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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Power Automate

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Power Automate is an advanced automation platform offering a range of features, including AI-powered automation, robotic process automation (RPA), business process automation (BPA), digital process automation (DPA), and process/task mining. The platform aims to empower organizations to securely automate their operations at scale by leveraging low-code and AI technologies.

    $15

    per month per user

    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

    SAP Business Technology Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments, including hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft Power AutomateSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Power Automate Premium
    $15
    per month per user
    Power Automate Process
    $150
    per month per bot
    Hosted RPA add-on
    $215
    per month per bot
    Process Mining add-on
    $5,000
    per month per tenant
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Power AutomateSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Power AutomateSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
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    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    SAP is enterprise grade and abstracts much of the complexity such as environment management identity etc. with Azure it is much more low level and Power Platform is too high level. SAP Business Technology Platform hits the sweet spot
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Ease of integration with SAP Ecosystem
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    They are cheap but not robust
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    I have used but not evaluated some other products that are similar to SAP Business Technology Platform, like Microsoft Azure. The principle is the same: cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services. It offers …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    Select BTP only because the S/4HANA integration scenarios are good tuned and we can find good knowledge easily on the SAP community.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    The native integration with SAP is the key differentiator that BTP has. Keep expanding on it.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP Business Technology Platform
    connecting to SAP backend ERPs systems is flawless with BTP of course.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    89%
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    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    586 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    78 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    804 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    417 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    58 Answers
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    609 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Power AutomateSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Microsoft Power Automate and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience and SAP Business Technology Platform
    Feature
    Microsoft Power Automate
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SAP Business Technology Platform
    7.6
    819 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.030 Ratings8.0783 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.028 Ratings8.1781 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.024 Ratings7.4740 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings7.7656 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.028 Ratings7.6749 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.028 Ratings8.0736 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.025 Ratings8.0724 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.023 Ratings7.7632 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.026 Ratings7.0715 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.025 Ratings6.8634 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings7.4678 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Power AutomateSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    8.4
    (772 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    7.9
    (752 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (12 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    7.4
    (504 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (39 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (15 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.4
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Power AutomateSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer ExperienceSAP Business Technology Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Very useful RPA tools for automating processes with minimal coding and drag-and-drop functionality, with a wide variety of triggers, including scheduled time-based triggers and activity-based triggers, such as modifying a file/list in SharePoint to run a Power Automate flow. Very easy-to-use UI with native integration with every Microsoft product, and a very low automation failure rate for deployed workflows.
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    Salesforce
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    If you want to use a well-designed SAP technology to shift into the cloud, you will be more than satisfied with the BTP services overall. There are some improvements for beginners to help them get a better overview of what to do and how to start with their account. My recommendation is to take a foundation training course from the SAP learning hub to prepare for the first steps.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Sending confirmation email to clients and user once the flow is triggered.
    • Fetching or Dumping files from one location to another if the flow is triggered.
    • Schedule flow helps to send alerts and triggers the flow at a specific interval of time to carry out the required task.
    • Power Automate also be used to convert any file format to a specific file format and save it to the required location
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    Salesforce
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
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    SAP
    • It is very easy to use.
    • All the documentation around it is geared towards the enterprise use case, unlike some other hyperscalers' platforms.
    • The SAP Business Technology Platform is very good because it's got the SAP customer and their business processes in mind. Probably my favorite thing about it is how easy it is to get up and running with a new use case and how well it natively connects to an SAP solution.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Steep learning curve.
    • It can be slow to develop simple solutions compared to other automation platforms such as Smarsheet.
    • Troubleshooting and developing can be frustrating without proper access to edit the code directly.
    • Only able to edit through the GUI and with expressions.
    • Many ways to do the same thing can be frustrating when you need to rework your flow.
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    Salesforce
    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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    SAP
    • The Automation Integration service has some outdated workflows
    • New services should be available as entitlements as soon as they are released for a particular region without having to buy them from SAP for zero dollars
    • Any subaccount should be able to change the IAS tenant. Currently, if you set it up for a particular IAS, you cannot change to another tenant and are required to recreate the services in a new subaccount.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    The tool is very useful when used with its various native connectors, taking great advantage of the integration between the components and systems of the Office365 universe. However, its cost is still high, and automation using more advanced components containing AI resources becomes unfeasible for some companies. Due to the financial crisis that many companies are currently experiencing, investment in automation systems or tools is taking a back seat.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Seamless integration with external system and dashboard to monitor the data flow and analysis are very essential for the business. The way the product is designed and modelled lead to minimum business disruptions. Adopting to the new and modern technology was easy. Keeping the central system as clean and adopting project bases development are advantages.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Power Automate features a clean and intuitive user interface that allows users to create, manage, and monitor workflows easily. The UI is designed to be accessible to both technical and non-technical users, with drag-and-drop functionality for building workflows. Power Automate supports integration with a wide range of Microsoft and third-party applications. This flexibility in integration allows users to automate workflows across various systems, enhancing overall productivity and efficiency.
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    Salesforce
    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
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    SAP
    Okay, so the content that we have built on the platform is limited to specific testing on the iFlows within integration suite. The visualization layer is nice to use and helps with the design elements, however with developers that are more used to markup languages, it doesn't have the same CLI type feel when you want it. Perhaps the majority of users are that deep, but other platforms have a better CLI type developer experience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Services are generally available
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    both Community support and Microsoft official support typically respond to (and resolve) reported issues in a VERY expedient manner, usually going above and beyond for education and bugfixing. I have been thoroughly impressed with the level of support I had been provided in the past.
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    Salesforce
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
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    SAP
    The biggest problem we ran into was communication between SAP Business Technology Platform and onsite resources. Unfortunately our SAP Business Technology Platform and Cloud systems are under different customer numbers. I constantly had to open tickets under each customer number because I was unsure of where the issue lied. And having to create a dummy ticket for our ECC systems to open the ECC connections for another ticket under the Cloud customer is a pain.
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    after reviewing the main features of Power Automate, the Microsoft trainer focused on some of our real life use cases implementation, from simple to more advanced.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Microsoft
    although it was productive, it is more difficult to stay focused and in a 7 hours a day online training (including screen share issues and the fact that the trainer just can't precisely show the exact location of your mistake)
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Training material in Developers Community or from Learning hub are really good... also most of the time we route through Discovery center... so materials provided by SAP is really good.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Overall, our experience implementing Microsoft Power Automate has been positive, with a relatively low barrier to entry and a fast time-to-value—especially because it integrates natively with Microsoft 365, which we were already using extensively. With Respect to migration, I had a very good experience where existing workflows were reviewed and simplified. Unnecessary steps were removed. Business rules were reimplemented using Power Automate logic. We migrated Approval workflows, email-based notifications, SharePoint-centric processes, and simple integrations.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Having a full cloud native environment for devlopment of microservices and digitals solutions while having standardized access to our core data on SAP via cloud connector is one of the main benefits of using BTP over others hypervisors. BTP is the standard hyperscaler as soon as something relies on data from SAP systems in our company now
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Power Automate is worlds ahead of Zapier in so many ways. The looping, DOM access, and flow controls are much better. I feel that accessing different data within previous connectors used in a flow is much easier in Microsoft Power Automate as well. The custom connector creation process is a lot more pleasant in Microsoft Power Automate. The DateTime data type is handles MUCH better in Microsoft Power Automate, which is reason enough to use it.
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    Salesforce
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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    SAP
    SAP Concur allows our staff to book, reimburse and remain spend audit compliant. Our Concur system takes feed from Workday and interacts with Credit card vendor. It also makes posting to Accounting and does clearing. SAP Business Technology Platform helped in establishing connection with all these different tools in real time. It helps in getting paid to the card service provider through our Bank through interface, which is built on SAP Business Technology Platform.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    I have not done any participations
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    It's scalable
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    Microsoft's professional services provide hands-on support throughout the implementation lifecycle of Power Automate.This includes initial setup, configuration, integration with existing systems, testing, and deployment. They ensure that workflows are correctly designed, optimized for performance, and aligned with security best practices.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • You can automate a lot of process very easy like automatic mails for status updates and such. This will save a lot of time and is more accurate, faster and up-to-date than a user can be.
    • Task approval is centralized and automatic reminders save us a lot of time.
    • The ROI is good if you have a lot of use cases and things to automate
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    Salesforce
    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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    SAP
    • As we are on public cloud, we haven't had many break issues due to being standardized.
    • Project management and expectations working with developers has been overwhelmingly positive and improved.
    • Improved connectivity with us migrating to other SAP products and easier/more mainstream integration methods.
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    ScreenShots

    Microsoft Power Automate Screenshots

    Screenshot of Microsoft Power Automate (Interface Screenshot) - Work Queues, Initial pageScreenshot of Microsoft Power Automate (Interface Screenshot) - Signed-in web portal home pageScreenshot of Microsoft Power Automate (Interface Screenshot) - Signed-in web portal create pageScreenshot of Microsoft Power Automate (Interface Screenshot) - Desktop designerScreenshot of Microsoft Power Automate (Interface Screenshot) - Hosted RPAScreenshot of Microsoft Power Automate (Interface Screenshot) - Display of DLP violations (on Run)

    SAP Business Technology Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP Build Process Automation, an SAP BTP service