We performed a comparison between Fortra's Automate and Microsoft Power Automate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I find it very user-friendly. Our IT department and other departments can seamlessly collaborate without requiring extensive training. As a business department, we particularly value this aspect, as our team doesn't consist of many IT users. However, we couldn't solely rely on a drag-and-drop approach to implement and utilize the solution within our departments."
"I actually quite liked the no-coding functionality."
"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 use it for specific cases, mainly secure file transfers, which are vital for us. And it works for us."
"It gives us a central place to schedule tasks and run them distributed."
"The pricing is excellent. I would give them perfect marks in that regard."
"The best feature of Automate is its ease of use, which is a major selling point."
"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."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"Its integration with the Office 365 ecosystem is most valuable. We use a lot of ready-to-use templates."
"The initial setup was easy. It was very easy for people to pick up. The deployment took a few hours."
"The most valuable features are that it is low-code and simple."
"This solution improved the reporting in our organization. The financial department was doing a lot of copy pasting from different sources to create financial reports. Through ProcessRobot, we were able to automate all those copy pasting and produce all those financial reports overnight."
"The solution has saved us hours of work."
"The best part is the automated workflow, which is quite good and easy. It is just drag-and-drop. We are able to create workflows quite quickly. We are able to directly integrate the data that it generates with Power BI dashboards. Its integration is quite good with other Microsoft tools, such as Power BI. The visualization of the data has become helpful for us."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to use."
"They do not encrypt passwords, so this is an issue with HIPAA compliance."
"Fortra's Automate is not as reliable as I would like it to be."
"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."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"It's possible that they could use a stronger community for seeking guidance and help."
"Some companies have asked for voice integration. This is likely part of the roadmap."
"We really need a free development environment for customers. Building and testing automation on production isn't ideal."
"I would like to see some better web automation, a wizard like the one in the product WinAutomation would be very nice."
"The solution lacks maturity."
"The stability of the product is not very good and can even fail with simple projects."
"I think the language Microsoft Power Automate uses when you do expressions could be better. What they use is not a popular programming language. It would be better for Microsoft to find a more popular programming language, such as Python. It would take away the whole no-code aspect of the solution but you don't need to write that many lines of code to improve something in a process. Instead of no-code, they could be a low-code environment."
"The OCR part or scanning of documents is missing."
"I would like to see better data integration with different sources."
"WinAutomation is scalable to a certain extent. I would rate it seven for the scalability, which could be better. Softomotive is better scalable than WinAutomation in this regard."
"It should work better for Angular websites, as it has a lot of problems."
"The OCR functionality needs to be improved."
Fortra's Automate is ranked 5th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 21 reviews while Microsoft Power Automate is ranked 2nd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 123 reviews. Fortra's Automate is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Power Automate is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortra's Automate writes "Can automate several processes with only one bot and is easy to implement, administer, and use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Automate writes "Provides valuable integration with other Microsoft tools". Fortra's Automate is most compared with UiPath, MOVEit, Automation Anywhere (AA), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Blue Prism, whereas Microsoft Power Automate is most compared with UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and VisualCron. See our Fortra's Automate vs. Microsoft Power Automate report.
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