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Microsoft Power Automate

Score8.6 out of 10

308 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Power Automate?

Microsoft 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.

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Who Buys & Uses Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate Reviews

What users are saying about Microsoft Power Automate.
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Pros

  • Seamless integration with Microsoft products (SharePoint, Power Apps, Teams, SAP)
  • Automation of repetitive tasks and business processes
  • Significant reduction in manual work and errors

Cons

  • Steep learning curve for new users
  • Requires significant time investment to master the system
  • Interface can be challenging to navigate without specialized training

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Nikhil Ananth
Process Automation Analyst/Engineer in Information Technology at Parker Aerospace (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I primarily use Power Automate for automation cases where email alone does not suffice. In manufacturing and aerospace, processes require stringent approval tasks and constant email alerts for production. Power Automate is also behind a few Power Apps built for business teams to track customer requests. I leverage Power Automate for my own mundane tasks that require manual keystrokes and screen interaction.

Pros

  • UI/screen recording.
  • Testing runtime and process mining.
  • Integration with 3rd-party connectors and usability of actions.

Cons

  • Documentation
  • Integration with GPT 4.0+

Most Important Features

  • Automation.
  • Ease of debugging.
  • Documentation/learning curve.

Return on Investment

  • Task automation of 2-3 business processes where manual action exists.
  • Integration of Power Apps built for supporting front-end teams.

Alternatives Considered

Nintex

Other Software Used

Nintex, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Power Apps

Microsoft Power Automate A Strong Workflow Automation for the Microsoft 365 Ecosystem.

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Asif MView profile
Senior Software developer in Information Technology at Hexaware Technologies (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We automate business activities in Microsoft 365 and integrate third-party systems using Microsoft Power Automate. Reducing human labour, increasing process uniformity, and facilitating quicker turnaround times for standard operational activities are the main objectives. It helps reduce manual and repetitive work, process delays, and reliance on email.

Pros

  • Cross-system integration gaps.
  • Approval Workflows (One of Power Automates Strongest Areas).
  • SharePoint List & Document Automation.
  • Employee Onboarding & Offboarding Automation.
  • Sending email and alerts and reminders.
  • Scheduled Jobs & Housekeeping Tasks.

Cons

  • Copying the actions under switch cases.
  • Long-Running & Stateful Flows.
  • Debugging, Error Visibility, and Troubleshooting.
  • Complex Data Handling & Transformations.

Most Important Features

  • Approval Workflows & Teams Integration.
  • Low-Code Development Model.
  • Conditional Logic & Business Rules.
  • Scheduling & Recurring Automation.
  • Integration with Power Platform (Power Apps & SAP).

Return on Investment

  • Time Savings from Automation Before Power Automate.
  • High dependence on: Manual emails, Spreadsheet tracking, Follow-ups and reminders.
  • After Power Automate:
  • Routine workflows are fully automated (approvals, notifications, updates).
  • Faster Time-to-Value (Speed = Business Advantage).
  • Improved Process Reliability & Compliance.
  • Impact :Standardized workflows replace ad-hoc emails and manual handling.
  • Results: Reduction in process errors and missed approvals, and Improved compliance and traceability.

Alternatives Considered

Nintex and Joget DX

Other Software Used

Nintex, Joget DX, UiPath Automation Platform

Power automate a effective tool for automation

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Hitesh GautamView profile
Cloud engineer in Information Technology at Insight (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mostly as the name suggests Power Automate helped me manage my clients tasks by automating them. One such scenario of i define would be automating a email and message trigger if a report takes longer than usual to refresh. Automate helped me creates those scenarios woth least coding and best results with all process working seamlessly automatically as programmed.

Pros

  • Automatic data collection and sends
  • Automated emails and texts sendings
  • Automated monitoring

Cons

  • Improved marketplace
  • Release desktop version
  • Cost

Most Important Features

  • Integrations with other services
  • Monitoring
  • Scheduling capabilities

Return on Investment

  • Time saving
  • Fast development
  • More accuracy

Alternatives Considered

Power Apps

Other Software Used

Power Apps, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage

A great no code cloud RPA tool from Microsoft.

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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Power Automate is widely used to automate rule-based processes in our organization. All processes based on the Microsoft ecosystem, such as SharePoint, Excel, and OneDrive, are automated using Power Automate, as they offer native out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft products. The best part is that with Power Automate Cloud, there is no additional hardware cost, as it's hosted in the cloud with very low monthly fees for premium usage.

Pros

  • Seamless integration with Microsoft products like SharePoint, making automating processes such as file processing or list-based automation with SharePoint very easy.
  • Power Automate also offers seamless integration with Power Apps, which helps link your automation developed in Power Automate with Power Apps.
  • Very less license cost of 25 dollars per month for premium license.

Cons

  • Currently, a deployed automation can run for only 30 days, and the process will time out after that. would like to see support for an automated run that lasts more than 30 days.

Most Important Features

  • Cloud deployment of automation workflows without requiring any physical hardware resources.
  • Very stable with very less automation failure rates even when its running in the cloud.

Return on Investment

  • Very high ROI generation as the cost of deploying a solution is very minimal . Most of the features are available in the office 365 plan free of cost and only some users need to upgrade to premium for using premium connectors .from day one as soon as automation is deployed there is very high Roi and learning curve is also less as its a drag drop based UI

Other Software Used

PowerApprovals

Power Automate does A Good Job at a High Price.

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Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Power Automate for getting data to where it needs to be. We have some information on premises in different places, as in sharepoint or a SQL database, that need to match up to certain tasks in the 365 cloud. For example, we may have an incident report that could tag different users, send emails, and generate a form that needs to be archived. This requires some information from our SQL DB and our Sharpeoint 365 solution. Then it will store that record back in a datbase on premises. This is where Power Automate comes in handy. It helps get the data where it needs to go each step of the way.

Pros

  • Taking employee information, like demographics and contacts, from an on premises DB to the MS 365 Cloud
  • Taking questionnaire information from a form in the cloud and populating an on premises DB
  • Taking badge photos from an on premises database to a back storage device

Cons

  • More customizations for taking human resource related information with a lot of time stamps and transferring it to applicable forms. Whether for on boarding or training documents
  • More ways to trigger events and have them use multiple if thens, or different orders of operations.

Most Important Features

  • That it interfaces with local databases and cloud base solutions
  • That it takes data from online forms and can populate them on prem

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Wrike and SpecFlow

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