Overall I am quite happy with the ease of use for this software. I would have loved to use power automate to send emails through my Gmail to avoid using mail mergers. This is a money saving option and since most businesses actually use Microsoft Office, bundling it with Power automate saves even more.

The biggest pro of this software is the cost, It will cost about $10 - $15. It is however better to bundle up the power automate license with the Microsoft O365 license to avoid purchasing 2 different licenses. Having MS 365 for business allows you to automate menial/repetitive tasks and takes away the "forgetting" part of the equation when it comes to everyday tasks. This software is very easy to use, can be set up by following a template or from scratch and I recently noticed that it has a new feature that sends you a message in chat in MS teams. It integrates very well with the other MS office apps. Power automate comes with the added advantage that it is customizable in the case where big automation tasks are to be done which simplifies the process. Couple that with the numerous templates provided and you have a very useful tool for automation.

The biggest disadvantage is that power automate can only be used within the MS office environment. Would have been great if it could have been usable in the windows environment too. While using this app I also realized that large tasks are hard to automate, tasks that require multiple recipients also fail when it exceeds around 60 users and so I limit mine to about 20 at a time even if it means creating multiple flows.

Power Automate is fairly new in the market compared to players like IFTTT and Zapier but will surely give the competition a good fight. My first automation is still active and given the chance, I would utilize it to automate menial tasks and processes. Besides, it is backed my Microsoft and you can be sure that it will continuously improve as it matures.

I like that Power Automate is part of the Microsoft Suite. Integration between MS apps are seamless since PowerAutomate is native in the MS ecosystem

If you are a new user, you'll find navigating through the user interface is quite daunting. Although, if you are serious with Power Automate, you will soon get comfortable with its functions and where to find them

Automated a couple tasks but I'm struggling with several tasks on my list I cant seem to make progress on.

Wide and diverse platform with growing multi-functional capabilities and dynamic product development.

Unfortunately, needs to re-think and re-calibrate its business-governance, product development, marketing strategy, Customer Support, and business objectives due to recent decisions to begin charging fees on customers that want to produce their hard work in the .EXE format to run independently on a separate computer for their company or a customer. I don't believe this was the right revenue growth decision, and I believe they are feeling/will feel the pain from business customers migrating to more reliable platforms - I'm already shopping and others I know are as well. What were they thinking by charging a fee on something that the customer already paid for? ***What's next, fee for every job occurrence LOL?***. The Executive that made such bad management decision should go back to the Banking Industry. As a customer, to get more value from the product, I wouldn't mind paying a higher license upgrade fee or a upgraded Support fee, or they could make sizeable revenue from custom projects etc... there are tons of other revenue sources to tap, but charging a fee for .EXE will cause them major customer attrition - users won't upgrade to future versions because they have a new software in place. At the end of the day, users will simply pay for Python certification course and forget the growing WA bill.

Excellent

Power Automate is an easy to use low code tool that allows most users automate mundane business processes. I love that with some more advanced skills you can still use the platform to complete some more complex automation at low cost.

Premium connectors are sometimes a pain and also sometimes the connectors timing out or being throttled.

Microsoft Power Automate integration capabilities, ease of use, AI functionalities, and strong security and compliance standards make it popular to use for organizations within the Microsoft ecosystem

AI capabilities through Azure services , strong user community ,Power Automate has robust security, manage and monitor workflows on mobile app and user-friendly

Power Automate primarily operates in the cloud, which might pose limitations for users who require extensive offline capabilities

Instead of doing manual and repetitive tasks, we have created workflows to do the same tasks on schedule and automatically, without human intervention. Using Microsoft Power Automate we have saved many hours monthly.

It is easy to configure, people with no technical knowledde can create workflows. Is it powerful, you can create a lot of different kinds of tasks.

The tracking and monitoring of the workflow execution can be improved.

Power Automate integrated perfectly with a number of Microsoft Forms that we had set up. It allows us to quickly process data from those forms in an intelligent way, adding data to existing spreadsheets, sending confirmation emails, notifying a Teams channel. If you’re a MS office user then Power Automate is the natural addition to your suite of daily apps.

Power Automate has a lot of configuration options which is great - if you have time to work through them to get what you want. It can be time consuming to set up, but once it’s in place, it’s almost always worth that time!

Used primarily with PowerBI for scheduled querying of data and automatic exports.

Easy to use even for less tech-savvy colleagues. Saves a lot of time on manual tasks.

Integration with 3rd party products requiring premium connectors.

The ability to take mundane tasks and automate them to save time and create efficiencies.

The learning curve can be steep but once you get it, it's great!

Overall it's a jack of all trades kind of platform, it can get tedious with intergrations with other third party applications or suiting it for an environment which is not Microsoft

Ease of use and ability to be handled both by non-code and code users. If the company has a Microsoft suite it makes integrations much easier.

Being a friendly platform for non-developer users can make it difficult for code experts to use it. Documentation isn't as clear or abundant as one would like, and some errors aren't self explanatory. Blog posts or stackoverflow posts aren't much of an option when searching for error solutions, it's still an area that's being built upon.

Was good until v7 was released, now refuse to do business with them

Easy to use, very functional, was easy to distribute but read Cons below

Like others I am so disappointed by the direction WinAutomation has taken. Was a reliable product that would easily allow you to build and compile programs to perform your automation functions - we used it in various different areas. The when v7 was released they completely forgot about their customers and came up with the horrible idea of tokens (additional purchases) for each executable you wanted to compile, and worse they tried their damnedest to hide this from their users - so many of us upgraded to version 7 only to find out that we had been hoodwinked by this new licensing policy. And then they destroyed their user community further by killing their once-active forums where users would share ideas and methodologies - first they shifted it to LinkedIn, which never worked well, and then they realised their error and brought it back to their own domain, but they removed all the historic forum posts when they realised no one was upgrading but were still communicating solutions on the older version of the product - there just was not enough new functionality in v7 and onwards for people to justify their silly licensing decision. AVOID using this product! The company is untrustworthy and has made very poor business decisions to the detriment of a large user community. And just when they were starting to get good, too - such a shame. Other products on the market are just as powerful and less expensive.

Power Automate simplifies development by minimizing the need for users to write scripting languages, allowing them to focus instead on using its low-code visual interface to create workflows quickly and easily. Power Automate provides a wide variety of pre-built templates, enabling users to quickly and easily create workflows without having to start from scratch or spend time developing something from the ground up. It is a cost-effective automation tool compared to many others, which can help organizations save money on their automation investments. we can trigger different workflows at the same time. It's very easy to incorporate with other Microsoft tools.

Power Automate is a simpler and more accessible automation tool compared to others, but it may not offer the same level of advanced functionality and customization as more complex tools. Power Automate integration with other Microsoft products may restrict its compatibility with third-party software and non-Microsoft solutions, which could limit its usefulness for some users.

For businesses already anchored in the Microsoft 365 world, Power Automate is a strong platform for workflow and process automation. The integrations keep getting deeper and broader, and the tool is getting more and more powerful. Along with the rest of the Power Platform, there is little reason to look elsewhere.

Power Automate is easy to use, but can be leveraged for highly complex workflows and automations. The integration across the Microsoft suite is deep, and there is a growing number of external connectors.

The biggest drawback for us is the dependence on user specific connections on the various connectors. This is a great model for power-user use (which the tool is intended for) - but inevitably the scope creep happens and flows become 'business critical' - the user-centric architecture makes it tricky to maintain and utilize flows at scale.

Task automation, bad licensing changes.

Very flexible and easy to use drag-and-drop scripting environment that can be used to automate most any Windows task. Scripts can be compiled into executables and provided to users to help their day-to-day activities.

Starting with version 7, they now force you to PAY to run the executables you've made if you distribute them to other PCs. This is a HUGE change from version 6, and makes this product FAR more expensive than before. The company isn't even honest enough to admit that this is bad for the customer, and claims they "intended" to charge for exe's before (but never did). I paid when I bought WinAutomation, I paid for annual support/maintenance, and I paid my staff to develop scripts... and now WinAutomation wants me to pay AGAIN to use the software we wrote??? That's total rubbish, and a clear money grab by this company. Also, the web-based user forum has no recent entries, has moved to Linkedin (but will not let people join). Is this (and the licensing change) a sign that the company is on its way out? No idea, but it's very disappointing, since the software was quite good.

We have created many automation flows like triggering automate mail and sending cards to teams.

Using this power automation tool we can create automated workflows between different applications and services. It provides a user-friendly interface for designing and deploying these workflows, enabling businesses to streamline processes and improve productivity.

The service lacks sufficient documentation and support, making it challenging to troubleshoot issues and find solutions.

Automated workflows. Streamlined repetitive tasks and actions. Reduce process execution and processing time. Reduce costs related to personnel dedicated to these tasks.

Using it requires time and some basic knowledge.

Overall experience is good. As it is a new rpa tool it has got less features in process mining , dashboarding etc. But hope that this will get going and get updated in the future.

The most thing about this RPA tool is the cheaper rate of licenses when compared with uipath and Automation Anywhere. The annual license renewal cost seems like a small amount. Also power automate comes with Windows OS now so further installation of tool is not needed.

The least about this is the speed of execution while developing, There is only option to debug not to run from the studio page, if we need to run then we will have to get back to home and run from there.

The ability to automate nearly everything in your business processes is the biggest pro for Power Automate. Built in connectors for all of the Microsoft products and many 3rd party software mean that you can connect processes together like never before. There is very little technical knowledge needed to operate and create the flows but the power that the user gets is amazing.

I least liked the fact that in order to use some of the connectors, such as MS SQL, you need to purchase a premium license - this is something that should have been provided out of the box.

WinAutomation does SQL, SFTP, IMAP and CSS selectors. You can record mouse and keystrokes to accomplish basic automation, but the real magic happens when you mix these basics with programming. The possibilities are endless. Note: The current WinAutomation upgrade process requires that you convert your working system's jobs to the new format irreversibly. If you're a new user this is not an issue, but if you rely on WinAutomation every day, the demo requires you to commit to the upgrade before verifying it works with your current jobs. I would love to try upgrading again but I need to set aside time to test, verify and fix.

Works great with code.

Some variables are not listed onscreen so I have to use comments above text Split for example, to easily see the variable name.

When we purchased this, we were needing to automate many processes on the backend of our system. From file syncing and transfer to convert Log files from one format to another, we're using winautomation to automate 100+ processes a day. We've basically not had to higher another person just because of winautomation.

All of the features it has available.

The documentation is pitiful, which makes it VERY hard to figure out how to do some things. However, with some research time available, you can figure it out.

We purchased this software to run a few automated processes for our company. We are an Association Management Company and having the ability to easily automate some of the items that we deal with frees up time to concentrate on other areas.

Ease of use, and the macro builder that allows me to simply record the process that I want automated and it will repeat the same process on a regular schedule.

Somewhere along the way I lost my ability to properly automate my personal mundane tasks by way of atrophy on my coding abilities. Having to delegate out that work added to an already full workload for my team so I needed a solution and fast. Enter Power Automate. Without any express ability to code, I was able to setup automation for these tasks with just a little simple logic. It is very intuitive and gets you results quickly.

Testing your flows and integrations can sometimes be a pain as you don't always know right away if the object you're interacting with has the right integration for the needed permissions. Being able to see a preview of the permissions before attempting to test your flow is very much needed. It would also be nice if there was an auto simulation option where it would create your test bed for you before your scenario needing to play out in the real world to see if it works.

I have used Winautoamtion for a few years now, and the new version has made some huge steps forward. Things that used to annoy me in older version have disappeared and the new functions are superb

It makes my life a lot easier and means I spend less time in front of a screen

There can be issues with some sites selecting controls

1. Easy drag and drop 2. Integration with data connectors 3. Part of the office 365 license

1 AI builder needs to mature 2. UI is too intrusive to be able to code freely 3. Need a better test suite

So many features to automate processes that would take a long time to do. Definitely a lot to learn from this software but there’s something for everyone.

While there are so many features, it was really difficult to set up a workflow that worked with what my company needed to do. Some of the videos we watched to learn how to do things ourselves were unhelpful.