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 sequencer programming mode's ease of use is its most valuable aspect. The ease of calling out the functions in a sequence, basically from the functional side, is great."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are the connectors, such as loops, which make things easier."
"Good core applications."
"I like that Power Automate gives us a connector to be able to connect different data sources or different software."
"With the desktop version, we can automate many things. The ability to do a lot of things is one of the most valuable features."
"The solution is relatively easy to use and cost-effective."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to use."
"I like the scalability option and the simplicity, the way we can really use the interface to easily scale up."
"It provides various services such as PDF automation and AI capabilities that help in creating accurate results. We are using the AI for chatbot integrations and handling customer interactions. It helps eliminate manual work."
"OCR technologies and computer vision (CV) technologies work very well and produce quality results."
"The bundling of the offerings into UiPath is quite important, so we don't have to go to several different vendors. We can try it out on our own and see if this is something we want to do. Then, we might bring in another partner or vendor to do some specialized training, debug the networks, etc. We're never going to get that capability ourselves. We don't have a large IT department nor do we have data scientists. For us, it's important that one or more of these skills are getting baked into the system."
"The use of AI has freed up time and resources for other tasks in our company. We are a little bit more of an ad hoc approach right now. I just finished up a new cross-set of processes about two weeks ago that allowed us to onboard a client. I wouldn't have been able to without this automation. It would have taken a couple of months of several people's time to get them to get all this work done in the back end."
"It's highly effective in pinpointing areas within the organization where assistance is required."
"The tool's most valuable feature is RPA."
"They are providing an architecture that is really amazing."
"What I like the most about UiPath is that we can build custom activities. If we want to customize functions based on our logic or use case, we can do that."
"When it comes to cloud computing, there are many limitations when dealing with large amounts of data."
"When comparing with Automation Anywhere, there are a couple of things that this product doesn't have. One of the major things is the key management system. It would be great if they improve this. Its documentation can also be improved."
"When you are doing desktop automation, they do not have a clear structure to create the code."
"I would like more integration with other tools. It integrates well with Microsoft products, but there should be more integration with other platforms and tools, such as chatbots."
"Better support is needed for building custom components on top of ProcessRobot."
"Automatic selectors that allow me to select parts of a website could be more adaptable."
"The UI of the solution is not so good."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Power Automate a four out of five."
"The machine learning and artificial intelligence components need to be enhanced and become more efficient."
"A self-coding robot can be a very useful tool in the future."
"There are a lot of solutions in UiPath where we have to know some programming languages. I'd like to cut some of that out, with features that perform those tasks without having to know programming languages. I work a lot with my team members who don't really know programming that well, and I have to walk them through how to do different coding things to effectively develop their RPA."
"Sometimes it takes time to provide results."
"I tested the Process Mining at my previous company and I don't think it's suitable for RPA processes. It operates at a way higher level and, using it, you may find an area in which you can optimize a process, but it doesn't just give you a defined process for automation. It doesn't necessarily help you to identify the processes."
"Studio... only works on Windows. It doesn't work on other platforms. I'm a techie by background. I don't hate Windows but I don't love it. It comes with the limitation that it is completely dependent on Windows. I would have loved if it were available on Mac or Linux or Unix."
"The logging capability that comes with Orchestrator does not allow you to create smart reports."
"The setting up of the cloud was a little bit confusing for us. We expected someone to walk us through that process and we just did it ourselves and weren't sure if we were doing it right."
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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