We typically use Automation Anywhere for backend operations and financial processes, such as APR.
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Makes our processes error-free while boosting productivity
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
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.
What is most valuable?
Document Automation, one of Automation Anywhere's core features, is excellent. All the other features are also useful, and their cloud solution is pretty seamless.
Automation Anywhere is relatively accessible to non-technical business users. It's about 60:40. Around 60 percent of the solution is intuitive, but you still need to do some work to learn the platform. The company offers strong learning resources. Most people can easily learn Automation Anywhere in a couple of months using tutorials.
Automation Anywhere works with POST and REST APIs, so it's easy to integrate with any platform or application. Automation Anywhere is applicable to any industry or department where there are large volumes of processes that are straightforward and require no manual human intervention.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Automation Anywhere for nearly four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Automation Anywhere 10 out of 10 for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Automation Anywhere 10 out of 10 for scalability. We usually optimize one or two processes until we can achieve an ROI and scale them up for the entire organization.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Automation Anywhere support 10 out of 10. They have a solid team to address any issues or glitches as they arise.
How was the initial setup?
We typically deploy to Automation Anywhere's public cloud. We haven't used the private cloud option because it's expensive. I'm the project delivery manager, so I was involved in the deployment. It doesn't require any infrastructure because it's in the cloud.
The deployment time depends on the complexity of the processes. Simple processes can be configured in a couple of weeks, but complex projects might take up to three months.
The number of people involved also depends on the client's needs and the licenses purchased. You need a developer license for each engineer. Automation Anywhere licensing is based on the individual users, not the partners. For example, let's say a project will take one engineer three months, but the client wants it done in 45 days. You would need to double the number of engineers and pay for an additional license.
Automation solutions require some maintenance and change management because no process remains constant. You will need to update and optimize the bot as the process mechanism changes.
What was our ROI?
We have seen an ROI. It's hard to give a solid metric because every organization has a different way of calculating it and it varies between processes. However, I can say that Automation Anywhere reduces costs while increasing productivity and accuracy. By automating repetitive tasks, we can shift our human employees to more productive work that requires imagination and creativity.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Automation Anywhere is expensive. They should consider lowering the price to make Automation Anywhere more affordable to SMEs, which comprise a huge segment. The license is annual, not monthly. You need to pay for some of the advanced features, such as document automation, which doesn't come with the base package.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Automation Anywhere nine out of 10. RPA can be integrated with API and integrated on top of any application. However, it's always better to go with API if you have that option. It's steadier, more scalable, and more robust. The best part about RPA is you can create a hybrid model, so you can use API when available or RPA when that isn't the case.
Has cloud capacity, can increase automation consumption, and is scalable
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to automate the financial process.
How has it helped my organization?
Automation Anywhere has helped improve our organization by automating many processes that used to take us a lot of time.
We see the benefits of Automation Anywhere within one year of launching a project.
Automation Anywhere has been helpful in scaling our organization's automation efforts.
The latest version of Automation Anywhere makes it easy to integrate RPA bots, APIs, business applications, and documents. However, we had a lot of problems migrating from the previous version.
Automation Anywhere has helped our organization increase automation consumption.
What is most valuable?
The capacity to use Automation Anywhere in the cloud is the most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
We have a new feature share in Automation Anywhere, but it does not migrate automatically from the previous version to the new one. Therefore, we had to do a lot of work to adapt the records to the network, which was a problem.
I would like Automation Anywhere to have more integration with for example, with AI platforms.
The technical support response has room for improvement.
Automation Anywhere is not user-friendly and could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Automation Anywhere for four years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Automation Anywhere is scalable. We have 100 end-users and the solution is deployed across multiple locations and departments.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support response time is slow. They are difficult to contact and I am not satisfied with their support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used UiPath, which is more user-friendly than Automation Anywhere. UiPath has many more features, and a better platform, making it easier to learn.
How was the initial setup?
My manager completed the initial setup, but I believe it was complex. The deployment required one person from Automation Anywhere and four people from our technical office, including my manager.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was completed in-house with the assistance of an Automation Anywhere tech.
What other advice do I have?
I give Automation Anywhere an eight out of ten.
Automation Anywhere requires users to have some technical skills to use it.
For someone who wants to use an API integration instead of a robust process automation solution, I would say that it depends on the API process. Performance is not the only factor to consider.
We have two people responsible for the maintenance of the solution.
We maintain our bots daily because our processes are complex and ever-changing. We spend around two hours each day maintaining bots.
Automation Anywhere has a steep learning curve and should not be learned on the job.
They've added some handy Excel actions that have saved me a lot of time as a developer
What is our primary use case?
We use Automation Anywhere to automate our processes. The company has three bot creators and one bot runner, but there are other users triggering the bots in various ways. I don't have a precise number of end-users, but it's around 20 people.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution's primary benefit is improved efficiency. Automation Anywhere enabled us to enhance many processes that were previously done manually. It helps save time while improving compliance by keeping the data clean. We've also increased visibility for our end-users because we use the data from Automation Anywhere to build dashboards.
Each process might take one or two hours manually, but we can complete the same processes in a few minutes. It frees our employees to focus on other things, such as training and building new skills. It took about three weeks to fully realize the benefits because we had to adjust the processes.
The API integration has been helpful. There are no errors, and it performs much faster than any object clone or anything like that. My overall experience with API integration is positive. I use Power Automate for documents and OCR, but I haven't used Automation Anywhere for this purpose. It saves time if we use the APIs more than just the RPA bots, and it reduces the number of errors. Overall, our automation consumption has increased by about 70 percent.
What is most valuable?
I've had a generally positive experience with Automation Anywhere. The solution has improved significantly in the latest version. They've added some handy Excel actions that have saved me a lot of time as a developer. Object cloning has been enhanced, so our automated processes are more stable and have fewer errors.
Automation Anywhere is accessible to users without technical knowledge. However, you need to learn some basic programming skills to go from conceptualizing a business use case to realizing an automated process. Breaking down a process step by step requires some rudimentary programming and problem-solving skills. Most of it is drag-and-drop, but you need to understand programming logic.
I had some programming skills before I started, so it wasn't difficult for me to learn. It took me about two weeks to get comfortable using the software. There are lots of resources online, so I could easily Google information whenever I got stuck on something.
I haven't tried training any non-technical users. When I started at this company, we all underwent the same training. The employees' skills and backgrounds varied. I have more of a technical background, and another colleague had taken some programming courses previously. Others had backgrounds in finance, operations, marketing, etc. All of those people took seven days of training, but they aren't doing anything with Automation Anywhere. They're business users, not developers. Non-technical people need at least a couple of weeks to learn the solution.
What needs improvement?
We've struggled with some of the new features Automation Anywhere added in the latest version. For example, they added a new OpenAI package, but it took a while for me to find it in the actions menu.
It would be helpful if the company communicated more about new features or created some built-in instructions within the platform. I feel like we aren't fully utilizing the latest features. They could add some links to tutorials or provide some training to walk us through the new features.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Automation Anywhere for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability has improved significantly in the latest version.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Automation Anywhere eight out of 10 for scalability. The scalability is excellent because we have subtasks and bots that we can reuse to scale up other customers. We can build templates and customize them for various clients' needs. We can also combine sub-tasks and templates to build bigger bots.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Automation Anywhere seven out of 10 for support. We had a customer service rep who was supposed to help us with issues when they arise, but we had a bad experience, so we started going through the ticketing system, which has worked out well.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I was using the online version of Power Automate to try it out for a week or two.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Automation Anywhere eight out of 10. I recommend getting some training before using Automation Anywhere. Try to automate as many processes as you can to understand appropriate use cases. You must learn to translate a business requirement into a bot's coding. Learn as much as you can about all the features. It's sometimes hard to keep up with the latest updates.
My biggest lesson has been the importance of persistence. You have to keep trying to improve the processes because there are often better ways to do something and multiple approaches you can adopt. You need to occasionally revisit processes you've already automated and consider ways to improve them. Initially, I would automate a process and move on, but you sometimes need to optimize the process first.
Automation Process
Job replacement,less human interaction,Skill requirements,Technology dependence,ethical consideration
Inequity,security and privacy,resistance to change
RPA Using Automation Anywhere is more effective.
We get accurate and precise output.
A highly efficient automation tool
I found AA best among other tools available in the Market.
the IQ bot section is a unique feature of AA, a combination of ML and AI.
and the best thing is you can create your custom DomXpath if you are automating any web-based automation.
because while you are making a code and your Internet got disconnected or if the Site cookies expire, your code can be disappeared, and I like some of the functionality from A360 and some of the V11.
Can we combine them and migrate them into the A360 cloud with an auto-saving feature?
will be a significant step.
2. it can work 24*7*365 which is great.
3. we need to invest one time and it will return like 50 times.
yes, of course, our clients get fte return of about 50 times what they invest.
Interestingly awesome
Good experience in working with Automation Anywhere.
Automate your tasks, hassle free.
Bot Insights and Analytics: Automation Anywhere provides comprehensive analytics and reporting capabilities. It allows users to monitor and measure the performance of bots, track automation metrics, and gain insights into process efficiency. This data-driven approach helps organizations identify areas for improvement and make informed decisions.
Integration capabilities: Automation Anywhere offers integration with other enterprise systems, allowing users to connect and automate processes across different applications and databases. It supports integration with ERP systems, CRM software, document management systems, and various other tools commonly used in businesses.
Security and compliance: Automation Anywhere emphasizes data security and compliance with industry standards. The platform provides features such as encrypted credentials, secure access controls, and audit logs, ensuring that automation processes adhere to regulatory requirements and maintain data confidentiality.