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Attribute BP
Learning Curve Basic programming language skill is required
and resource on an average take 3 to 4
months to be fully operational
Democratization of Community edition is unable for general
the tool and community to use. Documentation /
availability of skills in availability of training material in the open
the market market is limited.
Availability of skill in the market: limited
Average BOT Development can take time as there is a
development need to develop new functions / objects
duration using C#. In addition, there are no recorders
to help developers.
Speed of the development is one notch
lower than UiPath
Attended BOT BP does not offer true attended BOT
automation. We have to build solution
around BP to bring in this functionality (this
can be very cumbersome many a times)
UiPath
Development is based on visual
design and therefore, there is no
need to have any programming skills.
Resource become operational within
a month
Offers free training, forum, and a
community edition of the software
to enable everyone to learn RPA.
Availability of skill in the market is
high
Development is much quicker as it is
flowchart type development.
Requires minimal scripting / coding.
In addition, Recorders help expedite
development process.
Speed of the development is much
faster
UiPath offers both attended and
unattended automation
Automation Anywhere
Need basic programming skill but very
initiative. Therefore, resource become
operational / deployable within 2 to 4
months
Community edition is available for 30
days. They are brining in the concept of
free training now. However, advanced
training are charged (enrolment is
required)
Availability of skill in the market is
medium to high
While AA has drag-and-drop
functionality, AA is still based around a
coding/scripting solution, development
can still be time consuming
Speed of the development is one notch
lower than UiPath
AA offers both Attended and unattended
automation
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Attribute BP UiPath Automation Anywhere
VDI Automation Has low support for image UiPath offers best-in-class VDI AA offers VDI automation that are as good
automation, and much of the automation that allows relative-position as UiPath’s
image automation they do interactions, which is both intuitive and
offer is unreliable. VDI use easy to develop. They have also released
cases for BP tend to only work a new solution called computer vision in
if hotkeys can be used for most Oct 2018 making it even more easy to
all steps. automate VDI based solutions
Native OCR Capability Have rudimentary capability UiPath has a total of two OCR capabilities More evolved than UiPath and they
with Tesseract OCR. This is very (Microsoft, and Google OCR) included as introduced IQ BOT for OCR and AI
restrictive (However, BP and a preconfigured feature which you can capabilities
ABBYY have entered into a simply drag-and-drop into the process
partnership in Sep 2018 to designer. UiPath can also be integrated
bring in advanced capability) with ABBY.
Architecture Client Server Based Web based Client Server Based
Cognitive Capability Rudimentary but major push Evolving with strong AI roadmap. Have More evolved than UiPath and they have
towards it starting mid 2018. inbuilt integration with NLP, NN etc. a Digital workforce platform called IQ Bot
Launched new platforms like Computer vision is an example (including comprehensive analytical
DX etc towards later part of last reporting / insight to support end to end
year business process )
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BP UiPath Automation Anywhere
Reliability of tool Very High High High
Operational aspects Excellent debugging mechanism, speed of Similar to BP but will make them one Similar to BP but will make them
execution is good and it has the capacity to notch lower one notch lower
manage large scale robot deployment
(more than 5000 (BPO scenarios)

Cost of Ownership
TCO-Total Cost of TCO is high TCO is the lowest among the top three TCO is higher than UiPath but lower
ownership than BP
Licensing Model BP has restrictive licencing Flexible model of pick and choose i.e options They do have multiple pricing model
model. We will have to buy the to just to buy studio license, attended bot, un but not as flexible as UiPath
license as one package attended bot or orchestrator
Hardware & Software Cost is almost comparable with Cost is almost comparable with other 2 Cost is almost comparable with
Cost other 2 other 2

Cost of skilled resources High when compared to AA and Lowest when compared to AA and BP Higher than UiPath but lower than
UiPath BP

Recommendation : Considering all the key attributes listed in the previsions three slides, we recommend UiPath