SS&C Blue Prism vs. UiPath Automation Platform

SS&C Blue Prism

96 Reviews and Ratings

UiPath Automation Platform

387 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SS&C Blue Prism	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	SS&C Blue Prism provides a combination of technologies that offer intelligent automation to deliver transformational business value.	N/A
UiPath Automation Platform	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	UiPath's hyperautomation platform combines a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with capabilities to enable organizations to scale digital business operations at speed, automating millions of repetitive, mind-numbing tasks for businesses and government organizations all over the world.	$420 per month

Pricing

SS&C Blue Prism

UiPath Automation Platform

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Automation Developer: $420
per month
Unattended Automation: $1380
per month
Automation Team: $1930
per month
Enterprise Medium Business: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
SS&C Blue Prism	UiPath Automation Platform
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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A 60-day trial is available. Buyers can also configure any of these plans to fit the business needs.

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Key User Insights
	SS&C Blue Prism	UiPath Automation Platform
Considered Both Products	SS&C Technologies Dhruv Sharma Analyst in Corporate at Molex (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism It easily tailor to the use case we had that is to effectively automate email communication, while it had other options that allows us to integrate more use cases in future. While the other options did allow us to manage but the results were ineffective and there was no scope … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SS&C Blue Prism I have chosen BP as it's easy to implement, understand and Develop the bots. Incentivized Helpful? Priyatham Pallapotu Assitant Technical Service Engineer at Fujitsu consulting India (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism I use all the three tools and I felt the blue prism is best suitable for back end automation and performing the tasks robust and in a proper manner. It has all the features involved and all the purchased licenses are same with the features available to all the users and making … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SS&C Blue Prism UiPath is a good tool but open source so has a bit of limitation (but not much). We'd rate both the products at par almost but Blue Prism is more popular and famous as of now so our team took that into consideration before making the final decision about the purchase. Incentivized Helpful? Felipe Rangel RPA Developer in Information Technology at Global Hitss (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism We implemented Blue Prism RPA for a highly complex process which required a complex set up. Since then, it has been working excellently with high accuracy. Incentivized Helpful? Edson Barbosa Developer in Information Technology at UFRRJ (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism Blue Prism RPA tool is best for any kind of user. You need not be a hardcore programmer to work on automation through Blue Prism. The core architecture is very simple and it is easy to build and maintain the infrastructure required for Blue Prism. Blue prism portal is very well … Incentivized Helpful? Arunvinodh C RPA Developer in Information Technology at TiliconVeli Tech Park (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism In our company, we are using many RPA tools. For most of our medium projects we are using Blue Prism, as other tools are frequently crashing. One of the best features is that the robots can be unattended. Blue Prism has a high rate of reliability when compared to other tools, … Incentivized Helpful? Felipe Rangel Estágio de desenvovimento RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in Information Technology at Global Hitss (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism We chose BluePrism for the well-defined hierarchy. The values of the company were in agreement with ours. The negotiation was good, and we were convinced that the tool would meet our demands satisfactorily. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SS&C Blue Prism It’s more robust for enterprise usage; UIPath had an awful demo when we talked to them. Automation Anywhere focuses on desktop automation with its recorder capabilities. Work Fusion focuses on intelligent use cases as opposed to automating the commonly used manual processes. … Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Cooper RPA Developer in Corporate at Fujitsu UK (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose SS&C Blue Prism UiPath is a more visually appealing, middle of the range, free alternative to Blue Prism. It's, in my opinion, easier to pick up, obviously due to a person being able to download it for free and try it out, and also because of it's excellent online academy. However, Blue Prism … Incentivized Helpful?	UiPath Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform Had a pre-existing relationship with UiPath so they were the obvious 1st choice Reviews on internal/ operational efficiencies also were greater in the case of UiPath AI/ ML, NLP were the final reasons why we went ahead with UiPath Incentivized Helpful? Ashish Saxena Associate Consultant in Information Technology at Capgemini (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform Due to [easy] availability of UiPath developer training and tool availability Also development cost is less as compared to other tool such as Bp , AA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform Uipath is better at PDF reading and string manipulation over Blue Prism. However, debugging of codes and implementation is easier in Blue Prism. Both have the same academy to study the tool. But UiPath offers a wide variety of search results when you need help. UiPath is also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath supports low code/ No code that is useful in easily making process automation. UiPath robots are also quite more robust and reliable in terms of performance and provide better output in less time as compared to others. Not only this, UiPath has a widespread community … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform I chose to use Uipath Enterprise RPA Paltform primarily because it is the current market leader in the RPA field. I also like UiPath because of the level of development speed, flexibility and scalability it provides that is unrivalled by other RPA tools, which are only now … Incentivized Helpful? Ashutosh Kumar Mishra Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Infosys Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath has a flow-diagram-based code editor, which makes it easier for a developer to debug the code. The Drag and Drop Feature of UiPath helps in reducing dependency to memorize the code syntax. Citrix Automation Capabilities in UiPath is much better compared to other tools … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform Recording feature is one of the reasons for choosing UiPath over Blue Prism for some of the POC's created for few clients use cases. Cost could be another reason. Because the licensing cost is much less than other vendors. Development can be completed by community edition in … Incentivized Helpful? Lakshmi Reddy System Engineer in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath is very easy to learn and use for beginners in RPA, while other tools require training on how to work in a particular application using the tools. UiPath is good for self-teaching and materials are easily available over the internet with use cases wherein a few can be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform It's the best of all of them, period. It's nice to keep the competition going but UiPath is just a clear leader when it comes to all the major important fields in the RPA industry. Automation Anywhere is doing the best job out of the other tools and they are on the right track, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform Easy automation compared to any other automation tools. PDF automation is made easy using UiPath RPA. Incentivized Helpful? Mateusz Macheta Application Developer in Research & Development at Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath stands out because of the low cost, interface, and online community. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath's community version and diverse community forum comes to mind as big differentiators. The community version right off the bat gives you all the functionalities of the licensed version (even Orchestrator) and allows you to quickly do experiments and even production-level … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform Products are very similar with slightly different license models. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath Academy helped us learn the tool quickly and easily, and it has very good community forums. The community version helped us explore the new activities and functionality easily. Managing the bots in Orchestrator is simple and Explorer helped to get the customized … Incentivized Helpful? Gonçalo Oliveira RPA Solution Architect in Product Management at CTT - Correios de Portugal (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform When I arrived at my organization, they had already chosen UiPath. However, I researched other platforms and these two were the ones that got the most knowledge. Automation Anywere strikes me as close to UiPath, yet UiPath strikes me as the most intuitive and easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform I selected UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform over Blue Prism because it is much simpler to use. The drag and drop system as seen in the UiPath Studio is a very intuitive and fast way to develop processes. Developing with Blue Prism involves going into more levels of detail and its … Incentivized Helpful? Antonio Foschi RPA Architect in Information Technology at Atos (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath is a young platform and for this reason contains all the new technologies born in recent years. Blue Prism platform is older than UiPath and this is "felt" when trying to develop a flow using both products. Training a new resource to use UiPath is easier than training it … Incentivized Helpful? Chakravarthy Sesetty Practice Manager - Cognitive, IoT and AI in Information Technology at Miracle Software Systems, Inc (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform It is highly cost-effective and provides multiple options in terms of licensing options. The customer support and support representatives are quick to support us with any technical issues that we face during project implementations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath compared to its competitors such as Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, OpenSpan PEGASystems, NICE Systems and the usual VB.Net automation, can handle complex processes with a workflow that is easy to understand with a pricing that is just right. And training does not cost … Incentivized Helpful? Fredrick Jesudoss Sahaya, CSM®, ITIL® Solutions Specialist in Information Technology at Deloitte (Management Consulting, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform We recommend it because of its ease of use. It has the best capturing of UI Elements, you need less coding knowledge but still need the ability to understand the flow using process model. These are key contributors when deciding upon an RPA tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform Softomotive is very easy to use and learn, actually one are of the company had already developed a number of automation using them. The problem is lack of scalability, meaning thinking about future grow, it's not clear how they can handle / manage hundreds of robots. Blue Prism … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath is the ideal tool for beginners, it has very well explained courses, it is visually pleasing and easy the learning curve is low. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose UiPath Automation Platform UiPath stands out among these two for its ease. It is very intuitive because it is a very visual tool, and is easy to handle. The courses offered by the platform are of great value. Incentivized Helpful? Suresh Polinati Senior Software Developer in Information Technology at Hexaware Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose UiPath Automation Platform It has more capabilities like computer vision activities and recording features and Orchestrator. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	SS&C Blue Prism	UiPath Automation Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (19 ratings)	8.2 (195 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (8 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)	8.0 (7 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (2 ratings)	8.0 (82 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)