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Blue Prism vs Microsoft Power Automate comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Blue Prism
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Power Automate
Ranking in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
124
Ranking in other categories
Process Mining (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Blue Prism is 12.9%, up from 11.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 21.5%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
 

Q&A Highlights

Tarek Fanous - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2022
 

Featured Reviews

Mohamed Salah Baccouche - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2023
Way more efficient for debugging than other tools but the UI is complicated
Our company uses the solution's automation processes to develop a fleet of robots for one of our clients. To date, we have developed more than 40 robots.  We also have clients in the banking and insurance industries.  We currently use both the 6.10.2 and 7.0 versions of the solution.  The solution…
Gowtham J - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 28, 2023
Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools
We use the product to automate tasks and reduce manual work in our organization. It helps set up a workflow to send a daily email reminder at a specific time, eliminating the need for manual intervention and ensuring timely reminders. It integrates Outlook as well The product provides valuable…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Blue Prism currently supports SQL Servers and structured data."
"All of the processes that we've automated have been completed successfully, and the bots are able to process them as expected."
"It is not just for coders, as you can have a diagrammatic representation of the process."
"Blue Prism provides both on-premises and cloud versions."
"You can easily see where all your problems lie, in a visual way. It's always nice to have a visual representation of things... Seeing things at one glance makes a lot of difference, instead of having to read through the fine print and see where the issues are."
"The development interface is quite easy to work with."
"The overall package from Blue Prism is valuable. I cannot pinpoint one certain part."
"It is a very stable tool that allows very complex automations."
"Its complete integration with Microsoft tools and the inclusion of the CRM are the most valuable features. It is embedded directly in the Office package, so clients have direct access to it. It has a lot more functionality than other standalone solutions, such as UiPath or Blue Prism."
"It is a great solution for simple automation activities or simple automation of simple tasks. It is also integrated with Office 365. Integration is an absolute breeze with any RPA software."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are user-friendliness and low coding functionality."
"We have a good overview of our processes now thanks to Power Automate."
"I have found the scheduling and email notifications features to very good compared to other RPA tools I have used."
"The solution helps automate manual tasks and interacts with multiple applications."
"Its usability is very valuable because it has a quite simple flow. It is very user-friendly. It provides you templates. I started learning with the help of Teams templates, and then I started providing them. It is always good to start with a template so that you understand how it works. Its branches are quite user-friendly. You can put expressions in it. It allows you to link and test the flow so that you can check whether everything is running properly. From a business standpoint, Power Automate is quite good for a non-tech person. It is not like Java, HTML, or C++, which are very developer-driven. Power Automate is a more business-oriented kind of tool."
"The pricing of the solution is competitive, which is good for the Romanian market."
 

Cons

"The reporting system, specifically the system admin reporting could be improved."
"I would like to see machine learning functionality integrated with the automation."
"Blue Prism could be more scalable."
"Optical character recognition has room for improvement."
"If that bot is running 24/7, we have to allocate people 24/7, 24 hours a day. The cost of support can be quite high."
"It isn't very easy or intuitive for our developers to program the bot to make intelligent decisions. A bot, for the lack of a better word, is stupid, and it can only do what we program it to do. It cannot make intelligent decisions. For example, if we are reviewing Uber charges, they could be posting their transactions under different corporation names, even though they are under the same parent company or group. A human can easily understand that it is the name of the same company, and it just has an asterisk or space, but a bot cannot do that. When a bot cannot complete the transaction, it sends out an exception rate, business exception, or system exception for a human to do a manual review. The exception rate has been high because the bots cannot make decisions that we think are very simple, which is understandable because that's how they were programmed. There is potential in utilizing the higher intelligence side of the tool, but it is not easy to code higher intelligent actions. It is a very lengthy process to get the provisioning to ensure that it is kind of doing what it needs to do. Provisioning involves multiple things, and it is quite complicated and not the best experience, but it is not just because of Blue Prism. Blue Prism is easy, but it takes a long time to onboard into our in-house system."
"It lacks integration with proper AI, and it is a very complex tool to use in general."
"A feature that I would like to see in the next release is the ability to easily call on the robots to fulfill part of the process, and be run by the users in the business, where the robot can simply be activated rather than running mass processes from a control room."
"All the services on the Microsoft platform are great. If we want to try something like with SharePoint or Azure or the 365 CRM, then we can't with the everyday community edition of the Microsoft Power Automate. It would be a good thing if there was some sort of trial period. Let's say you have 14 days. That way, can log into the loading screen with Power Automate, and get to utilize services like SharePoint, OneDrive, 365 CRM or etc. to see if they like them. It would be a good way for Microsoft to cross-sell or up-sell."
"We are looking to see more features implemented there are already available in UiPath or Automation Anywhere."
"It should work better for Angular websites, as it has a lot of problems."
"There is an RPA feature gap between this solution and other more mature products."
"More scripting capabilities could be included in Microsoft Power Automate."
"I would like to have chatbot assistance available, where you can open it and receive help on the spot."
"The OCR functionality needs to be improved."
"For countries in our region, it's not very well known."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Blue Prism is high compared to others solutions. It would be helpful if they could provide a trial version for new users to try. Other vendors provide a community or trial version. There are not any hidden costs."
"The licensing fees are low compared to other tools."
"Blue Prism has a really simple licensing model, where the licenses are not confusing and there are no hidden costs the way there are in UiPath."
"It's an expensive product. For what they are providing in terms of capabilities and features for the price, I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten."
"Blue Prism is an expensive solution, especially in Southeast Asia, while in Europe and the UK, it can be considered moderate in terms of cost."
"Blue Prism is less expensive than some of the other RPA solutions."
"I chose Blue Prism because it is priced well. The pricing was right for me at that moment even though Automation Anywhere is better in other aspects."
"Its license is costlier than UiPath and AA. They should improve its price. We have a two-year contract with them."
"Microsoft is providing an automatic license with a cost of $20 million per month, which is reasonable."
"We have it on our system. I don't really know if we need a separate license."
"Currently, we are using the free license for testing. After everything is done, we'll buy the license."
"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being expensive because there are charges for additional plug-ins."
"You pay for use and if you want a premium connector or adapter, but a lot of things are available for free."
"The free version is quite good."
"I give the cost a three out of ten."
"Power Automate is comparatively less costly than UiPath."
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Answers from the Community

Tarek Fanous - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Adding to the answer here are the finer points: 1. Workflow technical features - a. ability to create a multi-level approval task. b. ability for the workflow engine to wait till the approval or rejection or any action is performed on the tasks. c. ability to delegate the task in the approval chain. e. Log of all activities within the workflow for the purpose of audit or tracing back the histo...
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Shiv Chandra - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 10, 2022
Hi @Tarek Fanous,  Happy to talk you through what I have experienced in RPA.  Feel free to reach out to me via DM or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sh...
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Mar 10, 2022
Hello @Okay Akdeniz, @Biswajit Mohanty, @KinjalDangeria, @Nancy_Sachdeva, @Shantanu Chande ​and @Mattia Mezzacapo, Can you please help @Tarek Fanous ​by sharing your insights?
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Should I choose Blue Prism or Microsoft Power Automate?
Hello Netanya, it depends on your needs and your expertise. In my humble opinion you can start a big RPA project implementation with Blue Prism which is stable and mature software, in order to ser...
I am evaluating Blue Prism and UiPath for RPA for my company. Which one do you recommend?
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, leadershi...
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?
Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌...
How is Automation Anywhere compared to Microsoft Power Automate?
‌Neither‌ ‌solution‌ ‌requires‌ ‌any‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience,‌ ‌and‌ ‌both‌ ‌are‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌and‌ ‌have‌ ‌great‌ ‌drag-and‌ ‌drop‌ ‌functionality.‌ ‌The‌ ‌training‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌for‌ ‌A...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive, Minit
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, Walgreens, American Express, Royal Bank of Canada, Pfizer, Shop Direct, O2, Siemens, Ascension Healthcare, Jaguar Land Rover
1. Coca-Cola 2. General Electric 3. Siemens 4. Accenture 5. Deloitte 6. Johnson & Johnson 7. Ford 8. Nestle 9. Procter & Gamble 10. IBM 11. Amazon 12. Google 13. Microsoft 14. Adobe 15. Cisco 16. Oracle 17. SAP 18. Intel 19. HP 20. Dell 21. Verizon 22. AT&T 23. T-Mobile 24. Walmart 25. Target 26. Home Depot 27. McDonald's 28. Starbucks 29. Nike 30. Apple 31. Facebook 32. Twitter
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