We performed a comparison between Fortra's Automate and UiPath based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The interface is simple, user-friendly, and very intuitive."
"I find it very user-friendly. Our IT department and other departments can seamlessly collaborate without requiring extensive training. As a business department, we particularly value this aspect, as our team doesn't consist of many IT users. However, we couldn't solely rely on a drag-and-drop approach to implement and utilize the solution within our departments."
"The ability to connect to websites and pull data is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features for my client are timing and scheduling."
"A great feature that you seldom see in these kind of systems is the ability to use a database as trigger to launch a task. This is something I asked for a few years ago and that was added."
"The most valuable feature is the drag-and-drop interface, which is very Windows-like."
"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."
"This product is quite easy to install, learn, and use, with our new employees being able to start using it in projects for clients after only two weeks of internal training."
"UiPath's most valuable feature is Orchestrator."
"Our main projects are mostly around SAP and Excel. We have used most of the features available, especially the ones that support SAP and Excel activities. Those are the ones that we have found to be most useful."
"The user-friendly interface allows users to visually plan and design various automation processes through it."
"I love the REFramework and the Azure Queue and orchestrator."
"The most valuable features include multi-bot architecture, UiPath Studio, and Test Manager."
"Robotic process automation is one of the most interesting features."
"At my previous company, in the best scenario, we removed almost 200 hours per month of client usage, making it automated with almost zero errors. So, about 32 employees were freed up from their work per month, and now there are only two. This has enabled employees to focus on higher-value work that involves human-base interaction. This saved the client money and provided a recruitment benefit."
"UiPath Orchestrator is very user-friendly and easy to understand."
"They do not encrypt passwords, so this is an issue with HIPAA compliance."
"The technical support could be better. We suffer from language barriers, as we are in Argentina."
"The workflow for variables could be better. The input and output of task-level variables could be made a little clearer in terms of passing those around from one task to another upon success, etc. Things like that could be a little easier potentially."
"The vendor is currently working on a solution that allows us to automatically create a process that is based on a document that we receive via email."
"Fortra's Automate is not as reliable as I would like it to be."
"There is room for improvement regarding cloud functionality; there are a few missing features, and the logging could be better, especially air logging. We can go into logging events and create our own task, but it would be nice if this were more detailed."
"Sometimes when we communicate with the ERP system and there is an issue, we are not always aware of the specifics of Automate and the source of the problem."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"I would like UiPath to give free trial licenses for more features, like AI Center. UiPath currently offers two licenses for the trial version. However, if I need to practice in AI Center, then I need four to six licenses."
"I would like better stability and possibly some tools to determine why robots are failing."
"I would like a better ability to connect and integrate with other software systems."
"Assessing an AI center's role in orchestrating various elements of AI capabilities is quite constrained."
"Looking to go from structured to unstructured data, then UiPath needs to be able to handle understanding natural language and scanning of documents which are not well-written or visible, in terms scanning quality. These are probably the easiest target areas to improve on first."
"When it comes to document processing, they could work on more accurately identifying objects from PDF files."
"The OCR technology has room for improvement. UiPath accurately reads about 85 percent of the fields in a scanned document, but that needs to be somewhere around 90 to 95 percent."
"On the development side, more documentation on how to structure the setup for different environments would be helpful."
Fortra's Automate is ranked 5th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 21 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 763 reviews. Fortra's Automate is rated 8.2, while UiPath is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortra's Automate writes "Can automate several processes with only one bot and is easy to implement, administer, and use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UiPath writes "Facilitates end-to-end automation, has good AI and document understanding capabilities, and saves us costs previously spent on manual tasks". Fortra's Automate is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, MOVEit, Automation Anywhere (AA), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Blue Prism, whereas UiPath is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), Robocorp and AutomationEdge. See our Fortra's Automate vs. UiPath report.
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