ElectroNeek vs Microsoft Power Automate comparison

ElectroNeek and Microsoft are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. ElectroNeek is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.2, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2. ElectroNeek holds a 0.8% mindshare in RPA, compared to Microsoft’s 21.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of ElectroNeek users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

Microsoft Power Automate and ElectroNeek compete in the automation software category. Microsoft Power Automate seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive feature set and deeper integrations, especially for users within the Microsoft ecosystem, while ElectroNeek offers significant budget advantages for businesses focused on cost-effectiveness and scalability.

Features: Microsoft Power Automate provides robust integration capabilities, particularly with Office 365, a wide range of connectors, and a low-code platform that facilitates ease of use. ElectroNeek is valued for its unlimited bot deployment without additional licensing fees, a user-friendly interface, and efficient scalability, making it ideal for quick automation solutions.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Power Automate could improve documentation, enhance integration with non-Microsoft products, and offer better error handling and advanced AI tools. ElectroNeek needs to enhance its activity library for flexibility, improve remote desktop interactions, and browser compatibility, particularly with Microsoft Edge.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Power Automate offers flexible deployment options across cloud and on-premises environments, supported by extensive documentation and a large community, although technical support experiences vary. ElectroNeek supports various deployment models, including hybrid environments, but offers limited technical support documentation and less favorable response times compared to Microsoft.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Power Automate presents competitive pricing, especially for organizations already using Microsoft products, offering an attractive balance of cost and functionality for extensive automation needs. ElectroNeek provides affordability with flexible yearly licensing and cost-effective scalability, delivering significant cost savings for simple automation tasks. Although Microsoft Power Automate is generally more expensive, it justifies the cost with its richer features and integrations for complex implementations.

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Fortra's Automate is 1.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ElectroNeek is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 21.2%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Featured Reviews

Anabel Marco

Account Director at Software Greenhouse

Can automate several processes with only one bot and is easy to implement, administer, and use

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. We can automate several processes with only one bot, so it's much cheaper than other products where you need to buy additional licenses. We need a good value for our automation. The other solutions might be more robust, but Automate is perfect for us because we're not a large enterprise.

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Sarath Gopinathan Nair

RPA Developer at DigiStaff

User-friendly, good UI, but does not work well with Microsoft Edge

We use the solution to automate processes such as the pay slips within the consol portal The solution is user-friendly with a really good UI and ID. The support is good. ElectroNeek has video recordings that enable us to easily automate tasks, and it includes a wide variety of activities. The…

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Nilesh Pundkar

IVR Developer at Orange

Good for email routing and management features but additional costs for plug-ins

Power Automate has fewer features and more limitations in general. It's not as mature a product as some of the others, like UiPath or Automate Anywhere. One of the main issues I've found is that Power Automate struggles with accessing Excel or other Office documents on servers. Even though it's a Microsoft product, we often have to log in through remote systems, and syncing can be problematic due to the way we use servers. At the very least, they should provide access to Office 365 directly, without requiring additional logins on servers. Most people utilizing Power Automate are already working within the Office 365 environment. Any proof of concepts (POCs) using Power Automate would naturally be built on top of Office 365.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It gives us a central place to schedule tasks and run them distributed."

"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."

"This tool has machine learning and voice recognition and computer vision, which are both quite useful aspects. These aren't available in other tools. It's a good addition to this tool and it gives the solution an edge on the market."

"We are still in the process of rolling it to production and tweaking it (our AD groups are a mess), but the improvements are priceless. Having users ID's created the same way every time without human error is the best part. We don't need to worry about why groups were not added, user rights not set to folders or missing a private folder being created, typos or just even knowing when things are done and logged."

"This product is quite easy to install, learn, and use, with our new employees being able to start using it in projects for clients after only two weeks of internal training."

"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."

"I actually quite liked the no-coding functionality."

"The interface is simple, user-friendly, and very intuitive."

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"The solution is user-friendly with a really good UI and ID."

"ElectroNeek was extremely easy to use, especially its UI was easy to navigate with limited training."

"The most valuable feature is the price."

"The product's setup is straightforward."

"We find the OCR feature very valuable, due to the corrector recognition that it provides; this is very useful for document processing."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

"My favorite feature is that you can have unlimited bots without having to buy more licenses. That's a powerful option for scalability."

"The drag and drop feature, which is no code, is very useful for me because I am not a technical person. It is very user-friendly."

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"With the desktop version, we can automate many things. The ability to do a lot of things is one of the most valuable features."

"It helps with the feedback mechanism, where we need to determine the relevant team and obtain their email addresses."

"The interface is user-friendly."

"It's not hard to learn, which means we'll be able to make more workflows in the future."

"The email routing, consolidation of the reports, and management features are strong."

"The most valuable feature is that it is pretty low-code, so you don't need much coding expertise to use it."

"It is easy to migrate from other tools to Power Automate."

"The solution is easy to understand and to develop connectors."

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Cons

"I believe we need to test various OCR tools that assist in evaluating, let's say, six different customer resyncs. We analyze their spending patterns and documentations, but current OCR support has limitations, requiring highly standardized documents, which isn't always the case. With a more advanced OCR system, we could improve processes related to credit risk management and legal matters. We're exploring how to integrate Fortra's Automate with our CRM platform, taking cues from instances where Salesforce seamlessly merged with Automate. However, we use a different CRM, Insight for New Enterprise, and we're seeking ways to connect the automation process within our CRM. We aim for the automation to continue smoothly, even in instances where traditional automation methods might face hurdles."

"The documentation is not that great."

"The technical support could be better. We suffer from language barriers, as we are in Argentina."

"The vendor is currently working on a solution that allows us to automatically create a process that is based on a document that we receive via email."

"It's possible that they could use a stronger community for seeking guidance and help."

"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."

"We really need a free development environment for customers. Building and testing automation on production isn't ideal."

"While this solution is continually improving, as it is now, the user interface could use improvement when I compare it to a product like UiPath."

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"When I wanted to use web scraping for tables in web applications, I found through online forums that such functionality or activity is currently not working as it shows."

"The pricing is an area with a shortcoming, and from an improvement perspective, it needs to be made cheaper."

"The solution needs to improve its stability."

"The integrating capability of the product needs to be improved, to ensure that it works with all systems involved in a process."

"The solution works well with Google Chrome, but not with Microsoft Edge, which is the browser we use for automation."

"ElectroNeek comes with three activities and we cannot add activities like we can with uiPADs."

"I think that this solution could improve remote desktop interactions."

"Its price could definitely be lower."

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"When compared to other workflow automation tools out there, it's just not as mature."

"It is challenging to scale the solution across multiple branches."

"I had some experience in the past with the solution having some difficulties with large loads, it is already better but it could still be improved."

"One of the challenges is dealing with OCR text recognition."

"Automatic selectors that allow me to select parts of a website could be more adaptable."

"I would like to have a user account so that the staff can see all of their requests, including the status and other details for each one, on the dashboard."

"More scripting capabilities could be included in Microsoft Power Automate."

"The solution is still maturing, and it's going to take time for that to happen."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"While solutions like UiPath and Blue Prism cost around $11,000-$12,000 for each license, this product costs around $7,000 and you can keep it forever."

"I like the way this solution is priced because you can buy a license, or you can buy the software outright."

"The cost is a bit high for a small business like ours, but we manage with Fortra's Automate."

"Once you buy the software, you just pay for the support for backend help."

"From a distributor's perspective, one of the biggest selling points of Automate is its price point."

"From a distributor's side, one of the biggest selling points is its price point. Without going into any numbers, compared to UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blue Prism, we're significantly cheaper. The main difference is that other competitors usually charge you per process. However, in Automate's case, it's priced per bot. So, a bot can run multiple processes at the same time, but you are only priced for a single bot."

"I believe the price falls within a reasonable range, which significantly influenced our decision regarding the product. This aspect is crucial for any technological solution, especially in our country where enterprises might be hesitant to invest heavily in something untested or uncertain about its practicality and potential returns."

"Compared to other products, the pricing model for this solution is much more convenient, flexible, and adaptable to the Portuguese reality."

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"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a seven."

"I give the price an eight out of ten."

"Its price could definitely be lower. Its licensing is on a yearly basis. There is no additional cost to the standard licensing fees."

"I believe we had a Silver Membership or something similar annually."

"My company has made a payment towards the purchase of a license from ElectorNeek."

"It's very affordable and the licensing is billed on a yearly basis."

"Its licensing cost is comparatively less as compared to Automation Anywhere. We have bought a two-year license agreement."

"Initially, we had a Microsoft account for Office 365. Later, we discovered that our license included access to Power Automate at no additional cost. There was a small fee for additional features, but it was negligible compared to the benefits. There are not any additional fees required to use the solution."

"I believe one of the advantages of this device is its low cost."

"I don't deal with the financial side. I know that we pay for a per-user license. It is probably less than $20 a user, but I am not sure about the exact figures."

"It had by far the fairest licensing on the market. For the money, you got a very good value."

"I give the cost a three out of ten."

"This is a cost-effective product and now that it has been acquired by Microsoft, we don't expect the cost to increase with the next release."

"The solution is $150 per month for the unattended add-on, and the normal Power Automate comes with an E3 license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

15%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HelpSystems AutoMate?

We use it for specific cases, mainly secure file transfers, which are vital for us. And it works for us.

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What is your primary use case for HelpSystems AutoMate?

We used the platform primarily for task automation, including transmitting EDR files. Additionally, we've utilized it...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortra Automate?

The starter pack was all we needed and was reasonable. Others were either more expensive or didn't do all that I want...

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RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?

Yea there are. For example Electroneek.

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What do you like most about ElectroNeek?

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ElectroNeek?

My company has made a payment towards the purchase of a license from ElectorNeek.

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RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?

Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Pow...

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How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?

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How is Automation Anywhere compared to Microsoft Power Automate?

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Comparisons

UiPath vs Fortra's Automate

Compared 36% of the time

Automation Anywhere vs Fortra's Automate

Compared 7% of the time

Blue Prism vs Fortra's Automate

Compared 4% of the time

MOVEit vs Fortra's Automate

Compared 4% of the time

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UiPath vs ElectroNeek

Compared 69% of the time

Automation Anywhere vs ElectroNeek

Compared 15% of the time

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UiPath vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 34% of the time

Blue Prism vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 19% of the time

Automation Anywhere vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 17% of the time

Python RPA vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 3% of the time

Pega Robotic Process Automation vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

HelpSystems Automate, Automate

ElectroNeek RPA

Power Automate, Microsoft Flow, MS Power Automate, WinAutomation by Softomotive, ProcessRobot by Softomotive, Minit

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Overview

Fortra's Automate is predominantly used in HR and operational departments for automating reports, file manipulation, and data processing. Key uses include automating repetitive tasks, integrating PDFs and emails, running scripts, processing large data sets, transforming file formats, synchronizing databases, managing job schedules, and transferring files.

Users commend Fortra's Automate for its ease of implementation and user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, which requires minimal technical skills for efficient bot deployment. The software is appreciated for its effective scheduling tools, reliable integration capabilities, and a wide range of functions such as file interaction, secure file transfers, and extensive automation without the need for coding. Businesses achieve significant time savings and simplified processes, bolstered by continuous updates and robust customer support.

What are the key features?

Scheduling Tools: Enables precise control and timing for automation tasks
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly connects with various systems and software
File Interaction: Comprehensive functions for file manipulation and transfer
Secure Transfers: Ensures data safety during file transfers
User-Friendly: Minimal technical skills needed for deployment and use

What benefits should you look for in reviews?

Ease of Implementation: Fast and simple setup process
Time Savings: Reduces time spent on repetitive tasks
Process Simplification: Streamlines complex workflows
Customer Support: Access to continuous support and updates

In various industries such as healthcare, transportation, and payroll, Fortra's Automate automates workflows like invoice generation, data retrieval, data uploading, and insurance eligibility checks, enhancing efficiency and accuracy for HR and operational tasks.

ElectroNeek is an Intelligent Automation Platform transforming business process management in enterprises by integrating AI bots with employee workflows, automating routines, and helping humans to focus on more creative and strategic tasks. ElectroNeek provides a wide range of exciting low-code automation tools based on RPA, IDP, AI and GPT-4 (Conversational and Generative) technologies.

Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool that streamlines and automates tasks within an organization.

It is used for workflow automation, data integration, and creating automated notifications and approvals.

Power Automate connects different applications and services, such as SharePoint, Excel, and Outlook, to automate data transfer and synchronization.

Sample Customers

Aldergrove Financial Group, Preferred Health Professionals, Mindbeam Technologies, First Credit Union in British Columbia, Vestcom International, Prime Liberty Benefits, University of Tampa, CNLBancshares, World Precision Instruments, BJ's Restaurants, Globe Pequot Press, Accudata Technologies, Norton Healthcare, Pacific Toxicology Laboratories

UFP, Clariant, Ricoh, FMBCapital, RePower

1. Coca-Cola 2. General Electric 3. Siemens 4. Accenture 5. Deloitte 6. Johnson & Johnson 7. Ford 8. Nestle 9. Procter & Gamble 10. IBM 11. Amazon 12. Google 13. Microsoft 14. Adobe 15. Cisco 16. Oracle 17. SAP 18. Intel 19. HP 20. Dell 21. Verizon 22. AT&T 23. T-Mobile 24. Walmart 25. Target 26. Home Depot 27. McDonald's 28. Starbucks 29. Nike 30. Apple 31. Facebook 32. Twitter

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