Currently, our automation work with UiPath primarily revolves around financial processes, such as accounts receivable work and tax deduction management. We are exploring generative AI, but have not developed any AI use cases for UiPath yet. We prioritize our automation use cases based on RoI and process complexity.
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Helped us save time, cut costs, and freed up employees for more analytical work
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
With UiPath, we have saved time and cut costs. For example, one process previously took several people six or seven hours, but we've reduced it to a four-minute process. This allows us to shift our teams to more analytical, value-added work instead of repetitive transactional tasks.
What is most valuable?
UiPath's learning modules have been a massive help in training our employees. The Orchestrator also helps us schedule, deploy, and monitor jobs.
We've engaged employees through meetings at the enterprise and department levels. Our manager has quarterly meetings with employees in different areas of the business to get them up to speed on what's happening in automation.
What needs improvement?
UiPath could have more robust, built-in auditing and logging. Currently, you need to build log messages into your automation to capture what's happening.
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?
We haven't really had any trouble with stability. It has been very well.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I was able to scale up very easily, as we recently stood up eight more robots. Setting everything up and gaining access took about five days, and we received a lot of support from UiPath for licensing and key management.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath support eight out of 10. We have had a good experience. Our technical account manager is very responsive, and the ticketing system that UiPath uses is quite successful. We received answers to our questions promptly, and overall, it has been a positive experience.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used a competitor, Automation Anywhere.
How was the initial setup?
We weren't heavily involved with deploying UiPath, but it seemed straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
UiPath professional services managed the deployment and helped us convert about 40 automations.
What was our ROI?
We've saved thousands of hours using UiPath and freed employees to focus on more value-added work.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Improved our operational efficiency, enabling us to grow our assets without increasing headcount
What is our primary use case?
We're a bank, so we primarily use UiPath to automate tasks such as filling out Excel sheets, organizing PDF files into folders, and reconciling rejected checks and chargebacks.
We prioritize use cases by meeting with each business unit to operational challenges that they would like to solve through automation. They walk us through the process they want to be automated, and we prioritize the requests based on potential hours saved and the automation difficulty.
The business units don't interact with the bots much. We get requests via email, and our Center of Excellence develops and maintains all the bots.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath helps us improve operational efficiency. We want to grow our bank by increasing the number of accounts without adding more employees. Our headcount hasn't increased in the last four years while our assets have grown tremendously. By automating data entry and other monotonous tasks, UiPath has improved employees' sense of job fulfillment. It frees them up to work on more challenging tasks and work on new skills.
What is most valuable?
We like UiPath's integration with the ARIA framework and Orchestrator we use to manage our automations. The Copilot also helps us streamline the development process.
What needs improvement?
There could be better documentation for Copilot, and UiPath could provide solution design documents as part of the training.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used UiPath since 2021.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven't had any issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath scales well with our environment.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath customer service eight out of 10. I had one issue where they pointed me in the right direction but didn't fully resolve it.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We've done some simple tasks with homegrown automation that UiPath could handle, but we opted to build the processes with tools we already had.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup involved using a UiPath partner, which significantly facilitated our production and deployment environments.
What was our ROI?
We've saved about 2,500 hours annually with UiPath.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm not responsible for the budget, but I know that UiPath is more expensive than its competitors.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10.
Has saved us the equivalent of 27 full-time employees
What is our primary use case?
We have a lot of UiPath use cases. One of the bigger ones is the billing backup process.
How has it helped my organization?
Our company is growing like crazy and using automation allowed us to accommodate that growth without significantly increasing our headcount. We're always searching for new technology to help us stay competitive. We prioritize use cases based on the amount of time it will save. Also, the cost of the resource is factored in. The CEO's time is more valuable than my time.
We've done a lot to evangelize automation among our employees and incentivize them to submit ideas through rewards and prices. Additionally, we have seminars to share information about automation and the kinds of processes that might be good candidates.
What is most valuable?
UiPath Studio is the feature we use the most to build our automations, and Orchestrator enables us to stitch it all together and monitor bots.
UiPath helps us serve our customers better. For example, we built an automation that enables us to send our invoices to customers quicker, so we get paid faster and do more work for our clients. The solution also frees up staff to work on other projects. If we plan to automate a person's job fully, we ensure that we'll have something else ready for them to do.
What needs improvement?
UiPath has made some of the Activities less user-friendly as time goes on. Some things that were previously configured through the Properties panel have been moved to a separate activity card. It was easier when everything was in one place and faster.
Sometimes, UiPath tries to make it more accessible for people who aren't tech-savvy, but it complicates things for tech-oriented users like me.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used UiPath since 2020.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath has been relatively stable. We haven't encountered many issues on UiPath's side. A few times, the performance has been miserably slow while we were trying to debug something, but I think they have fixed whatever the issue was.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath's scalability has been pretty good. We haven't had any issues on the UiPath side. Our biggest problem has been managing our growth. UiPath gives us the tools to do that.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath support nine out of 10. We haven't needed to contact them often because most of our developers are tech-savvy people.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was a VBA guy before. I still use Python for automating some processes, but UiPath is used for different purposes.
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment of UiPath was fairly complex, but I wasn't directly involved.
What about the implementation team?
We hired excellent partners to assist with all the integrations we needed.
What was our ROI?
We've seen a return in time saved and reduced headcount. We've automated over 100 production processes. It's the equivalent of having 27 full-time employees, more than covering the solution's cost. We track the ROI on all our automations rigorously and ensure that the automations justify their costs, resulting in substantial savings.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath a solid eight out of 10.
The automation boosts efficiency and customer satisfaction
What is our primary use case?
We are targeting utilizing Gen AI for some social media marketing. We haven't really implemented it yet.
How has it helped my organization?
Implementing AI and automation has streamlined our processes, allowing us to focus on more important day-to-day work instead of repetitive tasks. This has helped with customer satisfaction.
We have been able to automate a lot of internal processes, saving significant time for our managers and increasing the accuracy of reports and monitoring. We saved about 350 hours, which corresponds to approximately $500,000 in money saved.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are the autopilot or copilot AI feature and Insights. We haven't used it yet. I know that understanding the document is highly powerful and really useful.
What needs improvement?
I would like improvements in UiPath Studio speed. The development environment is sometimes slow, depending on the workflows, especially with legacy workflows.
For how long have I used the solution?
This should be the third year of working with the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We utilize the cloud Orchestrator, and it has been really stable with no issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We started with three bots and have maintained that number, with the addition of one test bot test license. We are always using it to scale.
How are customer service and support?
We access resources at UiPath to assist us, however, resources can be hard to get. Better access to resources might improve the process.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was simple for us. I am aware it could be more challenging for on-premises deployments.
What about the implementation team?
We didn't use a partner for the initial setup.
What was our ROI?
We realized a return on investment by saving about $500,000 due to automation of tasks that took longer manually.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is probably in line with the market. I am unsure about pricing for AI units as we haven't implemented them yet.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Saved us millions by improving operational efficiency and fixing our broken technology footprint
What is our primary use case?
Initially, we used task-based swivel-chair automation to fix our broken technological footprint. It was common for us to use three applications for one process. Now, we're moving toward larger digital transformation use cases. We use UiPath for Document Understanding, and we're still waiting for our insurance company to approve generative AI.
How has it helped my organization?
Our executives define our AI and automation strategy, which is devolved to our department leaders and employees to determine tasks they don't like doing that we can digitize. Our initial goal was to improve operational efficiency, which we've achieved.
What is most valuable?
Action Center is used extensively for digital transformation purposes. The shift from using Excel to bots, providing precise human work, is highly valuable.
We realized significant time savings across three business areas, totaling several thousand hours. Our benchmark process was automating the manual processing of credit card chargebacks. Fully automating this process not only saved us time but also millions of dollars.
The impact on stakeholders has varied. Some segments have leaned into using UiPath. For example, there's a high level of RPA penetration in wholesale. Employees in wholesale have incorporated automation into their applications as critical functions. In other business areas, they're bringing us small, task-based automations that don't impact clients much. They're usually secondary automations that help teammates who work directly with clients.
UiPath has freed staff to work on other projects consistently across multiple lines of business. The amount saved depends on the department. Some areas of the business save hundreds of hours, but the impact is smaller in others.
What needs improvement?
Some of the biggest areas of improvement are already being addressed. We're looking forward to the healing agent because we see a lot of UI migration because of our broken technological footprint.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used UiPath since 2020.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is incredibly stable. Any issues we've had were on our side. We needed to add enough VDIs to support the digital infrastructure. Those have been resolved by adding more blade servers.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have been able to scale up, showing no issues during the installation of new blade servers.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath support nine out of 10.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used Blue Prism.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Our licensing is generally pretty good for our contract.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Automation Anywhere. The decision came down to costs and capabilities. UiPath could do some things that AA couldn't.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath eight out of 10.
Enhances customer success with advanced AI for seamless data handling
What is our primary use case?
We have done work for customer success by collecting information from various sources such as email, IVR, and chat. Our solution performs classification, sentiment analysis using the AI of UiPath, and then data validation and posting. We've implemented this for one of the biggest banks in India.
How has it helped my organization?
Our admin team benefits from an internally created ticketing system, which offloads repetitive tasks and improves performance. This facilitates time savings and enhances overall satisfaction within the employee base.
What is most valuable?
Customers find numerous features of UiPath valuable, including Document Understanding (DU) and AI functionalities. They leverage it for repetitive tasks and beyond.
What needs improvement?
Customer education is crucial. Currently, there's a time lag in training, which eventually impacts the customers. All stakeholders should receive updates simultaneously.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been a UiPath partner for more than six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We face no major challenges regarding stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Investments in hardware are necessary for scalability, especially when dealing with AI and audio functionalities.
How are customer service and support?
The UiPath support team in India is excellent, offering professional services and tech support. I rate it eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We've been using UiPath from the beginning. We were also Automation Anywhere partners but decided to stick with UiPath.
What was our ROI?
While it's difficult to quantify precisely, we've observed a 10% to 20% cost savings.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing is high, affecting renewals significantly. Many small companies are hesitant due to the increased cost compared to past discounts.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath an eight out of ten.
Speeds up development while offering additional flexibility
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case involves the democratization of software through the Sysen Lever and Power User Program. Essentially, we are trying to automate complex processes that can be easily rules-based, eliminating the need for repetitive motions.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath helped relieve some of the burden related to paperwork and regulation, making people happy and excited about new opportunities.
What is most valuable?
The drag-and-drop features are useful, and having the ability to integrate technical scripting is beneficial. It speeds up development while offering additional flexibility.
What needs improvement?
Scaling efficiently and supporting people with technical information has been challenging.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have encountered scalability issues trying to figure out how to make the operations work with different setups. My particular employee group is all remote.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing iMac.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath an eight out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Document understanding has been immensely valuable due to the breadth and depth of its application
What is our primary use case?
Our use cases for UiPath AI and automation are diverse and cover a number of functional areas within our business. We are doing everything from building simple to medium to complex RPAs.
We have started utilizing communication mining and have a unique use case leveraging document understanding. Essentially, we are getting our feet wet across the board.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath has allowed us to free up time for our employees so that they can engage in more value-added activities. Although cost has not been a significant driver, we focus on being more efficient and consistent throughout the organization.
It has enhanced the overall experience for our stakeholders, including employees and customers, by streamlining processes and improving engagement.
What is most valuable?
Document understanding has been immensely valuable due to the breadth and depth of its application. Additionally, the potential of Generative AI is expected to drive significant value.
What needs improvement?
Since we are still in the early stages of using UiPath, identifying areas for improvement is challenging. We anticipate that some aspects may emerge as time progresses.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using UiPath for close to a year, approximately ten months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution has been stable so far.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath has proven to be scalable.
How are customer service and support?
We have received excellent customer service and support from UiPath. We have a good Technical Account Manager (TAM) and a strong relationship with the team managing our account.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Power Automate and other solutions. Most automation has transitioned to UiPath. We switched due to the fact that UiPath offers a broader range of functionalities and addresses our speed-to-delivery challenges.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of UiPath was straightforward, thanks to a good partner.
What about the implementation team?
We have been using an implementation partner, and they have been great so far.
What was our ROI?
While we have not yet achieved the ROI we expect, we are on target to do so. There have been some instances of ROI, although we are still in the infancy stages.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Typically, pricing is reflective of the value provided. While more value for less cost would be preferred, we do not focus extensively on costs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated other options before choosing UiPath. It seemed best in class and fit our needs after due diligence.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate UiPath a nine out of ten.
Fills in staff gaps by augmenting existing staff without hiring people
What is our primary use case?
Our communications company intends to use UiPath and AI to determine the best fit and time for commercials based on the customer's usage and payment for the spot. We haven't fully deployed AI, yet. It's becoming more critical to leadership, but we're still doing testing and researching
How has it helped my organization?
Our goal with AI is to significantly reduce the manual effort needed to determine where to place ads. We don't have enough human resources to place spots around the clock, so we want UiPath to fill in the gaps by augmenting existing staff without hiring people.
Our leaders and stakeholders are pleased with the RPA results and want to expand our usage. We're still waiting to implement AI.
What is most valuable?
Orchestrator is the most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
UiPath could improve on-prem availability. I would like to see a load-testing feature, but that's coming.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using UiPath for about three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We've never had any issues with stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We just keep adding bots and have not encountered any problems expanding.
How are customer service and support?
I rate UiPath customer service nine out of 10. Overall, it's been great, but in a handful of cases, we've dealt with someone at support whose ability wasn't quite where we wanted it to be.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Pega, but our leaders decided to switch to UiPath
What was our ROI?
I can't quantify the amount of time we've saved with UiPath, but we've reduced our headcount by about 10 percent. We're not laying people off, but we can backfill employee positions with automation as they leave.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
UiPath is perceived as more expensive, but it's pretty close when you break down the licensing model and look at how much competitors charge per connection. We've done the analysis.
What other advice do I have?
I rate UiPath nine out of 10 because we can't use the cloud stuff yet. If we were on the cloud, I would give it a perfect 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
The prompt-based workflow-building feature, where you can use natural language to build workflows, is impressive
What is our primary use case?
We have been using UiPath for almost the last five years in the industry, where a lot of research development, and clinical trials are happening. Many of the processes are centered around clinical trials, especially around translation.
Being a global company, we conduct a lot of clinical research involving various languages and regulations. Earlier, we were outsourcing translation services, which presented security and timing challenges.
With UiPath, we built bots that collect clinical trial documents from various sources and translate them into the desired language, ensuring security and faster delivery. We no longer need to outsource, and translations are now super fast, sometimes within hours.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath has significantly helped our organization by providing solutions that save time and enhance efficiency. It has automated many tasks, allowing our staff to focus on other projects.
We've built attended bots for research analysts who can now complete tasks while attending meetings. These bots save 5,000 to 8,000 hours yearly, contributing to our overall efficiency and allowing us to save a lot of money. UiPath has also enabled us to achieve outcomes like speed, scalability, security, productivity, and quality.
What is most valuable?
The user experience that UiPath offers, particularly the ease of use with the Studio's drag-and-drop feature, speeds up development significantly.
The connectors available in integration services are helpful for quickly connecting with applications like Salesforce and ServiceNow.
I appreciate the orchestration capabilities and document processing integrations.
Additionally, the prompt-based workflow-building feature, where you can use natural language to build workflows, is quite impressive.
What needs improvement?
While UiPath is exceeding my expectations, there is room for improvement, particularly in the studio's performance. Sometimes, it takes a while to open and launch workflows, and this speed issue could be addressed. Additionally, the support could be improved, especially regarding the availability and expertise of support engineers.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using UiPath for almost the last five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
UiPath is very stable. I have never experienced any bugs in the product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath has always met our expectations in terms of scalability, as we can scale it across the global enterprise level.
How are customer service and support?
Support is one area that could always use improvement. There have been challenges in getting timely support, especially during emergencies, and sometimes we don't get experienced engineers to solve problems.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In my career in digital transformation over the last fifteen years, I have used tools like Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. However, UiPath has proven to be superior because of its ease of use and continuous improvement.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of UiPath was straightforward and very quick. It took only a couple of hours to set up the environment.
What about the implementation team?
I handled the implementation in-house with the support of UiPath and have been involved in every phase of the development life cycle, from infrastructure setup to discovery and deployment.
What was our ROI?
We are saving almost five million dollars every year. Our bots save about 5,000 to 8,000 hours yearly, equating to roughly $5 million to $7 million dollars in savings annually.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing could be reduced as Microsoft Power Automate is becoming a strong competitor. There is a significant difference in cost between UiPath and Power Automate, with Power Automate being more affordable for some automations.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
In the past, I have worked with Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. I find UiPath to be superior due to its user-friendliness and innovative features.
What other advice do I have?
Always explore using AI first, as it is often a cost-effective and simple solution. UiPath's integration of AI workflows in a user-friendly way brings a lot of potential for automation.