Hi peers,
I work as the Unit Business Director-FICO-PM at a Consumer Goods company (size: 1000+ employees).
At the moment, I'm working on a comparison between two RPA solutions (Microsoft Power Automate and Blue Prism) to present for my management.
I'm new to the RPA and I need some help/inputs in identifying the technical differences between the two products (as when I've received some financial proposals from these two vendors, the price difference is huge).
I appreciate your comments and advice to help me do the exercise.
Adding to the answer here are the finer points:
1. Workflow technical features -
a. ability to create a multi-level approval task.
b. ability for the workflow engine to wait till the approval or rejection or any action is performed on the tasks.
c. ability to delegate the task in the approval chain.
e. Log of all activities within the workflow for the purpose of audit or tracing back the history.
f. integration with third-party, internal or line-of-business applications for any data retrieval or data push to the system.
g. drag and drop features (a kind of no-code solution) wherein the only configuration is required to create a workflow solution.
h. user interface-driven or run as a back-end job to support the workflow process.
2. Robotics automation software features -
a. a pure-play automation software that can detect images and other user interface elements on the application and interact with them.
b. ability to mimic all human actions and steps while interacting with the software product.
c. ability to interact with all types of software environments Citrix, Desktop, Server-based, Cloud, Web, Mobile, etc.
d. ability to log activities performed on the application automated and perform all transactional activities and re-execute for any failed transactions.
e. ability to interact with a standard application using either web services or another integration framework.
g. OCR features to identify user interface elements, etc.
@Ram Chenna Thank you for the wonderful information and kind help and support
Hello,
There is a subtle difference between Microsoft's flagship workflow product Microsoft Power Automate and an Enterprise Robotics Automation Product as Blue Prism.
Well, to begin with, the technical community has attempted to use the Power Automate tool to perform Automation as well, but that's not what it is intended for.
Like any other Workflow Software Tool, Product or Framework, Power Automate is a no-code solution. The business use cases, for which it can be applied are purely workflow scenarios.
E.g., if you raise a Leave request in HR software which eventually gets to your manager for approval or a Retail Loan approval workflow Application (in a Banking Application) that has various levels of verification and validation by various departments and individuals before it is either approved or rejected.
Whereas when we talk about Robotics automation (like Blue Prism) it is a purely out and out Automation software that can automate and mimic all human actions while interacting with an application/software/product in a typical IT-driven organization, eventually requiring no or little human interaction while interacting with an application and can replace the human.
Hope I have answered the question to an extent.
Please do let me know if you have any specific queries you want me to answer.
Thanks.
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Can you please help @Tarek Fanous by sharing your insights?
@Evgeny Belenky Thank you for your kind help
Hi @Tarek Fanous,
Happy to talk you through what I have experienced in RPA.
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