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.
"It works very well for batch processing at the backend. Scalability-wise, it is very robust. It is also stable."
"The ease of development is the most valuable. Standard VBOs are pretty useful there with Excel and different things. Our custom developments for SAP and things like that are pretty easy to set up and quick to get going."
"This solution has increased the speed, accuracy, and happiness of staff involved in the activities for which RPA has been deployed."
"The most valuable feature is the work queue. This helps the user to create a workflow, and it is a very powerful tool for generating management reports."
"Technical support has been responsive when we have needed their assistance."
"The tool is very technically sound."
"Blue Prism MAPIEx and the Java Bridge are really great features provided for automating Java-based applications and for allowing mail to send and receive smoothly."
"The support is good."
"The solution is very easy to use. It's a code three platform that works very easily with documents to create custom automations."
"I use the product for automation."
"The feature most useful for integrating different applications is its ability to create flows. Specifically, we use flows to integrate with finance and operations."
"This product is a really easy-to-use solution for quickly developing prototypes."
"Power Automate is intuitive and easy to use."
"The most advantageous aspect of the solution is its cloud capabilities."
"I have found the scheduling and email notifications features to very good compared to other RPA tools I have used."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"Blue Prism is lagging in terms of artificial intelligence. There is no artificial intelligence in version 4 or 5, which most people are still using as far as I'm aware. To be fair, they do have AI in version 6. Still, it's lagging terribly. Blue Prism is the inventor of the name of the term "RPA," and it's disappointing to see they are sitting around... Cognitive learning, for example, where it can actually follow your movements on the screen, is not there in Blue Prism."
"If this solution had a framework for exception handling then it would be very helpful."
"The scalability has to do with the latency of what you're connecting to. And so if you're connecting to something that isn't particularly scalable, it doesn't matter how many robots you scale out. You're constrained by the latency and the size of the application or solution or service that the robot is using."
"The upgrades could be managed better. I would also like to see more true AI development and machine learning."
"Occasionally, there may be stability issues where certain nodes begin to behave erratically and produce errors."
"There are a lot of things coming up, such as Discovery Bot and Process Discovery. A lot of other aspects are also maturing. We have definitely started using it for our clients, and it is maturing as a solution, but it is all about how you integrate the enterprise with all the automation projects, such as your chatbot, Conversational AI, and robotics. How they are integrated and talk to each other creates a very good business case with all three aspects. The next level should be about integrating it with other automation tools as well. It can have integration with other tools or automation projects, such as your chatbot, Conversational AI, and robotics."
"Blue Prism could be more scalable."
"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."
"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."
"The debugging tools require improvement as well as the monitoring which goes along with it."
"It should be more stable, and their technical support should be faster. It should also have more integration with tools from other vendors, such as SAP and Oracle, and technology partners, such as Salesforce."
"The solution could offer more specific training. There should be more examples of what the functions can do and more instructions and explanations to the process."
"The downside is the lack of orchestration and supplemental tools such as capturing existing processes and using them to build out."
"It is challenging to scale the solution across multiple branches."
"These products have some limitations, such as the need to build some custom controls in PCF or use the JSON format."
"There should be a comprehensive or enterprise level of application to provide the cognitive AI, and there should be orchestration so that I can control all the robots on one station. The other tools are currently providing these features."
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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