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UiPath Inc.

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    reviewer2298903

Fundamentally changed our organization's reporting and task-mining processes

  • October 23, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use the product for contact center, HR, and airport operations.

What is most valuable?

The tool's most valuable feature is unattended robots.

What needs improvement?

UiPath's process mining needs to improve a lot. The generated reports are difficult to analyze by ordinary people. Task mining reports are also difficult.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate UiPath's stability an eight out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

The support tickets don't get solved at times. We expect to support people with higher expertise when we open a ticket. However, we get less experienced individuals who waste our time.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Negative

How was the initial setup?

The solution's deployment was straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

Our partner helped us with the implementation.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

UiPath is too expensive.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I have evaluated Power Automate and Automation Anywhere. The main differences include easy implementation and development.

What other advice do I have?

The business objective that we tried to achieve with automation was enhanced productivity.

UiPath has fundamentally changed our organization's reporting and task-mining processes.

We use UiPath AI Center.

I rate the product an eight out of ten.


    reviewer2298897

Enhances efficiency and productivity across various industries

  • October 23, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath to automate the extraction of information from PDF files and populate websites with this data.

Our primary goal is to save time for our business users, allowing them to focus on more engaging tasks instead of manually clicking and inputting information on various websites.

How has it helped my organization?

The incorporation of AI in our automation liberates resources for other tasks. I believe we save approximately thirty minutes per employee each day.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable aspect is the ease of accomplishing tasks. It's incredibly user-friendly, making it accessible even to non-developers. Whether it's clicking in specific locations or entering data on a website, it simplifies the process significantly.

What needs improvement?

Updating the tool across multiple virtual machines can be time-consuming and somewhat cumbersome. It would be more convenient if this process could be automated.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It offers good stability capabilities.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a highly scalable solution.

How are customer service and support?

Their customer support has proved to be excellent. I would rate it ten out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously used Microsoft's Power Automate tool, but I switched to UiPath because it offers a wider range of features. Microsoft's focus seemed to be primarily on Microsoft-related costs, often neglecting comprehensive support.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward, but the main challenge I encounter is related to updates.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.


    Hamid-Hassan

Good document understanding and saves labor costs but can be expensive

  • October 23, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for automation. I have implemented the solution in many ways. Some clients need to send us files via email or through Excel. We are reading and creating the file into some internal systems.

Some other clients need the solution to read invoices from different vendors. We get them from Outlook email and fetch data.

How has it helped my organization?

We are working for finance organizations. For example, the Canadian government is creating rules to discharge loan applications within one month or suffer a fine. We are helping financial companies discharge files on a daily basis to help them maintain compliance and reduce fines.

What is most valuable?

Many features are quite useful for us.

The document understanding is something we use a lot. It's very good and easy to use. It was a unique solution at the time. More are providing it now. However, having document understanding at the time was implemented for a US-based client who really liked it.

It's useful for building automation. It's good for the client side.

The Studio is very useful for automation and development purposes.

It saves manual labor. Those that don't use it have to hire ten to 15 people to do the same job.

We are able to implement end-to-end automation. To start, we'll meet with the operations team and they'll describe their problems. For example, what they do on a daily basis and how many people they need. Then, we create a requirement document to find ways to move forward and streamline.

We work for a financial client. They have the top three or four Canadian banks attached to them. They are all providing files. There's money involved in every transaction on a daily basis. If there's any mistake it can cost a lot for the companies. By automating the processes, and removing human error, we are saving a lot of money for these companies.

We use the user community and forums. They are all very helpful. Every time we have a question, we find a solution to them. We can also find answers on YouTube. It helps us find solutions easily.

The product has helped us minimize the on-prem footprint. We're using the on-prem orchestrator and it's been helpful.

I haven't used the UiPath Academy courses, however, we direct new users to it. It's very easy to use and helps new people get up to speed and understand quickly.

It helps speed up and reduce the cost of digital transformation. We're working to automate more on a daily basis. It's continuously upgrading and developing.

When it comes to document understanding, it's helped reduce human error. It's given us more power to check things, like inappropriate invoices are set aside and they give the user the chance to change the mistake where it makes sense.

It helps free up employee time.

What needs improvement?

These days, document understanding costs can be very high, so we've implemented it only for two or three customers. It can be very costly for clients, even though the functionality is very good.

They are continuously improving their product. I have no specific complaints as to its functionality.

It would be ideal if UiPath had more cloud functionality, similar to Power Automate.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution since 2019.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is usually stable. Sometimes the activity doesn't work as expected.

I'd rate the stability seven out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have four developer licenses and five developer-attended bots plus five unattended bots. The machines are Azure and on-cloud.

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is very helpful. I've never had an issue with them.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I'm also familiar with Power Automate, which allows you to run processes over the cloud. You don't need to run anything through the portal. You need to connect the bot to your machine to run any process in UiPath.

Another difference is the licensing costs. Power Automate offers very low pricing.

I don't work with any other RPA tools.

How was the initial setup?

I was not involved in the initial setup.

There is some configuration required when upgrading. We don't have much maintenance and usually engage the UiPath support team when we need to do configurations.

What about the implementation team?

The UiPath support team assisted our admin team with the setup.

What was our ROI?

I don't have specific details in regard to ROI.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is quite expensive compared to Power Automate.

Clients are charged on a yearly basis. I'm not sure of the exact amount.

What other advice do I have?

I am a systems integrator.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten.

I'd recommend the UiPath Academy to new users and I'd recommend the product to other users looking to automate.


    Rajat-Jain

Questions on the user community forum are typically answered within minutes

  • October 23, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

UiPath is a general automation tool that's useful in multiple cases, such as finance, HR, and cybersecurity. We have around 8,000 indirect users. Thousands see the reports generated by UiPath daily.

How has it helped my organization?

UiPath has helped my company to increase productivity, and it has financial implications. We can reduce the number of full-time employees we need, and existing FTEs can concentrate on more important work. It has reduced the time spent on repetitive tasks by about 30 percent. UiPath is particularly beneficial to employees who work night shifts. They don't need to wake up early to run the reports. It's automated, so they have the reports in their inboxes as soon as they wake up.

It gives us the power to scale up because we can process a greater volume of tasks by adding more bots, and we can accomplish things we could not do without adding staff.

UiPath reduces human error in terms of understanding what is written and changing it. It does not have the intelligence to think or manipulate the values that it sees, but it can change a value from x to y, reducing human error. It depends on the use case, but a bot is a lot less likely than a human to make errors when performing certain tasks, like converting a dollar amount to euros or pounds.

We have a hybrid environment with a small on-prem installation and AWS, but we plan to transition fully to the cloud by next year, so it has definitely decreased our on-prem footprint and the maintenance requirements from our side. We don't need to do as much stack maintenance on our physical infrastructure.

The UiPath Academy courses help the team to learn and understand what is going on. The great part is that it's free. With some products, you can only access the learning materials with an enterprise license. However, UiPath enables you to take the courses even if you are only using the community version.

We have experimented with UiPath's AI functions, but we have not used them in production. We are working with the solution's Document Understanding capabilities, and our AI team is creating a few use cases for us.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the UiPath Community, where developers can share and collaborate. We realize a lot of value and utility from developers coming together. That's a significant advantage UiPath has over its competitors. It has helped us understand what other people are doing and contribute to the community. Aside from that, the UI automation is pretty good with respect to error handling and other stuff.

The UiPath user community is pretty engaged. You rarely see this level of engagement on other platforms. There are thousands of questions, and when you post a new one, you can usually get an answer within five minutes. That shows how engaged the community is. You can also get a fast response from the company itself. They connect with their users through regular seminars and events like mini-hackathons and demos.

Building automations in UiPath is simple. It's a safe, low-code platform. The drag-and-drop workflows make it accessible to non-technical people, and it's becoming even easier with the advent of generative AI. You can just type whatever you want to create, and it can do it for you.

We have been developing some processes that can help with climate issues. UiPath can help us track our carbon emissions. We have various portals where we report our progress on our climate goals, and we can gather the data using UiPath quickly and provide timely updates to the government.

With UiPath, we can implement end-to-end automation involving integration with multiple products. We can add chatbots in the front and process mining or data mining. Through process mining, we can automate use cases as we get them. This capability was not available earlier. We can analyze the bots and derive insights from UiPath, which makes it end-to-end.

What needs improvement?

UiPath should make more of its advanced capabilities available to non-technical users through additional low-code features. They should also enhance their AI features and make more machine learning models available out of the box through the UiPath store.

For how long have I used the solution?

I started using UiPath in 2016 when I was with a different company.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is a stable product, but there are still some areas where it could improve.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability depends on the design of the board. If I follow single designs, there might not be a possibility to scale it. But if I follow a design where I have Master, the pro producer, and consumer problem where I have some bots that are just collecting the information and some parts just processing that information. That way it can be scaled, but that will be dependent on the design of the problem.

How are customer service and support?

I rate UiPath support nine out of 10. The turnaround time is typically a day. We might get a callback the next day if it's something more complex, but the ticket is usually closed within two days.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have previously used Automation Anywhere but not at my current company. A lot of people use Automation Anywhere. However, it's more of a closed ecosystem, so you don't have access to the creativity of other developers. With UiPath, developers can publish their processes to be reused by others. That is not available in Automation Anywhere. It's like the Android store where I can publish my app in the store, and people can use it whether it is monitored or not.

How was the initial setup?

Our deployment took around four to six months. The initial deployment was simple, but it took some time to set up the architecture. We needed to get approval from our cloud team to set UiPath up and integrate it. Around five to seven people were involved. The solution is deployed across multiple locations and departments.

We have to perform some maintenance on the software that UiPath is automating. When we build a database, we need to archive it so that we don't exceed the requirements. We have to delete logs regularly, and the machines require software updates. It isn't specific to UiPath.

What was our ROI?

We've seen a significant return on our investment. For example, when we needed to do a lot of data migration because we were transitioning to a new platform, we previously had to hire outsourced contractors to do that manually.

This cost a lot of money and involved some data security risks because we had to share access with them. They would need to migrate the data manually using some tool, but we can now do that internally with UiPath. No one is looking at our data, and it can be done fast.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

UiPath is on the higher side compared to Microsoft Power Automate and Automation Anywhere.

What other advice do I have?

I rate UiPath eight out of 10. If you are considering UiPath, you should think about whether you have strong use cases that can't be handled by a competing solution. For small use cases, your needs might be better met by another tool that is native to your environment.


    karthik C.

Uipath test suite user experience

  • October 22, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy way to automate the rest cases.
User friendly configuration.
Easy to hardcode the test cases login credentials
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now tool is very user friendly.
Only suggestion is please improve the performance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have multiple applications in our project, Uipath helps us to automate the login testing by using the test credentials .
Easy to automate the functional test cases.


    AnthonyMason

Easy to implement, use and optimize redundant processes

  • October 21, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We're focusing heavily on document understanding processes. We use it to extract invoices, data tables from PDFs, budget, and PITBULL automation that's heavily focused on UI navigation and PDF manipulation. That's our main focus at the moment.

We've had a few calls with UiPath where they've shown demos on how they use the AI Center, but we've yet to find something that we can look in and see because we are a financial institution. We want to trust AI. We need to build our confidence in that before we actually implement it. It's at an experimental stage for us.

How has it helped my organization?

It started off as optimizing redundant processes to make sure that we enhance department abilities. We moved into the research sphere last year, where we focused on taking large datasets and throwing them up into data tables, and getting that data from PDFs or web pages. We started using data extraction and table extraction, and that's what drove our projects from that point.

What is most valuable?

Document Understanding is a key feature for us. We find that really useful because the OCR technology, the RedJack extraction that it uses, is easy to implement with a very level structure involved, even for unstructured PDFs and structured PDFs.

We mainly use Studio and Action Center.

In some cases, we use Task Capture to build outflows.

We started off as pure RPA, focusing on building out a citizen developer program with low code person-by-person automation that users can trigger by themselves. That then evolved into unattended automation. We started looking into document understanding processes and trying to get involved with the AI Center as well.

From the start of the citizen developer program, it went really successfully. We moved into the unattended sphere, and we're looking into big data.

What needs improvement?

The document understanding has room for improvement. The handwritten documents need to be optimized further on the OCR extraction, making sure that we extract accuracy above 80% because we do see a lot of failure rates when it comes to handwritten documents. There's a lot of room for improvement there.

UiPath has referred to the fact that they are still building upon OCR and document understanding. But with the use of Generative AI, we're hoping to see improvements. We're hoping that might be something that we start later on.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability of UiPath really depends on who builds the automation.

However, the latest version releases, such as 2023.4.4, have been known to contain bugs. For example, we recently upgraded to 2023.4.4 and faced a lot of studio bugs, which forced us to downgrade to 2023.4.2.

The upgrades on other orchestrators were fine, but there was a bit of a change to the UI that took some time to get used to.

Upon their version releases, there should be a bit more due diligence before they are pushed to customers because almost every time we're given the opportunity to upgrade, there are issues where we have to scale back, wait a while, and then upgrade again.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability depends on the team. It depends on your vision, but UiPath definitely opened the doors for making sure that the framework is in place and that they are aligned with our vision so that they can help us in terms of scaling the automation to the degree that we want.

When we are looking to scale up the automation that we have, the customer support guys are very much on hand to give us the technical support that we require. UiPath's scalability is pretty enhanced.

How are customer service and support?

When you buy the enterprise licenses at the tier that we're on, you're provided a technical or client manager, and we find that we can easily contact them.

We have a weekly call with our team, and any support question is rerouted through them because their portal can be a bit slow at times.

UiPath's endorsement of the community has helped drive the success of UiPath because no other RPA vendor really has the community of support that UiPath has. That's a big one for us.

UiPath does have a good community, but the support portal is probably something that they need to work on.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We use Power Automate as well. It is something that we try to marry with UiPath, especially when it comes to office app integration and things like that. Power Automate is simpler to use.

We previously had some free Prism automation, and then we decided to switch over to UiPath simply due to the fact that the cost savings were a lot better.

Orchestrator was a selling point for us because our control room is something that we would be very interested in in terms of monitoring insights and transactional items. That's why we switched over to UiPath.

We've tried to take both tools and get the best out of both worlds. Anything that any of our automated processes involve Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, or anything like that, we tend to use Power Automate simply because of the ease of use.

How was the initial setup?

We're using the local installation. Everything is localized to our premises. We have a lot of strict protocols, being a financial institution, so, we don't really want to open ourselves up to any sort of cloud orchestration.

What was our ROI?

We tried to utilize Automation Hub to predict our ROI. The reason that we're using automation is to assist teams rather than just kick the task away from them. It's just very robust.

We haven't seen any major cost savings, but we're an early team at Cowen. Maybe later on down the line, we'll get some solid figures.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is a bit convoluted. We have an overallocation of licenses at the moment. Citizen developer licenses are something that we probably need to refine.

They probably oversell it a bit to the point where we would propose that we may use x amount of licenses but in reality, we're probably only using a fraction of that.

There's room for improvement in how they sell their product.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. Out of all the RPA vendors that I've had access to, UiPath is the easiest to use. It's the most in-depth when it comes to being able to have automation and it works in the way that you want it to work. Other vendors like Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, or Power Automate have rigid models. Some of them are web-based, which we don't really like because we're a financial institution, so we like local installations. UiPath tops them all.

For anyone looking to enter the world of automation, UiPath should be the first point to call. They have a much better idea of how to generate a productive automation team for companies.


    reviewer2298036

Extracts website data and stores them but needs more documentation

  • October 21, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath for web scraping. We extract data from websites, store them in boxes, and analyze them later.

What needs improvement?

UiPath fails jobs sometimes and doesn't give you direct instructions on why it failed. A little more insight into failed jobs would be beneficial. It should have more documentation and short training modules.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for a year.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

UiPath is scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The product's installation is easy.

What other advice do I have?

Our business objective for AI automation included making our team members' time more efficient. We didn't want to spend an hour or a day manually downloading the data. We wanted to automate it and save time.

AI-powered automation has fundamentally changed our organization. We can get the data quickly and instantly anytime. It can be uploaded directly without needing someone to check it manually. A bot does it for us. It saves time, speeds up our time in the market, and scales up our business.

Automation has affected us positively. We often focus on data; having them at the right place and time is very important for us. UiPath helps us to achieve it with accuracy.

UiPath has saved us at least five to seven hours a week. We also save money since we don't have to outsource or seek the help of an intern to do the manual downloading task.

I rate the product a seven out of ten.


    Brian Hannigan

Improves accuracy and throughput but has poor support

  • October 21, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We do a lot of claims processing for healthcare providers. We handled the billing, and it was very beneficial for us to use automation to perform those claims management and submit the claims for those various providers.

We utilize Orchestrator, the robots, both attended and unattended, and team sites.

How has it helped my organization?

Our organization was trying to achieve better accuracy and better throughput with this AI-powered automation initiative. We were just getting all the claims processed that we needed to because we just couldn't keep up with the workload. Using automation was a requirement.

It is very important that UiPath has orchestration. Without Orchestration, we wouldn't be able to do anything we do. My team specifically manages the Orchestration, and after the automation goes live, they come to my team to manage.

Without Orchestration, I couldn't comprehend how we could do it. We have 360 machines running over a hundred processes with thousands of transactions a day. Without Orchestration, I don't see how we would be able to use the function.

What is most valuable?

Unattended robots with Orchestrator are our bread and butter. We don't do very many attended automations. It just seems that they are much more resilient when we run a program in a way that doesn't involve any users.

We did have insights at one point, but that was prior to it being re-engineered by UiPath. We have to pick that back up because it didn't really work for us back in the day, but I've been told that they've changed the vendors that they've used for that product. We've re-licensed it, and we're in the midst of reimplementing it.

We are working with a vendor, Namica, the UiPath vendor and we are starting with task discovery processes. We're just touching more on task capture instead of process mining.

What needs improvement?

We would like to see better connectivity with different technologies. We found credential management to be something that is a real problem for us, especially working with third-party systems.

Being able to manage those credentials and have a product that could help us with that would be nice to have. We've ended up using CyberArk WPM for this purpose. But it's not something that's prepackaged; we've had to do it ourselves.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have no issues with stability. UiPath improves how the infrastructure works and how stable everything is. I haven't had many problems. There are a couple of quirks that different product levels will address or resolve, but it's documented pretty well on the support side.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is pretty good. We did scale. Our initial rollout was 65 machines within Orchestrator, and we have since gone to 360 with one Orchestrator and one tenant. It's pretty good—I don't have any complaints about the scalability.

How are customer service and support?

When I need support, I need them to respond. I actually had an instance last week where Orchestrator was not performing well. There were a lot of locks on the database, and it was bringing the Orchestrator trigger down.

I opened a ticket and marked the criticality level as high. There's only one above that, and I didn't get a response back for a few hours.

I had to go back to my sales personnel and explain to them that it was unacceptable. There was a problem with support.

In that particular instance, it was pretty poor, but I hope they saw that it was a problem and are working to address it.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Negative

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used Microsoft Power Automate very briefly because it's just part of our Office 365 package. We've used it very sparingly. It was more of a means to an end than a plan.

We're actually looking to use it with a UiPath automation that we've created because it's Microsoft-centric, and it'll work quicker and do what we need it to do without having to invest a lot of time in the development. It might just be a subset of what we do.

How was the initial setup?

We're currently on-prem, but we're looking to change that. We're up for renewal in January and are already discussing that shift over to the cloud. We can utilize AI better if we shift to the cloud.

I manage the infrastructure and the deployment of all the processes. I have a pretty solid background in infrastructure, so it seemed pretty straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We have a lot of departments within our organization that can do the implementations. But personally, I'd rather just do it myself and make sure it works.

What was our ROI?

We have an admin team that makes sure that the ROI is there before we even start.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is competitive. I like the solution's pricing structure. However, the development tools can have a better discount because we'd like to have more developers be able to do the work.

In the long term, running the product and running the automation unattended, I completely understand the pricing structure there, but on the Studio side of it, UiPath can come down a little bit on the pricing.

What other advice do I have?

The product is leading the way toward AI, and there's some onus to make sure that we stay current with what UiPath is doing. It's the other way around too, where they need to understand where we are and help support us and our program. It's a two-way street. They need to make sure we understand where they're going, and they need to understand where we are.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.

I would recommend making sure your process discovery is done correctly because no matter how many automations you can put in place if you don't have a good understanding of your processes, it's not going to do anybody any good.

Process discovery and getting buy-in from management are key.


    Madison McMahon

Gives many options to do things, and saves a lot of time and money

  • October 21, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

At Aeyon, we use UiPath to develop custom solutions for our clients that drive innovation and digital transformation within the public sector. We work closely with the US Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, NASA and several other Federal agencies. We have built 50+ automations for a wide range of use cases, but the ones we see most often include financial reconciliation, data extraction using AI/ML Models, data entry, data manipulation/consolidation, downloading/moving files in bulk, data validation, and interacting with various web applications.

The business objective that our organization is trying to achieve with its AI-powered automation initiative is to greatly reduce the time spent on repetitive/clerical tasks and allow the employees more time to focus on the important tasks that grow their business such as collaboration and innovation. Aeyon successfully helps our client achieve this objective by using UiPath to develop solutions that increase efficiency, reduce operating costs, and drive ROI.

How has it helped my organization?

Our AI-powered automation initiative has fundamentally changed what our organization is able to achieve. It has made a huge impact on the way we process documents for not only ourselves but our clients as well. It saved a lot of time and money.

We use AI Center for data extraction on structured and unstructured document types. The pre-built models are very versatile and efficient, and the ability to train custom models makes it a great solution for almost any use case. I feel that AI Center and UiPath Document Understanding were pretty easy to learn. It only took me about a week to learn. There are tons of helpful tutorials and other resources online. I like how it has the prebuilt models as well as the option to be able to go and train your own data, so I would give it a ten out of ten.

It has definitely increased the accuracy of our operations. It has reduced the risk of clerical errors. Document processing has allowed us to be able to compare data for that extra layer of making sure that everything is extracted correctly.

It has freed up a lot of time because instead of having to manually go through and find ways to track data or manually look at it, we are able to use different AI technologies to fit pretty much any use case. For most of our clients, it saves them an average of about 100 hours annually on the smaller processes, and then we have some larger ones where they are even saving about 15,000 hours annually, which is a lot of extra free time for them to focus on collaboration and those kinds of things.

What is most valuable?

A lot of the prebuilt models that are on an AI Center are valuable. Being able to go in there and train your data, give sample data, label the fields, and different OCR methods are also valuable.

What needs improvement?

The improvement is not necessarily in the product itself. The main difficulty we have usually has to do with pricing and identifying the best solution for each specific use case on a long-term scale. If there was an easier way to track the AI unit usage and determine which pricing plan would best fit the need for each use case, then that would be extremely valuable.

UiPath is very stable. I have not had any issues in terms of that. The only issue we used to have was if a website were to change or an application were to change, but we have found ways to work around that and deal with those types of situations.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using UiPath for about four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Overall, it is very stable. There is low technical debt and monitoring. After a process has been deployed, for the most part, it is stable after testing and everything.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is very scalable. I have had no issues in that department, and I know that they continue to make it more and more scalable, which is awesome to see with each new release.

How are customer service and support?

Their support is great. There are so many resources available online. There is UiPath Academy, and there is the ability to chat with them 24/7. I have never had an issue getting in touch with their representative quickly when I needed help with something. I would rate them a ten out of ten.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I started off using UiPath, and then I got a job a few years back where I used a software called Kofax. I was able to see a lot of similarities, but I still felt that it was very limited in its ability to integrate with third-party software. I remember several use cases where I thought that if this was UiPath, I would know how to do it. I noticed a lot of limitations with Kofax. It was a bit of a learning curve going from UiPath to Kofax, and then I realized that there were a lot of things that Kofax was not able to integrate with in terms of third-party software. Based on my experience with Kofax, I definitely feel that UiPath is superior.

I have used Microsoft Power Automate for a few processes. We use that for some of our smaller projects. We just started looking into that as an option as well for certain use cases. It is important to us that UiPath has orchestration whereas Microsoft Power Automate does not because orchestration gives you a way to run processes in the background rather than on your local machine. You can also do event triggering and time schedules. UiPath definitely gives a lot more options and freedom to be able to do things without having to manually run the process.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in its initial setup. I pretty much came in when it was coming from the ground up. I have helped install it. I have helped customers set their licensing plans and install everything on their local machines so that they can run the automation and get set up with orchestration and all that.

Its initial setup was pretty straightforward. You need to have UiPath Studio installed. They now offer automation. They have UiPath Cloud. You just sign into that, and you have access to Orchestrator and all of those services just right off the web. It is pretty easy to set up.

Our implementation strategy includes getting on a Teams call with the client so that we are able to look at their screen and walk them step by step through various aspects, such as:

  • Where to save specific folders?
  • How to get signed in to the appropriate account?
  • How to access Orchestrator and the logs in there to see if there are any issues with the process?
  • How to monitor it?

We look at their screen and walk them through various things. We keep that communication line open if they ever have issues or questions in the future.

What about the implementation team?

We did not take any external help. Our company did it through our own team members.

What was our ROI?

We try to calculate ROI for all of our clients for projects that we deploy. We usually calculate it in terms of total cost savings annually and also in terms of how many hours of labor are being saved annually. It is cool to see those numbers continuing to grow.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing is very affordable, especially when you compare its benefits. However, I know that AI units are purchased separately and can be costly depending on the specific use case. We are still trying to figure out how to track our usage and which tier or plan to go with, but overall, it is affordable in comparison to other options.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I evaluated Automation Anywhere as well as Blue Prism. At my last company, we were trying to figure out between those two and UiPath. After comparing everything on a wider scale, we realized that UiPath was going to be the better solution for us.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate UiPath a ten out of ten.


    Ryne Heck

Works for tracking purposes and comes with features like attended and unattended robots

  • October 21, 2023
  • Review provided by PeerSpot

What is our primary use case?

We use UiPath primarily for tracking purposes. We are a logistics provider and have external portals and websites. The tool aggregates information from these systems to our core application.

What is most valuable?

We leverage the whole platform. The tool's most valuable features are unattended and attended robots.

What needs improvement?

We have to change our account representative every year, which is frustrating. We have to re-explain our business every year.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product since 2020.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

UiPath is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

Support becomes frustrating when the team asks about the cloud and organizational details.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

Our implementation strategy involved choosing a small use case first, improving the value, and accelerating.

What about the implementation team?

Two to three partners helped us with the implementation.

What was our ROI?

The product is worth its money. We have seen an ROI of 274 percent.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

UiPath is not cheap.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism. We chose UiPath because I was familiar with it, and the local representative didn't have a sales pitch tone.

What other advice do I have?

There is a gap in the marketplace for tracking specialized services. UiPath was the only way to achieve it quickly.

AI-powered automation has fundamentally changed our organization. We have repurposed the hundreds of headcounts and enabled them to focus on more meaningful work.

UiPath AI Center has grown and evolved from what it was. We are looking at more opportunities since the person who managed it has left the company.

We are still trying to figure out AI's use in our operations. It brings in efficiency, but we are in the process of validating it.

AI use has sped up our time to about 256,000 hours a year.

We have only started to use process mining.