Automation Anywhere vs Celonis

Likelihood to Recommend

Where we are having huge manpower expenditures for our internal processes and all the processes where we can't take the risk of compliance issues or errors with respect to data processing. If there are too many human interventions required then for such kind of processes this software is not suitable.

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Chakravarthy SSNTK

Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain

Miracle Software Systems, IncInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Celonis is well suited for organizations who are undergoing transformation initiatives that tie to the following areas:

RPA/Automation
ERP Migrations
Process Documentation
Shared Services
Process Transformation

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Employee in Sales

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Exception handling is pretty decent. WE don't have to worry about process being stuck as it moves to the next iteration on its own.
Automation is easier to achieve as it doesn't require high coding skills or designing a specific framework.
It can achieve PDF editing and automation, which in our case of policy documents has been valuable.

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Consultant in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Provide big picture information and drill down to details, such as actors, cases, documents
Combine process discovery data with other business, e.g. controlling data
Great user interface
Unlike other products such as Minit or Disco, this tool is great at being able to directly enrich the findings with cost or revenue data
Easy to build and calculate critical process KPIs and demonstrate the findings to management (decision makers)

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Viktor Mulac

Senior Consultant

A.T. KearneyManagement Consulting, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Automation Anywhere doesn't come with easy installation, We need to install Java, IDEs and Databases in an orderly fashion which we are not able to do.
Automation Anywhere has no workflow design which is not making us to understand the process.
Automation Anywhere has no fit to size object cloning.

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Premnath R

Senior Executive

ProdaptComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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May shed a negative light on employees for deviating from the desired processes.

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Employee in Sales

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Automation Anywhere 9.4

Based on 4 answers

It is the best automation tool.

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Professional in Research & Development

Civil Engineering Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Automation Anywhere 8.0

Based on 6 answers

On more complex use cases, Automation Anywhere requires technical background like knowledge on network protocols and database language on task creation, and even people with technical background might have some trouble in the beginning because of the product particularities on how variable manipulation works, or how to get the object cloning (a more resilient screen manipulation command) to work as intended.The scheduling of tasks on the Control Room and the autologin feature isn't intuitive as they should, so much of this works requires documentation analysis to get it done on the first time.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Automation Anywhere 8.5

Based on 11 answers

Automation Anywhere is a great tool for a low cost, fairly easily scalable, and quickly learned. The company is growing by leaps and bounds and continually pushing the automation boundaries. The problem with fast expansion is that sometimes you can grow more quickly than you can appropriately support your products. While Automation Anywhere has an excellent support structure in place, every company and situation is different, and they often struggle with why problems arise in the system and how to fix them.

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Supervisor in Finance and Accounting

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Online Training

Automation Anywhere 8.4

Based on 2 answers

Perfect training from the online academy the software offers it for free

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Chakravarthy SSNTK

Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain

Miracle Software Systems, IncInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

Automation Anywhere 8.6

Based on 3 answers

Nothing in particular

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Chakravarthy SSNTK

Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain

Miracle Software Systems, IncInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Other than Automaton Anywhere I have also used UiPath. What I like about Automation Anywhere is the object cloning and the way you can move the mouse and either go to a particular point or go to an element. That's very easy and intuitive in Automation Anywhere. It gets the job done in terms of getting the data out of the pages. Although I have other tools, I still have this habit of going through the clicks. If you're going through the clicks, Automation Anywhere is the best.

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Albert Jose

Developer

OpteamixInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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I have used the process mining software, Minit. Compared to Celonis, Minit does not allow us to enrich process data with other business data, but Minit is a universal process discovery tool. It can be further coupled with PowerBI or similar software for data enrichment. The reporting options and UX are far more advanced in Celonis, but Celonis is purely SAP HANA oriented.

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Viktor Mulac

Senior Consultant

A.T. KearneyManagement Consulting, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

Automation Anywhere 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Highly reliable once you start experiencing the results. It helps you to have a clear cut results with better productivity numbers and financial savings

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Chakravarthy SSNTK

Practice Manager - RPA, Chatbots, IoT, AI & Blockchain

Miracle Software Systems, IncInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Our overall business has saved numerous hours of work where individuals were freed up to perform higher level thinking tasks.
Following a necessary reduction in workforce that was not driven by RPA, we were able to automate processes that kept the remaining workload from overwhelming the remaining workforce.
The use of robotics process automation has inspired many workers to come up with different approaches to problems including both automation and analytics.

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Brady Rothrock CPA, CFE, ACDA, MS-BIA

Data Scientist

SprintTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Celonis has helped me get rid of unneeded steps within my sales process that have to lead to longer sales cycles.
Celonis has helped us identify areas internally where we are not taking advantage of cash discounts.

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Verified User

Employee in Sales

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Automation Anywhere Editions & Modules

Edition

Cloud-Only Starter Pack	$750¹
Advanced Pack (Cloud or On-Premises)	Contact for quote

per month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Required

Celonis Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

Snap is Celonis' free-to-use, 100% cloud-based process mining solution, with over 3500 registrants and users. It includes most major features of Celonis, including all functionality found in common process mining tools. It also includes pre-built connectors to ServiceNow and pre-built content to get users started quickly on their process mining journey.