Production staff has to enter data manually in several apps which cannot be integrated via API. UiPath allowed us to automate most of the job, saving a lot of time in the process, which allowed us to move most of the team to more skilled tasks.
Senior Production Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The online academy was very helpful
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath made the production workflow more efficient, reliable and profitable. The licencing price and the time spent setting it up was paid for after a month.
What is most valuable?
- It's very easy to learn and get started.
- Developers got it right away.
- All apps (desktop and web) were integrated without any issue.
- The online academy was very helpful.
What needs improvement?
Debugging has some room for improvement, but other than that everything seems to be just amazing. UiPath is clearly headed in the right direction.
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For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
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I.T. Manager at Universidade Aberta
Valuable drag-and-drop feature and no coding required for process setup
What is our primary use case?
- Using it on internal processes.
- Using it for the development of new processes, from an academic point of view.
How has it helped my organization?
It helped my students to understand what an RPA is.
What is most valuable?
Drag-and-drop, and no coding for process setup.
What needs improvement?
Cognitive services.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
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Data Visualization Specialist at Data Catalyst
Automated data scraping and entry helps to shorten customer service time
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features are PDF, Excel automation, and web scraping."
- "The emailing and integration with self-service BI systems are areas that need improvement."
What is our primary use case?
My primary use case is data scraping and entry for an insurance firm.
How has it helped my organization?
This solution has gives us shortened customer service time. It is easy to use and a lively community is always ready to help resolve an issue.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features are PDF, Excel automation, and web scraping.
The Try-Catch feature is awesome.
What needs improvement?
The emailing and integration with self-service BI systems are areas that need improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using UiPath for eight months.
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Software Assets Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Turnaround time for claims payment has been reduced
Pros and Cons
- "It is easy to manage the robotics environment with Orchestrator, including scheduling and reporting."
- "Optical character recognition for hand written documents could be improved."
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case is for a medical claims process automation using UiPath RPA.
How has it helped my organization?
- Streamlined the medical claims process. It reduced errors by 30 percent.
- Improved user productivity by 50 percent.
- Turnaround time for claims payment has been reduced from 120 days to 30 days.
What is most valuable?
It is easy to manage the robotics environment with Orchestrator, including scheduling and reporting.
What needs improvement?
Optical character recognition for hand written documents could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
15 months.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Associate Consultant
Basic knowledge of .NET is sufficient to develop a workflow
Pros and Cons
- "Email automation can access emails in multiple ways."
- "It is easy to use as drag-and-drop features are present."
- "Basic knowledge of .NET is sufficient to develop a workflow."
- "UI commands with minutes change in selector: The command works effectively in all environments."
- "It could improve the service by resolving the bugs and providing the fixes as soon as possible."
What is our primary use case?
To automate various business processes which include generating reports, data entry into certain applications, email automation, and web automation.
How has it helped my organization?
- It is easy to use as drag-and-drop features are present.
- Basic knowledge of .NET is sufficient to develop a workflow.
- Almost includes all the activities used for automation.
What is most valuable?
- Email automation can access emails in multiple ways.
- UI commands with minutes change in selector: The command works effectively in all environments.
What needs improvement?
It could improve the service by resolving the bugs and providing the fixes as soon as possible.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Network analyst at Filiperson Special Papers
With a few clicks, we can automate a great demand for navigations in web systems
What is our primary use case?
Work automating demands of our clients like emails and withdrawal of data from PDFs to database.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath has been a hero to our customers as we have been able to perform data analysis faster and more accurately thanks to the speed of the theft created.
What is most valuable?
The web recorder without a doubt is the best. With a few clicks, we can automate a great demand for navigations in web systems.
What needs improvement?
Data extraction via PDF needs to be reviewed, although working fine with OCR, it still leaves a craving for PDFs with image source.
For how long have I used the solution?
Trial/evaluations only.
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Works
The recording feature and data scraping are invaluable features
What is our primary use case?
To automate day-to-day tasks for the user in the current project, for example, reports, tickets, price quotation and sending and receiving e-mail.
How has it helped my organization?
UiPath has saved us several hours of repetitive work, as well as people who are more motivated to seek personal and professional improvements.
What is most valuable?
- The recording feature
- Data scraping
- Drag and drop
- Browser capabilities.
What needs improvement?
Processing PDF images with the manual PDF feed does not work very well.
For how long have I used the solution?
Trial/evaluations only.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Works
Lots of variables and activity creation was one of the best features
What is our primary use case?
The software is used for automating the process improvement and simplifying workflow as our organization is an insurance-based organization. Also, it is used to create some small repositories which can be used for future use of process improvement.
How has it helped my organization?
It has brought some new projects as our clients need automation testing of several systems which could be automated in less time.
As UiPath can be developed in very less coding and is simple to learn, it was useful for a lot of individuals to learn and grow in UI automation.
What is most valuable?
UI Explorer, universal search feature and UI easy look and feel were found to be most valuable. Also, lots of variables and activity creation was one of the best features of UiPath.
What needs improvement?
Due to the heavy load of robot creation, the system gets hanged while starting up the robot, as well as the application startup takes a lot of time, and the validation of licence can be bypassed if the user directly starts UiPath from the system.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
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