There has long been value & scale in having vast fleets of business users able to run attended automations on their own local computers.
Your response above kind of implies that this new web assistant is a better way for business users to run Attended automations with no messy software on their local machines.
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If that was your meaning, they will still need to have the UiPath software installed locally if the web assistant-triggered automation is intended to run on their local computer.
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If you’re instead implying that this is a paradigm shift to having business users manually triggering unattended (remote) automations instead of attended (local)… now the COST for your program just increased, because all those business users’ automation demands will be directed to an array of higher cost robot VDIs using unattended licenses instead of their own local, less expensive local computer’s attended licenses.
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There’s also usually more to the logistical story for unattended automations. Orchestrator usually pairs up processes with specifically configured users & VDI machines, and schedules them according to reasonably well thought out robot VDI capacity, and the SLA needs of the given process, not to mention knowing which input parameters to configure so it runs properly, etc. I’m having a hard time imagining how all those unattended nuances will be addressed using one simple web Assistant start button for “business users” who can’t be bothered with Orchestrator nuances.