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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 6, 2024

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.

  • Features: UiPath is valued for its user-friendly interface, extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration, and robust security measures. Microsoft Power Automate is praised for its ease of automation, workflow streamlining, application integration, notifications, and time-saving features. Additionally, Power Automate offers a wide range of pre-built connectors and customizable options.
  • Room for improvement: While both platforms have areas for improvement, such as enhancing user interface and performance, the choice between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate ultimately depends on the specific needs and preferences of the user.
  • Deployment: UiPath users suggest that the spent about three months on deployment and a week on setup, while others spend a week on both. Reviews for Microsoft Power Automate indicate varying timeframes, with some users taking three months for deployment and others only a week, with an additional week for setup.
  • Customer support: Users have praised UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate for their excellent customer service and support. They have commended the promptness and effectiveness of the teams, as well as their knowledge and helpfulness in resolving issues.
  • Pricing and ROI: Both solutions accommodate different business needs with their flexible licensing options, but UiPath users have reported a more favorable return on investment regarding cost savings, productivity improvement, and workflow streamlining. Microsoft Power Automate users expressed satisfaction with its automation capabilities, efficiency, and seamless integration with various applications. The platform's flexibility, user-friendly interface, and range of pre-built connectors were also commended.

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.

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Q&A Highlights
Question: Which one to choose, Power Automate or UiPath, for unattended and attended bots implementation for a simple RPA use case?
Answer: Uipath
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Pros
"It is a very useful solution. You don't need to create an infrastructure in your environment just for triggers or executions. You don't need to invest in the infrastructure. With Power Automate, we can call or trigger custom web services and routines. We are also using the flow for gathering data from Microsoft Dynamics.""The interface is user-friendly.""The product provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools.""Power Automate is intuitive and easy to use.""The solution is very easy to use. It's a code three platform that works very easily with documents to create custom automations.""The solution integrates more easily and with more tools than Automation Anywhere.""The pricing of the solution is competitive, which is good for the Romanian market.""The initial setup is pretty easy."

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"The highest benefit of it is that it's just there, ready to use, and you don't need to start from a blank screen.""Scraping with UiPath is easy, as is integration with some services. It's also easy to deploy solutions.""We use UiPath for web scraping. We extract data from websites, store them in boxes, and analyze them later.""We did not have to do a lot of customization because the standard UiPath activities fit our needs.""The solution has helped our organization save costs. It’s likely saved us about $10 million.""Robotic process automation is one of the most interesting features.""The solution's AI technology and machine learning models are the biggest contributor to saving time.""Being able to customize this is extremely helpful for us because we have other attended automation processes, and they can each be tailored to the needs of the business."

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Cons
"Their connector to Oracle or premium data sets that aren't Microsoft would often fail for me. The information given back about why it failed wasn't always robust to understand how to fix it and why it happened.""Their OCR capabilities are not as evolved as the other tools.""I've had issues with reordering columns. When I tried to do it, it seemed to take a long time, and then, later, it gave me some kind of error.""The OCR part or scanning of documents is missing.""Automatic selectors that allow me to select parts of a website could be more adaptable.""I would like to have a user account so that the staff can see all of their requests, including the status and other details for each one, on the dashboard.""We find the solution to be not that user-friendly, and might be using the older version, which really did not have a lot of features, so my review is mostly based on the older version.""Not suitable for connecting other applications like browsers and third party applications."

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"For a few of the projects, we have saved money, however, on a few of these projects we've noticed less revenue. The orchestration cost is a bit higher when we are working on smaller projects.""The licensing process is complicated and needs to be improved.""With all the different tools that they have in their arsenal, sometimes it's hard to know how we can get the most out of them.""I'm trying not to sound negative about it as I like them a lot, however, the process mining and the process mining features stem further away from the development of the robots and the monitoring. The development, run, and monitoring are really closely knit, or really close together, and then process discovery is starting to get there. It's on its way, however, I don't see that it's as closely connected as the other three parts.""The high cost of UiPath licensing significantly reduces the value we get from the solution.""I would like to see more support for the cloud in Australia.""Improvement should definitely be made in the area of screen capture, where Adobe Flash is still being used.""Some features are limited for Orchestrator. For example, the AI features could be more flexible and easily accessible. Every time I want to use some new features, we have to do a deep dive into this technology."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This solution is bundled with our Office 365, so there is no additional licensing fee."
  • "You pay for use and if you want a premium connector or adapter, but a lot of things are available for free."
  • "Power Automate is a much less expensive product than the competition."
  • "This solution is reasonably priced and offers a free trial period."
  • "There are many different ways to license it."
  • "There is flexibility in pricing."
  • "This solution can save money when used for simple tasks specifically using only Microsoft products."
  • "There is zero licensing cost. It comes with our Microsoft Office subscription."
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  • "It costs much less and it does much more than the competitors' solutions."
  • "The pricing differs on the requirements. If there is a huge purchase, then we get a discount. There is not a fixed pricing of the product."
  • "If you want to do a demo trial, it is a 30 days free."
  • "The community edition is completely free. Then, people say, "There is nothing to lose, let me try it.""
  • "There are operational benefits in terms of time savings and user satisfaction of not having to do menial, repetitive tasks."
  • "Traditionally, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism are the biggest things competing against UiPath. Those are usually what most of the clients lean towards, if they see a cheaper licensing option. Clients choose UiPath because it's easier to deploy and learn within their teams."
  • "We saw ROI in 15 days."
  • "They give it away in the community edition for free, so I use it at home."
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    Answers from the Community
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Yes, Attended Bots  which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.
    Top Answer:Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌… more »
    Top Answer:‌Neither‌ ‌solution‌ ‌requires‌ ‌any‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience,‌ ‌and‌ ‌both‌ ‌are‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌and‌ ‌have‌ ‌great‌ ‌drag-and‌ ‌drop‌ ‌functionality.‌ ‌The‌ ‌training‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌for‌ ‌AA‌… more »
    Top Answer:I can only speak to UiPath since that is the only RPA solution that I have used. I know that there are specific packages that you can integrate into your project that is specifically made to work with… more »
    Top Answer:I'm very familiar with UiPath and the RPA industry: was hired by Daniel Dines in 2015 when there were 35 employees and left in 2019 when there were 3K+. I'm a big believer in the product, leadership… more »
    Top Answer:What I like the most about UiPath is that we can build custom activities. If we want to customize functions based on our logic or use case, we can do that.
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    Also Known As
    Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive
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    Overview

    Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool that streamlines and automates tasks within an organization. 

    It is used for workflow automation, data integration, and creating automated notifications and approvals. 

    Power Automate connects different applications and services, such as SharePoint, Excel, and Outlook, to automate data transfer and synchronization. 

    UiPath is a user-friendly automation software that streamlines business processes by automating repetitive tasks. It offers extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and robust security measures. 

    Users appreciate its intuitive design, ease of use, and ability to automate complex workflows. 

    Its seamless integration with various applications ensures smooth data exchange and enhances workflow management, while strong security measures protect sensitive data and maintain compliance with industry standards.

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    1. Accenture 2. Deloitte 3. PwC 4. IBM 5. Capgemini 6. KPMG 7. Ernst & Young 8. Infosys 9. Cognizant 10. Wipro 11. Tata Consultancy Services 12. HCL Technologies 13. Genpact 14. Tech Mahindra 15. DXC Technology 16. Atos 17. NTT Data 18. CGI 19. L&T Infotech 20. Hexaware Technologies 21. Mindtree 22. Mphasis 23. Virtusa 24. Syntel 25. Zensar Technologies 26. WNS Global Services 27. Hexaware Technologies 28. Larsen & Toubro Infotech 29. Persistent Systems 30. QuEST Global 31. Sonata Software 32. Zensar Technologies
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    Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath
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    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 760 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 Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tungsten RPA and Fortra's Automate, whereas UiPath is most compared with Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, Robocorp, Pega Robotic Process Automation and Tungsten RPA. See our Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath report.

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