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UiPath Automation Platform

Score8.4 out of 10

402 Reviews and Ratings

What is UiPath Automation Platform?

UiPath'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.

We could not operate our business without it anymore.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using UiPath for a number of years now to digitalize HR service processes within the whole employee lifecycle. RPA is now at the core of our operations and for us it is an easy and reliable way to speed up simple repetitive tasks, take pressure from more complex ones and formalize/standardize our service delivery.

Pros

  • Orchestration of multiple processes (incl. prioritization, scheduling)
  • Error tracking/logs
  • Integration with other vendors (OCR)

Cons

  • Studio is running quite slow for us
  • It could produce its own documentation throughout the screens used
  • We have trouble keeping and cleaning up our 200+ processes with all the new frameworks (Windows-Legacy -> Legacy, new Studio versions...)

Return on Investment

  • Automating most of our business processes has brought us a lot of FTE realization
  • We have speed up services and now offer 24/7 services for some processes
  • Where applicable, we have employees in the loop between multiple processes to gain additional insight knowledge

Alternatives Considered

Celonis

Other Software Used

Celonis, Bizagi Digital Business Platform, Splunk Cloud

Excellent for enterprise erp automations

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used UiPath Automation Platform to automate various business processes. Following are some of the business problems that we have Automated via UiPath Automation Platform,

1. Journal entry, Posting, And approval automation process: The problem statement was that various business teams work, creating, and posting the journals to the ERP manually.

2. MIP automation: The problem statement was that various teams were downloading MIP templates from ERP systems manually, which we have automated via path

3. GWS invoice creation and posting: The problem statement was to export the invoices of different GWS clients from ERP and send those invoices to account leads of the clients.

Pros

  • UI automations
  • Seamless API integration or UI integration with third-party applications
  • Extremely good in scaling up the bots according to the Load

Cons

  • One of the major problem which I see is that if one bot is using a VM, another bot cannot use the VM at the same time, even though the existing process is not consuming that much memory or processor. There should be some kind of virtualization for the bots to use the same vm for multiple processes simultaneously.
  • UiPath Automation Platform is extremely costly

Return on Investment

  • UiPath Automation Platform decreases the manual error rate to almost hundred percent on the business processes which we have automated.
  • Due to the scalability solution, UiPath Automation Platform increases the turnaround time for the business processes to almost 70%.
  • The downside with the UiPath Automation Platform is that the development cost is huge, You should have very well development teams in place to start Automations with UiPath Automation Platform.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power Automate and ServiceNow App Engine

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power Automate, ServiceNow App Engine, Savant Labs

Automation made easy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I came across this tool during one of the most tedious moments in my career. The company is on the verge of major organization re-structuring, and like most start-ups, most of the data are in a spreadsheet, so when I have to lead account deactivation and or account deletion, it has to be done in a manual way, with few hundreds within the list, it is for sure a very time consuming with prone to mistake kind of job, after research and read from many forums, I decided to use this tool to execute the step by step (RPA Mode) and all our intentions were achieved in less than 2 hours, It was neat, quick and do what you ask it to do.

Pros

  • Structured tasks.
  • Structured flows.

Cons

  • It is literally work by taking over the machine, maybe a background work would be awesome.

Most Important Features

  • Automatic task executions.

Return on Investment

  • Executing one account will take us 5 minutes; for 400 accounts, we will need a few people to do it and still need more hours, while the tools are just efficient.

Alternatives Considered

Datamatics TruBot

Other Software Used

Google Workspace, Microsoft 365

Best tool for automation

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

By using UiPath Automation Platform, we create automation projects for repetitive tasks, which are uploaded to the Orchestrator. The end user can run the automation BOT from the assistant, which saves a significant amount of time and effort. Not only does UiPath Automation Platform save money, but it also ensures the process is done with a high degree of accuracy. Our team has been using this tool for the last two years and has delivered multiple automation projects to our clients, resulting in cost savings, error reduction, and decreased manual effort.

Pros

  • Automate repetitive task
  • Simply manage automation process in orchestrater
  • Create automation code just drag and drop

Cons

  • The new version is very slow
  • Bulk update activities properties
  • After update any package we can't edit properties

Most Important Features

  • Drag and drop to create automation
  • Easy to deploy the bot in the orchestrator
  • Unattended bot

Return on Investment

  • Impact on efforts saving
  • Reduced errors
  • Cost savings

Alternatives Considered

EdgeVerve AssistEdge

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams, Google Assistant

UiPath-A Market Leader in RPA

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used UiPath to automate some of the insurance processes within our department on Legacy platform, the basic idea behind using the UiPath RPA is to automate the day to day policy servicing processes. We have deployed the solution internally and it has greatly helped the team to streamline processes. We have used RPA to automate various claims and underwriting processes. It allows user to reduce the turn around time taken by business users for processing claims and underwriting which in tern reduce time to market meaning scrutiny of claims, underwriting, payouts etc. It is highly flexible tool as it can support a lot of data types and have a

lot of activities that work in the background.

Pros

  • UiPath provides free trial version of both Community and Enterprise edition. UiPath provides free tutorials and documentations
  • UiPath provides a strong, active and very helpful official community platform for clarifying doubts, sharing issues etc and has assigned an official team for providing support for the community users through this platform.
  • UiPath is an easy to learn and use tool with a great user interface.
  • Unlike other leading RPA tools UiPath provides a great user interface so that a person with minimum technical knowledge can understand the flow
  • UiPath provides large number of activities which we can reuse as per our need just by changing the properties and parameters
  • It provides the flexibility to create custom activities as per users need.
  • UiPath provides the flexibility to use unattended robot without need of Orchestrator.
  • UiPath orchestrator component is a very powerful tool which if utilized effectively can make the robot management and monitoring very easy.

Cons

  • Sometimes it is difficult to find the objects locators using UiPath especially on Legacy Platforms.
  • The licencing cost per user is higher when compared to other RPA tools available in market.
  • Non availability of maximize option in Property edit box, argument value edit box is another flaw.

Most Important Features

  • Business Process Automation for some of the financial processes which reduces time to market and efficiency. It also helped us reducing the cost and by doing automation repetative task needs lesser time.

Return on Investment

  • It reduces the time to market by automating the day to day business processes.
  • Improved the speed of execution of process. The automated processes can be easily reused.
  • It eliminates the human error where processes involves complex calculations, excel data consolidation etc.
  • It also supports integrating with various tools which makes it highly flexible to use.
  • User can record the processes which is also a important feature.

Alternatives Considered

Blue Prism Cloud and Automation Anywhere

Other Software Used

Blue Prism Intelligent RPA, Automation Anywhere

Usability