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Robocorp

Score8 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

What is Robocorp?

Robocorp is an open source, Python-based stack for simplifying automation developed and supported by the company of the same name in San Francisco, designed to enable users to build locally, operate from the cloud, and run automations anywhere.

Categories & Use Cases

Best RPA Tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Robocorp is one of the best RPA tool available in the market. In our organization, we were having manual repetitive tasks which are now automated using Robocorp. This helped in faster development and execution. The power of python and being open-source makes the tool very powerful when compared to other tools available in the market. Robocorp can be used by both beginners and advanced users.

Pros

  • Integration with python libraries are excellent
  • Faster execution of robots.
  • Flexibility in creating the bots.
  • Scheduling the bot runs

Cons

  • Improve the documentations with more examples.
  • Include more built-in libraries
  • Tool consumes large memory and space

Most Important Features

  • Open-source
  • Control Room
  • Faster execution
  • Easy development

Return on Investment

  • Scalable

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Automation Platform

Other Software Used

UiPath Automation Platform, Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Automate

An Effective RPA Tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Robocorp really help full for software automation, software test automation. This tool is fast to automate processes, the error handling in robocorp is easy to any developers. This is python based open-source tool so it is cost minimum robotic process automation tool. Basically it is code based RPA tool so users to have interest to automate processes.

Pros

  • Scheduling using windows scheduler is easy.
  • Fast development and execution is possible
  • Error handling is easy
  • Integration with python libraries is simple
  • library customization with python is most helpful

Cons

  • Add more inbuilt packages for easy build.
  • create simple and useful UI with drag and drop facility
  • create some log libraries for live monitoring for development time

Most Important Features

  • Control Room
  • Built in Libraries
  • Python Integration
  • locators, Xapth, Ui Elements, API integrations, etc

Return on Investment

  • Control Room Monitoring Is highly useful
  • Simple Development, Integration, Deployment and Monitoring
  • Maximum Efficiency and cost effective

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Automation Platform and Microsoft Power Automate

Other Software Used

UiPath Automation Platform, UiPath Document Understanding, Microsoft Power Automate

Open Source Intelligence Process - Robocorp

Pros

  • Providing 240/min per month usage free of cloud usage
  • Community Developer with pro-plan feature available with no cost
  • Integration with Python ease to go
  • Control room to monitor Robots
  • Support forum to address queries

Cons

  • Plug -play activity so that citizen developer more willingness to learn
  • Intelligence not working IDE environment
  • Roadmap with future release notes

Most Important Features

  • ControlRoom
  • Robocorp LAB
  • Easily Integrated - Jupter,VS IDE

Return on Investment

  • Easily scalable
  • Faster engine to process (AHT) - reduced
  • Reliable factos

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform

Other Software Used

AppSheet, Python IDLE, UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)

Open Source tool and cost effective

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Robocorp uses python and selenium frameworks for automation. It is an open source tool and their pricing based on usage. I have automated a finance POC to perform reconciliation.

Pros

  • Web Automation
  • Desktop Automation
  • Control room management
  • Robocorp assistant

Cons

  • Automation Studio
  • Handling excel with huge data
  • Implementing more keywords with respect to excel function such as Vlook up
  • Using Excel as data base and writing queries on that

Most Important Features

  • Open Source
  • Python and Selenium based framework
  • usage of different OS
  • Price

Return on Investment

  • Cost effective for customer with less budget
  • Pay per use
  • Managing processes

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Automation Platform, Automation Anywhere and UiPath Task Capture

Other Software Used

UiPath Automation Platform, Automation Anywhere, UiPath Task Capture