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Microsoft Power Automate vs UiPath Process Mining comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Power Automate
Ranking in Process Mining
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
125
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd)
UiPath Process Mining
Ranking in Process Mining
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Gowtham J - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools
The initial setup process involves three trigger points. One is a manual trigger, where users interact with a button or interface element to start the flow. The second is the recurrence trigger, which allows users to schedule automated maintenance at a specific time. Third is a data-driven trigger, where the flow is initiated based on an event in a database, such as creating a new line item in SharePoint database. Once triggered, the flow continues to execute, performing the configured actions and providing the results.
Rahul Sharma. - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable solution with a comparison feature that helps people to understand and visualize the impact of a particular task
UiPath Process Mining is as lightweight a tool as it is new. It's not able to handle a lot of logs in one go at high speed. The solution's speed is fairly good, but it should be further increased to make it more powerful to process large amounts of logs. Logs should be as much as possible. We have taken one year's and sometimes two years' logs to understand the behavior. We are not here solving small problems because a lot of money is invested. I have observed that handling a large amount of logs slows down the solution's performance. This area is improving because we are now observing a new version of UiPath Process Mining with improved speed. As a developer, I'll be happy to see that happening more quickly, and I am sure the solution is heading there.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This product is the best in terms of price and capabilities."
"For people who already use Office 365, Power Automate is very easy to integrate and use."
"It's an intuitive product. It's not overly technical."
"The most valuable features are that it is low-code and simple."
"This product is a really easy-to-use solution for quickly developing prototypes."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are user-friendliness and low coding functionality."
"We use Power Automate for applicant tracking and automated around 80 percent of the process."
"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."
"Installation using the cloud solution is a seamless integration with virtually no installation time involved."
"The most valuable feature is that activities are available to us just by clicking the box, so it doesn't require much time to make changes for future requirements."
"We find the solution is scalable."
"UiPath Process Mining is really compact, like desktops and desktop automation. It is easy to make and easy to use."
"It saves our clients a lot of time."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface, which makes it easy to use for tasks like configuring resources."
"The most valuable features of UiPath Process Mining are the ease of use, it's provided us with good indicators of which processes can be automated. There are lots of non-value-add activities which are being done that have helped us identify. If we apply lead principles we are receiving a lot of benefits without automating. You are actually getting a lot of benefits even without automating."
"The product was highly stable, and the data flow was very smooth."
 

Cons

"It would be great if you could integrate outside of Microsoft environments."
"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."
"Microsoft Power Automate requires some knowledge and understanding of nuances for setup and security approvals."
"The OCR part or scanning of documents is missing."
"This solution should be more resilient, with robots more capable of recovering after an error."
"When we scale up, we switch to another application."
"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."
"There are frequent version updates and that impacts different algorithms so we have to adjust our code."
"The training materials sometimes don't keep up with the system changes."
"What needs improvement in UiPath Process Mining is manual delay support. For example, I have a pending workflow, and I've not taken action in the last five or ten days, and because of this, the whole process gets delayed, but UiPath Process Mining doesn't provide any manual delay insights. It gives about seventy to seventy-five percent detail on end-to-end process delays, the scope of automation, or the gap, but not about the manual delay, so what would make the solution better is if it communicates manual delay information. Every business process relies on human activity, with either approval or review, so UiPath Process Mining should capture that area and provide a workflow or diagram that shows more details, such as the impact of the delay, the workflow time without the human delay, etc. That could be too difficult, but it's what I'm expecting as a customer. More automation in UiPath Process Mining would be great."
"I have observed that handling a large amount of logs slows down the solution's performance."
"It's quite an expensive solution."
"We found that the flow chart is not very clear for some of the complex processes."
"The solution's UI and UX could be made better."
"Not everyone in the business can readily provide the kind of information that is to be put into process mining, which is an area that needs to be worked on."
"Setting up UiPath is relatively complex. It potentially involves multiple business units. First, you need to set up the connectors. If you want to analyze enterprise performance, you will have to do enterprise connectors, which means you must deal with different system owners, security, and things like that. That can get complicated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing two to three out of ten."
"There is flexibility in pricing."
"My company switched to a monthly payment for the WinAutomation by Softomotive license. I don't have the exact figure, but it roughly amounts to 500 Euros a year which isn't bad."
"With our Microsoft Office 365 license, we are able to use Microsoft Power Automate."
"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being expensive because there are charges for additional plug-ins."
"At the moment, from our experience with the two, Power Automate is a lot more expensive solution than Automation Anywhere, but it is also a far more reliable solution. With the price increases and with the current pandemic situation going on worldwide, a lot of the prices have fluctuated, but the packages and the all-encompassing features you get with the Microsoft package far outweigh the benefits from the Automation Anywhere side. Each package on the Automation Anywhere side is cheaper, but we need to continuously purchase subsequent packages to continue with our automation to the extent that we require. So, the Power Automate solution is a bit more pricey, but it does offer us a far better range of capabilities."
"They have the community edition that people can use for free, and they also have the enterprise edition. My company uses the enterprise edition, and I don't know how much they pay."
"UiPath Process Mining has different licensing types for users, developers, end-users, or designers. I don't have the figures, price-wise, but because my company is a UiPath partner, there's some discount offered when you buy in bulk. UiPath provides a good deal if you're a bulk user. UiPath Process Mining gives you value for money compared to some of its competitors in the market."
"We pay yearly, and I believe a support fee is paid monthly."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
"There is an annual subscription. It could be cheaper in my opinion, but it is still more affordable than other OEMs. This solution probably would not be ideal for people in the startup environment."
"The licenses are flexible, they start once they are activated. The license is purchased annually. The cost of the solution is very good compared to other similar solutions."
"It is very expensive."
"The price of the solution could be lower. However, Automation Anywhere is approximately $8,000, and when comparing these solutions, UiPath Process Mining is less expensive. The license for the solution is purchased annually."
"The pricing for the product is high. You pay a licensing fee and an additional 20% for support and maintenance."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
5%
Educational Organization
69%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Manufacturing Company
3%
 

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 UiPath Process Mining?
I would rate the stability of UiPath Process Mining a nine out of ten.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for UiPath Process Mining?
The pricing is high, falling around two or three on a scale where one is high and ten is low. UiPath has recently increased licensing costs, reducing the number of available license types, impactin...
What needs improvement with UiPath Process Mining?
Process mining could improve in optimization of resources. It should focus on identifying opportunities for automation and resource allocation efficiently. Better options for managing digital footp...
 

Also Known As

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

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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
Lotte Corporation, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Sunway Group, Deloitte, Heritage Bank
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