Significantly reduces manual effort and improves team workflows through automated ticketing
What is our primary use case?
We use it for synchronizing inventory, and we also have club operations, various use cases, downloading, and sending reports to the document reprint. My main use cases for UiPath Platform include many use cases across a lot of departments.
How has it helped my organization?
By leveraging Agentic Automation, we have achieved ROI. More importantly, we have enhanced customer experience and team member experience. For example, the Agentic workflow I mentioned helps the IT help desk team ensure tickets are more streamlined, consequently reducing delays in responding to tickets.
What is most valuable?
We've used Agent Builder, IXP, and Maestro for orchestration. We have created context-grounded searches or chatbots using context grounding, and we also use context grounding within an Agentic flow where a bot or agent reads ServiceNow tickets to determine whether it has been assigned to the right work group. If it has not been assigned correctly due to human error, it automatically reassigns it to the right group.
I would assess Agentic AI's ability to extract data points as effective. We created an agent for the purpose of extracting data, though not in a document. We created what we call an email conversation agent that engages with a customer, vendor, or someone in an email conversation with a set goal of extracting specific data points for an action to be performed subsequently. The one automation we have deployed in production involves the agent interacting with team members to collect data points and create a ServiceNow ticket.
We appreciate almost all features of UiPath Platform, with one of the most successful ones being the use of Coms Mining. Most of the new features related to AI have all been good, and we use Agentic. We have already created a few agents and have started to use Maestro for a few flows, though we are not yet there to orchestrate an end-to-end workflow.
We have good ROI from the automations we have developed with UiPath Platform, which far exceeds the investment in the platform. It has saved us tens of thousands of hours in manual effort, making the team members happy to pursue other things of value.
What needs improvement?
The one thing I would recommend to improve is pricing, which is a big challenge. One suggestion from the Product Advisory Board was to provide a calculator to help predict next year's budget for AI units or platform units needed. This calculator could indicate trends and projections for the upcoming years.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my current field for seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would assess the stability and reliability of UiPath Platform as needing improvement. Despite healing agents, we haven't tried screen play yet.
My major pain point remains pop-up windows, UI changes, and related issues, which is why I have a four-member support team working daily. They address roughly 50-plus issues every month, and I want to see a reduction in these issues before I comment further on the platform's stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have not really scaled yet. That is in the picture right now. We would to scale, however, I am unsure how open the organization is to that scaling. We still need to see the proof of value for our current efforts.
How are customer service and support?
My evaluation of customer service and technical support has been excellent. We have a dedicated TAM who participates in our weekly meetings and is present during my meetings with citizen developers. He is always prompt in his responses, and tickets on the customer portal are addressed within 24 hours, often with someone either calling or emailing us with solutions.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to adopting UiPath Platform, I was not using another solution to address similar needs at my current workplace, however, I have worked with Blue Prism in the past. UiPath Platform is far superior compared to other tools in this market space.
How was the initial setup?
Initially, we started off with on-prem, and we moved to the cloud after I joined. It was a little challenging. One of the big challenges that I see in migration or deployment is when there are upgrades. So, for example, Windows upgrades, and recently we had an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, and a lot of things started failing, including some of my citizen developers' automation. There are quite a few challenges when it comes to deployment. I would say on the whole, it takes time. That said, we've been able to get there.
What was our ROI?
My returns at this point are around four to five times the investment we made in payments to UiPath Platform. I have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform.
For now, I would say 90% of my ROI comes from past automations we've developed, not even with Agentic. The automations we've created thus far are responsible for driving the ROI, and I anticipate this will continue for the next couple of years until we create some critical Agentic and orchestrated workflows.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is that pricing is very complicated. With so many consumables and platform features, a bit more simplicity in pricing would probably be appreciated. For instance, separate pricing for SAP testing, and separate pricing for the newer version of the test platform or test cloud, should be included within the platform pricing. It would be ideal to have one big payment for the platform and then consumption-based pricing as a la carte.
What other advice do I have?
The advice I would give to other organizations considering UiPath Platform is that, while the platform offers many features, it can feel overwhelming. Start small with the features you most prefer, such as automation, which is the most straightforward and ROI-generating function. Ignore AI, agents, or Coms Mining initially; just use a bot for something simple. Then, leverage that experience to enhance your automation. I still recommend starting with task automation and later expanding to orchestrated workflows, which might take a year or two to achieve. Patience is key.
I rate UiPath Platform overall as a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Accelerates automation development with flexible deployment and streamlined support
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for UiPath Platform is to build RPA bots.
What is most valuable?
The features of UiPath Platform that I value the most are the scheduling features and the ability to bring our own LLM.
Having the ability to bring our own LLM has helped reduce some of our costs. It was cheaper and we felt we had better results with the LLM.
My overall experience with using UiPath Agentic automation capabilities is that it was very easy and rapid to develop, and we achieved a more sophisticated end result than when we tried to use other AI tools to do a similar thing, which were not nearly as sophisticated or accurate.
What needs improvement?
My advice to another organization considering UiPath Platform is to focus on how they start up the program and what automations they choose to develop first. We went for the big wins with automations that would return a lot of resource hours, however, in hindsight, we should have brought in partners to track down and develop various use cases for automation. Any turning an ROI within six months should have been developed earlier, as we would have been three years down the road now of saving from those bots instead of having a long list of 30 bots that have been sitting there and not developed.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath Platform for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have only had one big issue where the Google Suite products caused the bots interacting with the Google Suite connectors to fail, but we could never figure out why. We just ended up having to upgrade each of the bots, and thankfully they ended up working after that.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
UiPath Platform has scaled really well with our growing needs. We went from two bots to three licensed cores, and so far, just those three cores have been able to support all of our 35 bots. We are adding about 10 to 15 bots a year.
How are customer service and support?
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate my customer service and technical support experience as a ten.
Every time I reach out to UiPath, my account rep quickly finds the right resources, gets us on a call in a timely manner, and helps us work through whatever we need. They schedule follow-up meetings to ensure we do not need more help.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
The process with expanding has been pretty painless. We have our own CI/CD process that integrates with Git, GitHub, and our own pipeline, and it works really well, making pushing new bots not a problem at all.
What was our ROI?
We definitely have seen a return on investment with UiPath Platform. Over the three years, we have implemented 35 bots and are saving about 24,000 resource hours annually, and that does not even include the revenue that it has also probably helped generate.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Lately, we have looked at other solutions, including some of the Gemini products, to see if they had capabilities. We looked into them for performance, cost, support, scalability, and more citizen development capabilities. While Gemini has easier citizen development capabilities, what ends up getting developed is really not robust and often not enterprise-level use cases.
What other advice do I have?
We do not use the testing features, however, we do use Autopilot and the Agent Builder within UiPath Platform. The deployment model for UiPath Platform is in the cloud. It is our own cloud and our own instance in AWS.
We have not implemented the Agentic automation yet, so we do not really have metrics; the Challenger is the sales template that we implemented or technique.
I would rate UiPath Platform overall as an eight out of ten. We have primarily Mac users throughout our company, and some features like Task Mining are not usable because it is Windows-based.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)