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December 07, 2019
A Good Product with amazing ease of use
We are using the Automation Anywhere tool to automate the rule-based process. It can work 24 hours without taking rest. We are using it in our Finance, Telecom, and Banking sectors, and found it very useful.
- Using Automation Anywhere's tool we can automate window and Web based processes. Very easy in use.
- It can automate rule-based and repetitive processes.
- It can work 24*7 without taking rest.
- Time saving. It is very fast in comparison to manual.
- Cost saving.
- Automation Anywhere needs to upgrade in Excel commands areas like Add Column in excel, Delete Excel Sheets.
- Excel gets hanged Automation Anywhere did not give any notification.
- Setup for the Automation Anywhere tool is little bit complex.
Automation Anywhere is a Robotic Process Automation tool or software, which is used to automate the overall process of the organization, which previously was done manually by individuals. It saves time and money, which helps the organization to focus on our core business and logic instead of just data-entry stuff. Using Automation Anywhere we can create a digital employee that will work faster and with greater accuracy. It also helps to understand the overall insight of the business process. Its cognitive capability is very useful for the organization to build an intelligent digital employee or bot.
- Ease of use and very user-friendly platform
- Each command in the tool is more effective to build a bot very easily without any issue
- Less coding required
- Web automation is quite slow in terms of extraction compare to other RPA tools
- Browser preference is very bad in web recorder (i.e. only Internet Explorer)
- Can't create IQ bot for web automation
Automation Anywhere is being used mainly to automate repetitive processes like approving bills in finance and accounting departments.
It is being used by a specific department but to automate all the possible processes across the whole organization. Automation Anywhere has enabled us to implement fast fixes to human processes and save many hours by automating repetitive processes and given us the ability to do things.
It is being used by a specific department but to automate all the possible processes across the whole organization. Automation Anywhere has enabled us to implement fast fixes to human processes and save many hours by automating repetitive processes and given us the ability to do things.
- IQBot to automate PDF and Image Documents.
- MetaBot for Complex, scalable processes to automate.
- A2019 is continuously disconnecting with machine.
- Need improvement in capturing details from Image.
November 13, 2019
Automation Anywhere stands up to its name
My company is using Automation Anywhere to handle repetitive tasks, for example processing the internet bills or food bills which are submitted by the employees to get reimbursements. These tasks used to consume approximately 4 hrs every day. Now, after implementing Automation Anywhere Robots, we are able to perform these tasks in less than 30 mins. This is being used by a process right now, and the plan is to deploy globally across different departments. Automation Anywhere saves FTE time from doing repetitive tasks, plus it is highly accurate in terms of doing complex repetitive tasks.
- It is highly accurate, and gets up and running in a very short period of time.
- You can keep the BOT learning by feeding more and more data sets, which makes the whole process highly efficient.
- It is very cost-effective when deployed and when scaling out to the limit.
- Automation Anywhere is not able to use OCR effectively and has limited usability. Maybe they should try implementing Tesseract.
- Handwritten documents are still giving a nightmare. Also, it is difficult to handle control room management.
- It is a little costly, but the ROI is very high for projects with a huge volume of input.
June 06, 2019
AutomationAnywhere - The best tool for RPA
We have been using Automation Anywhere for multiple processes within our organization for more than a year now. It was the best software where even my nontechnical employees can play moderator to some extent. We have suggested to many of our professional peers about the advantages of this software and how it saves costs on manpower to a large extent.
- Sales order processing.
- Daily reporting through mails automation.
- Purchase order processing.
- Payroll processing.
- Coding is not that complex.
- Process design flow should be simple than the present feature.
- Nothing much but requirements keep adding with complexity, so automation becomes complex for now. That should be one more area of improvement soon.
Currently, in the company where I work, Automation Anywhere is being used by some developers. There are projects to carry out automation in all departments of the company. This tool is running the projects that were finalized at night, generating a reduction in the workload and streamlining all the processes. In the company it has a test and production base, facilitating the replication and not interfering in the day to day of the officials.
- Agility in processes.
- Easy to understand.
- You do not need experience with codes.
- Easy to use.
- Program is difficult to understand when large.
- Very expensive license.
- There should be separation or some difference in syntax.
July 17, 2019
No more repeated tasks, AA does for you.
Automation Anywhere is currently being used by the IT department of our organization. We use it for automation of a numerous processes that are repetitive. In many areas, there are processes that are manual, like sending emails, reports, creating presentations, etc. We've been able to automate all of these processes with Automation Anywhere.
- Interface is user-friendly and clean.
- It has a wide variety of task possibilities.
- Automation Anywhere can handle PDF, Excel, getting information quickly.
- The drag and drop features really help to code.
- It is not that cheap.
- Sometimes applications takes a little time for loading.
- There is a lack of support on handling datatypes.
We are utilizing Automation Anywhere to automate repetitive, mundane, low, and no value-added tasks within corporate and global finance and accounting teams. It allows us to automate processes that pull our teams away from analyzing data that they spend so much time in acquiring, downloading, and formatting that data. Labor is expensive, and Automation Anywhere allows us to focus that labor on higher value creation.
- Automation of repetitive tasks.
- Easily learned by anyone who spends a bit of time with it.
- A low-cost barrier to entry.
- Implementation can be rough for small companies.
- Documentation is plentiful, but often scattered and only partially complete in form.
It has been used in my own project. It has significantly reduced the time for automation and regression. Although RPA tools are usually deployed in production, we have been using it for regression runs as well along with prod runs. Personal training and learning can be done using free software so I didn't have to go out of the way to learn it explicitly. Workflow automation is easier to achieve and exception handling is pretty good. Relatively new software so the good thing is they are updating and upgrading new features from time to time.
- 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.
- Cost is high so there is a scope for improvement since other tools like Uipath are open source.
- Run time data and analytics can surely improve as it's not very easy to follow.
- The UI interface is not very user-friendly.
August 23, 2019
A great software for users with some technical knowledge
We provide Automation Anywhere setup and task customization services to our customers, most of them are telco companies. The solutions we offer are often integrated with an orchestration platform so we can automate a large business process that uses both RPA and other types of automation/integration like web services, APIs, business rules engine and databases.
Several common problems we address with RPA are:
Several common problems we address with RPA are:
- Incident, change and problem creation, resolution and assignment to other workgroups.
- Integration between legacy systems, that provide some actions only through the UI.
- Data collection /input on online systems (web, Java) and spreadsheets.
- Data backup/replication through system UI.
- Send email based on some specific condition based on the data collected in the legacy systems.
- Built-in tools like FTP, SOAP / REST integration and native database connection through ODBC.
- Support for several technologies through plugins (web / Chrome, Java and others).
- Task versioning.
- Variable context passing through multiple tasks.
- Task deployment unstable in some situations.
- To deploy bots through Control Room, logged users in the machine have a runner profile (can't deploy on a creator profile for testing).
- The REST API documentation isn't well detailed.
August 07, 2019
An Experience with Automation Anywhere
I have been working as RPA Developer for two years. I have worked with the Automation Anywhere tool, extensively satisfied with tool features and very happy. In these days of using it my challenges were like most of the applications may or may not use HTML technology so this tool can manage Java Based, HTML, and Standard Technologies. Features like Metabot, TaskBots, and IQ Bots will give a better experience for most of the problems.
- Task Bots Can automate 90% of the digital repetitive problems.
- Meta Bots can increase ROI and re-usability of Bots.
- IQ Bots can solve Invoice Automation Problems.
- Decision making capability and tool perspective
- More features for using Python Scripts to be used in AA
- IQ Bots Enhancement
August 01, 2019
Great product with amazing ease of use
It is used as a prototype to test automation of AP invoices with a Rob Sap backend. Currently, the process of recording AP invoices is very cumbersome and users have to go through several hoops.
- Easy to deploy
- Reduced time to implement
- Great user experience
- Interface to SAP
- Encouragement of new partners to join
- Easy availability of pricing
We use Automation Anywhere internally and also we help our clients to automate their back end support services. We suggest Automation Anywhere to all the cross functional departments. We have automated more than 50 use-cases for our clients by using Automation Anywhere. It has addressed all backend support services. Leveraging the tool is easy and installation is one of the main things that we need to revisit to make it simple.
- We have automated one of our client in Luxembourg using Automation Anywhere and it really does a wonderful job for us and we have identified a high volume use-case that was yielding the best ROI for them.
- We also automated HR and Finance use-case for one of our client in Europe which helped to get appreciation and more deals from them.
- Automation Anywhere helps us to close many deals.
- 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.
April 04, 2019
Exciting time for Intelligent Automation!
Automation Anywhere is being deployed company wide to reduce manual swivel chair processes and improving workers day to day experience. All departments have been engaged to identify areas of opportunity and need to provide the greatest return of value. We don't measure value just by dollars and savings, but also include how it impacts the employee experience and the additional higher level thinking opportunities it provides.
- The interface is very easy to use and maneuver without requiring a programming background.
- The built in security and error checking features are highly effective and allow to build resilient bots.
- Bots are able to be created extremely quickly from a proof of concept perspective to understand the value and complexity necessary.
- The free online training is more of a product overview than a practical hands on training.
- Because the tool has been developed over time there are some small differing nuances between the 600+ different functionalities.
- The tool could offer a bit more configurability to address frequent situations and personal preference/efficiency.
April 02, 2019
Automation Anywhere A stepping Stone to the world of RPA
Automation Anywhere is being used in the organization for automating some of the third party client business processes. It's being used by the RPA department. With the Automation Anywhere solution we are already developing 3 projects for the third party client. With the Automation Anywhere business solution we are able to give a very solid solution for the client and the client is happy with the solutions we have given.
- One of the best strengths of AA is Metabots is so efficient in reading the web content.
- Other key advantages of AA are the ability to Run scheduled tasks anytime by using powerful task scheduling, even when the computer is locked and easily manage automated processes across a single machine or multiple machines across a division or an enterprise.
- One of the unique features of AA is SMART Automation Technology that quickly automates complex tasks, with no programming required and is highly reliable and accurate as it has 550 plus actions available to build an unfailing bot.
- Extended trial version is one of the areas which I would love to have. Now only we have 30 days programme with limited training videos.
- When it comes identifying the contents of handwritten pdf documents, the outcome is not accurate and some sort of improved activity can overcome the situation.
- There's a loss of overhead on the computing resources in Automation Anywhere. If you have an encrypted bot, the Automation Anywhere software has to read it first, decrypt it, and run it. So there is a potential that, if the logic of the bot isn't good enough, a lot of CPU and memory overload will happen. This is something which Automation Anywhere should look at because it takes a lot of computing resources. I have seen CPUs running at 100 percent.
We are a leading System Integrator for RPA and AI related products, We have been using the top three RPA tools, and we found Automation Anywhere to be more cost-effective and simple to implement for our customers. We have successfully transformed a couple of boring repetitive tasks using Automation Anywhere, which include order management, data comparisons from various sources, etc.
- Simple: It allows users to configure their workflows, even people with no programming knowledge can automate a simple business process.
- Drag and Drop commands, which help to navigate the tool seamlessly.
- Easy recording options are available, which enable us to capture the required business problems.
- It would be good if Automation Anywhere could include flow charts of processes, like competitors.
- Installation and troubleshooting should be more simplified.
- The user interface needs more stability and mode screen options.
April 04, 2019
Powerful tool to automate your business processes
Automation Anywhere is being used for different automation processes, such as Service Now Ticket handling, supplier onboarding, and finance areas in our organization. It is being used in our team of 9 people working as RPA Automation Anywhere developers. We are currently creating bots to automate the scenarios of ticketing handling mechanisms in Service Now, along with other web applications.
- Integration of different types of technologies, such as Web App automation, Database, Excel & PDF Handling, Email automation, Active Directory, API's FTP, etc. All in one platform.
- Makes automation super easy.
- Cognitive ability to analyze unstructured documents using IQ Bot.
- Bot Insight, which provides data analytics and a live dashboard, which provides more meaningful representations of data, to make decisions easier.
- No Programming language knowledge is required to create bots. It's easy to use commands to automate scenarios.
- The license cost is a little expensive, I feel.
- Lot of work needs to done on the development workbench to make bot creation more sophisticated.
We helped clients across the globe implement Automation Anywhere, where it helped to solve major challenges like complex processes within the Operations team. It drastically reduced time by automating a number of Operation's processes and made technical engineers concentrate more on core processes which have made the employee's lives easier and resulted in a quick ROI.
- Drag and drop 500 + commands are easy to implement.
- AA can interact with all tools without extra cost.
- The pricing structure is reasonable compared to competitors like BluePrism and UI.
- It will be more beneficial If AA had a flowchart.
- If it is able to integrate with any plug-ins available on the market which could read hand-written documents, that would be good.
- Rest is all fine .
April 02, 2019
Automation Anywhere: Magic of the Modern Era
We are a system integration partner for Automation Anywhere and we leverage the Automation Anywhere tool to achieve our clients' business goals. We have been using these tools specifically for our client's finance, HR and the IT department. Business problems like auto ticket creation, onboarding vendor processing, month-end reconciliation have been solved with the quality dashboard.
- Automation Anywhere can integrate with any OCR products which helps to read all type of scanned PDFs. Most of our clients are looking to automate their finance process and Automation Anywhere provides the best solution to all of the backend processes.
- Email automation and database automation are great ways to help to reduce the time and effort
- Automation Anywhere can leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning using their Metabots.
- We can seamlessly automate any use-cases in any department.
- Automation Anywhere can be improved when it integrates with APIs.
- Automation Anyhwere should use code level automation instead of drag and drop options.
- Automation Anywhere should provide solutions with high scalability.
It is used profoundly in our organization for handling complex business problems. It interacts with web applications, CRM applications, and SAP applications in the banking and insurance vertical. It helps the bank in automating dynamic document generation processes and with OCR applications integrating with banking software.
- CRM applications: Lead Handling process, CSV upload into the system with email notifications to the customer.
- SAP Applications: Invoice generating and document processing.
- OCR capabilities for handling Citrix/VDI applications, and capturing complex data.
- A learning model for AA needs to be evolved to catch more users.
- Real-time scenarios relating to tools causes capabilities to be more evolved.
- Real-time logging and error handling mechanism is too evolved.
With the help of AA, we have been able to create several automations for reading and sending e-mail, registering and transferring products and analyzing various data. With this, we were able to reduce the amount of rework and account for all the demand of our customers with Bots working 24/7.
- Reading PDFs extremely fast
- Data scraping is efficient, easy to implement
- Handling of emails.
- CR is too complicated to install.
April 02, 2019
Review Automation Anywhere: Road to automate
Automation Anywhere is used widely across my organisation for automation of various processes to reduce manual repetitive tasks. There are several processes which were manual like sending status reports/emails/failure emails. We were able to remove all of these with RPA Automation Anywhere. It helps to automate the processes related to web/desktop/Citrix and database related processes.
- AA helps to automate SAP Applications /VDI applications.
- It helps in finance/banking processes to handle invoicing and other activities.
- Features like Object cloning/smart recorders help to achieve functionality which is better than other products.
- It is not able to use OCR effectively and has limited usability.
- Handwritten documents are still a drawback. Also difficult in terms of control room management.
March 25, 2019
Difficult implementation but extreme ease of development
The scope of our project foresees the change of several administrative processes of the America Movil group. We researched several automation tool leaders in the market and Automation Anywhere was one of them. Capacity for improvement in a cognitive system was an important point.
- Task Object cloning trumps other tools. It makes the editing intuitive and easy to develop
- Development interface is clean, well structured and friendly
- Variety of tasks and ease of manipulating variables makes development easy
- Implementing the control room is the bad part of the tool. Difficult, confusing and expensive
- Debugger is also a weakness of the tool, forcing the developer to use error handling or message box to map errors
May 24, 2019
RPA is the future, Automation Anywhere also
At the moment we use the Automation Anywhere tool among the company developers to assist in process automation. We opted for Automation Anywhere because we thought it was the best option on the market today. RPA is becoming more and more important in Brazil, and we are adapting to this change from the inside out, to meet the demands of external customers in the future. We are currently working internally with the tool, automating internal processes and doing a series of tests before we start selling solutions.
- I could see that Automation Anywhere handles PDFs better than its competitors.
- Automation Anywhere has its own programming language that is very easy to learn.
- It has more than 500 task possibilities.
- Automation Anywhere does not handle virtualized environments very well.
- Automation Anywhere does not have a very good debugger.
- The control room is extremely complicated to set up.
We currently use Automation Anywhere by a group of developers from our company who have been certified in the tool. We develop solutions to automate the processes of our company seeking to allocate our employees to other tasks. We are studying the possibility of selling solutions to external customers.
- Automation Anywhere is great for handling PDFs, extracting information very quickly.
- Automation Anywhere is great for dealing with website table extraction.
- Automation Anywhere is great for handling any type of repetitive process that has been mapped.
- Automation Anywhere is not good at dealing with image information extraction (Citrix).
- Automation Anywhere is not good when debugging tasks.
- Automation Anywhere is not good when you need to install the control room, because of the complexity.
Automation Anywhere Scorecard Summary
About Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers their robotic process automation (RPA) software.
Categories: Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Automation Anywhere Technical Details
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