Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
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Lots of potential, still needs some work
What do you like best about the product?
The recording tools were easy to figure out. The software has a lot of potential to be great. Easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The application often doesn't work as planned. Keystrokes recording doesn't work as well as it intends to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating GL pulls from Peoplesoft. This can save my department alot of time by taking away mundane processes. The application was also slow and can be buggy at times.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a lot of repeating processes that can be automated, Automation may be the application for you.
Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Walking through how to build a bot. The training staff was very helpful and knowledgeable
What do you dislike about the product?
There was a deck explaining the process, however, we didn't not receive copies of the training material. When it was time to build our own bot, we were at a loss. Would have loved to have material handy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Running manual reconciliation processes.
First experience with Automation Anywhere
What do you like best about the product?
easy sign on and easy to learn how to create new bot. Getting started is straight forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of functions within the software. The learning curve is high. For users without coding background it takes a while to get use to some of the languages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm trying to automate the email notification step after a task has been signed so the users don't have to separately open his/her email to draft an email every single time a task is signed off. AA can do all the repetitive steps.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
need to consider the ease of use for everyday user
RPA Training
What do you like best about the product?
Opportunity to learn hands on and coaches around the room to support
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that was strongly disliked.
Would recommend that:
- Include an advanced level training. Some of the training felt slow early on and would love to see more examples beyond excel which has it's own commands.
Would recommend that:
- Include an advanced level training. Some of the training felt slow early on and would love to see more examples beyond excel which has it's own commands.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Leadership Reporting
Excel Reconciliations
Data Prepping for database uploads
The primary benefit I've realized from this training is the ability to automate beyond applications. I've written many VBA scripts but I was limited to excel only.
Excel Reconciliations
Data Prepping for database uploads
The primary benefit I've realized from this training is the ability to automate beyond applications. I've written many VBA scripts but I was limited to excel only.
Great experience to learn a new automation tool
What do you like best about the product?
it provided me a new perspective of automation. a new way of thinking. a new experience for me with coding and this automation tool
What do you dislike about the product?
it is challenging to get the code written without errors, still not super user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to automate a monthly manual process. Can auto mate a few manual steps
Designed for ease of use for non-technical business users
What do you like best about the product?
It's possible to customize different actions using insert keystrokes, mouse click, and other stuff. Has Excel and CSV support. For technical users there is also a variety of code-related aspects allowing the user to select HTML tags using ID or class or xpath or any other available tags. Being able to use xpath is super convenient for badly designed webpages that don't denote object differences with id, class, or some other unique identifier.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not as optimized for chrome development compared to IE. Object cloning is difficult when selecting certain tags since they're either enclosed or enclosing something else. CSV is more difficult to work with than Excel. The AI machine learning to read written text is also subpar compared to Instabase or Adobe. Bots tend to be unstable as well and break when running on different machines or when system changes occur such as screen resolution changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scraping screenshots after logging into an internal system to extract user data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
When deciding to use Automation Anywhere, make sure you are using the latest version (AA 2019) since it is incompatible with past versions and you will have to rebuild the bot. Be sure to take some training as well to learn about the large variety of features and best practices in development. There are many ways to implement the same thing but some are definitely better and make for easier maintenance than others.
Great experience
What do you like best about the product?
It is very simple for almost anyone to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Doesnt support all programs/applications such as Google Sheets, PowerPoint, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reducing manual effort to complete repetitive tasks.
Great introduction to product from firm provided training
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoyed working with the product hands on rather than through presentations
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited functionality during the training did not allow me to full build out my use case and understand how AA can work for me
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PDF reader
Intellectual Experience - could be helpful if you understand what your're doing
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the functionality of the bot - 572 functions which gives you a good chance to be able to automate your process and it is relatively accessible for people who don't have strong coding or programming backgrounds. It makes automation feel accessible.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the basic functions that you think you should be able to access, you don't have. IE: date comparisons are only available in the megabot version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am doing some simple table scraping from the internet. It will eventually save me some time but the built was more complicated than I expected. Some of it requires understanding on how to get around certain limitations but the staff was incredibly helpful so I would recommend this product more if you have their staff help with the initial build.
BotAThon
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use once the user is familiar with the terms and functions of the program
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of information in a short timeframe
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
streamlining manual processes with RPA allows for more focus on technical issues
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Complete a trial period to ensure it fits your teams needs
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