Microsoft Power Automate vs SAP Build Process Automation comparison

Microsoft and SAP are both solutions in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category. Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.8, while SAP is ranked #42. Microsoft holds a 6.7% mindshare in RPA, compared to SAP’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution.

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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Automate and SAP Build Process Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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 Microsoft Power Automate is 6.7%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Build Process Automation is 0.9%, up from 0.5% 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%
SAP Build Process Automation	0.9%
Other	86.9%

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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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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Craig Van Der Walt

CTO at Atheneum

Simplifies integrations and is suitable for large companies

Sometimes, when our company develops using the latest technology, the knowledge is not yet cycled down to the tool's support team. The tool's support team is not mature enough to handle the tool. The promotion of a feature before it is mature may cause issues, and I feel that sometimes the deployment of such features is a little too early. The tool will release a feature, but it will have bugs in it. We face challenges because the tool's team doesn't have the knowledge to deal with the issues in the product's new features. When SAP develops something, if the tool's team doesn't know how to support it, it becomes a problem because now we have to access developers to get the information that is not readily available.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The most valuable feature is its ease of development; it's pretty easy for people who don't have a tech background to use and is one of the easiest tools for them to use."

"We automated these processes so they will be processed automatically, and users will get the end result for validation—it is basically time-saving for them."

"Automation Anywhere can grow alongside our automation needs."

"We are trying to do about 100 automated processes this year, and I have confidence that the solution is able to cater our needs."

"The ability to automate renewals of government licenses four times a year is valuable."

"Currently, everyone wants to experiment more and more with cloud offerings. They don't want to spend money on setting up their internal hardware infrastructure. Automation Anywhere is the only tool that provides a pure cloud to customers. That is one of the key features."

"The efficiency we get with Automation Anywhere is valuable."

"Several manual, repetitive, time-consuming processes were automated, giving back time to the process owner, and for most of them the process now follows a single standard with additional controls created."

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"Should be high, as unattended RPA capabilities are available at almost free as I can utilize it under o365 license."

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

"The value is that the whole platform seamlessly integrates well and that there are enough connectors to the majority of the systems for the SAP connection, or ServiceNow connection, or an email connection, or SharePoint connection."

"The initial setup is very simple."

"We have completed a few projects, and just finished another one in which we were able to fill out 10,000 forms for a client who needed to do it as quickly as possible when a system went down, reducing a process that would have taken weeks to four hours."

"This product is a really easy-to-use solution for quickly developing prototypes."

"It is fast to implement, does not depend on the changes to existing systems to implement, saves hours that a team spends on performing the process manually, and most importantly it is easy to train business users since users are very much familiar with the Microsoft and Windows interface (UI)."

"The initial setup isn't too difficult."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it offers an integrated development environment."

Cons

"Sometimes, while recording, the screen hangs and we are not able to perform any actions during that time."

"We would like a smoother process for moving bots and tasks between the different development environments, from development to testing to production. We find this to be pretty cumbersome to work through."

"The only thing I would advocate for is making Automation Anywhere's developer environment Mac-enabled because many of our graduate students are coming out of school with Macs. Everything else in the Automation Anywhere world is built for Windows."

"Business processes are more complex and require experts to be brought in to automate."

"They are working on scalability, but I'm expecting them maybe a faster pace for the thing already in place. They need to improve the extraction and accuracy. It's a sort of a journey that we started with a few fears that may end up with a 100 or 200 fears. These are our expectations from IQ Bot. We are quite hopeful that a future release will solve this problem."

"Automation Anywhere is not fully compatible with browsers other than Internet Explorer while working with web extraction."

"Improving on the ease of use and user experience of Automation Anywhere (AA) could help."

"Automation with bots runs fine only if it is an attended bot. With unattended bots, the bots run only 25 to 30 percent of the time."

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"Better support is needed for building custom components on top of ProcessRobot."

"I would like to have a user account so that the staff can see all of their requests, including the status and other details for each one, on the dashboard."

"I would recommend removing the AI Builder feature from the automatic document processing functionality. The tool can serve even better with free automatic document processing features, it shouldn’t only be available in the trial version."

"Sometimes, Microsoft changes the game rules, and the free tools are no longer free, which makes it too hard to explain to customers. It is a SaaS service, so the cost is calculated based on the execution hours. However, we don't know the background of this cost because we cannot touch the infrastructure. They can be more open to developers or customers about this. The infrastructure part must be open for the customers."

"Sometimes it can be difficult to share flows for multiple users to edit."

"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."

"When it comes to cloud computing, there are many limitations when dealing with large amounts of data."

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"The tool's support team is not mature enough to handle the tool."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The starting price, which is a one-off fee is a bit high and this may deter mid and small-sized companies from acquiring and decide to shun the platform."

"We have reduced our headcount, approximately 200 to 300 employees, by eliminating manual, repetitive work. It provides profit to the business."

"The enterprise version is expensive for small businesses and individual users."

"It's fine. However, I'm concerned with the credits in terms of the pricing for the AI models. It is understandable that the new ones are more expensive, but the base models, after doing the pricing conversion, cost about four to ten times as much as paying directly."

"It is somewhere in the middle. The price and value of Automation Anywhere are better than UiPath. The pricing is good globally. It could be a little bit cheaper, but it is good."

"Roughly, as of today, it is around $250,000 annually."

"They sell it by license, but if they could charge by case or by interaction, that might be better. Right now, it's expensive when you want to scale or use them for simple processes."

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

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"Good price-quality relationship. Its features for its price were the best fit for our company."

"Comparatively, WinAutomation is cheaper than the other automation tools. When we purchased the license, it was around $50 or $60 per user most probably per month."

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

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

"We are using the free version of Power Automate."

"We are just using the free products at the moment. We are using the ones that come with the license that we have got."

"This solution is reasonably priced and offers a free trial period."

"This solution is bundled with our Office 365, so there is no additional licensing fee."

More Microsoft Power Automate pricing and cost advice

"The product is not cheaply priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Energy/Utilities Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

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	50
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	69

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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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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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How is Automation Anywhere compared to Microsoft Power Automate?

‌Neither‌ ‌solution‌ ‌requires‌ ‌any‌ ‌coding‌ ‌experience,‌ ‌and‌ ‌both‌ ‌are‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌and‌ ‌have‌ ‌great...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Build Process Automation?

The product is not cheaply priced. In a development environment, the tool simplifies landscape management, etc. Wheth...

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What needs improvement with SAP Build Process Automation?

Sometimes, when our company develops using the latest technology, the knowledge is not yet cycled down to the tool's ...

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What is your primary use case for SAP Build Process Automation?

I use the solution in my company for the development of applications.

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Comparisons

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

WorkFusion vs Automation Anywhere

Compared 2% of the time

AutomationEdge vs Automation Anywhere

Compared 2% of the time

Celonis vs Automation Anywhere

Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

Blue Prism vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 7% of the time

IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 5% of the time

Celonis vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 3% of the time

Fortra's Automate vs Microsoft Power Automate

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 27% of the time

SAP Intelligent RPA vs SAP Build Process Automation

Compared 21% of the time

Blue Prism vs SAP Build Process Automation

Compared 17% of the time

Blue Prism Cloud vs SAP Build Process Automation

Compared 5% of the time

Python RPA vs SAP Build Process Automation

Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

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

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

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.

Microsoft

SAP Build Process Automation accelerates business process automation by offering tools for designing, executing, and monitoring workflows, enabling scalable and efficient operations.

SAP Build Process Automation is designed for optimizing business processes by automating repetitive tasks, reducing human intervention. It serves digital transformation goals by providing tools for creating, managing, and tracking workflows. This fosters an environment of efficiency and scalability, supporting companies in adapting to evolving industry demands.

What are the key features of SAP Build Process Automation?

Low-code/No-code Platform: Enables users to automate processes without extensive coding knowledge, facilitating rapid deployment.
Pre-built Templates: Offers ready-to-use templates that speed up the creation of automated workflows.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with SAP and non-SAP systems, ensuring smooth data exchange.
Intelligent Bots: Automates tasks using AI-powered bots that mimic human actions in business workflows.
Monitoring Tools: Provides tracking and analytics to measure the performance and effectiveness of automated processes.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews?

Increased Efficiency: Users should note the reduction in manual errors and time spent on tasks.
Cost Savings: Reviews may highlight decreased operational costs due to lower reliance on manual labor.
Scalability: Consider user experiences regarding how automation scales with business growth.
Enhanced Compliance: Automation may lead to increased adherence to regulatory standards.
Improved Decision Making: With real-time data processing, users report more informed business decisions.

SAP Build Process Automation is implemented in several industries such as manufacturing, where it manages production workflows; finance, automating transaction processes; and healthcare, enhancing patient management efficiency. These implementations prove its versatility in meeting industry-specific challenges with tailored solutions.

SAP

Sample Customers

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

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

1. Accenture 2. Airbus 3. Allianz 4. Aon 5. AT&T 6. Bayer 7. BMW 8. Bosch 9. Cisco 10. Coca-Cola 11. Colgate-Palmolive 12. Comcast 13. Deloitte 14. Deutsche Bank 15. Ericsson 16. FedEx 17. General Electric 18. GlaxoSmithKline 19. Google 20. HSBC 21. IBM 22. Intel 23. Johnson & Johnson 24. JPMorgan Chase 25. Kimberly-Clark 26. KPMG 27. Liberty Mutual 28. Mastercard 29. Merck 30. Microsoft 31. Nestlé 32. Nike 33. Novartis 34. Oracle 35. PepsiCo 36. Pfizer 37. Procter & Gamble 38. PwC 39. SAP 40. Siemens 41. Sony 42. Spotify 43. Swiss Re 44.Toyota

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