UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate offer extensive automation capabilities, seamless integration with other systems, and competitive pricing. UiPath is praised for its user-friendly interface and robust security measures, while Microsoft Power Automate is commended for its diverse range of pre-built connectors and customizable options.
The summary above is based on over 100 recent interviews with UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our comparison report.
"The solution integrates more easily and with more tools than Automation Anywhere."
"This product has an easy-to-use interface with nice detail in the features."
"The best feature is that it doesn't require any other connectivity."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that you can run multiple automations at the same time, in parallel."
"The solution offers a lot of documentation and tutorials for users to learn about various aspects and features."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are the ease of use and the templates that are provided. I no longer need to make the document from scratch. I can search for what template I want and then it only requires me to modify it a bit for my needs. Additionally, it's helped improve my productivity and efficiency, and at the same time, it's quicker."
"Microsoft Power Automate is an easy-to-understand solution."
"The initial implementation was pretty straightforward."
"Although we don't use it, document understanding for our use cases is very compelling, but it was a little cost prohibitive just out the gate. We are looking at it long-term now that we have the data filtered if we can more strategically apply it to the best data to fit it. But overall, the platform is very innovative. I don't think I can call out one particular feature. The ease of use of integrating to and from Amazon components, being a cloud-native application ourselves, has been really helpful in the development and the ease of transferring documents between our internal systems and platform."
"It's very easy to adapt to and it's very user-friendly and robust at the same time. You don't need to have a lot of technical knowledge to use UiPath. Overall, it's a very good tool for tackling simple and very complicated business processes."
"The most valuable feature that we are using is UiPath Apps because it makes it very easy to implement tasks."
"It has mainly taken the load off of employees. We had a huge amount of tasks which weren't being done. It provides our employees time to do their other work, since we automated very manual things."
"The drag and drop interface of Studio is very valuable as it minimizes the development time."
"The technical support is extremely good."
"I like the tie-ins to other languages. Being able to use Python, C#, and VB has been very valuable because I can get a more diverse developer skill set on my team. If somebody's interested in a particular language, I can push them in that direction. If they want to get more into C#, for example, we can do that."
"The connectors and the integration capability can be improved. Microsoft RPA is a growing platform, and it is not yet particularly mature."
"The tasks that can be automated are limited to Microsoft applications only."
"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 UI of the solution is not so good."
"Enhancing Power Automate to work synchronously instead of asynchronously would eliminate the need for additional coding, saving time in project implementation."
"When compared to other workflow automation tools out there, it's just not as mature."
"Their connector to Oracle or premium data sets that aren't Microsoft would often fail for me. The information given back about why it failed wasn't always robust to understand how to fix it and why it happened."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"I have had issues with the selectors. I face problems during image capture, and I need to update them. It is not something that I can rely on."
"The community version of UiPath has a limited feature set, which can make it challenging for users to fully explore its capabilities without purchasing the enterprise version."
"The performance could be improved, and it is especially noticeable on older hardware."
"Insights is a little clumsy. StudioX is a great start but needs more functionality. They should bring the document understanding into StudioX and make it go a little bit further. There's a pretty clear point at which you really need to switch over to Studio, but in the case of some of our citizen developers, they'd like to stay in StudioX. They just need more features."
"When we raise a ticket, they'll ask a number of questions to analyze the problem. It would be better if they connected quickly and it was a call so they can understand the issue and then schedule a follow-up call."
"Building automations can be difficult at times with some of the activity packages and documentation being out of date, but we have a TAM that we work with that is very helpful in making sure that RRGs are known and that we get the results within the UiPath structure."
"UiPath should integrate more machine learning and have more machine learning processes. In their development system, they have some machine learning tools, but they should increase them."
"We now have a functionality that is being released for web forms. It's more for attended. I would like to have these web forms exposed in Orchestrator to be able to trigger a bot externally. I know we have partners that provide similar functionality. I would like to have that same functionality where you could deploy a form, but instead of having it pop up on somebody's desktop, they could go through a URL through Orchestrator and trigger the bots via a web interface. This is instead of having to be tied down to an attended bot."
Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 reviews while UiPath is ranked 1st in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 763 reviews. Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8, while UiPath is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UiPath writes "Facilitates end-to-end automation, has good AI and document understanding capabilities, and saves us costs previously spent on manual tasks". Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Tungsten RPA and Fortra's Automate, whereas UiPath is most compared with Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), Robocorp, Pega Robotic Process Automation and Tungsten RPA. See our Microsoft Power Automate vs. UiPath report.
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