We performed a comparison between Blue Prism and UiPath based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions are solid. However, UiPath seems to have slightly better ratings because it has more features (such as an extensive library of activities and a better front-end that Blue Prism lacks). UiPath also stands out because it is geared toward developers, whereas BluePrism is geared more toward business people. In addition, UiPath has a free community version, and provides sufficient training as needed.
"Blue Prism is highly scalable and reliable."
"One of the most powerful features in Blue Prism is exception handling. It's one of the features that really differentiates it from other platforms."
"The most valuable features are the exception handling and embedded control room."
"The development interface is quite easy to work with."
"The multi-bot architecture is very flexible."
"The tool's user interface is very intuitive."
"The solution enables process creation and is object oriented."
"We started with a very small team and small projects. As the project started getting success with Blue Prism we have a large number of teams now just for automating all the business procedures. Larger time was saved after automating the processes."
"The automated recording helps quite a bit. You record a complete business process along with human interactions to the desktop or web application. You can easily manipulate them. Once you are done, you have a complete recording of the interactions, which you can use to tweak your requirements."
"UiPath's most valuable features are automation and document understanding."
"Email automation can access emails in multiple ways."
"Although we don't use it, document understanding for our use cases is very compelling, but it was a little cost prohibitive just out the gate. We are looking at it long-term now that we have the data filtered if we can more strategically apply it to the best data to fit it. But overall, the platform is very innovative. I don't think I can call out one particular feature. The ease of use of integrating to and from Amazon components, being a cloud-native application ourselves, has been really helpful in the development and the ease of transferring documents between our internal systems and platform."
"UiPath has helped us with compliance-related tasks. These tasks involve reviewing various systems and taking screenshots to get proof of compliance. It's a costly process that can be mostly automated. The employee doesn't need to collect all the proofs; they just have to check if they are correct. For example, they must verify that the referenced time stamp is correct."
"UiPath is good for data scraping and extracting information from websites."
"It is really easy for people to learn the basics and the learning curve is not steep."
"UiPath RPA needs very little coding knowledge, as designing software robots is done largely using drag-and-drop."
"Its pricing is sometimes higher. Its price can be better. Its presale support should be increased. Currently, its presale support is very less. System integrators generally position Blue Prism in front of customers. Though they have an ecosystem, they don't have people who can train for the partner ecosystem. They have to increase the presales consultants for partners. In addition, their L1 and L2 support can also be improved."
"We had a lot of challenges managing authentication and reusing or using external authentication providers."
"Blue Prism is a little behind Automation Anywhere in the topics related to maintenance and report building."
"It lacks integration with proper AI, and it is a very complex tool to use in general."
"I would like to see wider integration with other products."
"Blue Prism could improve by having better integration with Computer Vision."
"There are a lot of things coming up, such as Discovery Bot and Process Discovery. A lot of other aspects are also maturing. We have definitely started using it for our clients, and it is maturing as a solution, but it is all about how you integrate the enterprise with all the automation projects, such as your chatbot, Conversational AI, and robotics. How they are integrated and talk to each other creates a very good business case with all three aspects. The next level should be about integrating it with other automation tools as well. It can have integration with other tools or automation projects, such as your chatbot, Conversational AI, and robotics."
"I would like to see bespoke dashboards allow the front-end to display what is required."
"There are so many offerings and configurations and customizations that make things a bit complicated. Streamlining it would be ideal."
"There has been a huge improvement in Linux, Microsoft, and Mac support recently. However, we still struggle with the implementation in Citrix environments. The solution works with Citrix, but there is room for improvement."
"While UiPath works super well with other applications and browsers and app pages that we use in the RedLINK wires, when it comes to experience, sometimes it doesn't detect what it's supposed to be doing as easily."
"It took quite a bit of time to understand some of the document types. Some of the documents were already pre-built, but some of the documents were new, and it took us quite a bit of time to get it to train on those documents. If there was any variation, we had to re-train it. It took longer than expected."
"The variable management is really messy. When I look at the code, I don't know where the variable is and in which scope."
"They could always continue to add new features, however, I don't have anything specific in mind right now."
"I would like to see more features included in the AI Fabric."
"We would like to see better connectivity with different technologies. We found credential management to be something that is a real problem for us, especially working with third-party systems."
Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 86 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 760 reviews. Blue Prism is rated 7.8, while UiPath is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Blue Prism writes "Way more efficient for debugging than other tools but the UI is complicated". 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". Blue Prism is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, Automation Anywhere (AA), Pega Robotic Process Automation, Tungsten RPA and Blue Prism Cloud, whereas UiPath is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, Automation Anywhere (AA), Robocorp, Pega Robotic Process Automation and Tungsten RPA. See our Blue Prism vs. UiPath report.
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For any RPA tool it required have a generic /universal governance model where
1. sponsor or Head of RPA implementation
2. Business analysts
3.Architects(solution/technical)
4.Developers ( Full stack - Build, Test and SIT)
5.Scrum master or Sprints head or Project manager
6. QA ( Test automation) - optional
Above generic governance model/structure roles for handling any kind of RPA process.
One proven way to implement centralized automation management is via a CoE. The best practices of Robotic Process Automation states that the use of bots doesn’t increase negative risks for the organization in the development of reusable solutions. The responsibilities of a Centre of Excellence will depend on the exact governance model used. The most common activities include the following:
Business Continuity Requirements:
To have backup or disaster recovery machines for the critical RPA processes with load balancing using central orchestration in different clusters.
For any of the RPA there is orchestration tool which handles all the initiation and processing from one location have it maintained well from risks and disasters with load balancing.
This will helps in business continuity.