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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft SQL Server

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft SQL Server is a relational database.

    $1,418

    Per License

    UiPath Automation Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AUiPath's agentic platform combines the company's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution for automating repetitive tasks with agentic automation. By unifying agentic AI, automation, BPM, and process intelligence, the platform gives organizations control to design, run, and optimize new agentic processes.

    $25

    per month (for 1 user with basic tier features)

    Pricing
    Microsoft SQL ServerUiPath Automation Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Subscription
    $1,418.00
    Per License
    Enterprise
    $13,748.00
    Per License
    Automation Cloud Basic
    $25
    per month 1 user, 1 basic platform tier
    Automation Cloud Enterprise
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    Enterprise Medium Business
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    Automation Cloud Standard
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    Automation Cloud Basic
    starting at $25
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft SQL ServerUiPath Automation Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft SQL ServerUiPath Automation Platform
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    Microsoft
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    UiPath
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    UiPath is a young platform and for this reason contains all the new technologies born in recent years. Blue Prism platform is older than UiPath and this is "felt" when trying to develop a flow using both products. Training a new resource to use UiPath is easier than training it …
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    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    As compared to other products, we require programming knowledge and concepts to work but UiPath is for everyone. It provides us extensive event logging at various stages and effective exception handling for applications and business. It increases our agility and enhances the …
    Incentivized
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    UiPath is simpler to learn and use than other competitors like Contextor or Blue Prism. It also seems to integrate better with legacy desktop apps. The online Academy is also a lot better and more complete than what other competitors make available, which is most of the times …
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    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    Compared to Automation Anywhere, the UiPath Academy is free to use, allowing the RPA developer to perform the training and obtain his certifications before choosing to acquire the tool. Also, Automation Anywhere requires a software development background, while UiPath is …
    Incentivized
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    As of now, UiPath is clearly way ahead of Pega RPA and other RPA tools.
    • UiPath has Orchestrator and RE Framework features which make it unique from others.
    • Pega RPA is quite difficult to understand as compared to UiPath.
    Incentivized
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    When it comes to Selenium, it has limited features only for the web. Uipath provides intelligent Citrix automation.
    Incentivized
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    UiPath is easier to learn and use than most competitive solutions like Jacada or Contextor.
    Its application support is also on-par with the best.
    Product vision and roadmap is what really makes UiPath unique.
    Incentivized
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism didn't provide any trial version to play around or do POC. The tutorials and certifications of these were costly. But UiPath solved both these problems with free Enterprise trials and free tutorials. UiPath has great support on doing actions …
    Incentivized
    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    The Community version of Studio, the Academy, and the Community Forum allow you to gain confidence using UiPath before making an investment. Other solutions require more effort, training, advising or consulting services to start a project.
    Every high-level RPA solution has a …
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    Chose UiPath Automation Platform
    UIPath has not had problems in the execution of the same robot against different platforms, while other market solutions required the compliance of standards by third parties that are not controlled by us, so their implementation went through very difficult risks to solve.
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft SQL ServerUiPath Automation Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (107 ratings)
    8.8
    (195 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    8.0
    (82 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft SQL ServerUiPath Automation Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft SQL is ubiquitous, while MySQL runs under the hood all over the place. Microsoft SQL is the platform taught in colleges and certification courses and is the one most likely to be used by businesses because it is backed by Microsoft. Its interface is friendly (well, as pleasant as SQL can be) and has been used by so many for so long that resources are freely available if you encounter any issues.
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    UiPath
    UiPath Automation Platform is well-suited for automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as invoice processing, data entry, and report generation. By using UiPath Automation Platform, employees can focus on more strategic tasks, which leads to increased efficiency. Additionally, UiPath Automation Platform is highly effective at automating rule-based processes, such as financial processes like bank statement reconciliation, account payable, and account receivable processes that follow a set of predetermined rules.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Easy to configure and use with Visual Studio and Dot Net
    • Easy integration with MSBI to perform data analysis
    • Data Security
    • Easy to understand and use
    • Very easy to export database and tables in the form of SQL query or a script
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    UiPath
    • UiPath is very simple to learn.
    • Any type of application can be automated (Desktop Application, Web Application and also applications reachable only via remote technologies such as Citrix, Remote Desktop and so on).
    • The writing of a process code takes place entirely through the use of objects. In the event that there were no objects capable of solving a particular problem, it is possible to use some languages of the .net platform such as: VB.net, C#.
    • It is easy to scale the solution by adding more robots to run a process in case the solution requires more performance in the future.
    • It can also be used by functional analysts to design the flow to be automated.
    • An academy is available online where basic and advanced courses can be taken. It is also possible to take a completely free basic certification.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition has a high cost but is the only edition which supports SQL Always On Availability Groups. It would be nice to include this feature in the Standard version.
    • Licensing of Microsoft SQL Server is a quite complex matter, it would be good to simplify licensing in the future. For example, per core vs per user CAL licensing, as well as complex licensing scenarios in the Cloud and on Edge locations.
    • It would be good to include native tools for converting Oracle, DB2, Postgresql and MySQL/MariaDB databases (schema and data) for import into Microsoft SQL Server.
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    UiPath
    • As I mentioned, Excel automation is not very effective, there are a number of packages to add, but there is nothing as smooth as a good macro.
    • Working with selectors is certainly challenging and UiPath does a good job with that, but there is room for improvement since the interface could be smarter in selecting the right attributes and warn the user if something is not properly setup.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    We understand that the Microsoft SQL Server will continue to advance, offering the same robust and reliable platform while adding new features that enable us, as a software center, to create a superior product. That provides excellent performance while reducing the hardware requirements and the total cost of ownership of our solution.
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    UiPath
    This platform has so much potential and have been garnering a lot of attention by proving benefits in terms of saving operational and manpower costs. I am sure with minute efforts we were able to achieve our ROI and the same is the case with many of our customers whom we have been working around Digital Automation initiatives.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    SQL Server mostly 'just works' or generates error messages to help you sort out the trouble. You can usually count on the product to get the job done and keep an eye on your potential mistakes. Interaction with other Microsoft products makes operating as a Windows user pretty straight forward. Digging through the multitude of dialogs and wizards can be a pain, but the answer is usually there somewhere.
    Incentivized
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    UiPath
    There are two main reasons with this rating 1. UiPath Automation Platform requires the old school type of Change Weather management, Which actually eats a lot of time to manage and roll out the recent changes. There is not something kind of CI/CD when you are developing the things With UiPath Automation Platform. 2. Very high development and maintenance cost, which actually decrease its usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    Its does not have outages.
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    UiPath
    Its a cloud based platform which is easily available and used
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.
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    UiPath
    It has proved and provided good performance across platforms and technologies.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We managed to handle most of our problems by looking into Microsoft's official documentation that has everything explained and almost every function has an example that illustrates in detail how a particular functionality works. Just like PowerShell has the ability to show you an example of how some cmdlet works, that is the case also here, and in my opinion, it is a very good practice and I like it.
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    UiPath
    UiPath RPA has an exceptional studio interface. It has been a year and so since I am using UiPath RPA. Whether it is some my personal task to scrape information & links from the Journal or find a specific character string from multiple PDF collection using OCR, UiPath RPA has made its roots to our technological ecosystem
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    It was good
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    UiPath
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Microsoft
    very hands on and detailed training
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    UiPath
    Video material supported by text. The training has evolved a lot in the past 3 years to become more attractive. Specific training tracks exist for the different roles in RPA development, where everyone is expected to learn basic development.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Other than SQL taking quite a bit of time to actually install there are no problems with installation. Even on hardware that has good performance SQL can still take close to an hour to install a typical server with management and reporting services.
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    UiPath
    The implementation was quick and practical
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    [Microsoft] SQL Server has a much better community and professional support and is overall just a more reliable system with Microsoft behind it. I've used MySQL in the past and SQL Server has just become more comfortable for me and is my go to RDBMS.
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    UiPath
    As compared to other products, we require programming knowledge and concepts to work but UiPath is for everyone. It provides us extensive event logging at various stages and effective exception handling for applications and business. It increases our agility and enhances the overall productivity further by using the source control SVC. The solution that we implemented is also very scalable in terms of incorporating new requirements.
    The open source tools require lots of IT effort in order to set up and maintain over time. UiPath is like a complete package and customer service is also active in terms of solving issues arising while automating procession on a day to day basis.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.
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    UiPath
    It can be widely used across various departments regardless of platform the product,processes, use cases are build on.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Increased accuracy - We went from multiple users having different versions of an Excel spreadsheet to a single source of truth for our reporting.
    • Increased Efficiency - We can now generate reports at any time from a single source rather than multiple users spending their time collating data and generating reports.
    • Improved Security - Enterprise level security on a dedicated server rather than financial files on multiple laptop hard drives.
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    UiPath
    • We are well on our way to automating our expenses, saving so many hours for project managers and engagement managers.
    • Proofs-of-concept excite our clients, though we are yet to make a sale on a project.
    • UiPath specifically has incited interest with our apprentices and has led them to join the RPA team.
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