We performed a comparison between Blue Prism 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 Results: The two solutions have similar ratings with regard to ease of use and stability. However, Blue Prism seems to be slightly more favorable because even though it is more expensive, it has a lot of great features to offer, and also has good service and support, unlike Microsoft Power Automate.
"It is a very stable tool that allows very complex automations."
"The only good thing about Blue Prism is the execution speed."
"It works very well for batch processing at the backend. Scalability-wise, it is very robust. It is also stable."
"It's quite easy to use and easy to understand the process studio."
"Blue Prism provides both on-premises and cloud versions."
"Blue Prism is a great enterprise and it has offered the solutions that I have been needing in order to give my organization an RPA."
"The development interface is quite easy to work with."
"Blue Prism is very good at doing background processing."
"The program requires no code making it very easy to implement various functions."
"The solution helps automate manual tasks and interacts with multiple applications."
"For people who already use Office 365, Power Automate is very easy to integrate and use."
"Triggering and scheduling were pretty good. There was no real commitment with WinAutomation because the licensing was very fair and you could trigger bots very easily."
"Its integration with the Office 365 ecosystem is most valuable. We use a lot of ready-to-use templates."
"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."
"It makes work easier."
"Power Automate has allowed us to simplify the business process and improve operational efficiency."
"The upgrades could be managed better. I would also like to see more true AI development and machine learning."
"This solution is lacking attended automation, which is the worst thing about this solution."
"Our primary challenge at present is that we are finding it difficult to get additional business insights into existing processes so that we can identify where we need to improve."
"Navigation within the UI could be improved."
"Blue Prism can improve a lot. The interaction with Google Chrome can be massively improved. I know in the next version there are slight improvements. We don't know how much, but we are comparing them. At this moment, Google Chrome is a massive issue within the toolset, due to the way Google Chrome receives updates regularly but Blue Prism is unable to cope. The spy method of Google Chrome is not as user-friendly as Internet Explorer is. However, Internet Explorer is being discontinued from their support, therefore it's not the best browser to be using. This has caused us major issues in the last six months."
"They improve more in OCR, to read text more correctly, currently can say OCR in blue prism only works for less cases and is only effective 50%. so mostly OCR's of Blue prism is very less used and other API's or tools are integrated with Blue prism for OCR techniques."
"We would like to see intelligent process automation that integrates RPA and machine learning."
"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."
"Looping can be a bit tricky."
"The BPM component needs improvement."
"I would like to see better data integration with different sources."
"The integration of our system into Power Automate was a bit tricky. We had to put a data lake in place before automating anything because we were not very structured in terms of data. Our major issue was cleaning up the data."
"Technical support needs to be able to respond quickly to queries. Right now, they are much too slow."
"The solution is still maturing, and it's going to take time for that to happen."
"When comparing with Automation Anywhere, there are a couple of things that this product doesn't have. One of the major things is the key management system. It would be great if they improve this. Its documentation can also be improved."
"Better support is needed for building custom components on top of ProcessRobot."
Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 84 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 120 reviews. Blue Prism is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Blue Prism writes "Way more efficient for debugging than other tools but the UI is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". Blue Prism is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Pega Robotic Process Automation, Tungsten RPA and Blue Prism Cloud, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tungsten RPA and Fortra's Automate. See our Blue Prism vs. Microsoft Power Automate report.
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Hello,
There is a subtle difference between Microsoft's flagship workflow product Microsoft Power Automate and an Enterprise Robotics Automation Product as Blue Prism.
Well, to begin with, the technical community has attempted to use the Power Automate tool to perform Automation as well, but that's not what it is intended for.
Like any other Workflow Software Tool, Product or Framework, Power Automate is a no-code solution. The business use cases, for which it can be applied are purely workflow scenarios.
E.g., if you raise a Leave request in HR software which eventually gets to your manager for approval or a Retail Loan approval workflow Application (in a Banking Application) that has various levels of verification and validation by various departments and individuals before it is either approved or rejected.
Whereas when we talk about Robotics automation (like Blue Prism) it is a purely out and out Automation software that can automate and mimic all human actions while interacting with an application/software/product in a typical IT-driven organization, eventually requiring no or little human interaction while interacting with an application and can replace the human.
Hope I have answered the question to an extent.
Please do let me know if you have any specific queries you want me to answer.
Thanks.
Hi @Tarek Fanous,
Happy to talk you through what I have experienced in RPA.
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