Automation Anywhere vs WinAutomation | TrustRadius

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Score 8 out of 10

Based on 147 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 8 reviews and ratings

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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Automates repetitive tasks
Easy to configure
Flexible to allow for more complicated automation
Notifies me when a process has failed

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Consultant in Information Technology

Printing Company, 11-50 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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Senior Executive

ProdaptComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Licensing can randomly lose the license key and need to be reapplied.
Secure FTP commands need to be revamped as some FTP sites will not connect via SFTP.

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Director in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Automation Anywhere 9.4

Based on 4 answers

To continue enjoying the benefits of our productivity improvements and efficiency focus.

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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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No score

No answers yet

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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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WinAutomation 8.5

Based on 2 answers

For most tasks WinAutomation is great and easy to use. You just set up tasks on a step by step basis and you can even tell the program what to do when there is an error (such as continue with job). Sometimes with complicated web extraction jobs it would be good to be able to easily extract data from the web page source.

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General Manager in Corporate

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Automation Anywhere 8.6

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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WinAutomation 9.6

Based on 6 answers

There are great online support documents and helpful tutorials.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Printing Company, 11-50 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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Developer

OpteamixInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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I did not have to review other applications before deciding to purchase WinAutomation. I downloaded the trial and after a few days of using the trial, I knew this was the correct application for what I needed to automate.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 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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No answers yet

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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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WinAutomation has allowed our company to operate more effiecently
We've mined the internet to create new data products which we've monitized
Allowed us to automate jobs

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Verified User

General Manager in Corporate

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 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

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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

WinAutomation Editions & Modules

Edition

Per User Plan	$15.00¹
Per Flow Plan	$500.00²

Per User Per Month
Five Flows Per Month

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