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 solution has been very user-friendly."
"The system is stable and very little maintenance is required, assuming the bots process is perfectly designed."
"The solution is very manageable."
"The dashboards are quite good, especially on the latest versions."
"The solution seems to offer high stability. We haven't seen any bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze."
"The most valuable features are PDF extraction and emailing."
"The most valuable feature of BotFarm is the fact that we can use escalations when we need more computer power to fulfill all embargo that we receive in one day."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Excel automation and support for SharePoint."
"It has a gamut of things. Power Automate is easy to configure. It is more for a citizen developer. It is low code/no code. It is one of the easiest tools when it comes to configuration. By default, we have a lot of Microsoft products on our laptops or desktops. So, it is very easy to configure the remaining products."
"Different trigger events were most valuable. You could schedule a process on a recurring basis, at a certain time of day or week, or when something happens, which is huge."
"It is basically free for me because it comes with my Office 365 subscription. The main feature is that there is abundant learning material on platforms like YouTube. You can find information about whatever you want to be done in Spanish or English without a problem. It is very easy to learn. Users can start using it on their own without any former training, which is something I like about this solution."
"I like the scalability option and the simplicity, the way we can really use the interface to easily scale up."
"The most valuable feature is how much you can do with this solution."
"I like Power Automate because it is very easy to use for users who don't have IT knowledge."
"It's easy to learn."
"The solution is easy to understand and to develop connectors."
"Although I like the OCR technology, it could still be further improved."
"The only challenge that we have faced with BotFarm is that there is no continuous deployment. The whole world is moving to the DevOps model, but BotFarm is still not on the DevOps model. It should have integration with the DevOps model. The migration of the bots or bots pipeline is currently purely manual."
"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."
"The CL command poses an issue during the process of data conversion, accuracy, data loss and the assessment of certain data as false."
"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 dashboard needs improvement. For Bot Farm, the visualization is not that good compared to the main Automation Anywhere dashboard."
"The user experience could be made a little better with this solution. I find it difficult to find qualified people to be able to use the solution."
"The discovery suite that they just acquired could be included."
"The solution is difficult to customize. I would like to see more flexibility when it comes to using different kinds of activities."
"The debugging tools require improvement as well as the monitoring which goes along with it."
"Inability to use a lot of connectors without having a premium license."
"It doesn't have any OCR capabilities."
"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 can provide a deeper level of feedback about running processes. When I compare it to Blue Prism, the control room has slightly less information about the running processes and possible errors. I'm not a pro, so I am not entirely sure if this is a core feature of the product or if it is because of the way our partners have developed it or set it up."
"I think the language Microsoft Power Automate uses when you do expressions could be better. What they use is not a popular programming language. It would be better for Microsoft to find a more popular programming language, such as Python. It would take away the whole no-code aspect of the solution but you don't need to write that many lines of code to improve something in a process. Instead of no-code, they could be a low-code environment."
"We expect Microsoft Power Automate to work like any other RPA software, but at present, it is fairly lax, especially in the RPA space. We have a very limited set of use cases today for Microsoft Power Automate. Microsoft should make it a full-featured RPA product like other solutions that we use, such as Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and UiPath. This is predominantly the area that they need to improve on. Microsoft Power Automate is quite complex to use as well, especially if you want to do advanced workflows or advanced automation. The regular simple workflows are quite easy and straightforward, but the moment you want to do something complex, it is almost impossible for one of our employees to work on it."
BotFarm is ranked 7th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 20 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 3rd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 62 reviews. BotFarm is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BotFarm writes "Reliable and easy to use with good dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Very user-friendly and easy to use but requires better user training at first". BotFarm is most compared with Automation Anywhere (AA), UiPath, ABBYY Vantage and Blue Prism Cloud, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, WinAutomation by Softomotive and IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA). See our BotFarm vs. Microsoft Power Automate report.
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