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We performed a comparison between ABBYY Vantage and Automation Anywhere (AA) 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.
To learn more, read our detailed ABBYY Vantage vs. Automation Anywhere (AA) Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"While using ABBYY FlexiCapture we did not use the generic models that they do have for invoice and purchase orders. For one of the use-cases, the document was exactly the purchase order, but we are not using that generic model. We are creating the model from Scratch. However, if I was to compare ABBYY FlexiCapture with other IA tools, the machine learning and how the extraction is done is far better than competitors. This allows a lot less effort for the development.""The solution's technical support is very supportive.""I like that it has the capability of processing a high volume of documents with great accuracy.""Its ease of use is valuable. It is easy to use and configure.""The most valuable features have been the rate of recognition and the structured documents.""Verification station is a really good feature. It allows part-owners to be able to take a look at what comes out of the tool after a document, such as an invoice, is run through ABBYY. It also allows them to update it if there are any mistakes. So, it kind of gives them a little more control over what goes through the system and lessens the errors.""The handwriting recognition is very good, as it can recognize handwriting done with pen and paper with at least 70% accuracy.""Time-saving with increased levels of accuracy."

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"Automation Anywhere offers valuable features, including command packages for PDF, Windows, XML, and Excel, as well as universal recording capabilities.""The universal recorder is a kind of hybrid recorder that enables the user to record the data across devices.""We valued the ease of use, when we were thinking about scaling out to the business. The recording feature, while not a developer tool - it is a tool for a business user who may not possess the thought process of a developer - we valued that in our evaluation.""The biggest benefit of Automation Anywhere is that it makes our processes error-free. Accuracy is how you build efficiency within the system and increase productivity.""It is one of the popular RPA vendors offering powerful & user-friendly RPA capabilities to automate any complex tasks. It is one of the "Revolutionary Technology" that changes the way the enterprise operates. This tool combines conventional RPA with intellectual elements like natural language understanding and reading any unstructured data.""We are using Automation Anywhere for our leave approval process. We used to have three FTEs on the day shift working on this process. Now, we only have one FTE working on the leave approval process. The bot supports everything else in the process. With this bot, we are saving the cost of two FTEs.""The most valuable feature is the ability to transform data into clusters.""I consider the verification station very useful because it allows you to quickly check if the data extracted are correct or if you need to change the process."

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Cons
"ABBYY's support model could be improved because we get some complaints from customers regarding the amount of time it takes and the kind of responses we get. They also need to improve their professional services team and train them to support customers better during custom implementations.""There is always room for improvement in any product. Some of the configurations for the machine learning models for invoice reading are fairly complicated. There is so much customization that is possible with that sort of thing, so it makes sense that there are a lot of options, but some of the more important ones can be a little better streamlined or more upfront. Currently, machine learning models are a little bit difficult to configure satisfactorily.""The system does not always train itself to recognize data properly.""Even though the training works, it's not as good as it is made out to be.""There is an area of improvement. For example, when we read the data from the OCR, the accuracy is not good.""It's important to incorporate image detection for signatures or other handwriting elements.""I think that technical support should help instead of developing a solution from scratch every time you reach out to them.""It would be good if the product provided an AI-based prebuilt model that predicts and gives output."

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"The ease of use and user experience for this solution could be improved.""One area where I think there's an opportunity to do things a lot better is in the analytics function. They do have a concept or product called Bot Insights. It hasn't worked for us. It isn't as plug and play as we were led to believe, which is unfortunate. I can absolutely understand the value, and the demonstrations that I've seen of Bot Insights are sensational. But, we just haven't been able to make it work. We've invested a lot of time and effort trying to make it work to no avail.""The product needs to catch up to the promise of known technology and apply more intelligent behaviors concerning AI or unstructured learning.""Automation Anywhere should have more Excel-related functionality.""We could use more accuracy with IQ Bot.""The improvements that we could see would be the increased stability of each A2019 releases and reduce the likely impact on existing features. We are also looking to see improvements in the upgrade and bot deployment processes to make them easier and less interaction with back end servers.""We noticed slowness in a few of the commands like Object Cloning, Web Recorders, etc. on which Automation Anywhere can work to make it more robust. There are improvements required in the WLM solution provided by AA, which can make it a more robust queuing system and the system should retry by itself in case of failure due to system error.""Automation Anywhere can be improved in certain areas specified in the cognitive zone where the information needs better OCR Engine + Machine Learning capabilities. Also, they can improve on the System Identified region function of the IQ Bot - Our team faced a tough time in handling that as we were not able to assign variable to System Identified Region as the IQ Bot tool wasn't allowing it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "For us, the price is reasonable."
  • "We did not go with the licensed version of this solution."
  • "The price of this ABBYY FlexiCapture is a bit expensive and the price is based on how many documents have been captured. For example, one or two million captures."
  • "Its price is a little bit high and can be lower. Its licensing is very expensive. I don't remember exactly, but for each page, it is about four or seven cents, which is too expensive."
  • "Most of our customers have purchased an annual license and if you have multiple developers from other companies, you can assign the license on a monthly basis to developers."
  • "It is expensive as compared to UiPath. We pay for the licensing and the page count."
  • "It is more on the reasonable side as compared to the competition that I am aware of. I'm not an expert on pricing schemes for all sorts of things, but when we offer them a solution, we like to say we're agnostic. So, we offer more than one solution when possible. Amongst the ones that we've offered, ABBYY usually is the more reasonable solution on a big scale. On a small scale, they're all pretty similar. As far as I understand, you pay a license for a number of pages, and that's pretty much it. It has just the rate per page, and it decreases as you scale."
  • "Its price should be a little lower. It is a lot higher than the competition, and if they just break the gap a little, then more people might jump onto their product. Their price is definitely a deterrent in the few cases that I remember. They have monthly and yearly options, and if you want, they also have per project and per page options. They do charge extra for different types of installation. They have the standalone, which is pretty straightforward and a lot cheaper than the server installation. Server installation gives you a lot more, and it gives you control over the environment."
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  • "Pricing is too high for small-scale groups. The Control Room yearly fee is high, making it difficult to break even."
  • "Automation Anywhere is competitive... Pega is somewhat comparable, but Pega also requires a lot more infrastructure and a lot more experience to get up and running."
  • "Automation Anywhere is costlier than the general competition. That is aligned with the share of the market it has."
  • "They're very flexible around pricing and licensing."
  • "They give us a good deal on the licensing because we bundle and customize things. If you ask to get a bulk business deal, you will receive more benefit. If you take other products from the suite, like IQ Bot, you can also receive a deal on the licensing."
  • "We just did a round of price comparison on a global scale and found it's so hard to compare the license prices. But, Automation Anywhere, in general, is on the same price level as the other vendors, a bit lower in some cases."
  • "If you look at the capital expenditure, Automation Anywhere is number two to UiPath. But if you take a long-term view, on a scalable model of a large number of bots coming out, it slowly goes on to become the costliest tool. There is something they can do about that. The capital expenditure goes out right at the point of buying the tool. For Automation Anywhere, I would need to spend $20,000. UiPath can give me something for $6,000, while Blue Prism will come in at $300,000."
  • "It's cheaper than other similar solutions."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's technical support is very supportive.
    Top Answer:ABBYY Vantage is a bit of an expensive tool. The payment model for ABBYY Vantage is such that a user needs to make payments for the number of pages consumed with the help of the tool.
    Top Answer:ABBYY Vantage is a product that does not include the Arabic language. From an improvement perspective, ABBYY Vantage should include the Arabic language.
    Top Answer:It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is very good in certain situations but lacks in others. For me, it's more the team that… more »
    Top Answer:From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applications that AA has limitations for, such as the Oracle. For web-based applications… more »
    Top Answer:It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.
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    Also Known As
    ABBYY FlexiCapture
    Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise
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    Overview

    ABBYY Vantage™ is a next-gen Intelligent Document Processing platform (IDP) designed for digital workforces. ABBYY Vantage™ uses artificial-intelligence-based technologies to process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents. ABBYY's award-winning IDP platform (Vantage™) automatically captures, extracts, and classifies the information contained within business documents, turning it into actionable data to fuel other business systems and accelerate digital transformation.

    This intelligent content intelligence platform complements automation tools like robotic process automation (RPA) and business process automation (BPA) with machine-learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to continuously enhance accuracy and improve the outcomes of automated processes.

    ABBYY Vantage provides a flexible layout and easy-to-use interface. The platform is a an advanced AI-OCR (optical character recognition).

    ABBYY Vantage Features

    • AI Skills that process any document. The platform’s core set of AI Skills is a foundation for processing all types of documents - printed, PDFs, barcodes, signatures, and checkboxes - be they structured or unstructured.

    • You can design trained “Skills” or choose pre-trained ones from the ABBYY Marketplace. Choose Skills for invoices, purchase orders, W-2 forms, utility bills, and many other documents to leverage automation and save time and costs.

    • No code is necessary when designing skills to process structured and unstructured documents.

    • Strong analytics skills. You can track, measure, and analyze the performance of deployed Skills. By doing this, you can improve document processing automation.

    • Seamless integration with other systems. ABBYY Vantage™ easily integrates with automation platforms such as Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, and other RPA and BPA solutions. It also integrates with chatbot and mobile app tools.

    • Machine learning for continuous improvement. The platform’s AI Skills continuously improve and become more accurate over time. The system will learn document variations and collect statistical data, improving the process on the go.

    How does ABBYY Intelligent Document Processing work?

    1. Start by picking a Skill from the ABBYY Marketplace or train a new Skill.
    2. Pick any document.
    3. The system will extract data within your document and delivers output to be ingested by any business system.

    ABBYY Vantage™ use cases

    The easy-to-use, no-code Vantage platform can be utilized to set up and train Document, Classification, and Process Skills for just about any document type and flow. Intelligent Document Processing made simple and accessible. Some examples of documents ABBYY can process include:

    • Utility bills: Extracts the supplier’s name, statement date, customer name, and address.

    • Personal earning statement: ABBYY Vantage can extract data from pay stubs and help you verify an individual’s earnings and employment status.

    • 1040: Captures the data from 1040 forms for tax processing purposes. Includes name, amounts, filing status, and other details.

    • Identity documents: Extracts information from 10,000 different identity documents from 248 different countries.

    • Remittance: It can capture headers, footers, and in-line details from payment documents.

    • Arrival notice: Captures data from shipping documents, including the consignee, shipper, parties, carriers, and other relevant details.

    You can use Vantage™ to digitize, automate, and process almost any type of document. It can be especially effective for a number of use cases, including:

    • Customer onboarding and due diligence, including Know Your Customer (KYC).

    • Shipping and logistics, such as shipping instructions, bills of lading, freight forwarding orders, and customs clearance documentation.

    • Insurance claim processing, reading through OCR documents, eliminating human error, and improving the process of insurance claims.

    • Banking and finance. For instance, processing the banking documents associated with loans.

    ABBYY Vantage™ Benefits

    • Automation: Ready-to-use AI Skills designed to improve processing of documents immediately.

    • Customization: Design your own AI Skill to process specific document types.

    • Built-in Skill automation, connectors, and intelligent process assets.

    Automation Anywhere is the leader in intelligent automation solutions that put AI to work across every aspect of an organization. The company’s Automation Success Platform is powered with specialized AI, generative AI and offers process discovery, RPA, end-to-end process orchestration, document processing, and analytics, with a security and governance-first approach. Automation Anywhere empowers organizations worldwide to unleash productivity gains, drive innovation, improve customer service and accelerate business growth. The company is guided by its vision to fuel the future of work by unleashing human potential through intelligent automation.

    Learn more at http://www.automationanywhere.com/.

    Sample Customers
    Fujitsu, Plustek, Samsung, Panasonic, M-files
    Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
    Top Industries
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    Manufacturing Company26%
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company22%
    Recruiting/Hr Firm4%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Pharma/Biotech Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    ABBYY Vantage vs. Automation Anywhere (AA)
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about ABBYY Vantage vs. Automation Anywhere (AA) and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    ABBYY Vantage is ranked 9th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 25 reviews while Automation Anywhere (AA) is ranked 3rd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 80 reviews. ABBYY Vantage is rated 8.0, while Automation Anywhere (AA) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ABBYY Vantage writes "An easy-to-use solution with good ICR and OCR capabilities, but needs more connectors and advanced workflows and better stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Automation Anywhere (AA) writes "Provides a lot of ways to automate processes and integrates well with our applications". ABBYY Vantage is most compared with UiPath Document Understanding, UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, OpenText Intelligent Capture and HyperScience, whereas Automation Anywhere (AA) is most compared with UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Tricentis Tosca. See our ABBYY Vantage vs. Automation Anywhere (AA) report.

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