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AntWorks CMR+ vs Microsoft Power Automate comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AntWorks CMR+
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (16th)
Microsoft Power Automate
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
133
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (3rd), Process Mining (3rd), Agentic Automation (3rd), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

Rick Koo - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Technology Leader at Mercer
Leading-edge NLP capabilities, efficient training of machine learning models, and the automation saves us significant time
The machine learning capability is good. The algorithm helps us to get the right data with less training effort. The technology seems to be a little bit ahead of the standard NLP software. They use more pattern recognition, rather than basing everything on reading static text. The problem with relying on an unchanging text is that it can depend on things such as the formatting, and where things appear within a document. This solution can process complex formats, which is helpful for us because we get a lot of PDFs and they come in many different formats. As an example, a carrier might include a list of their rates in a table, whereas a different carrier will write their rates into a paragraph, and yet another will put them into some sort of graphic. If you only capture text then you will only capture part of that data. Pattern recognition ultimately helps us to circumvent the problems in dealing with format variability in documents and allows us to capture the right data. When it comes to predicting what it is that a document needs manual intervention, CMR Plus does it pretty well. They have a QA cycle that is usually able to highlight such data. The content recognition ability, in terms of giving us only the data that we need and nothing else, is pretty good. It has a positive effect on our efficiency and by extension, it impacts our infrastructure costs.
Ayobami Shobaloju - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Solution Provider at Wema Bank
Automating processes has saved time and improved communication
Something frustrates me concerning Microsoft Power Automate, and that is about the integration with Microsoft Forms and Excel. The issue now is that I don't get my responses synchronized automatically, and that frustrates me a lot. If the team could take this as feedback, the synchronization of the feedback responses from the forms and the Excel sheets should be seamless. This synchronization issue happens frequently, and it causes a lot of delays in the sense that the mails that ought to go out to the agents fail at some point. I have to reload these responses so that the agents can get their responses as when submitted. What I notice is that the responses don't go out without proper synchronization, so I reload the field responses, and this works afterwards. I would say probably a seamless walkthrough process for new users would be beneficial. For those using it for the first time, a seamless walkthrough process would be fine.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Pattern recognition ultimately helps us to circumvent the problems in dealing with format variability in documents and allows us to capture the right data."
"This product has helped to boost our overall efficiency and performance, giving us the ability to automate many manual tasks and collect the right data for our analytics so we can serve our clients more effectively."
"The automation provided by this solution has saved us a lot of time."
"The automation provided by this solution has saved us a lot of time."
"The most valuable feature is that it is pretty low-code, so you don't need much coding expertise to use it."
"Technical support is responsive."
"The RPA robotic process automation is a good feature; we can make a flow within a flow, and we just made a UI flow that runs every day and so far has been quite helpful."
"By creating in-house solutions, we had a high impact on the organization."
"Its integration with the Office 365 ecosystem is most valuable. We use a lot of ready-to-use templates."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the automation interface and the RPA automation."
"It is a very useful product as compared to other products."
"Very reasonably priced."
 

Cons

"It would be very helpful to have a simple and extensive training guide, or training model, to help learn how to work with the product."
"We would like to see the overall accuracy increase from approximately 70% to perhaps 85%."
"It would be very helpful to have a simple and extensive training guide, or training model, to help learn how to work with the product."
"We would like to see the overall accuracy increase from approximately 70% to perhaps 85%."
"WinAutomation is scalable to a certain extent. I would rate it seven for the scalability, which could be better."
"There should be more transparency when it comes to which features accompany the pricing, as there appear to be hidden features of which I am not aware."
"The solution could offer more specific training. There should be more examples of what the functions can do and more instructions and explanations to the process."
"The development itself is not easy."
"Its licensing model should be improved. The pricing should be more visible and transparent. When you consume services, there are too many criteria to figure out how much it is going to cost you to use the product to its full extent. It should also support visual process editing, which is a standard feature for BPMN 2.0 compliance. They should improve the visual designer."
"The coding part could be improved. Sometimes, there are triggers that require coding."
"The tool must be more stable."
"Power Automate is too complicated - it forces you to go through extra tasks instead of streamlining your workflow."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is really good, and it's based on usage."
"Currently, we are using the free license for testing. After everything is done, we'll buy the license."
"The licensing model is flexible in that you can pay per automation or per user. My client receives a discount because of the large number of users and pays approximately $15 for each one."
"It is free for us. It is embedded directly in the Office package."
"I am not aware of the recent pricing model, but during the time that I was using this solution is was reasonable."
"At the moment, from our experience with the two, Power Automate is a lot more expensive solution than Automation Anywhere, but it is also a far more reliable solution. With the price increases and with the current pandemic situation going on worldwide, a lot of the prices have fluctuated, but the packages and the all-encompassing features you get with the Microsoft package far outweigh the benefits from the Automation Anywhere side. Each package on the Automation Anywhere side is cheaper, but we need to continuously purchase subsequent packages to continue with our automation to the extent that we require. So, the Power Automate solution is a bit more pricey, but it does offer us a far better range of capabilities."
"This is a cost-effective product and now that it has been acquired by Microsoft, we don't expect the cost to increase with the next release."
"The solution is $150 per month for the unattended add-on, and the normal Power Automate comes with an E3 license."
"It is free with Office 365 subscription."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Construction Company
9%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Insurance Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise66
 

Questions from the Community

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RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?
Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.
How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?
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Also Known As

ANTstein
Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive, Minit
 

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Sample Customers

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