Hi All,

I’ve been a banking RAD developer for many years working mostly with MS Office tools (VBA) and SQL server.

I went for a job interview where the employer was going to be using RPA (Blue Prism) in their RAD development at which point I started looking into the different flavours of RPA out there.

I was so excited about the potential that RPA could bring to the development cycle and was finding it hard to find roles incorporating the skill that I currently had. I think that especially in the banking sector there is a move away from users having multiple Excel based solutions (although they are great for prototyping tools there is very little control over access to them, security is poor, code can be changed easily without versioning protocols and they don’t necessarily interact seamlessly with other applications). RPA however seems to have it all. Security/Scalability/Ease of Integration between applications/Logging/Auditing and the completed processes can be presented to the end users in a format that they can follow far more easily than pages and pages of code).

When I got as far as I could with Blue Prism I found UiPath and I’m so glad that I did. It’s been an absolute pleasure learning with the academy and with help from other users in the forums. Obviously there are some frustrations when things don’t work out and there is not as great a wealth of google-able solutions to problems as yet (compared to more mainstream development tools) but as UiPath takeup grows so will the shared knowledge pool.

The strongest thing UiPath has going for it is giving potential developers free access to the platform so that they can learn and then supporting them with a great learning platform and the ability to share knowledge and advice on the forum along with the help the UiPath team does when they need to step in.

I hope in the near future to take the knowledge that I have gained here to continue as a commercial RPAer using UiPath (the best RPA platform in the market)