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    Cloud Elements (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/ACloud Elements was a cloud API integration service acquired by UiPath in 2021. It used cooperative apps to connect an organization’s customers, partners and employees to the cloud services they use. The product was discontinued in 2023.N/A

    Precisely Automate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAutomate Studio is an Excel-to-SAP solutions platform that enables business users to automate complex SAP business processes and make mass data changes quickly and easily. Training every functional employee to use SAP or finding temporary workers with SAP experience can be difficult and expensive. Automate Studio helps to eliminate this challenge by enabling business users to run and manage SAP ERP tasks simply and securely from Excel. Once a script is…N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Cloud Elements (discontinued) and Precisely Automate
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    Ratings
    Precisely Automate
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    31% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Cloud Elements (discontinued) and Precisely Automate
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    Precisely Automate
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)Precisely Automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)Precisely Automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    Cloud Elements shines when you want to offer multiple options to the user on a type of system, such as supporting integration to CRM and wanting to offer Dynamics, Salesforce, and HubSpot on equal footing. If you only have a single integration with a single system, using Cloud Elements adds an unnecessary layer of abstraction.
    Incentivized
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    Precisely
    It's more appropriate for inserting, updating, and deleting/deactivating data in bulk from Excel files, and for executing individual transactions in SAP systems in desktop environments, but not so much for executing chains of transactions, à la RPA, or in SAP systems with a web interface. Not Fiori. At least that's our experience with SAP in the desktop interface
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    Pros
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    • The API itself is very robust and easy to use, being a standard REST interface, standard HTTP response codes, well-packaged error messages, etc.
    • Their uptime is great! I think I've seen one (short) 5-minute' blip' the entire time we've been connected for any type of primary function.
    • Their support is top notch, they respond quickly, and the team that works with you is communicative and knowledgable.
    Incentivized
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    Precisely
    • Update large quantities of data from Excel files.
    • Automate the execution of SAP transactions.
    • Clean data in SAP systems from Excel files.
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    Cons
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    • The only thing I can think of that they could improve is the quality of the assets they produce in the go-to-market process. This is a huge value add service, but the quality of what was produced was lower than what we would have produced internally. We spent more time going back and forth on the assets than it would have taken us to build them from scratch.
    Incentivized
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    Precisely
    • Improve the support from regional partners.
    • Make work the identity federation, and the support to make it work.
    • Make the integration with the Precisely admin portal.
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    Usability
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    Precisely
    It is very easy to use and learn. I have onboarded many users in the team with very short trainings. Overall feed back is good. Just the issue is with UI change done post becoming "Precisely". Otherwise easy and handy tool and must have for mass data automation and maintenance.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    At the time we found Cloud Elements we found no other option that had a Unified API for cloud storage providers.
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    Precisely
    Have not evaluated any other yet.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Not my area of expertise, but it made my job as an implementer much easier, especially after finishing the first integration.
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    Precisely
    • Positive impact in keeping the team small in charge of keeping data in order.
    • Positive impact in the time used for massively updating data the system.
    • Negative impact on the time that take get direct support with a partner.
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