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Communications Mining user guide

Last updated Aug 1, 2025

How businesses can use Communications Mining™

This page covers an overview of the following topics:

  • Optimal data types for Communications Mining.
  • Key value pillars for Communications Mining, and how they link to use cases.
  • Typical use cases across analytics and automation.
  • Examples across industries where Communications Mining can be deployed.
  • Customer examples of where Communications Mining is deployed.
  • Which UiPath® tools you can combine with Communications Mining, including RPA and Document Understanding™.

Optimal data types for Communications Mining


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Communications Mining is optimized for short-form asynchronous communications data, such as emails (e.g., shared email inboxes), tickets, survey responses, and case notes.

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Communications Mining does not currently support real-time call and chat data. For historical analytics on chat and calls data, the platform can support these if volumes are large enough.

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Communications Mining does not natively process attachments, which are documents, but can be combined with Document Understanding™ to process both emails and attachments.

Note: Communications Mining is only used for analyzing and automating emails from corporate email addresses and not the personal email address of an individual, for example, [email protected] or [email protected].

Value pillars for Communications Mining

Communications Mining can drive value for businesses in a huge number of ways. Ultimately, the business objectives will determine the value that a use case owner is looking for, and value pillars will align with specific use cases.

The following diagram details some of the key value pillars that Communications Mining can support, and some of the use cases that align with them:


Use case: Analytics

As described so far, Communications Mining opens up significant opportunities for both analytics and automation for customers.

For analytics, some key groups of use cases include:


Use case: Automation

For automation, typical use cases are:



Industry examples

Usually, customers ask where Communications Mining can be deployed, and the answer is anywhere.

In every industry, each process and action on screen, from customer support to the ordering of parts in manufacturing, to insurance quotes, claims, and renewals, starts with some form of communication.

As businesses grow, they need solutions, like Communications Mining, to help them effectively manage these communications. Otherwise, they risk falling behind.

Example of customer use cases

The following list contains a few specific examples of how our customers typically use Communications Mining:


Combining UiPath® tools with Communications Mining

While Communications Mining can be part of a solution, leveraging many different UiPath tools, or a discovery exercise, also using Process Mining or Task Mining, or both, its most direct and impactful integration is with RPA and Document Understanding™.


Communications Mining and RPA

As covered in the previous section, Communications Mining acts as an enabler for intelligent automation by providing structured data to downstream automations to take action.

This transition is usually to a UiPath® robot. The following diagram provides a high-level overview of how Communications Mining and RPA can work together:


For more details on how Communications Mining combines with RPA for automation, check the API Docs Introduction.

Note: While Communications Mining is optimized for interacting with other UiPath tools, other API-first applications leverage predictions from Communications Mining to facilitate analytics and automation use cases.

Communications Mining and Document Understanding





Communications Mining and Document Understanding may handle different kinds of data, but they can ultimately come together to form a powerful combined solution.

Every business in the world processes documents that are exchanged through communications:

  • Communications Mining and Document Understanding enable businesses to understand and automate complex service processes E2E - tasks where employees previously needed to read both messages and documents to complete their work.
  • They create a whole new source of data for UiPath robots. For the first time, businesses can automate some of their most time-consuming and intensive service processes.

How Communications Mining and Document Understanding work together

The following image contains a graphical workflow of how Communications Mining and Document Understanding work together:



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