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Microsoft Power Automate

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is Microsoft Power Automate?

Discover a better way to get things done across your organization through digital and robotic process automation. Build time-saving workflows into everything from individual tasks to large-scale systems with seamless integration using hundreds of prebuilt connectors.Enable everyone to build secure workflows with a no-code guided experience and cloud-based data loss prevention, identity, and access management services.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Power Automate won the following awards in the Robotic Process Automation - Enterprise category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

8 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Power Automate Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 92%
Negotiation and Contract:: 91%
Conflict Resolution:: 93%
Strategy & Innovation:: 92%
Service Experience:: 91%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Power Automate?

3% Negative

4% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Fair
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Cloud Hosting

100

Process Discovery

Automation Orchestration

Out of the box integration

Automation Apps

Unsupervised Launch

Central Deployment

Code-Free Programming

Concurrent Work

Performance Monitoring

Role-Based Access

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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Daniel H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Machinery
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2025

The backbone of all Development automation

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Automate from other similar products?

seamless integration with 1000's of prebuilt connectors for the most popular software products already in use by most organizations

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Reliability and scalability

What do you dislike most about this product?

Inability to perform a post and get request for some apis

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

if you're on o365 suite you already have this product. There are some prebuilt common scenarios you can use to test it out.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Vikrant Y.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2024

Power Automation is easy to use and best RPA tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Automate from other similar products?

MS Power Automation is easy to use and integrate with other MS products. AI builder is good feature which help us to setup us AI builder to extract data from PDF files. Faster and easy to debug.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Send HTTP Request and work with JSON data online.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Desktop version is not much user friendly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When working on MS Products and integrate with MS Power Platform then MS Power Automate is best product in market.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Aspen O.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Education
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2024

Great Integration Product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Power Automate from other similar products?

Individual licensing, customization capabilities and SQL gateway

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

SQL gateway

What do you dislike most about this product?

Error handling

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Think about how you will test and monitor after implementation

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Microsoft Power Automate Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud Hosting Deployment of RPA bots in a cloud environment hosted and managed by the vendor.

Process Discovery Analysis of user interactions with systems and applications to generate a mapping of the workflow.

Automation Orchestration Manage, monitor and schedule the interactions, tasks and workflows among bots and other automation solutions through a centralized dashboard

Out of the box integration Ready-to-use connectors with 3rd party applications, systems and databases.

Automation Apps Ability to automate an end to end business process that is beyond task automation

Unsupervised Launch Bots triggered to action based on a schedule or when prescribed conditions are met.

Central Deployment Bots managed and published from a common location to provide version control, manage the bot's system access rights, and act as repository for future reuse.

Code-Free Programming Drag and Drop graphical user interface to setup processes based on recorded user action and library of stock actions.

Concurrent Work Bots can be synchronized to access resources at the same time and undertake processes in parallel from different machines.

Performance Monitoring Report on bot actions to help make improvements via customized dashboard.

Role-Based Access Enable different levels of access based on role e.g. administrators can modify and see all data or department managers have access only to their data.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Microsoft Power Automate Reviews

Daniel H.

The backbone of all Development automation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vikrant Y.

Power Automation is easy to use and best RPA tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Aspen O.

Great Integration Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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