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The Hidden Costs of RPA Maintenance and How to Cut Them by 65%

2 min read
Feb 5, 2025 12:15:00 AM

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is supposed to make life easier, right? But if you’re running 100+ bots on Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, or Power Automate Desktop (PAD), you know the reality can be far more complicated—and expensive. Keeping bots compliant, ensuring version control, and managing an ever-growing bot portfolio can feel like an endless cycle of maintenance, audits, and inefficiencies.

But what if you could automate the governance of your automation?

The Real Cost of RPA Maintenance

Let’s talk about where all that time and money really goes.

Compliance & Security Audits: The Never-Ending Paper Trail

Regulations change, security protocols update, and your bots must keep up. But manually reviewing and documenting everything? That’s a huge time sink—one that’s costing your team hundreds of hours each year.

How Assess Helps: It automates compliance documentation, generating audit-ready reports so you can cut your compliance time (and costs) by 30-65%.

Version Control Nightmares in PAD

If you’ve ever lost track of bot versions, you know how frustrating it is. One wrong update and suddenly, things aren’t working. No version control means outdated logic, overwritten bots, and major headaches.

How Assess Helps: It provides comprehensive version control for PAD, ensuring smooth bot updates and better governance so you don’t have to worry about rolling back the wrong version.

The Pain of Migrating to Modern Automation

Moving to cloud-based automation sounds great—until you actually have to do it. Migration is time-consuming, expensive, and riddled with rework. Many companies stay stuck on outdated RPA platforms because the risk of downtime and high transition costs feel too overwhelming.

How Assess Helps: It automates migration by analyzing existing bots, identifying reusable components, and streamlining the transition to platforms like Power Automate Cloud Flows—saving time, money, and stress.

Manual Documentation is Slowing You Down

Your developers didn’t sign up to write endless documentation, yet here they are—stuck manually recording bot processes for compliance and audits. It’s no wonder there’s a backlog of automation projects when so much time is spent on paperwork.

How Assess Helps: It automatically generates up-to-date bot documentation, allowing your teams to focus on innovation instead of documentation.

Too Many Bots, Too Little Visibility

If your company has hundreds of bots, chances are you’ve got some redundant, inefficient, or outdated automations in the mix. Without clear insights, you’re spending money maintaining bots that may not even be needed anymore.

How Assess Helps: It provides deep portfolio analysis, identifying redundancies and optimization opportunities so you can streamline your bot ecosystem and cut unnecessary costs.

The Smarter Way to Manage RPA

Maintaining RPA doesn’t have to be a never-ending battle. With Assess, you can:

  • Automate compliance and audits, saving time and reducing risk.

  • Implement version control, preventing costly errors.

  • Simplify cloud migration, making it more cost-effective.

  • Eliminate manual documentation, so developers can focus on what matters.

  • Optimize your bot portfolio, cutting out inefficiencies and redundancy.

 

The result? Lower costs, greater efficiency, and a scalable RPA strategy.

Ready to cut your RPA maintenance costs by up to 65%? Book a demo of Assess today.