Microsoft Power Automate

Pros: Very good at connecting repetitive business tasks across 365 and other business services. It can work quite well for approvals and notifications, and simple uncomplicated process automation. For orgs already embedded within the microsoft ecosystem, the native integration and compatibility provides great synergy between automations; flowing naturally through apps like Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, Forms/Excel etc.

Cons: The complexity scales upwards quite quickly when you try to build more advanced workflows. As they become more advanced more effort is dedicated to building and troubleshooting, and some scenarios can be limited by things like Connectors or licenses. As this becomes the case it starts to feel like the tradeoff for not needing technical or scripting experience becomes significantly more diminished.

Pros: Microsoft Power Automate is one of it's kind tool. I like how I can automate almost every business process through it and it does that efficiently and consistently.

Cons: The only this I do not like about Microsoft Power Automate is the Power Automate desktop version of it. The desktop version is not quite dependable, as it deals with UI automation.

Pros: Power Automate is a fantastic tool that we leverage heavily for task automation. There are several processes that are easily automated to improve our workflow, task management and day to day operations.

Cons: If you aren't already familiar with Power Automate, it can initially be a bit overwhelming and it does have a bit of a learning curve. However, once you can get through that, it is a very powerful tool that can help you as well as your business with your daily tasks.

Pros: Power Automate brings the "power" to RPA! I have several daily processes that run reports, pull data and publish to FTP sites. At the heart of this process is Power Automate. I have used various other tools, and Power Automate stands above all of the rest when it comes to flexibility and the ability to customize processes.

Cons: In the beginning, Power Automate can be daunting because it is so powerful. Once I figured out how PA worked, I have been able to quickly generate, modify and deploy several complex processes. It does take time to learn, but once you have it, you are off and running.

Pros: The best part of Power Automate is the low code integration and visualization, making it easy for people who do not have much development experience and allow for fast time to value. This makes it easy to connect to different Microsoft products using connectors. In addition, it allows for the automation of business processes via schedules or event triggers.

Cons: The performance of Power Automate can be irregular, with execution time of the same flow varying wildly. It works well for smaller data sets and tasks, but can become cumbersome when dealing with larger data sets. Finally, it's difficult to debug if something has gone wrong.

Pros: I use power automate to practice and improve my knowledge, I like to use it and integrate with BI and Sharepoint

Cons: Learning curve may be complicated, That was my opinion in last review, and I'm still thinking the same

Pros: One of the biggest perks of using Microsoft Power Automate for us has been how easy it is to trigger jobs straight from Teams. We set up a simple button so we can right-click and send a job directly to our job-system email, and honestly, it’s been a game changer. Instead of jumping between apps or copying info manually, it’s all just one quick action. It feels small, but when you’re doing it multiple times a day, the time saved really adds up.

Cons: I haven't really found any issues with this so far, it's been fairly seamless using it. My only gripe would be when the flow doesn't work randomly, which to be fair is barely any of the time, the error messages can be a bit vague. Honestly, when it doesn't work, normally sending the flow again just works!

Pros: What I liked most about Microsoft Power Automate is its powerful capabilities and wide range of integrations. It connects easily with many different tools and platforms, making it possible to automate complex workflows and achieve great results once everything is set up correctly.

Cons: It could benefit from even more AI functionality. While it’s already smart, enhanced AI features could make the setup process easier and help users build more advanced automations with less manual effort.

Pros: I appreciate that it enables me to automate many of my processes. It wasn't too tricky, and I was able to do it myself without requiring significant IT assistance.

Cons: Not really anything. It did get a little tricky, but was I able to get through the process? I am in HR, so this is not my area of expertise.

Pros: Power Automate said what is markets, automate a lot of manual tasks via could without needing to know a lot about coding. Being a non-code, dragon drop platform, it's quite simple to use and, along with co-pilot and templates, it works very well for automating simple yet time-consuming tasks. And the best part is integration with Microsoft 365, linking with Microsoft PBI, Excel, and SharePoint to automate tasks beyond just data entry, and you can manage the process flows very easily, set their time and execution date. In terms of security, it regularly asks the user to authenticate the MS credentials and stops if there are any problems with access or security.

Cons: Although it's a no-code or low-code platform, it does require some level of understanding if you're trying to link and automate tasks from various sources. Having a technical acumen of the code is something that may be required, but maybe with ChatGPT/Google support its easy to decode.

Pros: $84

Cons: Microsoft Power Automate currently has a few issues when developing RPA projects of high complexity. Some projects that require multiple web applications (More than 2) tend to run slower on power automate than in UiPath. This causes some issues in reaching SLA and planning how many virtual machines are required for a given process to complete enough cases within the given time. The time trigger in cloud automation is also an aspect that is a bit underdeveloped. Its not easy to set a time for production code based on business requirements while being able to change in in a config during testing. This leads to code changes having to be made. Microsoft support has already confirmed that they would look into this issue. Since Power Automate works on cloud and desktop flows, it often requires Vnet to be set-up for API usage which is extra infrastructure set-up and cost compared to desktop only RPA tools.

Pros: - Robust capabilities around process automation - Enable users to automate repetitive and manual tasks and optimise workflows - Helps companies save time and cost by reducing manual intervention in tasks - Rich integration strength across MS suit of products - This supports the wave of non-coding. As it offers non-coding feature for automation - Offers vast library of connectors like salesforce, slack, Google services etc

Cons: - Like all automation tools, the UI and UX seems to be confusing for new users - Sometimes felt latency while triggering workflows for complex tasks - Limited debugging as error codes lacks depth

Pros: What's great about Power Automate is most businesses have it already with their licenses if they already have other Microsoft Cloud offerings. Therefore it can allow you and your business to get some real basic automation up and running quickly.

Cons: It's not fully mature yet and is missing a lot of key features other similar products/systems, such as Nintex, provide. For instance, if you have a few workflow actions you'd like to skip over (or not run) like sending an email every run, there's no way in Power Automate to disable that workflow action. You have to move it to the end of the workflow (however big it may be), and put a "terminate" action before it. With other products, you can "disable" that particular action and the workflow will skip right over it. Or if you change a variable name, in Power Automate you have to find it in every action and replace the old variable name with the new one.

Pros: Power Automate simplifies repetitive tasks with low-code automation, integrates well with Microsoft 365, and boosts productivity.

Cons: Debugging complex flows can be frustrating, with limited error detail and inconsistent behavior in large workflows.

Pros: Fantastic way to automate processes that are tedious. They have made it very easy to learn and pick it up as you use it.

Cons: Cannot really fault it much. Perhaps debugging and error handling can be a improved on, however it is fairly intuitive.

Pros: You can create flows for everyday work items. It helps automate items in your everyday work, whether that be notifying someone a document has been submitted or ready for another person to edit or for approval on something.

Cons: It can take a while to learn how to use Microsoft Power Automate. There are a lot of connectors and actions which can be hard to work out which one to use in certain scenarios.

Pros: I liked the ease of integration of Power Automate across the Microsoft, Azure and Office 365 ecosystem.

Cons: The limitation of only a month's worth of flow run history isn't ideal, however a SharePoint list can be used to persist and log data to work around this.

Pros: Fantastic functionality, allowing to automate a great deal of tasks. Rich set of connectors, constantly being updated.

Cons: Some areas, such as Odata filters, are not easy to master and require substantial research + trial and error.

Pros: Power automate interface makes the learning curve not as steep as you would think. Most of our team was able to pick it up quickly.

Cons: We were trying to automate an excel refresh and we’re struggling to get it to work.You would think this is a common task

Pros: I love how easily it integrates with SharePoint, it has all the functionality of most other workflow engines.

Cons: The limited functionality in 'free' version.

Pros: POwer Automate is great for organizations who have employees that aren't true programmers, but need to accomplish basic tasks such as capturing online data, imp[lemeting processes that require approvals along the way, or other similar features.

Cons: Quite a bit of what we needed to do was considered "advanced" and needed additional licensing to be able to accomplish the tasks. While there is a suite of connectors that come free, some common ones aren't, and this is where the sting hurts.

Pros: Low code, office suite, templates, catalog, flows editor are some of the pro features that makes me love this app

Cons: Sometimes the connectors and workflow duplication can be tedious to handle. And it is sometimes difficult to learn how this app works.

Pros: ease of use and flexibility to automate with internal Microsoft connected applications and 3rd application

Cons: On larger flows (Automations) at times you'll notice performance of all the steps begins to take longer to come to completion