I am trying to install in my company Automation Hub because we see potential there.
The problem is that we were told by UiPath that if we want it on prem (and we do not have other choice here), then we need to migrate everything to Linux and install Automation Suite.
I cannot believe that there is no simpler option. Have you guys at UiPath really missed this huge opportunity?
Automation Hub was initially developed as a cloud first product and was shipped as a SaaS offering since 2019. From the beginning, we have seen requests from our customers to bring Automation Hub in an On Premise environment. However, in the early days, the product had many improvements to go thru before we could consider it ready to be shipped on premise (RBAC, AAD and a lot of security investments are just some examples that had to be done early on). At the point when we decided to invest in the on premise offering, the Automation Suite was already in development, so we considered it our primary deployment option. Having Automation Hub as part of Automation Suite brought great benefits to our integration layer with other products that are part of the Suite (Insights, Orchestrator, Process Mining, Task Mining) as well as provide a robust and reliable infrastructure that customers can use. The deployment options offer now also the possibility for Automation Hub to be installed as a standalone product as part of Automation Suite (in case you are not looking to deploy it alongside other products).
Let us know if we can help in anyway with the Automation Suite deployment. Where did you encounter roadblocks? How can we help?
I know about automation suite and that it requires to move all the data to Linux. And here is the resistance: not many know Linux, and how to support Linux, so we get into a big of uncharted territory, but I really want to install Automation Hub as it is a key part of our strategy to collect new automation ideas in the company.
So here are some of my questions:
How many days do you estimate each of these will take in the migration of our data to Linux?
- Linux server request
- Installing Automation Suite
- Moving data to Linux
- Learning supporting Automation Suite on Linux
- Contingency
I am trying to pitch the installation to management and I need to estimate impact, risk, etc. Sure, we can arrange a call also, please give me your contacts and I will give mine.