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Automation Anywhere

Score8.2 out of 10

213 Reviews and Ratings

What is Automation Anywhere?

Automation Anywhere, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers their robotic process automation (RPA) software.

Awesome RPA tool in the Market with AI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been deployed around 5 FTE to do some excel works on daily basis, it will take more time and cost as per customer feedback so we have been choose the Automation Anywhere to automate the tasks now its completing accurately on time, so customer also happy on the outcome.

Pros

  • Excel automation
  • Citrix automation
  • Web based automation

Cons

  • API part
  • Mainframe part
  • App integration

Return on Investment

  • License cost is high
  • for runner and creator different license
  • yearly renewal also costly

Usability

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Automation Platform

Other Software Used

UiPath Automation Platform, Aiwozo Automation Suite, Microsoft Power Automate

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use automation anywhere across different processes within our finance operations center - Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Travel, and expenses. The bots have helped in automating basic activities and helped us in reducing the manual effort and high volume routine activities from our global operations hub. The product also provides a command center to monitor the bot's availability/schedule and performance.

Pros

  • Automate basic activities.
  • Fetch and update data.
  • Send communication to stakeholders.
  • Sends error alerts.
  • Performance Dashboard.

Cons

  • Multiple task management.
  • Integration with home grown business applications.
  • Improve performance on VPN systems.

Most Important Features

  • Processing high volume of repeated activities.
  • Data validation.
  • Generating reports by fetching information from multiple sources.

Return on Investment

  • Positive on basic activities.
  • Moderate impact on complex activities.
  • Helped free up fractional capacity across multiple roles.

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Redwood Business Process Automation - Finance Edition and BlackLine

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Redwood Business Process Automation - Finance Edition, BlackLine

Best RPA Tool based on Client-Server Architecture

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Automation Anywhere for Home Health Care Software Automation and Home care & hospice Automation where we verify the data entered by the nurse visit. We are using Automation Anywhere for Data Extraction for the purpose of various machine learning projects such as parsing, chatbot and extracting jobs form various job boards for the purpose of Recruitment process outsourcing project.

Pros

  • Automating third party web tools like Home Health Care Software and Home care & hospice
  • Precise Data extraction in Structured websites
  • Accurate parsing of JSON Response

Cons

  • There is a room for little improvement in virtual environment automation
  • Between actions sometimes we need to add some delays to avoid exception.
  • Only a well trained developer should code, else we will be facing instability in the bot development

Most Important Features

  • The workflow designer function is really beneficial since it allows us to visualize graphical representations of business processes quickly.
  • Trigger manager is very important feature which helps us in scheduling the bots during night.
  • OCR is also useful feature for us in recognizing text in images as a part of RPO projects

Return on Investment

  • For our organization we were able to do large process automation with less number of resource. We were also able to provide a quality service to the client .
  • To monitor the triggered bots few human resource has to do support activities
  • Development time in AA is really less due to the reusability of code

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform

Outstanding RPA is here

Pros

  • Now I easily generate the invoices and quotation generation is an easy task now. Previously it was very time consuming as we have to drag the data from the excel sheets.
  • I will praise its integration with other software that has facilitated us to make amendments in the data across those platforms.
  • Its interface is very easy and user friendly.

Cons

  • I have faced issues like hanging up on the software after we tried to Process the PDF documents. It is not so good in extracting the information from these documents.
  • Its dashboard needs some options in IQ Bot section.

Most Important Features

  • Bot insight
  • IQ Bot
  • Digitize

Return on Investment

  • It provides best automation services in low rate.
  • It has secure and effective security system.
  • It takes less time in Bot creation than other automation platforms and also gives efficient optimization options.

Alternatives Considered

Appian

Other Software Used

Asana, McAfee Endpoint Security, LiveChat HelpDesk

Automation Anywhere IQ Bot Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it for Invoice 3-Way Matching. It addresses matching receipts on invoices so we can only focus on issues. Automation Anywhere IQ Bot is currently only being used in the Accounting Department.

Pros

  • Scripting
  • Stability

Cons

  • Group Management - Not supplier driven but format driven

Most Important Features

  • Error Proofing

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact is the potential in scalability (up or down)

Other Software Used

The Plex Manufacturing Cloud