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.
"The web-based designer is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"The only feature that stands out in Blue Prism, as compared to other tools, is security. This is the only reason for still having Blue Prism in our bucket. It is very secure and reliable, and it has also been in the market for a very long time. We automated a lot of federal and government automation processes very recently with this solution."
"The technical support is very good."
"This solution has increased the speed, accuracy, and happiness of staff involved in the activities for which RPA has been deployed."
"Blue Prism currently supports SQL Servers and structured data."
"A feature I like about Blue Prism is the Control Room and how easy it is to find exceptions, to find common issues, and to troubleshoot your exceptions. Your Control Room person, without any development skills, can easily pick up what the problem is, with the exceptions, especially when there are a lot of exceptions related to one use case or process."
"I find Blue Prism's debugging functionality to be quite useful."
"Although the solution may look complicated it actually has a lot of features and user space to work out of."
"The solution integrates more easily and with more tools than Automation Anywhere."
"We have talked to Microsoft. We're a large company and we're talking to Microsoft on a regular basis. We have a partner we talk to when it comes to Automate. We are absolutely satisfied with technical support."
"Power Automate is intuitive and easy to use."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It is a low-code platform. It is easy to use and good for automating small tasks such as expense approvals, timesheet approvals, etc."
"I like the scalability option and the simplicity, the way we can really use the interface to easily scale up."
"The integrations that are built into Power Automate for those different Microsoft functions are good."
"It works best to build cloud flows."
"Emerging technologies adoption is a challenge for every organization, especially the products which address productivity/automation."
"The upgrades could be managed better. I would also like to see more true AI development and machine learning."
"It's not very easy to use. There is some learning curve that you need to manage as an individual."
"Blue Prism could improve by having better integration with Computer Vision."
"I would like to see machine learning functionality integrated with the automation."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see support for attended robots."
"Blue Prism is not very flexible when it comes to integrations."
"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."
"These products have some limitations, such as the need to build some custom controls in PCF or use the JSON format."
"Microsoft Power Automate's basic activities are not strong."
"Inability to use a lot of connectors without having a premium license."
"From an improvement perspective, Microsoft just needs to make sure that they have a real enterprise RPA tool. PowerApps and Power Automate are still not at the level of UiPath and Automation Anywhere. It could be because Automation Anywhere and UiPath have been in the market for quite some time. It's just about Microsoft increasing their focus in terms of product reviews and development and making them competitive products that one can consider at an enterprise level. Right now, their use cases are limited as compared to what one would consider doing with UiPath and Automation Anywhere."
"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."
"They've already improved it, but I guess a testing suite would be nice to be able to test your automations in real time."
"We are looking to see more features implemented there are already available in UiPath or Automation Anywhere."
"Automatic selectors that allow me to select parts of a website could be more adaptable."
Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 85 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 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, Blue Prism Cloud and Tungsten RPA, 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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