WinAutomation - A Real Time Saver
August 08, 2019

WinAutomation - A Real Time Saver

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

WinAutomation (legacy product)

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)

We use WinAutomation to monitor our client FTP folders. When a client posts a file to our FTP site, WinAutomation notices that the file is there, then kicks off a data processing job and posts the file back to the FTP folder for the client to pick up. We also use WinAutomation to perform some data scraping jobs of Java enabled web sites. We set WinAutomation to mimic the clicks a user would make on a web page to get the data we want to extract.
  • WinAutomation is great at Monitoring FTP Folders for new files
  • WinAutomation is great at mimicking the clicks a user would make on a web site to extract data
  • WinAutomation is great at running through job tasks utilizing multiple programs
  • WinAutomations web extraction of data within the source code of a web site is lacking and took a lot of creativity on my part to be able to get my task accomplished.
  • Would prefer if I had the option of web browsers in data extraction jobs.
  • Sometimes the program is slow to start.
  • WinAutomation has allowed our company to operate more effiecently
  • We've mined the internet to create new data products which we've monitized
  • Allowed us to automate jobs
WinAutomation is great at web data extraction jobs where you need to go through steps on a web site to get to the data you are after. You can use WinAutomation to click buttons, move the mouse, send specific key combinations. WinAutomation is also good for ftp monitoring and automating jobs that use many programs.

Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) Support

I really have had a need to contact Win Automation support, but when I do google how to do a task, Win Automation has an extensive message board with a broad number of topics and questions answered where I could see how other people were able to solve similar problems to the ones I have.

Using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)

For most tasks WinAutomation is great and easy to use. You just set up tasks on a step by step basis and you can even tell the program what to do when there is an error (such as continue with job). Sometimes with complicated web extraction jobs it would be good to be able to easily extract data from the web page source.