UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate offer extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and competitive pricing. UiPath is praised for its user-friendly interface and robust security measures, while Microsoft Power Automate is commended for its diverse range of pre-built connectors and customizable options.
The summary above is based on over 100 recent interviews with UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our comparison report.
"We use Power Automate for applicant tracking and automated around 80 percent of the process."
"The feature most useful for integrating different applications is its ability to create flows. Specifically, we use flows to integrate with finance and operations."
"Instead of manually triggering payments through the website, everything was done through robotic process automation (RPA), saving us a lot of time."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the automation interface and the RPA automation."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to understand and to develop connectors."
"The most valuable feature is that you can run multiple automations at the same time, in parallel."
"WinAutomation is very handy to use, and it has the power to interact with multiple systems, such as SAP, Oracle, or .NET systems."
"Unattended robots completely take tasks out of the user's hands reducing error and unnecessary effort on mundane tasks."
"The Excel automation in UiPath is very easy to use. Even for complex scenarios, we can easily automate the process. And that is true for email automation as well."
"Valuable features include the OCR capabilities, to take somewhat structures data and put them into more structured data so that we can do our analysis. Another is screen scraping and, finally, the overall process of integrating it with other applications that we use in our analysis. It has also exceeded our expectations in the fact that it's a lot faster to implement than we thought it would be."
"UiPath is easy to use with very simple drag and drop functionality that allows you to automate processes without knowledge of coding."
"The solution includes preset activities but allows integration of code and expressions that make it more powerful and dynamic."
"I like UiPath's coding engine."
"Regarding the ease of building automations, I'm not sure how it's done because I'm not a programmer myself, but it's great. Just looking at how fast they moved once we had the program settled in — it was quite fast. For this particular process, which is assembling a document, talking to DocuSign, sending out emails, and so on, the deployment of production was like "today." It was quite quick."
"We have saved steps and time from people doing their jobs because they're not doing all this crazy validation anymore."
"Power Automate is too complicated - it forces you to go through extra tasks instead of streamlining your workflow."
"It would be good to have some kind of on-premises solution for BPMN users, but I don't think Microsoft will ever go back to the on-premises solution. They all train their clients to use their online services. It is easy, but it doesn't follow the industry-wide standards. I can only use the processes that Microsoft gives us. I can't map a business process by using other standards or notations, such as Business Process Management (BPM). I have to use whatever Microsoft gives us. I would like to have support for some standards because if we decide to use another BPM tomorrow, we will have to remap everything in notation to transfer from this solution. This is the only block or obstacle that I see in using this solution. It is closed in its infrastructure."
"Compared to other RPA solutions, there is a little bit of a feature gap."
"I would recommend removing the AI Builder feature from the automatic document processing functionality. The tool can serve even better with free automatic document processing features, it shouldn’t only be available in the trial version."
"More scripting capabilities could be included in Microsoft Power Automate."
"When it comes to cloud computing, there are many limitations when dealing with large amounts of data."
"It doesn't have any OCR capabilities."
"Sometimes, Microsoft changes the game rules, and the free tools are no longer free, which makes it too hard to explain to customers. It is a SaaS service, so the cost is calculated based on the execution hours. However, we don't know the background of this cost because we cannot touch the infrastructure. They can be more open to developers or customers about this. The infrastructure part must be open for the customers."
"UiPath could use more OCR use cases to help with those features."
"Definitely, the machine learning engine should be improved so that we can process more invoices and purchase orders in PDF format with ease."
"There is not an out-of-the-box way to configure granularly."
"I would like a better ability to connect and integrate with other software systems."
"The biggest pain point we've seen so far is that we have trouble identifying best practices in certain areas and circumstances."
"The built-in OCR is only 60% to 70% correct if you're analyzing a PDF that has images in it, so this is an area that can be improved."
"They could focus more on UiPath Studio. I would like to see them add more features for developers who have a deeper understanding of programming languages."
"In the UiPath Academy, there's not much documentation for Document Understanding and Process Mining. Documentation for some of the newer tools needs to be added to the UiPath Academy."
Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 763 reviews. Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8, while UiPath is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UiPath writes "Facilitates end-to-end automation, has good AI and document understanding capabilities, and saves us costs previously spent on manual tasks". Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tungsten RPA and Fortra's Automate, whereas UiPath is most compared with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), Robocorp, Pega Robotic Process Automation and Tungsten RPA. See our Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath report.
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