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Automation Cloud Admin Guide
Last updated Oct 31, 2024

About Automation Cloud

UiPath® Automation Cloud™ is our cloud-based Enterprise SaaS solution, ready to provision and use immediately, which helps you manage all your automation work and resources in one place. It enables you to deploy, operate, and scale your robotic factory in just a few seconds. Manage your licenses, add multiple tenants with different services, manage user access for all these services, access Orchestrator services to create Robots, environments, machines, processes, run jobs, create schedules - practically do anything you need, all from one centralized, secure location in the cloud.

UiPath Automation Cloud caters to both community and enterprise users. Use it to get from concept to production deployment in days, from automation newbie to large deployments in weeks.

Sign up for an Automation Cloud account and watch the video below to get an overview of its capabilities.

Key benefits

  • Easy, frictionless startup experience: Just sign in to your cloud account, pick a URL, and access Orchestrator’s power instantly, no setup whatsoever. As an Enterprise customer, you are no longer required to download the .msi package and install Orchestrator, having to go through the installation instructions.
  • Lower costs, no IT required: As an enterprise, you no longer have to invest in a dedicated IT infrastructure for automation, hence lowering your total cost of ownership. We perform all the installations, setups, and other configurations for your services. No need to dedicate ongoing IT efforts to manage on-premises Orchestrator servers.

  • Collaboration: Teamwork gets the job done quicker and better. Work together with your colleagues by inviting them to join your cloud account, then manage their access rights for each service.

  • Start your production faster: After you have prototyped your initial automation in UiPath Studio and they are ready to move to production, you can simply deploy them into the cloud and start production.

  • Automatic license activation: Orchestrator licensing is activated automatically by UiPath when signing up for a specific licensing plan. Robots & Studio are automatically licensed once connected to services in UiPath Automation Cloud. If you need more robot licenses (runtimes) or a renewal, you just click a button and our Sales team will reach out to you.

  • License usage at a glance: Valuable telemetry is accessible both per account and per service, displaying information like your license usage trend, the distribution of licenses per Robot type or Robot usage trend per service.

  • Scale easily as you grow: Request as many licenses as you need. Our team will grant you the necessary assistance, and enable you to seamlessly scale up. Simplify IT involvement when you need to scale your orchestration capabilities. Create your tenants and services with just a few clicks.

  • Instant access to new functionalities: New, innovative functionalities and products are instantly accessible to you from within your cloud account. We took over the task of upgrading your services to the newest release.

  • Check for changes: Keep track of what’s happening in your organization with audit logs for all organization changes.

Note:

First of all, you need UiPath Studio. If you haven’t installed it yet, access the Resource Center page in Automation Cloud.

The Resource Center includes download links and documentation links for the UiPath ecosystem.

Product and service offering

The UiPath platform consists of various products designed to automate processes, enhance collaboration, and drive operational efficiency:

  • Action Center

    UiPath Action Center is a tool designed to help you manage and resolve exceptions, errors, or decisions that require human intervention in your automation workflows. It provides a central interface for handling these exceptions, allowing human workers to review, make decisions, and take actions as needed to ensure the successful completion of automated processes.

  • AI Center

    UiPath AI Center is a service that allows you to deploy, manage, and continuously improve Machine Learning models and consume them within RPA workflows in Studio.

  • AI Computer Vision

    UiPath AI Computer Vision is a machine-learning based method used to visually identify all the UI elements on a computer screen and interact with them via UiPath Robots, simulating human interaction. It does not require or use the underlying properties of applications, but only the aspect and relationship of various screen elements.

  • Apps

    UiPath Apps is a low-code application development platform that enables you to build and share enterprise-grade custom applications that deliver engaging user experiences. Using Apps, you can quickly build custom business applications that connect to data in any underlying cloud or on-premises system using the power of automation.

  • Automation Cloud Robots - Serverless

    UiPath Automation Cloud Robots - Serverless make it easy to run background automation without worrying about the necessary infrastructure. They provide you with complete freedom from provisioning, managing, maintaining, and scaling any underlying infrastructure. UiPath handles all the work behind the scenes so you do not have to deal with containers, virtual machines, or physical servers.

    Visit the Automation Cloud Robots - Serverless documentation.
  • Automation Cloud Robots - VM

    UiPath Automation Cloud Robots - VM is a hassle-free solution that streamlines the process of setting up the necessary infrastructure for running automations. It provides ready-to-use virtual machines where you can run automations. You just need to configure the virtual machine based on your need, and it is all set to run your tasks.

  • Automation Hub

    UiPath Automation Hub is a collaborative process identification, automation pipeline management, and process repository tool. Its goal is to accelerate the adoption of RPA across your organization, by building an RPA Community of Interest.

  • Automation Ops

    UiPath Automation Ops is a tool that enables you to manage and implement governance policies based on user profiles, and to manage the feeds available in your organization.

  • Communications Mining

    Communications Mining, or Comms Mining, is a field that focuses on understanding and extracting value from communications data. It is the practice of converting the unstructured information this data contains into structured, machine-readable data that can then be used for analytics and automation.

  • Data Service

    UiPath Data Service is a persistent data storage service that brings no-code data modeling and storage capabilities to your automation projects.

  • Document Understanding

    UiPath Document Understanding uses pre-defined solutions to extract and categorize data from common document types. Utilizing pre-trained models, it can pull information from standard documents with ease.

  • Insights

    UiPath Insights is a tool that serves as a platform for data modeling and analytics using a combination of available business metrics and operational insights into your automations and robot performance.

  • Integration Service

    UiPath Integration Service is the component of the UiPath Platform that makes the automation of third-party applications much easier by standardizing authorization and authentication, helping you manage API connections, and also allowing faster integration into SaaS platforms. By using prebuilt APIs, the development of automation projects in UiPath Studio is more simple and more consistent, regardless of the third-party applications you are automating.

  • Orchestrator

    UiPath Orchestrator is a tool for streamlining the deployment, monitoring, and governance of your automation processes and robots, giving you flexibility to schedule and trigger these processes as per your requirements. It also supports the management of transactional data, often used in automating business processes.

  • Process Mining

    UiPath Process Mining is a process mining solution that transforms data from your IT systems into visual interactive dashboards, allowing you to see existing value decreases, bottlenecks, and discrepancies, as well as understanding the root-causes and possible risks. It offers real-time, valuable insights to improve business processes over time.

  • Solutions Management

    UiPath Solutions Management provides an out-of-the-box means to manage the lifecycle of your solutions, once built. This set of capabilities comes into play once you are done developing your solutions, and you want to promote them to a new environment.

  • Studio Web

    UiPath Studio Web enables you to build and test cross-platform automations across online business apps and services. All you need to start using Studio Web is a web browser. You can access it from any operating system, it requires no installation, it has no IT dependencies, and it is always up to date.

    Visit the Studio Web documentation.
  • Task Mining

    UiPath Task Mining offers insights into ongoing processes on your team's desktops, uncovering potential areas for automation and process improvement. This tool logs desktop data for each user action and uses AI to analyze it, thereby, giving you actionable insights for identifying automation ideas.

  • Test Manager

    UiPath Test Manager is a test management tool for enterprise testing. It integrates into your ecosystem and adapts to your way of working, whether you use ServiceNow, SAP Solution Manager, Jira, Azure DevOps.

  • Key benefits
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