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Microsoft Power Automate vs SAP Signavio Process Intelligence comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power Automate
Ranking in Process Mining
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
126
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd)
SAP Signavio Process Intell...
Ranking in Process Mining
7th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Process Mining category, the mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 21.6%, down from 28.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Signavio Process Intelligence is 6.9%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Process Mining
 

Featured Reviews

Nilesh Pundkar - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
TigerPillay - PeerSpot reviewer
Comprehensive understanding and efficiency of operational processes
Predominantly, it enables financial services organizations to build up process knowledge and improve operational efficiency The most valuable features are Process Manager and Process Governance functionalities. The area that could be improved in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence is its Journey…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I like that Power Automate gives us a connector to be able to connect different data sources or different software."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the cost and ease of use, it's very simple."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power Automate is the many functionalities, and ease of use. We had summer interns from college in their second year of engineering and they were able to start the building process quickly within a day."
"The most valuable features are that it is low-code and simple."
"Power Automate is intuitive and easy to use."
"The connectors are a very good feature."
"Automation is the best feature of the product."
"Workflow management is what clients select the most. It is very intuitive and pretty much drag-and-drop, so we can create escalation, decision flows, and if-else conditions pretty much by dragging and dropping boxes. Even someone who is not technical can develop a workflow for the business."
"Predominantly, it enables financial services organizations to build up process knowledge and improve operational efficiency."
"The product helps us build solid business use cases."
"It's easy to set up."
"By clearly defining process owners, customers can not only better achieve their goals but are always accountable to partners and audits."
"It has the ability to create journey maps, and to connect journey maps to BTMM."
"Everything is valuable. If you're looking at the process documentation feature, it's really easy to use. We have official training from Signavio trainers, but sometimes I do the training myself very shortly for our colleagues. In less than one or two hours, they are already able to model the business process themselves. The language is really easy. The user interface is really easy. If you're talking about process simulation, we have customers and clients internally who are using it a lot, because they are from logistics or operations. They have numbers and KPIs behind the process. They know their numbers, so they have to see how they can improve a given business processes with a change in the task sequence or a change in the numbers of KPIs. If you're talking about the process mining, it is integrated into the whole solution."
"The product is relatively user friendly, it does what you need it to do."
"The initial setup was simple. One can know how exactly the process performs just by clicking a few buttons."
 

Cons

"They can improve the description of errors and provide more details. Sometimes, when I receive an error, I can't understand what is wrong. It would be useful to have a desktop version to modify or edit workflows. Its scalability can also be better."
"Microsoft Power Automate is limited if we want to create a complex flow because we have to split the log into two flows."
"What needs improvement in WinAutomation by Softomotive is its stability. Stability is quite important to me. Another area for improvement in the solution is robot scheduling because it's not 100% accurate, in particular, it's 90% accurate. The monitoring of the robot could also be improved because it's not very straightforward, and you have to look in a few places or at least two places which means that monitoring is not a one-glance process."
"Technical support needs to be able to respond quickly to queries. Right now, they are much too slow."
"The BPM component needs improvement."
"They should include a custom plugin feature so that we can add our custom connections."
"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."
"The product should improve its RPA capabilities."
"Interface could be more user friendly."
"The solution is not very intuitive. It is very complicated to use."
"The UI could be improved."
"I would like to see a better version of the solution."
"SAP has to figure out a better way to price it. Their licensing structure isn't ideal as it's based on data; therefore, it's hard to estimate client costs."
"With the new release, I have some problems. Actually with Signavio, many of the processes are not viewable for unclear reasons. The product itself is reachable most of the time, but some processes are not there. Some pages do not loading at times."
"There could be more standard interfaces for importing data from the various systems in the process landscape."
"The product doesn't allow me to focus on a particular value stream and how the value stream performs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Due to the pricing model, the solution is more convenient than any other tools."
"Comparatively, WinAutomation is cheaper than the other automation tools. When we purchased the license, it was around $50 or $60 per user most probably per month."
"Microsoft Power Automate is expensive. The full license is quite expensive."
"It costs us nothing because we use it on the built-in cost that is a part of our existing license for 365. To use it more extensively, there are different pricing models. Its licensing is complex. It is complex to evaluate the cost in advance. As a result, people don't use it because they don't know what overall cost they are going to incur. There are too many criteria to figure out how much it is going to cost you to use the product to its full extent. Its licensing model should be improved, and the pricing should be more visible and transparent."
"With our Microsoft Office 365 license, we are able to use Microsoft Power Automate."
"I am not aware of the recent pricing model, but during the time that I was using this solution is was reasonable."
"This solution is bundled with our Office 365, so there is no additional licensing fee."
"We are using the free version of Power Automate."
"The pricing is expensive."
"It is a fairly expensive solution."
"I would not say the product was terribly expensive but I would not say it was cheap either."
"The costs of the solution require transparency since sometimes it refers to the number of users and sometimes the amount of volume that is used"
"The solution is expensive, and I rate it an eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
5%
Computer Software Company
24%
Manufacturing Company
14%
University
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?
Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Power Automation they do support this.
How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?
Microsoft‌ ‌Power‌ ‌Automate‌ ‌is‌ ‌intuitive‌ ‌and‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌integrate‌ ‌and‌ ‌use.‌ ‌I‌ ‌like‌ ‌that‌ ‌there‌ ‌is‌ ‌no‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience‌ ‌necessary,‌ ‌and‌ ‌appreciate‌ ‌the‌ ‌automated‌...
How is Automation Anywhere compared to Microsoft Power Automate?
‌Neither‌ ‌solution‌ ‌requires‌ ‌any‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience,‌ ‌and‌ ‌both‌ ‌are‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌and‌ ‌have‌ ‌great‌ ‌drag-and‌ ‌drop‌ ‌functionality.‌ ‌The‌ ‌training‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌for‌ ‌A...
What do you like most about SAP Signavio Process Intelligence?
The product helps us build solid business use cases.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Signavio Process Intelligence?
The solution is expensive but lesser than SolarWinds. It comes with free SAP licenses.
What needs improvement with SAP Signavio Process Intelligence?
The solution is not very intuitive. It is very complicated to use.
 

Also Known As

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

 

Sample Customers

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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