On a scale of 1 to 10, maybe 7 to 8 is my assessment of the ease of building automations using the UiPath Platform.
We maintain the UiPath Platform in the cloud. We are a cloud-based company. We prefer doing everything cloud instead of on-premises.
We have Microsoft Azure as our cloud provider for the UiPath Platform.
It is private when it comes to the type of cloud for the UiPath Platform.
Until now, we have not used the solution's AI functionality in our automation program with the UiPath Platform, but now we are thinking of exploring the AI capabilities as well.
That is one of the reasons we chose the UiPath Platform, because certain processes that were there at the company have been very manual and time-consuming and even error-prone. We wanted to reduce the errors, mainly because in finance, there is so much compliance. In order to do all that, improving the compliance also saves us a lot of additional costs sometimes, because in finance ,there are penalties for breaching compliance. Helping doing these automations with the UiPath Platform also improves the compliance, it helps improve the speed of completing the process. Those are obvious advantages of an automation tool. It does help speed up the digital transformation initiative for us.
That is why we went with the objective of end-to-end process automation with the UiPath Platform because previously we had certain departments where there were employees who were switching quite a lot, leaving the company or so and the onboarding process was not very comprehensive, or it was done in a very urgent manner. In such cases, some processes fall through the roof, and no one is maintaining them correctly. We wanted to get rid of the resources in such departments, especially and completely end-to-end automate it using bots with the UiPath Platform. When we do that, we have successfully been able to deploy two or three such processes where we now do not need a human in the loop at all. That means also that the process gets done in an automated way without any errors. We also have some report automations which we did with UiPath Platform, and they get done now in one-hundredth of the time that it used to be done before and without any errors. There are certain cases where there would be errors, but we have to code accordingly for edge case scenarios, outliers. For such outliers, we needed to code them into the automation, but at least we are able to handle the errors, which is a good thing.
The projects are still in a very initial phase. It has been two years, but we are still working with the same number of licenses and bots that we bought two years ago. We are doing a very few number of automations at the moment. We are looking to ramp it up in 2026 at least. At the moment, it is quite spread out, and the whole process of getting stakeholders to buy in, spreading the awareness about automation and UiPath Platform. It is still in a very early stage, which is why exactly how much employee effort is being saved is still a far-fetched idea at the moment.
I would give the UiPath Platform an 8 at the moment as an overall rating.