Tungsten TotalAgility brings cognitive capture capabilities to the hands of business analysts and non-technical users to solve content-centric challenges, including classification and extraction from financial documents, contracts, forms and other information-intensive documents.
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UiPath Document Understanding
Score 8.8 out of 10
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UiPath Document Understanding is an intelligent document processing software solution that trains RPA robots to understand and process a company's forms.
Less appropriate would be where the customer is mainly concerned in how fast they can get the work done due to the performance issues in Kofax TotalAgility. The customer needs to weigh the overall elimination of functions that were done manually and how long it takes them to do these functions. They have to consider the overall time, not just the act of launching the form and completing it. Many manual functions should be replaced with the automation in the workflow.
UiPath Document Understanding excels in scenarios where invoices follow a standardized format or template. Its ability to accurately extract data from consistent layouts ensures reliable automation for invoices with predictable structures.When dealing with a large volume of invoices, Document Understanding's automation capabilities shine. It streamlines the extraction process, allowing organizations to efficiently process a high number of invoices with reduced manual intervention.Document Understanding is particularly suitable for organizations that utilize SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Its seamless integration capabilities facilitate the automatic transfer of accurately extracted invoice data into these systems.In scenarios where invoices have a combination of structured and semi-structured elements, Document Understanding performs well. It can intelligently handle varying layouts, making it suitable for invoices with standardized sections and flexible content placement.Similar to invoices, Document Understanding can be effectively used for extracting data from receipts. Whether it's capturing transaction details, merchant information, or purchase amounts, the tool's template-based extraction is advantageous.Document Understanding can be employed for automating the extraction of data from various HR documents, including resumes, employee onboarding forms, and timesheets. This facilitates efficient HR document management.
Ease of use. The drag and drop configuration to create the processes makes the product easy to use and configure. Most of the icons are intuitive on what they are and how to use them. The use of the colored icons for each value also helps to know that that value is looking for.
Forms. The capture forms are easy to create and maintain. A new field can be added to the Extraction group and then the capture form is regenerated and that field is automatically added to the form with all the proper attributes. If an additional check box or field is added to the form, that field stays when regenerated. This differs from KTA 6.0.
Kofax has done pretty well integrating all the pieces of Kofax into one product. KC (Kofax Capture), KIC (Kofax Import Connector), KTM (Kofax Transformation Module with OCR), and workflow are all combined into KTA (Kofax Total Agility). This lets all of these features work together in one product. Kofax does keep adding more to the functions that maybe were left out original version. This makes Kofax Total Agility a robust product.
Exception management within the platform can certainly be improved upon. If a job is suspended for any particular issue integrations can be put in place to attempt to handle them but it is kludgy and does not always work as anticipated.
The administration interface is based on Microsoft Silverlight which limits it to certain versions of Internet Explorer and the interface has seen better days. Their other application, Kofax Kapow, has a much more mature and intuitive interface. This supposedly is being replaced in the next major iteration but I have doubts it will be successfully done.
The product is expensive. It is also the Cadillac of workflow platforms with document transformation built in. In many cases the product can do what you want it to do but there may be other more cost effective platforms.
Kofax TotalAgility is a beast of a package that gives you a thousand ways to tackle a problem, but it may not be the best platform for your needs. It is more of an enterprise platform that integrates well with other systems with moderate development time. Other packages may be cheaper, easier, and faster to implement depending on needs.
UiPath document understanding makes my work easier. My business requirement was to identify invoice page numbers from a PDF containing more than 2 pages. And DU makes my work easier. Especially if there are thousands of documents, DU works better for that.
The product is a behemoth to stand up and is cost prohibitive well before it can be implemented. Long term vision planning must be done to realize a positive ROI.
It is costly to locate or train internal resources to implement the product successfully. It is very easy to be lost in a black hole if trying to implement it with no previous experience of an ECM platform.
Demonstrating the platform to key stakeholders from multiple departments will most likely lead to discussions where business processes can be automated allowing for a faster ROI.
