AutomationEdge vs Microsoft Power Automate comparison

AutomationEdge and Microsoft are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. AutomationEdge is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.0, while Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.8. AutomationEdge holds a 1.3% mindshare in RPA, compared to Microsoft’s 6.7% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of AutomationEdge users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

AutomationEdge and Microsoft Power Automate compete in business process automation. Power Automate holds an edge due to its extensive features, whereas AutomationEdge is notable for competitive pricing and support satisfaction.

Features: AutomationEdge integrates effectively with IT systems, offering AI-driven automation, enhanced service management capabilities, and efficient data processing. Microsoft Power Automate offers comprehensive workflow automation, seamless integration with Microsoft 365, and a user-friendly interface for broad business applications.

Room for Improvement: AutomationEdge could benefit from improved ease of use and expanded third-party integrations, and enhancing documentation for users. Microsoft Power Automate might explore improving pricing clarifications, optimizing AI integrations, and extending capabilities for non-Microsoft environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Power Automate offers seamless deployment within the Microsoft ecosystem with extensive resources and robust customer service. AutomationEdge provides a supportive environment focusing on IT operations and service management, although it may lack the deployment ease of Power Automate.

Pricing and ROI: AutomationEdge offers cost-effective plans that provide a good return on investment for budget-conscious organizations. Microsoft Power Automate, while having a higher initial setup cost, offers significant ROI due to its robust features and integration, justifying the investment for comprehensive needs.

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Automation Anywhere

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 5.5%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AutomationEdge is 1.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Automate is 6.7%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Automation Anywhere	5.5%
Microsoft Power Automate	6.7%
AutomationEdge	1.3%
Other	86.5%

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Featured Reviews

Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Jajati Panda

Software Engineer at Apmosys

Delivers increased productivity and streamlines fraud processing in banking, though technical support could be faster

Before AutomationEdge, we had to hire coder-level experts with Java or Python knowledge. This approach took considerable time and required error handling to automate processes. With this tool, all processes are automatically handled with errors, and no-code automation is available. The cost for a developer is now significantly lower. Previously, we hired highly efficient developers with high salary packages. The license cost of 5 to 10 lakhs per year for one person to automate is equivalent to a person's annual salary. With the license and a developer hired at 3 to 5 lakhs, we can automate 40 to 50 processes.

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Ayobami Shobaloju

Customer Solution Provider at Wema Bank

Automating processes has saved time and improved communication

Something frustrates me concerning Microsoft Power Automate, and that is about the integration with Microsoft Forms and Excel. The issue now is that I don't get my responses synchronized automatically, and that frustrates me a lot. If the team could take this as feedback, the synchronization of the feedback responses from the forms and the Excel sheets should be seamless. This synchronization issue happens frequently, and it causes a lot of delays in the sense that the mails that ought to go out to the agents fail at some point. I have to reload these responses so that the agents can get their responses as when submitted. What I notice is that the responses don't go out without proper synchronization, so I reload the field responses, and this works afterwards. I would say probably a seamless walkthrough process for new users would be beneficial. For those using it for the first time, a seamless walkthrough process would be fine.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In human resources, we created several core SAP systems so that the basic users in human resources can reduce redundancies by 10 times with very little cost."

"Excel automation is one of the best features in Automation Anywhere. If we have to work with multiple excel sheets with lots of rows and columns, it gets really difficult to keep track of this is done manually. But Automation Anywhere makes it really simple and error-free."

"We have leveraged automation to increase economies of scale and value-added work while reducing operating costs."

"We had some business users who created their first bot four weeks back, and they were thrilled; it was very easy for them because of the drag and drag, and they understood the process very well."

"The graphical user interface (GUI) is very useful, since I don't know any coding languages. I have been able to be a developer with Automation Anywhere without knowing the technical background. I am a business user, and not needing the technical knowledge to use the system has been useful for me."

"Automation Anywhere is a good platform with extensive capabilities that has innovated and kept their platform more centered and relevant in the market by introducing AI and agentic capabilities."

"We have a close relationship with our account manager and technical support. This relationship makes the difference."

"It is easy to automate SAP by using Cloning and Metabot."

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"It is a valuable tool for developing efficient solutions, especially in finance and banking."

"The most valuable feature of AutomationEdge is creating accounts."

"AutomationEdge has shown the most productive impact, and the productivity was excellent before, and now it can increase by 20 to 30% more with AI implementation."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support of the solution a nine out of ten."

"The initial setup was easy and straightforward."

"The support from the vendor is very good."

"The product's most valuable feature is the executor."

"The chatbot that they have is most valuable. It is one of the best features because they own it, and they don't need to integrate with other parties to have a chatbot. This is one of the main features. The rest of the features are common to all RPA tools or vendors available in the market."

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"Technical support is available regionally and it's quite good."

"To automatically register some data has saved me a lot of time, reducing a daily three-hour task of downloading and matching spreadsheets to just two or three minutes, and the robot now handles reviewing up to 100 invoices a week instead of needing a person."

"It helps with the feedback mechanism, where we need to determine the relevant team and obtain their email addresses."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft Power Automate are the connectors, such as loops, which make things easier."

"The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to use."

"The RPA robotic process automation is a good feature. We can make a flow within a flow. We just made a UI flow. The flow is to run every day so far it's been quite helpful."

"The solution has saved us hours of work."

"I have very high regard for the stability of this product."

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Cons

"Technical support needs to be much faster. I also had the project delivery. I had six clients whom I looked after. Whenever we got stuck, it was all about sprinting. There was a two or three week sprint. Within that, if you just wait for two to three days, it doesn't make sense. The support needs to implode, because I was just talking to a customer now who came directly and asked us, "Can you give us a dedicated support team?" It's feedback from our customer that support takes too long."

"In the control room, the manual bot update should be looked at."

"The price is a little high and could be reduced."

"We would like to have a better debugging facility."

"The IQ Bot has not yet succeeded in living up to its reputation due to its high cost, low ROI, and its inability to meet client requirements."

"As of now IQ Bot only takes/fetches the record of the places that we have marked. e.g. Invoices fields that are dynamic in nature are very difficult to fetch the data from the scan copy. If this feature gets added, it will save a lot of time for developers."

"Some things that I do not see as of today are interactive chat or video interface."

"Automation Anywhere needs to have more testing tools to improve the testing portion of the solution."

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"With the solution, customizing software can be time-consuming."

"The price of the solution could be improved."

"Regarding stability and reliability, AutomationEdge is mid-range. When compared with other tools such as Automation Anywhere and UIPath, they are more stable than AutomationEdge."

"The installation process could improve. It was difficult to complete."

"The licensing for this solution should have a more competitive pricing model. The price is in the top five of similar products."

"In the future, they should have a similar version for the cloud and on-premises, and the installation should be flawless within few minutes."

"We cannot use extra modules while working with AutomationEdge. It crashes if we have lots of data to process in Excel."

"AutomationEdge's ecosystem has shortcomings and needs improvement. When we compare AutomationEdge to other RPA tools in our company, we find that it has a very minor online community."

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"Otherwise, it's expensive to buy all these extra applications, without knowing if or how you could use them or integrate them into your work."

"The integration of our system into Power Automate was a bit tricky. We had to put a data lake in place before automating anything because we were not very structured in terms of data. Our major issue was cleaning up the data."

"The solution lacks maturity."

"One of the challenges is dealing with OCR text recognition."

"It lacks a lot of functionality that other tools have. There should be queue management, and there should also be the capability to deal with a little bit more complex automation. If it had queue support and if it was capable of doing more complex automation, it would be a much better tool."

"Some automation features on some programs did not work smoothly, so that's a negative feature."

"It would be great if you could integrate outside of Microsoft environments."

"From an improvement perspective, Microsoft just needs to make sure that they have a real enterprise RPA tool. PowerApps and Power Automate are still not at the level of UiPath and Automation Anywhere. It could be because Automation Anywhere and UiPath have been in the market for quite some time. It's just about Microsoft increasing their focus in terms of product reviews and development and making them competitive products that one can consider at an enterprise level. Right now, their use cases are limited as compared to what one would consider doing with UiPath and Automation Anywhere."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not too expensive, but there are many tools available in the market that can provide the same functionality at a cheaper price."

"It is reasonable, but it can always be a little bit cheaper."

"The cost is at the highest end of the spectrum."

"Automation Anywhere has an advantage in terms of licensing. It is more cost-efficient compared to all other RPA platforms. It is a recommended solution when clients need a cost-efficient automation tool to perform unattended automation."

"If we count the integrations that we have done with Appian, which is where a lot of our savings is from, we are well over a million dollars in savings. This is from only doing development for about a year and a half."

"Yearly, our licensing costs are about $90,000 to $100,000. There will be additional licensing costs when we add more Bot Runners to our infrastructure."

"Automation Anywhere is expensive, making it suitable only for enterprise organizations."

"Pricing is a bit high when compared to other available tools; however, the tool is worth the cost."

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"The licensing for this solution should have a more competitive pricing model. The price is in the top five of similar products."

"It is expensive but its value can justify the cost."

"If you are looking for a budget solution, you can consider AE. It has all the features. Scaling it is way easier because of the cost itself."

"Price-wise, AutomationEdge is pretty affordable, making it not so expensive when you compare this with other tools in the market."

"The product is available at the lowest price."

"I give the price of the solution a nine out of ten."

"Pricing can be made better. Currently, I think the pricing is based on the market. The pricing also depends on the business partners that offer you the solution."

"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being expensive because there are charges for additional plug-ins."

"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."

"It is free with Office 365 subscription."

"It's more fragmented licensing, where every little thing that you add, you get an extra license cost."

"There are many different ways to license it."

"The platform is averagely priced. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."

"The licensing model is flexible in that you can pay per automation or per user. My client receives a discount because of the large number of users and pays approximately $15 for each one."

"The solution is $150 per month for the unattended add-on, and the normal Power Automate comes with an E3 license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	154
Midsize Enterprise	82
Large Enterprise	536

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	69

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AutomationEdge?

I rate AutomationEdge's pricing as a six to seven. It is expensive but its value can justify the cost.

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What needs improvement with AutomationEdge?

In AutomationEdge, I think there could be improvements. I have not used it in maybe two months, but in the past, you ...

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What is your primary use case for AutomationEdge?

My use cases for AutomationEdge include using two automations in my actual employment or company. I use it to create ...

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RPA that Bots can run without centralized control?

Yes, Attended Bots which can run without centralized control Module. RPA Tools like Automation Anywhere, uiPath ,Pow...

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How do I choose between UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate?

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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

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

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

Automation Anywhere

AutomationEdge delivers automation flexibility with coding, desktop automation, and technology tools like OCR and chatbots. Cost-effective with seamless integration, it supports scripting and scalability, optimizing workflows and enhancing productivity in diverse sectors.

AutomationEdge offers robust automation through concurrency, multithreading, and a suite of tools such as predictive analytics and Excel automation. It empowers companies by automating processes, simplifying workflows, and improving operational efficiency. This platform facilitates intuitive design, integrating AI capabilities with DocuEdge and enhancing business processes. Despite its advantages, it faces challenges in stability, GUI dependence, and integration, needing further improvement in AI capabilities, SAP integration, and pricing strategies. The cumbersome installation process and limited community support are noted, requiring attention to Excel automation, modularity, and intuitive design for competitive performance.

What are the key features?

Concurrent Processing: Allows simultaneous task execution for improved efficiency.
Desktop Automation: Streamlines repetitive tasks directly on users’ desktop environments.
Multithreading: Enhances performance by processing multiple tasks at once.
OCR and Chatbots: Incorporates optical character recognition and conversational interfaces for better user interaction.
Predictive Analytics: Utilizes data-driven insights to inform better decision-making.
AI Capabilities: Powered by DocuEdge for enhanced document management.
Seamless Integrations: Connects with other tools and services smoothly to improve workflow continuity.

How does AutomationEdge provide ROI?

Increased Productivity: Automating routine tasks enables staff to focus on higher-value activities.
Cost Efficiency: Offers a cost-effective way to streamline processes.
Enhanced User Support: Provides accessible support to optimize system use and resolve issues.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs ensuring long-term viability.
Improved Process Optimization: Fine-tunes operations to maximize resource use.

In industries like banking and finance, AutomationEdge automates routine tasks, enhancing customer service and process management. It optimizes manual tasks, reporting, and financial operations, integrating seamlessly into sales and finance design. Companies value its ability to automate and streamline workflows in cloud or on-premises deployments, improving efficiency in data-heavy processes.

AutomationEdge

Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool that streamlines and automates tasks within an organization.

It is used for workflow automation, data integration, and creating automated notifications and approvals.

Power Automate connects different applications and services, such as SharePoint, Excel, and Outlook, to automate data transfer and synchronization.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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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

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