We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."I like the galleries, which are really powerful."
"The scalability is good."
"It is easy to design automation processes."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"For our purposes, it is quite scalable."
"I would say that the most valuable features are the user interface, navigation, and business routes."
"I like the containerization of Azure."
"The solution is very straightforward. Its context is obvious and everything is easy to understand."
"Microsoft Power Automate is very easy to use."
"The solution offers a lot of documentation and tutorials for users to learn about various aspects and features."
"The development time for ProcessRobot is very good compared to other solutions."
"This product is a really easy-to-use solution for quickly developing prototypes."
"Its usability is very valuable because it has a quite simple flow. It is very user-friendly. It provides you templates. I started learning with the help of Teams templates, and then I started providing them. It is always good to start with a template so that you understand how it works. Its branches are quite user-friendly. You can put expressions in it. It allows you to link and test the flow so that you can check whether everything is running properly. From a business standpoint, Power Automate is quite good for a non-tech person. It is not like Java, HTML, or C++, which are very developer-driven. Power Automate is a more business-oriented kind of tool."
"The solution has saved us hours of work."
"The most valuable feature is that you can run multiple automations at the same time, in parallel."
"The email routing, consolidation of the reports, and management features are strong."
"They probably need to improve intelligent document processing."
"The portal and canvas apps need to be improved and brought up to speed."
"I have heard from developers that there is documentation missing in the reporting."
"It's sometimes hard to import groups of options. At this point, I need to enter those manually and it slows the process down."
"The documentation isn't great. It's only 75% of what you need to know. If you go beyond that and run into issues, it's really not going to help you."
"There are occasional performance challenges."
"If the price was reduced and the quality of the user interfaces was improved it would be beneficial."
"I would like to see more improvement, for example, in direct collaboration."
"It would be great if it was able to integrate more with various other platforms. It would make development easier."
"Any task that is automated needs to be very simple. This tool does not seem to handle complicated tasks very well."
"There is a limitation in setting up loops, where it does not support multiple conditions."
"Sometimes, Microsoft changes the game rules, and the free tools are no longer free, which makes it too hard to explain to customers. It is a SaaS service, so the cost is calculated based on the execution hours. However, we don't know the background of this cost because we cannot touch the infrastructure. They can be more open to developers or customers about this. The infrastructure part must be open for the customers."
"The product should improve its RPA capabilities."
"The BPM component needs improvement."
"There is an RPA feature gap between this solution and other more mature products."
"These products have some limitations, such as the need to build some custom controls in PCF or use the JSON format."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, Appian and OutSystems, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Automation Anywhere (AA), Blue Prism, IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Tungsten RPA.
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