We performed a comparison between BotFarm and Microsoft Power Automate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of this solution are the Excel automation and support for SharePoint."
"There are not many challenges when setting up this solution, and there is a good amount of documentation to go with it."
"The most valuable features are PDF extraction and emailing."
"The ability to drag and drop various components and the customizability are good features."
"Automation Anywhere provides a very flexible UI."
"They recently released the newest version that has a good program flow, quality, and blueprints that are all good improvements to the automation. They also have good integration with SAP."
"The solution has very good processes. It's very easy to deploy and has good reviews on it. It offers good automation and the solution has very good developers working on it."
"BotFarm is an easy solution to use and the interface is better than older versions."
"In just in one click, we can see any documentation, etc., that we need. It makes it very easy to navigate."
"Third-party integrations with third-party applications are quite easy."
"Microsoft Power Automate offers over 200 connectors that enhance the user experience."
"It is very easy to learn and use. It is quite useful for any sort of back-office work. Any kind of work with low and medium complexity is very doable in ProcessRobot. For higher complexity, some refinement is required, but it is doable."
"It is quick, so I'm quite happy with it. It is also easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power Automate is the many functionalities, and ease of use. We had summer interns from college in their second year of engineering and they were able to start the building process quickly within a day."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to use."
"The best feature is that it doesn't require any other connectivity."
"I would like to see more process mining features to give us insight into them before we develop automation."
"The OCR command needs to improve. This feature is used to convert the extracted data from an image file. While converting this file I was facing a lot of issues with the data because it was getting lost and some of the data which was extracted was mismatched. The data loss was rated as a nine and the data accuracy was a massive decrease and was up to 80%."
"The licensing schemes could be more competitive. They need to be much more flexible in their pricing."
"The dashboard needs improvement. For Bot Farm, the visualization is not that good compared to the main Automation Anywhere dashboard."
"I have called customer service three times and the experience has not been good. They do not offer 24/7 support, which forces us to wait till the next working day to solve a problem."
"The solution automation is incapable of interacting with our Pega software application development. It is based on the nested table concept and it is unable to read these tables. Several projects have been put on hold because of that."
"An area for improvement in BotFarm is that the communication between the Control Room and the Bot Client Missions isn't utilized well. There's also the issue with PCI DSS compliance or certain regulations that require a set of configurations that are not fully supported by BotFarm. The product should be certified or designed according to the required regulations in the finance industry to make it better."
"We do have some troubles with the internal software commands, but we have been troubleshooting this bug to fix it."
"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."
"This solution should be more resilient, with robots more capable of recovering after an error."
"Their OCR capabilities are not as evolved as the other tools."
"The solution lacks maturity."
"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."
"Some automation features on some programs did not work smoothly."
"The solution could have more integration with different platforms."
"It would be great if you could integrate outside of Microsoft environments."
BotFarm is ranked 16th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 35 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 reviews. BotFarm is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BotFarm writes "Great feature sets, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". BotFarm is most compared with Automation Anywhere (AA), UiPath and Blue Prism Cloud, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Tungsten RPA. See our BotFarm vs. Microsoft Power Automate report.
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