We performed a comparison between Fortra's Automate 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."Fortra's Automate performs the job effectively and has the capability to alert us of any issues."
"We have tried other RPA solutions like UiPath or Automation Anywhere. They are fantastic products but complex, and it's hard to understand everything. It would be best if you had a skilled developer or several. Automate is easy to implement, administer, and use. It's appropriate for us because our cases are simple and easy to automate. We don't need complicated tools with many features; We prefer to get a significant ROI quickly."
"The ability to connect to websites and pull data is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Compared to other vendors, it's the scheduling tool because a lot of vendors want to charge you extra for their enterprise-level license to have a scheduling tool built in to give you the ability to set up regular schedules to run and do certain data checks."
"The best feature of Automate is its ease of use, which is a major selling point."
"I like the interface; it makes managing automation easy. We can set different schedules and templates for each task."
"It's very easy to use. That's a big selling point for it. It has got a drag-and-drop interface, so you can quickly deploy bots."
"It gives us a central place to schedule tasks and run them distributed."
"Microsoft Power Automate is an easy-to-understand solution."
"Technical support is responsive."
"The solution helps automate manual tasks and interacts with multiple applications."
"The most advantageous aspect of the solution is its cloud capabilities."
"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's not hard to learn, which means we'll be able to make more workflows in the future."
"AI Builder is a good add-on."
"The solution has saved us hours of work."
"The workflow for variables could be better. The input and output of task-level variables could be made a little clearer in terms of passing those around from one task to another upon success, etc. Things like that could be a little easier potentially."
"There is room for improvement regarding cloud functionality; there are a few missing features, and the logging could be better, especially air logging. We can go into logging events and create our own task, but it would be nice if this were more detailed."
"Error messages should be better. For error status, there should be better documentation because a lot of times, error messages that you get are quite vague. For example, you get a message saying that the workflow has run into an unknown status, which is vague. It just tells you that it failed, but you don't know how or why it failed. It makes debugging difficult."
"Fortra's Automate is not as reliable as I would like it to be."
"The documentation for errors needs improvement as many of the error messages we receive are very vague."
"The intelligent automation feature could be improved. It's interesting because it's simple, but the automation quality isn't always good. It's easy to use, but sometimes you need to make a slight improvement to the automation, and that's not so easy."
"Sometimes when we communicate with the ERP system and there is an issue, we are not always aware of the specifics of Automate and the source of the problem."
"It would be an improvement if Automate had better stability tools, whether by recommending a certain amount of memory because it can be a memory hog at times."
"Microsoft could offer more AI education and training."
"The debugging tools require improvement as well as the monitoring which goes along with it."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"There are frequent version updates and that impacts different algorithms so we have to adjust our code."
"Microsoft Power Automate could improve by offering recurring execution on the desktop."
"It's not as user-friendly as a solution such as UiPath, which is really easy to use."
"Power Automate is too complicated - it forces you to go through extra tasks instead of streamlining your workflow."
"Things need to be improved with respect to RPA kinds of solutions."
Fortra's Automate is ranked 10th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 8 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 51 reviews. Fortra's Automate is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortra's Automate writes "An all-round automation tool that easily helped us save about a million dollars in operating costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Easy to use solution with automated reporting capability". Fortra's Automate is most compared with UiPath, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automation Anywhere (AA), MOVEit and Blue Prism, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and VisualCron. See our Fortra's Automate vs. Microsoft Power Automate report.
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