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.
"Blue Prism is very good at doing background processing."
"The only good thing about Blue Prism is the execution speed."
"The most valuable features are the exception handling and embedded control room."
"It's fast to get up and running if you use a cloud deployment."
"My company decided to go with Blue Prism because of the security it provides."
"RPA processes are helpful when we need interaction with different applications and close the technical gaps between them. In one of the use cases that we evaluated, there was a single Excel template from a vendor. The Excel file has 7,000 objects, and it included information about the part numbers, prices, and some of the details about each object of the aircraft. This file had to be input to SAP, so a human had to enter these 7,000 objects one by one, which is a pretty mechanical and uninteresting task. The RPA bot was easily able to import this file. Without RPA, this import had to be done by a person who had to do the same task 7,000 times just to import one contract."
"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."
"Blue Prism provides both on-premises and cloud versions."
"The most valuable feature is the ability and ease of linking multiple connectors within the same flow."
"For people who already use Office 365, Power Automate is very easy to integrate and use."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are user-friendliness and low coding functionality."
"I believe document reading has been beneficial when dealing with Microsoft."
"In just in one click, we can see any documentation, etc., that we need. It makes it very easy to navigate."
"It is easy to migrate from other tools to Power Automate."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"AI Builder is a good add-on."
"They should incorporate more functionalities in the analytics tool."
"Security could be improved."
"They cannot do assisted automation. That is a drawback because that technology is very old now."
"The control room is still the desktop version, which restricts access. You can't really access it from anywhere."
"I don't like that it is so limited, anything that you do feels limited in your capabilities."
"I believe that there could be more community support, or there could be more support for developers like us from Blue Prism. Blue Prism provides a lot of documentation, but there is a lack of support."
"Blue Prism has been a little bit slow when it comes to the commitments on their roadmap. They had some delays last year, so I hope they make it up this year... For example, they were launching a Decipher tool. It was delayed by more than a year. It has still not launched."
"They have OCR technology, but it's not that great."
"Its licensing model should be improved. The pricing should be more visible and transparent. When you consume services, there are too many criteria to figure out how much it is going to cost you to use the product to its full extent. It should also support visual process editing, which is a standard feature for BPMN 2.0 compliance. They should improve the visual designer."
"This solution should be more resilient, with robots more capable of recovering after an error."
"It would be great if it was able to integrate more with various other platforms. It would make development easier."
"It is challenging to scale the solution across multiple branches."
"The OCR part or scanning of documents is missing."
"The integration of our system into Power Automate was a bit tricky. We had to put a data lake in place before automating anything because we were not very structured in terms of data. Our major issue was cleaning up the data."
"The thing which needs the most improvement is really the documentation. It should have better details of the processes."
"Execution of workflows could be improved."
Blue Prism is ranked 4th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 86 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, Tungsten RPA and Blue Prism Cloud, 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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