Precisely Automate

Score8.2 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is Precisely Automate?

Automate 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Business Process Automation

API for custom integration
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Category average: 7.6
Dashboards
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
Category average: 8.2
Standard reports
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
Category average: 8.4

Custom reports
Users can create custom reports.
Category average: 7.8
Plug-ins
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
Category average: 6.8

Luis Fuentes View profile

Software solutions manager in Information Technology at DELSUR (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use precisely automate studio to massive insert or updates of data in SAP SCC I-SU, instead of update manually one by one each record in the system. The use cases are, load of financing plans, provisioning of public lighting, automate the cleaning of meters stock, update of work orders, and others related with the operations.

Pros

Update large quantities of data from Excel files.
Automate the execution of SAP transactions.
Clean data in SAP systems from Excel files.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

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.

Usability

Other Software Used

UiPath Automation Platform, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Visual Studio

Manoj Adhikari View profile

Pricing Manager in Finance and Accounting at Metso Finland Oy (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Precisely Automate Studio for multiple types of data, (master data, transactional data) create, change, retrieval scenario in our organization. Our processes are data centric and means hundreds of thousands of data point creation / change every day. Precisely Automate Studio helps by eliminating the manual effort and saves us big amount of time for it works with templates and multi instance background runs with right scripts and templates. Example being condition records maintenance which otherwise would be a very slow process, Precisely Automate Studio eliminates that for us.

Pros

Upload mass data to SAP
Create transactional documents
Query data from SAP tables otherwise inaccessible from GUI
Supports different file formats

Cons

User Interface post acquisition by Precisely
Noticing lately product freezes for no apparent reason
Change condition records with ease in Bulk.

Return on Investment

100s of hours saving per year

Usability

Austin Osborne

IT Support Engineer in Information Technology at Altenloh, Brinck & Co US, Inc. (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Precisely Automate to automate processes within our ERP system, SAP. I am the one who did the implementation/setup, or the administration side. I can't speak too much of the usage of the tool, but from our users who do use it we have nothing but positive things to say. It was simple and easy to connect, and support was great whenever they needed to get involved.

Pros

Automate workflows
Clean interface
Connect to our ERP system (which is pretty old)

Return on Investment

Positive effect of efficiency.
Easier insight to reporting.
Clean interface, which makes it easy to use.

Usability

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Precisely Automate for mass changes of Debtors, Materials, Conditions and Equipments in SAP.
These changes may have some hundreds of data sets up to 100.000 data sets.
This work was done in the past by humans and was very time consuming, now, changes need about some minutes up to some hours.

Pros

Mass changes where Transactions like MM17 or XD99 are unable to fulfill
Mass creation of Master Data and Conditions.
Mass changes of Master Data, Conditions and Equipments.

Cons

Changes on existing Scripts are almost impossible.
Interface takes long to start.
Interface looks not very modern.

Return on Investment

It saves hundreds of hours per year

Usability

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Categories & Use Cases