We primarily use UiPath Platform to replicate business processes in the order management space, the service assurance space, the supply chain and warehouse spaces, as well as the business intelligence space.

Primarily, we utilize the simple UI automation with all of our tools. In our business, there are tons of different platforms and it's not always easy to get the right access to integrate them natively through code. We use UiPath Platform to overcome some of the environmental challenges that we see in the business. Across our automation suite in UiPath Platform, we're saving a little over ten million dollars a year.

We haven't started using some of the newer, better features in UiPath Platform. A lot of the features I'd want to be able to use, they've already rolled out. We just haven't taken advantage of them yet. The only reason that it wouldn't be a ten out of ten right now is that they don't always identify my needs before I identify them to get their help.

I have been in my current role for seven years. I've been using UiPath for four years. 

It has been very stable and reliable, working great for us. We have a couple of redundancy measures set up, but I haven't had to implement them in the four years that I've been running the platform. I basically just have disaster recovery for redundancy.

It scales really well. We have quite a few automations and the team is constantly working to enhance and improve them.

UiPath Platform support has been great. 

We have a technical account manager that we work really closely with. He's helped us to upgrade our Orchestrator and upgrade the platform that we're using. He works through whatever unique internal environment scenarios we have to overcome to make sure that it's doing exactly what we need, even though we're constantly having new security measures to implement on top of it.

Positive

We have looked into using Power Automate and Blue Prism in the past, and didn't find enough value in their products versus what we get from UiPath Platform for the price that we pay to really incentivize us to move off the platform we're currently on.

I didn't actually set up UiPath Platform originally. I was not involved in the initial deployment. When my team took it over, we had to redeploy it.

We inherited the UiPath team, and recently we renegotiated our contract to have an enterprise license, and the pricing is great now.

The pricing has been fine.

My advice to others would be to understand the environment you're looking to deploy it in and ensure you don't over-engineer it. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate UiPath Platform as a nine. While there is always room for improvement, based on the industry leaders I've seen, they're not missing anything that anyone else is doing any better.

I'm trying to think of some good data points or examples on the spot. One of the things that our company struggles with is that we've bought a lot of different systems that don't integrate with one another. What I've really tried to do since starting to utilize UiPath Platform is find ways to make these imperfect systems work together, whether it be Mike Albert for fleet data, Azuga for safety-related data, or Snowflake for data warehousing. I aim to take all that data, put it into our Snowflake warehouse, and then visualize it in Power BI and other tools, so the sky's the limit, and I know we even use it for Amazon, Walmart, and various other processes.

I love the Studio application and the Orchestrator function of UiPath Platform, being able to put our details all in there. I especially appreciate the integrations with Snowflake and different software, which really make it more useful for us as we're starting to dive into the Agentic AI piece at our company. However, I'm still getting fresh into it.

One of the biggest benefits of the features of UiPath Platform that I can think of is that we've been able to build a process to handle what previously were multiple manual processes where people would go in, review purchase orders, and make changes to them themselves. Now, when we have an order come through and need to make a change, they can submit a change through a ticket, and UiPath Platform will do it all, saving us about an hour of personnel time per head every single day, which has already been a huge change in our organization.

I honestly really benefit from UiPath Platform's user community. I go to forums and similar platforms and always find supportive people who often have had similar problems or issues that I've been able to reach out to, communicate with, and get the path forward for, so it's been nothing but positive, even beyond just UiPath Platform individuals within the company; other users have been very helpful too.

That's a tough question about how UiPath Platform can improve. For me, starting out, it was very helpful that I utilized different other AI platforms to teach me the best way to go about creating a process in the tool, and perhaps it was a lack of my education, however, tools to leverage AI within the platform could continue to educate users as they're building out new processes.

I would emphasize functionality to challenge one's thought process, asking whether one is going about it in the most efficient way, recognizing that there are a million different ways to do a process and questioning if I'm doing it the right way and needing tools to help with that.

To be considered a ten out of ten, UiPath Platform needs to enhance its capabilities, and I would lean into the integration of AI to coach and mentor you through the process. While I have my connections throughout the company, often it's just myself. Having an AI friend who is a UiPath Platform professional that knows what's best would make it easier than having to gather information from various places.

I've been using the solution for about two years; it's very new. 

I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as excellent, as everything I've experienced so far has had minimal hiccups, and if there were issues, they have been user error rather than reflecting poorly on UiPath Platform.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with UiPath Platform.

UiPath Platform has scaled very with the growing needs of our organization; just in the year that we've had it, we've continued to find new ways to utilize it.

We have expanded usage of UiPath Platform. The gentleman that I was just around passed it on to me, and we've been trying to share it broadly across the rest of our enterprise, and so far, the experience has been very promising. We tested it with a couple of other individuals at some of our parent company's six smaller companies, and it's made it easy for us to share it across them as also, so from that standpoint, it's been very rewarding.

Regarding customer service and technical support, the times that I've had to search for it, I've had no problems whatsoever.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a ten based on my limited interactions. The encounters I have had have all been positive.

Positive

I was using Power Automate to address similar needs prior to adopting UiPath Platform. It definitely wasn't at the scale of what UiPath Platform has been able to do for us.

I've seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. As I touched on with the PO changes, many more opportunities are found at our parent company, and while our team has a laundry list of things to do, we don't have enough time to do it.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for UiPath Platform would definitely be more directed towards another colleague, as he handled more of it than I did. That said, from my experience, it was nothing but positive.

For myself, I didn't consider many other solutions before selecting UiPath Platform since I used what our company had at its disposal, which was a lot of Microsoft tools such as Power Automate. Those were not nearly as robust as what UiPath Platform brings to the table, and this was my first exposure to an RPA system and Agentic AI.

The factors that led me to consider a change to UiPath Platform included performance; our company needed a system that we could trust.

I don't yet use Agentic AI. Part of the reason why we're attending a conference is to learn more about it.

I haven't yet used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses.

The biggest advice I would give to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is to continue to push outside of the box and not to think within the confines of what you initially look at, as the opportunity to use the software is really everywhere. It's just a matter of having the time to put into it, so my biggest words of encouragement would be to keep trying, keep pursuing it, and avoid a too tunnel-visioned approach.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate UiPath Platform overall as a ten, as coming in with a little bit of experience, it was very easy to pick up, learn, and lean into, which has been very rewarding.

The main use case for UiPath Platform is data collection.

The Integration Service has benefited our organization by allowing us to streamline login activities that used to take a lot of time and required constant adjustments; with the Integration Service, we can proceed directly without worrying about anything breaking, and we receive alerts directly from there.

The feature I appreciate the most in UiPath Platform is the Integration Service. 

In terms of value gained from being part of UiPath Platform user community, I find it very good; this was a big selling feature for us since, when I tested it before purchasing, I saw many responses, making me confident that I could find the answers I needed.

The biggest benefits I have seen from UiPath Academy are that we completed all courses to start, as we didn't have any prior training, and we were able to get certified and begin processes right away, which helped us deliver value back to the business.

To improve UiPath Platform, I definitely suggest including more integration services; the more customers they can connect with, the better, as there are a couple of major names missing, such as SAP connections and NetSuite.

I have been using UiPath Platform for three years.

I assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as very stable so far, and I look forward to seeing the upcoming AI features, hoping they can keep pace with the market and other products; that's why we're attending the conference, to learn more about their developments.

We have expanded usage of UiPath Platform to our sister companies over the last couple of years, building more licenses and virtual machines, and the process has been very simple; we reach out to our contact who adds new features or licenses for us.

I evaluate the customer service and technical support as very good, as we rarely reach out for technical support, however, our representatives are always there to answer questions and provide the necessary documentation. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate my customer service and technical support experience as a ten for the last year and a half, after previously rating it a five due to the frequency of new account representatives; now we have one consistent contact who delivers everything we need.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was not using another solution to address similar needs.

I would describe my experience with deploying UiPath Platform as super simple, very straightforward, and easy to execute.

My team has used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses to assist us in the process.

I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform, reporting several different data points. We've recorded about 15 million new data points in one year that we weren't tracking previously, with several million dollars in sales revenue from processes we weren't collecting. 

We've automated pricing changes for several thousand vendors, saving over 20,000 hours, which has allowed us to avoid hiring temporary associates.

My experience with the pricing setup costs or licensing for UiPath Platform is very good, as our representative works with us to secure appropriate discounts for our business.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, I considered other solutions, including similar vendors like Automation Anywhere, and consulted our team of data scientists regarding the tools they use and the Python products they were developing.

My advice to another organization considering UiPath Platform is to understand the feasibility of implementing it, as these are not overnight processes; it requires time and a clear understanding of the value you expect to gain, as targeting some big win projects from the start, since without those, UiPath Platform might not be the best fit for you.

I would rate UiPath Platform overall as an eight out of ten.

Right now we're splitting our main use cases for UiPath Platform between supply chain and finance with some rev cycle. Within finance, what we've automated includes invoicing for non-patient billing for third-party clients, particularly as it interacts with PeopleSoft, so users don't actually have to have access to PeopleSoft. We've automated them being able to get their invoices, and within supply chain, many automations are around purchase orders and updating statuses and things like that.

Since we're still on-prem, the Orchestrator feature of UiPath Platform has been key in us being able to monitor and see exactly what is going on with the automations. We also find it really valuable that we can automate not just Microsoft, but also PeopleSoft and other applications.

Since using UiPath Platform, we're now able to process between 15 to 18 million dollars a month in invoices that are coming through automatically through the automation. It's not relieving us of FTEs, however, it means that these people aren't having to spend the time to do it, so they're able to focus their work on other beneficial items and it's less prone to error.

My team all has to go through UiPath Academy, as we have a citizen development program, and everyone who goes through the citizen development program has to go through UiPath Academy before I give them their licenses. The biggest benefit we've seen from using UiPath Academy is the fact that the lessons are still out there, so if you need to revisit something or if you're unsure of how to do something, the forum can help, Copilot can help, but it's better to go back to what UiPath said in the training.

We are part of the UiPath Community. In terms of the value that we've gained by being part of the UiPath user community, we really enjoy being able to access what's going on in the forum, and having the opportunity to attend some of the local UiPath events. Pittsburgh doesn't have as much going on with their team or group, but the opportunity has been there in the past. It's beneficial to see what other people are doing at those events because it's very easy to think you're in a silo, especially within healthcare, so it's nice to see what others are doing.

To make it a ten out of ten, it would help if they understand that we don't work 24/7, so we're not going to respond immediately when they send an email asking for a response.

The company has been using UiPath Platform since 2019, and I took over the group in 2020.

Once we upgraded to 23.4, any of the stability issues we'd been having with 20.20 went away, so far it's been very stable with UiPath Platform and its robots or automations.

So far, we've been able to manage scaling with UiPath Platform, however, our biggest issue isn't around UiPath, it's around the resources to help scale it and support it.

I would evaluate customer support or technical support from UiPath as great, as they've been very responsive. Having the TAM has helped. It escalates support tickets when we've had to file them.

Positive

I was not part of the team that selected UiPath, yet at that time, they were also looking at Blue Prism.

We just did a big upgrade last year. We went from one of the lower versions to a higher version. We went to 23.4, and we've been on 20.20. So we did a big jump, and we could not have done it without our TAM. We absolutely needed the technical account manager. The way the company has set up some of their firewall security, et cetera, was challenging. And so trying to navigate that to make it work with you with what UiPath is doing has probably been the biggest hurdle. It's not necessarily that UiPath is difficult. It's just trying to make sure everybody understands or is willing to talk to each other.

At this point, we consider ourselves break even. We're a small team, so we're not able to do as much new development since we're all focused on trying to do maintenance and support of existing automations.

Regarding my experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing of UiPath Platform, because we haven't grown as fast as we would like, UiPath has been willing to accommodate that stagnation. We're kind of holding steady, which has been appreciated.

Our organization is very heavily invested in Microsoft, and they are pushing Microsoft, however, we're holding firm for UiPath Platform. We do use Power Automate, so there's a big community for that. Our company has 90,000 people, so they definitely have a big investment in Power Automate.

We're not cloud-based yet, but we are moving to the cloud in the next six to eight months, so we don't use agentic AI at all currently. We are planning to start looking into what we could do with agentic AI once we transition to the cloud.

Based on my experience with UiPath, my advice to someone considering it is to make sure you have a good TAM. You absolutely need it, and understand everything involved, including policies, governance, security, and administration. 

I would rate UiPath Platform an eight out of ten. Some items we're looking at aren't available until we move to the cloud. On-prem is a little more limited.

Our main use cases for UiPath Platform are around document handling, basically extracting data off of documents, usually in an image format or PDF format.

I appreciate that UiPath Platform is such a cohesive suite of tools. 

We get good benefit out of OCR and AI and all those and Orchestration, the attended and unattended. 

Many different features are really beneficial. We have been able to streamline many processes now with UiPath Platform. Again, with document handling, we have been able to basically reduce headcount in certain areas and just streamline how we're handling faxes, images, and orders.

We have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses. The team has all taken various courses in the UiPath Academy. The biggest benefits that we have seen from UiPath Academy include it being really helpful for a few of my team members to get certified in UiPath Platform. They really enjoyed having a credential and working towards something. It has helped them with their careers and helped them grow as individuals and develop.

My thoughts on UiPath user community highlight that it's really helpful to be able to go out to the forums and find information or ask questions. It's really nice that your peers can help you instead of always leaning on a third party or UiPath themselves. It's kind of nice to talk to end users in specific situations.

The biggest challenge with UiPath Platform is automation as a whole. It's really trying to evangelize and get that automation mindset across the organization. It's not necessarily a platform problem. It's a program problem.

The biggest benefit of usage is just being able to add runners to processes that are data-heavy or processing-heavy, so we can limit the server bandwidth and resources.

Personally, the only problem we have with it is some of the auditing ability and some of the user access and role building. If I had one thing that I would ask for more development in, it would be audit trail. We're a high-trust certified company, so we need to make sure that we have all that information. The ability to enforce and enroll people in different roles within the platform needs improvement.

I have been using UiPath Platform for four years now.

We have not experienced downtime, crashes, or significant performance issues with UiPath Platform. We have a few bugs here and there, a few things that we run into, but nothing that's slowing operations or causing us any headache.

UiPath Platform scales very well with the growing needs of our organization. It's easy to add runners, easy to add servers on our end, and as we have more needs, it's easy to scale. We have expanded the usage of UiPath Platform, and the process has been pretty smooth. We've rolled out to different business units, added servers, and we've certainly added more licensing and more runners over the four years. It has been pretty easy and seamless.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support for UiPath Platform as very good. 

We've always had really good ability to get answers quickly. We've run into a few issues that weren't easily addressed, and the team has worked to get after it. It's taken a little bit of time, however, knowing that it's kind of a nuance for our setup, they've been very responsive and very supportive, so I'm very appreciative.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was not considering or using another solution. This was the first effort in automation at the company.

The setup was very easy. We're in the cloud, so it's very simple. 

We use AWS as our cloud provider for UiPath Platform.

We have definitely seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. We've seen, with all the document handling, a lot of return on those efforts.

The cost of UiPath Platform was fine too. There were a lot of licensing opportunities, and it's all been very favorable. Licensing has always been competitive; never was there an issue there.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, we considered Automation Anywhere and we've certainly utilized and looked at the Power Platform from Microsoft, however, it has its limitations, so UiPath Platform is a go-to.

We don't use formal Agentic AI with UiPath Platform. We do use AI with large language models to help organize and extract data, but we're not technically agentic. 

I would describe my experience with the vendor as very seamless and easy. UiPath has been very supportive. They've been with us the whole way, and every time we have a question or issues, they're there to help us out. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate UiPath Platform's features as a ten. It has many abilities and tools, connects to numerous systems, and is very universal. It fits our needs completely.

UiPath Platform is evolving into an enterprise-grade platform with different services, so there's no one specific use case. We use it for multiple different use cases, however, with one of our main clients right now, it is more about UI automation, including legacy systems that don't offer any API integration, so that we can consume them as part of the end-to-end workflow.

My favorite features of UiPath Platform include Document Understanding, which is pretty straightforward. We have a lot of scenarios in which extracting data from documents is relevant for the end-to-end automation, and UiPath Platform is doing a really good job with that kind of use case.

I can't disclose the specific document types, however, we have a case management system, and each case's case worker uploads a bunch of documents. We extract data from at least 15 different documents and then update the same case management system with the metadata we extract from the documents. Additionally, we automate filling forms in third-party applications, using data extracted from both the case management and the documents.

The biggest benefit I've seen from UiPath Academy is that it serves as the starting point when we onboard junior developers. We ask them to complete specific courses as part of their training, even if they have some experience with UiPath Platform. It is also valuable for new products, as we upskill the team with the latest courses when UiPath Platform releases new products. However, there is often a delay since UiPath Platform typically releases features before the academy courses, and it would be ideal for them to provide better training earlier. It is a continuous learning experience, with almost all the basics completed by junior talent as part of the training program while senior team members continuously upskill with the latest courses.

UiPath Platform could be improved, especially in terms of documentation. For example, we were early adopters of IXP, and the initial documentation lacked enough information for us to understand the whole product and best practices. Although UiPath Platform started releasing new versions of documentation and courses, there remains a need for better engineering basics and courses on LLMs since they are crucial for understanding the product behind the scenes. The final products for both documentation and the Academy are good, but the release timing can be challenging for early adopters who struggle to understand the products at the beginning.

UiPath Platform scales really from a technical standpoint, however, from a licensing and pricing perspective, scaling becomes challenging. In our case, we have an ELA, which sets restrictions on how many robots we can scale and how many AI units we can consume, making it a less-than-ideal experience regarding pricing when trying to scale.

I've been using the solution for around seven years. 

I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as generally really good, with only a few isolated and specific situations of downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

Expanding usage involves finding more automation opportunities. Some automations we've developed have scaled significantly due to the volume that needs processing, and from a technical standpoint, it's essential to make the right technical decisions and design a scalable solution. On the business side, I'm not as familiar, however, negotiations aren't always straightforward, and the complex pricing model makes it an extremely significant pain point for scaling UiPath Platform.

My evaluation of customer service and technical support from UiPath Platform would not have been good until they forced us to pay for additional fees to receive better customer service. After starting to pay, the service becomes acceptable, however, it's not the best. 

I am actively engaged in the insider program for early previews, leaving many comments and trying to interact with the insider portal, and yet we often do not receive quick responses from UiPath Platform, taking one to two weeks for a reply. 

Overall, after paying the additional fee, I can say it is acceptable. That said, before that, the service was really bad. The response time is what made it really bad. 

I would rate my customer service and technical support experience as neutral, with a score of five on a scale of one to ten. After paying the extra fee, I would give customer service and technical support a score of seven, as it improves but remains in the middle.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I worked with other BPMS platforms such as Bizagi and Bonitasoft. For RPA, we developed our own tool. Using UiPath Platform wasn't my personal decision; it was more of a professional coincidence due to moving to a different company where UiPath Platform was offered to some clients. I got assigned to those clients, so it was ultimately an accident rather than a decision I made.

My experience with the pricing and setup process of UiPath Platform is really bad. As a solution architect, my architectural decisions were initially driven by technical aspects; however, now licensing has become another driver for making decisions. 

I cannot recommend utilizing the best of the product in UiPath Platform, as it would incur high costs for my clients. It's not a good experience at all. For example, I would use Maestro in different use cases, yet justifying ROI with the pricing is impossible, adding overhead costs to a solution I could implement without Maestro. The Agentic-related features also present execution challenges, contributing to a negative experience regarding the license model.

The deployment model for UiPath Platform is cloud-based. For Automation Cloud, we use UiPath cloud. Our robots, which are part of the solution that runs on-premises, operate on on-prem servers and are not in the cloud at all.

My teams have used the vendor's UiPath Academy courses.

I am not deeply involved in tracking the ROI metrics to provide specific numbers. I can say that the automation program has been growing significantly. Recently, it is really hard to stay updated with agents, IXP, and Maestro because it's challenging to find business cases to justify using those tools. This is frustrating since, as a technician, I would to leverage the best of the product and provide the best experience and solution for my clients, however, justifying the high price on the latest features makes that difficult.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, the situation is tricky because we did not consider other options initially, but due to the challenges with pricing now, we are considering Power Automate. Microsoft is offering excellent deals, especially with document processing, and they have their own orchestration style. While it is a different experience, the cost is much more appealing, leading us to contemplate several Microsoft products because of pricing rather than technical superiority. Some might argue that UiPath Platform is a better product, but they may not realize that even if Power Automate and the overall Power Platform are not the best technical options, they deliver good enough solutions at better prices, which could potentially lead us to shift clients from UiPath Platform to Microsoft Power Platform for business reasons.

I use the Agentic AI only for POCs, as we don't have any live implementation in production.

UiPath Platform community and forum are extremely helpful for debugging and sharing best practices. We were very active in the community a long time ago, providing answers and asking questions, but recently we haven't been as active. Perhaps this is because the team is more senior now and we might not need that much interaction, but initially, it was very helpful.

My advice for other organizations considering UiPath Platform is to get the right professional services to help make the right technical decisions from the start. Establishing a good framework and developing reusable libraries and composability while making the right technical decisions initially is crucial for success. So, having the right partner at the beginning is key for success.

I would rate UiPath Platform as a nine out of ten, as I've had a high level of satisfaction.

Our main use cases for UiPath Platform in our current operations as a bank revolve around streamlining processes and automating paperwork and busywork for all lines of our operational business.

We appreciate features of UiPath Platform such as Automation Hub, which is a really good tool for intake and evaluation. My developers love Studio; the whole thing. Orchestrations through that are great, and we're about to embark on Maestro next year, which has our business partners excited about being able to interact with that to bolster their processes.

From an intake perspective, Automation Hub is truly good at determining good prospects. You can use ROI, you can use the hours saved, and you can show the value for it. We've customized it to our needs to ask questions around risk and compliance and things of that nature, allowing us to do a more thorough evaluation of new opportunities.

Orchestrator works great, allowing us to do a lot of our monitoring directly through there. We've pulled in Insights as enabling us to look at our queues in real-time or near real-time to see how the performance of the bots is working. Maestro is fantastic as an interactive tool that allows you to create and build your processes directly in Maestro, dropping the bots and any AI agents all in one place, letting you start the process and see it happen in real-time.

My entire team has at least one certification from UiPath Academy. The biggest benefit we've realized from UiPath Academy includes having videos and great documentation that everyone understands. We conduct interactive sessions with our customer relation person and ask my developers to showcase what they learn. They see it in practice, get to practice it, and take a test to earn their certifications.

It's really hard to answer what areas UiPath Platform could be better as they are so far ahead of the curve. We work with another partner who's more of a think tank that talks to us about our agentic journey, which is a necessity for everyone moving forward. When they learned that we were using UiPath Platform, they commented that we had it right. We're looking forward to using the platform as the basis and possibly integrating third-party applications that have agentic capabilities while using UiPath Platform as the backbone.

I have been using UiPath Platform for three years.

The stability and reliability of UiPath Platform are fairly good. We encounter situations where things will go wrong, but it's typically system-related issues, not with UiPath Platform itself. 

Issues arise when a screen changes or a file format does not come over correctly. However, 99% of the time, problems are correctable very quickly, especially since we can monitor everything closely and respond before our business partners are even aware.

UiPath Platform scales with the growing needs of our company seamlessly. We can add robots anytime without issues, which positions us perfectly for scalability.

Based on what we've received, I would give UiPath Platform support at least a ten out of ten.

Positive

Before adopting UiPath Platform, we were using Nintex platform which has a better price point and is quicker to deploy. However, we do not use that for critical tasks, as I would never delegate some of the work we do with UiPath Platform to it. It mainly serves as a desktop-level automation tool. We also have licensing for Power Automate that a group uses, but it's more for internal departments. UiPath Platform works perfectly for bigger cross-departmental, even enterprise-level types of situations.

As a mid-sized regional bank, we've seen benefits from using UiPath Platform such as saving over 50,000 FTE hours just this year alone, and we are probably going to exceed our goal of over 66,000. 

I really appreciate the ability to monitor everything as it's happening in real-time using bots to help with that monitoring and alert us when things are going sideways because it happens occasionally. The benefits have been significant; our businesses have commented that we have saved their teams significant overtime, highlighting the monetary impact of those savings.

I didn't have insight into the pricing, setup costs, and licensing of UiPath Platform when I arrived as the initial contract had already been signed. However, there was an add-on for Premier Support that has been absolutely fantastic. It was worth the money and when we attend events, we don't consider ourselves smaller customers, yet we are always made to feel important.

My team considered some other solutions alongside UiPath Platform, specifically Blue Prism. They were another competitor that sits close in the same quadrant in the Gartner four-quadrant to UiPath Platform, but they looked at both and engaged with UiPath Platform as a partner, which provided a deeper customer-vendor engagement than they experienced with Blue Prism.

We do not yet use agentic AI, however, that's coming next year as we're getting the contract ready. We do not use agentic automation such as Agent Builder, Agentic Orchestration, or Autopilot yet; we are currently using Copilot, which allows us to dip our toes into the agentic waters.

We had a couple of opportunities for Document Understanding, which is more machine learning. Our struggle lies in the man in the middle concept where people just want to throw it over the fence, however, we emphasize that they need to help us with it.

I have not used the UiPath Platform user community much, as we haven't had a necessity for it yet. I assume that as we get further down the road in our agentic path, it will become more important for us. Currently, 95% of our usage is standard RPA, and we have great competency in those areas. Occasionally I might ask a bank I've worked with in the past a question or two, but I have not delved into the user community.

I have openly stated that I was a vendor for a long time, dealing with vendors on the other side as well, and I genuinely believe UiPath Platform is probably our best vendor due to the attention we get and constant follow-ups.

My advice to someone considering UiPath Platform is to set up a small support group closely tied to your build group early on, depending on your company's size. You do not want to distract your build team from the support side. This also means your build team must ensure quality documentation. Take a thorough look at your intake process, identify bottlenecks in your pipeline, set up your documentation, thoroughly go through the right SDLC process, and gain business buy-in to ensure a smoother operation. On a scale of one to ten, I rate UiPath Platform a nine.

We have about 62 bots running in production today and saving around close to 600,000 hours a year of manual work. 

UiPath Platform features have benefited our organization significantly, as we have about 62 bots running in production today and saving around close to 600,000 hours a year of manual work.

The features of UiPath Platform that I find most valuable are the unattended bots, which is what we mainly use, and then we dabbled into attended bots for a while. The unattended bots have been most successful for us so far. 

UiPath Platform can be improved, as there are many capabilities we can utilize. The upcoming Agentic AI is going to expose many opportunities for us. There are features such as UiPath Apps, which we have not been successful at implementing in our company due to limitations, as we want to give control to the user community to run their own bots, however, at this point we haven't been able to fully implement that.

Additional features I would want to see included in the next release of UiPath Platform are the UiPath Apps and, along with Agentic AI, there are many use cases for the attended bots. If improvements can be made to attended bots, that would be beneficial asthere are many use cases in our company that we haven't explored yet.

I have been using UiPath Platform for the last five years.

UiPath Platform has been working effectively for us. Apart from some minor hiccups, which would be expected with any software, the experience has been positive. Regarding reliability, there have been no complaints.

I have not experienced significant downtime with UiPath Platform. At one point, we had an issue we thought was related to UiPath Platform performance, however, we discovered it was the underlying software we were interfacing with. Even then, UiPath Platform provided the right support to help us. Overall, there was only one instance of downtime in four years, which did not create any significant impact.

UiPath Platform has been scaling very effectively with the growing needs of our organization. We have been able to meet the needs of the organization even though we are growing every year.

Technical support from my experience takes considerable time to respond. Most of the time, by the time they get back to us and we work through it, we either figure it out ourselves or find answers in the community. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a seven. This rating reflects that customer service has been good, however, technical support, due to the few experiences I had, lowers the overall score.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was using Automation Anywhere. We went with them for a year or a year and a half, and then we switched over to UiPath Platform.

The challenges we faced with UiPath Platform were initially related to working with a vendor service provider to implement our first couple of bots. These challenges were more aligned with the service provider's situation than UiPath Platform itself. Eventually, when our team started growing and we adopted it at a bigger scale, we found that what we had done at POC was coming to fruition.

I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. With 62 bots saving 600,000 hours, we are around 500,000 plus, on target to reach 600,000 this year. This translates to $50 an hour or $18 an hour depending on how half of the work is done in the Philippines, which we count for around $20 an hour, and whatever is in San Diego, where our company is based.

I haven't been directly involved in the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of UiPath Platform, however, I have been informed. My manager, who is a director, handles all of those aspects.

Before selecting UiPath Platform, we considered Blue Prism, and then Automation Anywhere was implemented for a year or a year and a half before we switched to UiPath Platform. What stood out in my evaluation process was that the capabilities UiPath Platform provided were significantly more than what we had with Automation Anywhere. As soon as we switched over, our benefits almost tripled in the first year.

When giving advice to other organizations considering UiPath Platform, I would emphasize that starting POCs is very important. Having been on both sides as a consultant before joining this company, we had some POCs which did not work out very well. 

At our company, the POCs we selected were the best. Even today, those POCs turned into bots which give us more return on investment. Choose your automation ideas wisely, give adequate time, and manage stakeholder expectations. 

I rate UiPath Platform a nine out of ten.

We are using UiPath Platform to automate end-user testing for the QA team. We're not fully up and running yet, but we've been working on an end-to-end testing method with UiPath Platform that will take new hires, people that come in, we enter them in SAP, and then we can kick off testing for all the downstream applications to make sure that user makes it there and has all the proper information. It's nice to be able to have all of that in one place and have it automated to where we can just run one process and have it kick off all those different jobs to check the different applications.

The Orchestrator feature of UiPath Platform is really nice, being able to set up multiple robots and have Orchestrator control those, send jobs when they're available, and so on. It makes it really easy to have processes running. The biggest benefit is having one place where the different developers and users can go to look for how to do a specific thing or how something should be, the best use case for an activity or a type of process. It is helpful to have all that in one place.

The UiPath user community is helpful; there have been a few times where I've needed an answer for something and I found it on the forum or in the community section. Having other people working on similar things and sharing tips and techniques is always useful.

I'm not sure how UiPath Platform can be improved, as I don't have specific features that should be included in the next release.

I have been using UiPath Platform since October.

I haven't experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues with UiPath Platform, so I assess its stability and reliability positively.

For what we're doing with UiPath Platform, I think it scales fine; I'm not sure about the other team that's using it, as I think they're more end-user focused and we're testing, so I believe it scales well. I haven't heard any complaints from them. It's been fairly smooth for us to expand usage of UiPath Platform; we've added a couple of people to our team, and as for the finances team, I don't think they've had any issues with adding automation users.

The few times that we've had to reach out for customer service and technical support, we got a response within a few hours, so I think for a third-party vendor, it seemed in line with all of our others, which is good. I would rate our customer service and technical support an eight or nine on a scale from one to ten.

Positive

UiPath Platform had already been selected when I joined the QA team, so I don't know what other solutions were considered.

I think my experience with deploying UiPath Platform has gone well; there are aspects that are complicated to set up, such as getting the robots configured. Although that's more our environment, getting permissions and users set up and SQL coordinated, it's not really the platform itself, but it's been fairly easy to implement and it's not been onerous.

We have used UiPath Academy courses and we also had a web or a Zoom-based training program. I don't recall if that was with UiPath itself or a third-party vendor, but the learning courses are helpful.

I believe we have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform; I can't really speak to hard numbers, but being able to automate our testing cuts down on our hours spent testing and helps us to do more with a smaller team.

I would rate UiPath Platform a nine out of ten.

My main use cases for UiPath Platform include document understanding and transactional processing within Oracle, as well as Oracle processing. One of our biggest use cases is automating our customer service back-end operations, which are in multiple homegrown systems, so it allows us to cohesively bring them together.

The features of UiPath Platform that I most prefer are its connectivity into different ERPs and different enterprise systems, as well as the ability for very easy, citizen-led development. These features have benefited our organization from a connectivity perspective, as we leverage the connectivity with Coupa to provide better process data.

From a citizen-led perspective, I see it really enabling our end-users to be able to build on their own without needing the oversight of the full team.

UiPath Platform can be improved by providing more direct connectivity into source systems. Additional features that should be included in the next release include better or more connectivity.

What would make it a full ten out of ten for me is that there is always going to be some room for improvement.

I have been using UiPath Platform for six years.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues. I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as very good. Anytime there have been any issues, it has always been more related to the Orchestrator, so I can just manually initiate it. That is usually an internal issue rather than a system problem.

UiPath Platform scales with the growing needs of my organization very well. I have expanded usage with UiPath Platform, and we have definitely expanded usage with many of our use cases as we have opened new service lines. It required very minimal effort to do that expansion.

I would evaluate customer service and technical support as very high. On a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate customer service, technical support, and partners as a nine. 

They are all very proactive at getting back with us. Even though they are external, I can ping them on Slack and I get a response right away, so they really make it very accessible to be in touch.

Positive

Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was not using another solution to address similar needs.

I have no issues with the deployment. It's all very straightforward, and working with the UiPath team has really enabled us to continue to deploy and proactively address any concerns.

I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. I cannot speak specifics due to confidentiality, however, we have definitely seen a significant reduction in hours on many HR transactions, and additionally, many streamlined processes that are consistently run as opposed to ad hoc.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was positive. The team is very transparent and easy to work with.

Power Automate would have been the main alternative I considered before selecting UiPath Platform at the time. What stood out to me in my evaluation process was that the network of partners was really significant when selecting it. I worked with my previous company with UiPath Platform as well, and we always had a very good foundational relationship with the partners, which made it a very easy decision.

We couple it with other technologies, such as Alteryx, to really harness the full end-to-end automation. The advice I would give to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is to select a very good partner, and also, you would definitely want to make sure that you are building out your pipeline aggressively so that you can have targets to hit because some of the things that you plan do not come to fruition and you have to be able to pivot quickly.

On a scale from one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate UiPath Platform overall as a solid eight.