We performed a comparison between Automation Anywhere and Microsoft Power Automate based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Automation Anywhere seems to be a slightly superior solution. All other things being more or less equal, our reviewers found Microsoft Power Automate’s automation capabilities and technical support documents to be lacking. Some users feel that Automation Anywhere’s documentation could also be improved.
"It has the ability to tag different components within the automation. We built it to track the ROI and stability of the product."
"It has reduced the number of full-time employees."
"The most valuable feature is the screen recorder, which helps to automate processes easily."
"The code automation platform is the most valuable feature."
"This solution is easy to use and easy to learn compared to Blue Prism, UiPath, and others."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It is a very guided experience: out-of-the-box with Automation Anywhere University training."
"Automation Anywhere has significantly improved our organization's efficiency. Across various processes, we have achieved a 90% time savings for each use case, making our workflow much more streamlined and productive."
"The general features, that we can automate a task that takes hours into minutes, are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is how much you can do with this solution."
"The tool is very good at implementing automation within processes. It's saved us from doing a lot of manual processes."
"The product is very reliable and very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate across multiple systems."
"Microsoft Power Automate offers over 200 connectors that enhance the user experience."
"This solution improved the reporting in our organization. The financial department was doing a lot of copy pasting from different sources to create financial reports. Through ProcessRobot, we were able to automate all those copy pasting and produce all those financial reports overnight."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are the connectors, such as loops, which make things easier."
"From my personal experience of using Microsoft Power Automate, I think that the automatic document processing feature is helpful for many organizations in streamlining administrative processes. It is a very good feature. It has helped many enterprises to process documents without spending much time on them."
"It is very difficult to create and automate timetables because they are modal, and it would be helpful if the bot could assist us with this."
"More structured and unstructured data collection will be a challenge. While we have the IQ Bot tool, the success rate at the beginning will be lower. It will be around 20 to 30 percent at the start because you need to train the bot at regular intervals. Of course, this depends on the data. This area could use be improvement."
"Automation Anywhere is easy to use, even if you lack technical skills. People without deep technical expertise can easily develop scenarios."
"We do not have a precise area that needs improvement, but sometimes while running bots that traverse through different websites, the screen hangs or takes time to fully load."
"Automation Anywhere should have more Excel-related functionality."
"I suggest that they add some features in dashboard, where you can say, "These type of features are things that people like more." You want to add those to your project and showcase them to the client so they will be happier. Because you know what features people like if you give a suggestion, that is good for everyone."
"I would like to see them continue building out documentation with more video-aides."
"I would like better support. The technical support is mediocre. The support is sometimes really good, and sometimes it is really bad."
"We need a more powerful desktop option."
"Automatic selectors that allow me to select parts of a website could be more adaptable."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"Power Automate has fewer features and more limitations in general. It's not as mature a product as some of the others, like UiPath or Automate Anywhere."
"In an upcoming release, the exception handling mechanism could improve. The issue that we are facing is whenever there is a failure in any of the middle execution and if you wanted to navigate it to the end of the last line of execution, we do not have this feature available. If we had this feature it would make it even more stable."
"The OCR functionality needs to be improved."
"Microsoft shouldn't charge extra for the database license if you want to store the data in the database during the trial. We wanted to have a historical trend of the data, and we started with the trial version of the tool. The database license is not included with the trial version, and you have to purchase it separately. Because we had a budget constraint, we had to pull all the information manually from the system, massage it, and push it to the dashboard. About two months ago, we have upgraded to the full-fledged version in which the database is integrated. The database license should be there in the trial version, but they have totally decoupled it. They should have provided a bundle, at least for the trial version, so that once a person or a firm gets a sense of it, they can start building. It might be because they wanted to sell additional licenses or premium licenses, and that's why they have added it in the premium version. It should have more cognitive features. Automation Anywhere and UiPath are different because they have cognitive functionality plus intelligent automation. The cognitive functionality is currently not there in Microsoft Power Automate. It is just for workflow automation and basic bot-level tasks. It should have more cognitive features, which probably will be launched in a couple of years."
"Any task that is automated needs to be very simple. This tool does not seem to handle complicated tasks very well."
Automation Anywhere (AA) is ranked 3rd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 483 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 reviews. Automation Anywhere (AA) is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Automation Anywhere (AA) writes "Automation Co-Pilot enables us to present details from CRM for business management on one page". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". Automation Anywhere (AA) is most compared with UiPath, Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tricentis Tosca and Pega Robotic Process Automation, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tungsten RPA and Fortra's Automate. See our Automation Anywhere (AA) vs. Microsoft Power Automate report.
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