using the UiPath solution to automate all the activities that they have been doing on a regular basis. These activities have simple functions, mostly with Excel data entry and some internal applications that the client needs.

So we use UiPath to take some input, and then we process the activities for the business. Then, we share our output with them as a report on a daily basis or a monthly basis.

There are multiple angles to look at this. UiPath has helped the senior level with cost savings it has done to them by just putting the licensing in a robot and using it for all the manual activities. From the mid-level management perspective, efficiency has improved, error has reduced, and transaction turnaround time has reduced. A robot can be available 24 hours a day, and it can be used at any moment. Human users can be available, but robots have proven to be more efficient.

Turnaround time has improved for this transaction, and errors have been reduced. A bank is a service provider, and its customers use its services. From the end user's or the customer's perspective, the turnaround time for each request has reduced, the errors have reduced, and everything has been going on faster. So, these are the multiple perspectives to look at, and everyone seems to be equally happy with the UiPath solution for automation.

The most valuable features of UiPath are data entry, data reading, and some simple logical calculations. Also, the solution's ability to use Excel and to read or add data to Excel has been very useful to us as a vendor. We have been proposing solutions to the clients through these good features that we utilize to the best.

UiPath can improve its AI and optical character recognition or OCR. Currently, reading digital images or PDF documents by UiPath is a huge challenge. I request UiPath to improve the OCR recognition.

I've been using UiPath for around eight months. Earlier, I was using UiPath for personal uses, but I recently started using it professionally.

UiPath is a pretty stable solution. We have never had any stability issues with UiPath. It's in excellent condition as of now.

UiPath can be scalable. Currently, AI is being implemented in UiPath, and that's a huge boost to UiPath's features and what UiPath can do. It can be scaled to a bigger picture in multiple ways.

I have never personally contacted UiPath's technical support, but my team members have been contacting them for support. From what I understand, their technical support is pretty good.

I have overseen the deployment but wasn't involved in the deployment. From what I know, there will be a virtual machine, and bot licenses will be allocated. The UiPath automation will be installed on that virtual machine, and the bot will be allocated to that machine and run in a completely virtual environment. That's the only detail I'm aware of, but I was not involved with any process deployment.

From what I know, UiPath's licensing has a reasonable cost. Compared to the huge benefits the solution provides, it's still a huge saving to the organization even after the licensing cost.

We are using a virtual machine and running the UiPath bots on that virtual machine. A little bit of cloud is involved, but mostly, it's on-premises because it's a sensitive environment.

From my end, UiPath does require some maintenance. A dedicated team oversees all the existing processes that are running live. In some cases, there will be some maintenance required.

For example, if the bot's accuracy level has reduced because of some internal applications being updated or changed, the bot has to be recalibrated to adapt to the new environment. In some cases, the bot will stop, and it has to be monitored and fixed. A dedicated team is monitoring and maintaining the bots as of now.

I advise users to consider the environment where the solution will be used, the features of UiPath, and the challenges. They should consider how much UiPath would benefit that environment and how much benefit the end user will receive by implementing UiPath. UiPath has its own challenges and benefits. Do the proper research, and if you believe UiPath will be a good solution, go for it by all means.

I will say it's fairly easy to do the automation. It's fairly straightforward and easy to use. Everything is simplified to the basic ground level. Everything is in the UI elements, and using those automation tools in UiPath is quite simple.

I believe UiPath can do some automation for a good cause. Since most transactions running today are digitized, UiPath can automate all those transactions and activities, usually in an efficient environment and workflow. That would, in turn, have a huge impact on everything around it, like the environment or supporting NGOs and other organizations. UiPath can be used in such situations and will be very productive.

Since we are a UiPath vendor, we have been doing all those end-to-end automation for our clients. We have been implementing end-to-end automation for a long time now. For each case, we are supporting businesses to move from a manual workforce to a digital workforce. I can share a few live scenarios where we implement the automation for the client.

Currently, there are some cases where the customer has to replenish an ATM for a banking corporation. We are automating it end-to-end, starting from the request to replenish the ATM until the replenishment has been done. Then, the data has to be reflected in the internal application related to the bank.

We start with taking the request, passing it to a third-party vendor who will do the replenishment, and we'll take the reports from them. Then, we'll do the data entry in the internal application, which will, in turn, be stored in the organization's back end. It's a huge database where all the data is monitored closely. So, we have implemented this solution of automating their ATM replenishment.

Another use case is fraud calls, which some clients receive from outsiders. We are helping the bank mitigate all the risks and reduce the damages caused by those fraudsters by automating all their required actions, as proposed by the bank's policy, in dealing with all these fraudsters. I cannot disclose more since there is an NDA between me and my clients.

The UiPath's user community is very helpful. There is the forum, and there is the UiPath support. Most of the time, we reach out to the UiPath support for any concern we have related to the UiPath's functionality. The forums are also a great help. They have many topics, and a lot of knowledge can be gained from those forums, with everyone sharing their knowledge.

So, both have different uses and different scenarios to reach them. One is the support, and one is the forum, but both are very helpful in everything they provide.

As a vendor, we are supposed to develop and maintain the solutions we provide, including UiPath. The on-prem footprint is increasing as we implement more automation. However, the on-prem footprint has been reduced from a manual workforce because everything is automated and fully digitalized. So, there are two different angles to this. The on-prem footprint is increasing from the vendor side and reducing from the manual workforce side.

We have been using UiPath Academy courses for different roles. As a vendor, we are required to take these courses as and when they are available or updated. So, my team members and I take those courses on a frequent basis, at least once a year.

UiPath's AI functionality is something we are exploring now as a vendor. We have not implemented it in any client-side projects, but we are exploring that angle to see the possibilities of combining UiPath and AI. We plan to use AI along with UiPath in the foreseeable future.

UiPath does increase the speed of digital transformation because we are digitalizing the workforce and all the transactions carried out internally in the bank. It incurs a cost, but I wouldn't be able to answer whether it has increased or reduced the cost of digitalization. A mid-level to senior-level management employee will be able to answer it. As of now, I'm a consultant, but we are not aware of such commercialization details.

UiPath has greatly helped reduce human error by a huge margin, up to 80% to 100%.

One of the huge advantages of UiPath is that it frees up a lot of employee time by taking a huge workload from the employee and passing it to the bot. The main aim of implementing UiPath automation on any project is to reduce the workload on human users.

Overall, I rate UiPath a nine out of ten.

UiPath is a user-friendly solution.

Sometimes, the company's processes are very complex, and it's very hard to implement UiPath. 

It also makes mistakes. Understanding your systems by yourself and implementing UiPath into your company processes is the hardest part. This could be improved so that the companies can easily implement the solution.

UiPath's stability depends on how you implement it. If the solution is implemented correctly, it will work properly.

UiPath's technical support is quite good and better than other solutions.

Positive

The first step in deploying UiPath is to learn the system you need to automate and then decide what can be automated in it. Sometimes, the processes are complex, and it's very expensive to automate them. When you know how to implement UiPath, it's easy to implement. So, the main study of your processes is necessary for the solution's implementation.

We had to select between Blue Prism and UiPath for our automation processes. We chose UiPath because it was more user-friendly.

UiPath is deployed on our company’s internal cloud.

It is not that difficult to build automations using UiPath.

UiPath does enable us to implement end-to-end automation.

While implementing automation in your company, UiPath gives many benefits, like minimizing FTEs. Many of the employees are doing repetitive jobs on a daily basis, which can be done by robots or automation. Time reduction and error reduction are the main benefits we get from implementing UiPath.

UiPath has freed up employee time for our organization.

UiPath’s user community is very nice. Whenever you have some problems, you can get help from UiPath’s user community. UiPath is also very user-friendly, with many options to search on your own for YouTube videos that will help you.

UiPath has helped minimize our on-prem footprint by decreasing the FTEs and saving employee time, which is important to us.

We have used the vendor’s UiPath Academy courses.

The solution speeds up digital transformation, and it does not require expensive or complex application upgrades to do so. It depends on your work system because sometimes, you have to implement the whole automation system into your computers.

UiPath has saved costs for our organization.

Overall, I rate UiPath an eight out of ten.

We use UiPath to automate business processes.

We use UiPath Orchestrator and other products in the cloud, but we deploy the robots to our own internal network. The robots are managed by the cloud, but they run within our applications on-premises. The UiPath administration system and configuration are also done in the cloud.

The ease of building autonomous automation depends on the design. In our organization, we have developed a good design that recognizes the business process and the design features. We want to develop it in a way that is easy to follow. If we do this well, it will be easy for the developer to understand what needs to be built. The studio product, which is UiPath's development product, is also a very easy product to use to build the automation.

UiPath enables us to implement end-to-end automation.

They have a large and active user community. If we are a large enough customer, UiPath assigns dedicated account managers, pre-sales staff, and developers to work with us. They also organize community events, such as the one where one of our senior managers was invited to give a keynote speech from a customer perspective on their experience with UiPath. These events are positive and beneficial. UiPath is a large company and is probably one of the top three RPA vendors. As a result, they have a large and active user community.

UiPath has helped us reduce our on-premises infrastructure. We used to have an on-premises administration or orchestration system that consisted of databases and application services. We no longer need that system, as everything is now in the cloud. This is beneficial for managing upgrades, capacity, and costs. UiPath costs us less overall, even though their cloud licenses are slightly more expensive than on-premises licenses.

We use certain UiPath Academy courses to train our developers before they start working on projects. The Academy offers consistent and quick training in all the core elements of UiPath. This saves us time and resources, as we don't have to tie up valuable staff in maintaining training materials or delivering training. The courses are self-paced, so new employees can complete them at their own pace. They are also up-to-date with the latest features of UiPath, ensuring that our developers are always learning the latest skills.

UiPath does not speed up our digital transformation as much as it reduces the cost to a level where we can afford to do our digital transformation. I always consider the RPA solution to be feasible until such time as we can properly transform the business behind the scenes. I refer to it as system automation rather than RPA automation which is a true digital transformation.

It reduces human error by automating repetitive tasks. This means that we no longer have to train people on how to do these tasks, and they can be performed consistently and accurately every time. This is especially important for tasks that require data entry into fields or applications that do not have validation. By automating these tasks, we can avoid the cost of hiring and training people, and we can also reduce the variation in the process. This leads to a more efficient and error-free operation.

UiPath has helped free up our employees' time by automating repetitive tasks that were previously done manually. For example, employees were previously responsible for entering information into multiple systems, which was a time-consuming and error-prone process. UiPath robots can now perform these tasks much more efficiently, freeing up employees to focus on more high-value work. In addition, UiPath has helped us to eliminate the need for some contractors who were previously hired to perform manual data entry tasks. This has saved us money by eliminating those contractor positions. In the last four years, we have used robotic process automation in 90 percent of our processes and fully automated ten percent. This has saved us the equivalent of 200 full-time employees.

We have saved approximately $18 million over the four years we have been using UiPath. These are real savings, as people are no longer doing those tasks. In particular, we have been able to eliminate 100 full-time equivalent contractors. These are hard savings that we can actually measure. UiPath has a tool that allows businesses to identify a process, enter the key steps, and calculate the amount of time spent on those steps. UiPath then magically calculates the potential savings. These savings are real because they are based on the amount of time that people would have spent on those tasks if they were not automated. The results of this analysis are then stored in the Automation Hub tool. This tool allows us to see which high-value processes should be automated first. UiPath is smart enough to tell organizations they don't need to analyze all of the processes themselves. They can let UiPath do it for them. The Automation Hub tool does not go into the details of the design or the automation of the processes. It simply captures the processes that the business has identified as being manual and in need of automation. This gives us a pipeline of work that UiPath can then sell us licenses to automate.

The ability to recognize screen elements and their robot technology are both very valuable features. The ability to recognize the screen element that we want to input or extract data from is very good. It is also very extensive. We also like the way that the unattended mode allows us to run it as a background process on a desktop. We can run these things quite well. UiPath's robot technology is very reliable. 

I see UiPath as a practical product that is trying to achieve end-to-end automation or end-to-end processing. They are playing in this space and bringing their AI connectivity or components into their product. However, I think the only downside is that, as we have seen recently, for some of the processes we have automated, we have documentation on the technical elements that we have automated, but people have forgotten the business rules. UiPath has a task capture product or a process mining product but it could be improved by capturing the business process and then how the automation that we have developed feeds into that overall business process, and making that available to the business so that they know what the business processes are. UiPath does not have a delivery product. For example, when we go into Microsoft DevOps, UiPath does not do that. Once we have identified the process and have coded it in UiPath, there is nothing to tell us about how we deliver that process, and who is assigned to a task to build the components. There is no project management or DevOps delivery pipeline model inside UiPath, so we cannot manage the development.

I have been using UiPath for four years.

UiPath is stable.

UiPath is extremely scalable.

The technical support is excellent.

Positive

The on-premises deployment of UiPath is complex. We had a lot of network issues because we have a secure network architecture. We had to split up our database elements, application server elements, and virtual machines that run the robots. This was complex. High availability was also complex to achieve, as we had to set up load balancing and failover. Finally, upgrading the system was a nightmare. It took forever, and UiPath releases a major release every year. Deploying in the cloud is much more straightforward.

The license cost for UiPath is about $500,000 per year.

I always say that the price of UiPath is too expensive. But if we identify a high-value business process to automate, UiPath becomes a very cost-effective product. A robot license costs $6,000 USD per year, or $10,000 NZD. This is about one month's salary for one person. If we can automate a process that would otherwise require ten people, the investment in UiPath will pay for itself quickly.

We evaluated Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism before deciding on UiPath. We are a large organization and can afford the cost of UiPath, but it was more about the functionality of the product at the time. UiPath consistently ranked ahead of the others in terms of functionality, according to Gartner and Everest. I believe we made a wise choice. It is also easier to get developers for UiPath because of their Academy.

I would rate UiPath nine out of ten.

UiPath's AI functionality can be used to help developers build automation processes, but it can be expensive. We use the open-source TensorFlow technology from Google, which is the same technology that UiPath uses. Our developers are willing to build and manage this technology themselves, which is a cost-effective solution. However, if we use UiPath's AI functionality, it will be managed by them.

I am an architect. I have worked as an integration architect, infrastructure architect, and network architect. When I first saw UiPath, I thought it was just for scripting the front end, but it is much more powerful than that. I really like it because it allows me to find slow, expensive, and inefficient business processes and automate them. This can lead to real savings for the business. With traditional applications, there is often a business case that needs to be made before the application is built. But with RPA, we can see the savings every day. For example, if we automate a process that used to take ten full-time employees, we can see that we are saving ten FTEs every day. I enjoy using UiPath because it is a real solution within IT that can drive out real costs from the business.

I recommend that those who want to use UiPath do not treat it like any other IT system. Do not simply implement it and expect it to be of high value. The most important thing is to understand the business well enough to use the tool to its full potential. In other words, automate high-value or high-benefit processes.

Unattended Automations are the best value from an RPA solution to an organization. It makes sure human employees are now more productive 95X.

Robotic process automation is one of the most interesting features. RPA allows us to automate what people do manually. It appeals to me from a technical and a business standpoint.

I want UiPath Data Service to be expanded. It must include many more features as an online database. Many online databases like QuickBase and Force.com are 100 times better than UiPath Data Service. Not sure why UiPath is not adding such features to Data Service.

The product does not provide features for chatbot development. It is one of the reasons why people do not use UiPath because they have to use a different tool for chatbot development. Competitors like Microsoft have all process automation capabilities in their Power Platform. They have RPA, attended bots, unattended bots, application development, databases, and chatbots. UiPath has not gotten into chatbots for several years. They are doing many things except chatbots.

I express the need for chatbots in every insider event I attend. UiPath’s team says it will take it to the product management group. But nothing happens after that. I want a product for chatbot development from UiPath without having to purchase licenses from a third-party company.

The documentation needs a lot of work. The documentation is "boring". They just mention a feature and add one line about what it does. I wish the documentation had examples. The document should be associated with a video or sample code. The documentation is too minimal. People give many sample codes and links to their YouTube videos in the forum. The uipath forum is much richer than the documentation.

I have been using the solution for the last six years.

UiPath provides support only when we have an Enterprise license. I have contacted support several times.

Positive

I use Microsoft Power Automate to develop chatbots because UiPath does not have such features. I have to buy extra licenses from Microsoft for chatbot development.

Although I can use UiPath Data Service's online database, creating forms and screens in it is hard. UiPath doesn't have some preliminary computation features for creating formula fields, so I use third-party tools like QuickBase.

I also evaluated Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Platform, and Pega Robotics.

The ease of building automation depends on the developer, the size of the process that is being automated, how many applications there are, and how many systems there are. Compared to high-code environments, we can build the product much faster in a low-code environment.

Automation can be done ten times faster in a low-code environment than in a high-code environment due to the number of syntax errors that we have to encounter in a high-code environment. All these things are completely eliminated in a low-code environment. We drag and drop activities. It's like a prebuilt code. We just have to fill in the gaps. On average, the tool is five to ten times faster than other RPA platforms.

UiPath does not do digital transformation. It works more on process automation. However, it does contribute toward digital transformation. From the face of it, everything looks end-to-end. I have used AI Center to learn machine learning skills and build training datasets and evaluation datasets. I have developed ML skills and used them in bots. UiPath Academy has a whole set of courses on AI Center. I want to complete the courses diligently.

The solution has reduced human error and increased the speed and quality of our work. It reduces the time taken to get things done. I use UiPath Academy courses all the time. If we go to similar content on YouTube or Instagram and try to find videos, the information might be right or wrong. It depends on the experience of the person in the videos. The content in UiPath Academy is official. UiPath creates the videos. We can be assured that the information is correct and reliable.

There could be a lag between the product released and the videos on Academy. Sometimes, video creators on unofficial channels like YouTube and Instagram come out with videos faster than UiPath. However, UiPath's videos are complete, authentic, and reliable. I assume UiPath uses professional training software in the platform. The format of the courses is similar to those of The Wharton School.

The community is excellent. People help each other out. UiPath encourages users by welcoming new joiners, incentivizing answering questions, providing links to external or internal documentation, and celebrating anniversaries. The solution has a wide variety of topics that the forum members can take advantage of.

We can learn about Studio, different parts of the platform, and different functionalities. If we have a question, Google will show all the relevant links to UiPath with just a single word search. We usually find a good answer to our doubts in the forum eight out of ten times. I like the forum and encourage people to use it.

People looking to buy the solution must try it out. They must look into the documentation if they cannot do it with the tool. They must also visit UiPath's forum. The forum is more helpful than the documentation. UiPath also has a search facility to search for activities. They can also look for UiPath Marketplace. If we face bugs, we can go to the forum.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.