Microsoft Power Automate vs OpenText Robotic Process Automation comparison

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"It comes as a part of the Microsoft suite, which makes it an easy sell."

"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."

"Its complete integration with Microsoft tools and the inclusion of the CRM are the most valuable features. It is embedded directly in the Office package, so clients have direct access to it. It has a lot more functionality than other standalone solutions, such as UiPath or Blue Prism."

"I find WinAutomation's linear approach to the code and function calling valuable."

"The initial setup is pretty easy."

"The product is very stable."

"I have found the scheduling and email notifications features to very good compared to other RPA tools I have used."

"It lets us automate almost anything, even with the legacy tools. It is very easy for us now to automate with legacy tools, which used to be difficult earlier. We work with a lot of other automation tools from Micro Focus, such as Operation Orchestration, but these tools can only connect to the API. So, there was a gap when we wanted to automate older and legacy tools that didn't have any API to connect to. We can now also automate without any changes in the customer environment. We don't need to change anything in the way that the customer environment works."

"It is mostly integrated with the Microsoft environment. Unlike UiPath, we cannot really use external tools with Microsoft Power Automate. There should be a possibility to integrate it with external tools or systems."

"There are frequent version updates and that impacts different algorithms so we have to adjust our code."

"Some automation features on some programs did not work smoothly."

"Microsoft Power Automate is limited if we want to create a complex flow because we have to split the log into two flows."

"More scripting capabilities could be included in Microsoft Power Automate."

"The solution could benefit from mirroring Oracle's use of videos and community forums to help users get acquainted with the product. It could use better online training and/or documentation."

"Automatic selectors that allow me to select parts of a website could be more adaptable."

"In an upcoming release, the exception handling mechanism could improve. The issue that we are facing is whenever there is a failure in any of the middle execution and if you wanted to navigate it to the end of the last line of execution, we do not have this feature available. If we had this feature it would make it even more stable."

"It currently supports only on-premises deployments. They can include support for cloud deployments. It should provide us the ability to choose a robot for executing a workflow. We want to control which robot executes a certain workflow. Right now, it automatically chooses the robot that is going to execute our workflow. It should also provide the ability to get filters on the outputs of the steps. We have each workflow as a step, and each step has some output. We would like to have the functionality to execute some script or some logic on these outputs to format the tests directly on the variables."

"Its licensing is flexible."

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

"This is the cheapest option among competitors. You can choose to have the RPA with attendance at $40/month with add-on's totaling about $190. There are standalone options that require someone to run the process and there are fully automated options that are integrated within the cloud."

"It has a cost-effective pricing model compared to competitors."

"There is flexibility in pricing."

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

"There is zero licensing cost. It comes with our Microsoft Office subscription."

"There is a per-user licensing model for individual users."

"The pricing model is very straightforward. You can have a one-year or three-year subscription. You pay for each robot that you want to use simultaneously. If you want, you can install 50 robots and get 50 licenses. If you want to use only one robot at a time, you just need one license. For each license, you pay around 10% or 15% to support. You pay for the license, and you pay a small percentage of the cost of the license for support. This is their licensing model, which is very easy to understand."