Camunda Platform vs Microsoft Power Automate Formerly Microsoft Flow

• Embedding a first-class process capability in your application.
• Providing a standards-based modeling capability, backed by a standards-native engine.
• Great support for developers and a developer community.
• Great set of comprehensive APIs across a number of different design points
• All of the code is available in GitHub as a great open source project with Apache licenses.
• Comprehensive documentation of code and APIs and usage.
• Innovative spin-offs like Zeebe.
• Support for micro-services orchestration.
• Support for both embedded and stand alone usage scenarios.
• The company is innovative and focused on this space.

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• "When an item is changed in a SharePoint list, do ____" - very easy to trigger massive flows of data based upon a one-field change on a SharePoint list.
• Being able to manually trigger from a Microsoft PowerApp button press to perform actions.
• Scheduled tasks - once a day, get every record in (LIST) with (Filters) and do (Stuff) to them.

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• GUI lacks shortcuts
• GUI is not intuitive and hard to use. More involved technical capabilities are hidden in the menus which make navigation and setup difficult.
• Documentation is not fully fleshed out and examples are bare. The target audience is technically adept software developers, with expected experience and knowledge of javascript and java.
• Community exists but is relatively small and highly technical. Support is not easily accessible unless the costly paid version is opted for.
• Programming languages used are confusing as it merges java and javascript in certain scripts.
• Debugging is difficult as there is no error/typo checking or console in the designer when using scripts. It does not have the capabilities of more fully featured IDEs, but is a simple text entry for scripts.

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• I think general training could be improved. I'm sure there are many more uses than the simple automation tasks I was using Power Automate for, but I didn't have the time or bandwidth to dig through Microsoft's documentation on the tool.

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• Freeware makes testing and utilizing Camunda a cost-effective solution
• High level of difficulty in implementation may require a lot more time and effort than normally expected. (2-3x more effort than other paid and fully featured solutions)

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• Power Automate has allowed us to create applications or customer interfaces we would not have been able to if we weren't able to move data around like we can with Power Automate
• Power Automate helped us connect 3rd party systems that previously had no connection by passing data between different channels. This reduces license counts.

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