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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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(DPA) digital process automation through cloud flows to connect apps, data, and services.
Automates repetitive tasks using UI-based automation with (RPA) robotic process automation through desktop flows.
Ensures consistency with business process flows—the (BPA) business process automation capability in Power Automate.
Process advisor: Power Automate also includes process and task mining capabilities to analyze and optimize workflows.
AI Builder: Power Automate uses AI to automate tasks that are repetitive or time-consuming. For example, its AI can automatically extract data from documents, generate reports, or answer customer questions.
The "describe it to design it" feature allows users to create flows by simply describing them in natural language, making it faster and easier for users to create flows, to produce flows that are more likely to be used.
The Power Automate platform offers a wide range of connectors, so users can more easily integrate existing applications and systems.
Microsoft is now adding two new features to Power Automate:
Copilot, an AI-powered assistant that suggests actions, connectors, parameters, and supports flow debugging.
"Create text with GPT," an AI-powered action used to generate text for various purposes, including content creation, feedback gathering, and document information extraction.
Power Automate Process Mining (launched August 2023) - Optimizes operations and uncovers opportunities for automation.
Microsoft Power Automate Features
- Supported: (DPA) Digital Process Automation - Cloud Flows
- Supported: (RPA) Robotic Process Automation - Desktop Flows
- Supported: (BPA) Business Process Automation - Business Process Flows
- Supported: AI Builder
- Supported: Process Mining - Process Advisor
- Supported: Task Mining - Process Advisor
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
| Supported Countries | Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South America, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States |
| Supported Languages | English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian (Cyrillic script, Serbia), Serbian (Latin script, Serbia), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) |
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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.
Microsoft Power Automate starts at $15.
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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Microsoft Power Automate are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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I use Microsoft Power Automate extensively in our organization. We use it for everything from sending automated emails based on dates in a SharePoint list to automating our Goals and Bonus program with a Power App, and many other uses. Our email automations are very simple. We use a SharePoint list with dates and a lookup column for email templates, then Microsoft Power Automate sends emails based on the templates at the selected dates. Our bonus program is much more complicated, with an employee selecting a previously filled and approved (via a Microsoft Power Automate flow) goals sheet. Then the sheet sets off an approval flow for their manager. We have a Microsoft Power Automate flow to unlock Salesforce accounts which have not been in use for more than a month, and another to open cases in Salesforce from emails or voicemail messages in Teams.
- Access most things in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
- Quickly prototype web services.
- Integrate with other Microsoft Power Platform services (Power Bi, PowerApps, etc.)
- I REALLY wish I could just drop in a block of python or PowerShell code sometimes. The visual low-code things are great for moving around data but sometimes it would be faster if I could just tap out some code.
- The DOM (Document Object Model) is not entirely apparent and takes a lot of trial and error, and sometimes it's even different between different connectors. I would love to be able to just see the path to access some specific variables from earlier processes.
I use Microsoft Power Automate to create simple workflows to help users/departments. Mostly related to SharePoint lists/libraries. Send notification for certain field values and update/calculate fields and some tasks for approval.
- I'm getting more and more impressed by the AI builder option
- Works well with the standard components in M365
- The UI keeps getting better
- Many times it doesn't feel very "low-code" or intuitive. AI builder is helping more and more.
- Workflows should have a longer lifespan in days, we have approval processes that take months and it's very annoying to fix if the instance is stopped.
- Better debugging and quick fix help
December 06, 2023
Why I am Power Automate Advocate
Power Automate is an exceptionally user-friendly no-code/low-code tool, offering a seamless adoption and usage experience. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows me to efficiently train and enable business users to create their own workflows. The platform boasts over 1000 connectors, vastly expanding the potential for automating a wide range of IT and business operations. The integration of AI Builder significantly enhances Power Automate's capabilities, particularly with the Form Processing feature. This has streamlined numerous invoicing processes, reducing tasks that once took weeks down to less than 30 minutes. The ROI from numerous automations crafted using Power Automate and AI Builder is not only positive but also indicative of our success stories.
- invoice processing
- streamline account access certifying process and uniform email notification
- enhance calculation function thru express code
- with output details, you can easily review the flow process and adjust workflow
- well integration with other Microsoft programs such as Teams, Office etc.
- CoPilot for Power Automate makes easy to begin
- long wait time to be processed
- error message could be clearer and closer to the issue
- with GPT-4, I hope CoPilot or AI Builder can be more powerful than before in OCR
December 06, 2023
Best low code Automation tool.
Microsoft Power Automate is one of the best tool in the market to automate your flows and you can rely on this tool as it gives you an email notification if any of your automated flows fail. There are different types of flows that can be used to solve lots of business issues.
The platform is a low-code environment so I find it quite easy to use and works just perfect.
The platform is a low-code environment so I find it quite easy to use and works just perfect.
- 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
- Provide more information about the available templates and should give step by step information's, this will help the new learners learn quickly and also should add more templates
- Can use AI when there is need for writing O queries.
- Should implement AI technology just like co-piolet in Power BI, where the user can give command and the flow should get created tailored to the requirement.
December 04, 2023
What an excellent tool
Following are some of the business problems,
1. Collecting site engineers daily time detail and pushing that detail to PeopleSoft (ERP)
2. Weekly cross ERP data reading, Creating reconciliation report, and pushing this report to Power BI
3. Reading daily unapplied cash items from ERP systems, Pushing them to the SharePoint list, and Sending push notifications to business teams to give the details
4. Many others
1. Collecting site engineers daily time detail and pushing that detail to PeopleSoft (ERP)
2. Weekly cross ERP data reading, Creating reconciliation report, and pushing this report to Power BI
3. Reading daily unapplied cash items from ERP systems, Pushing them to the SharePoint list, and Sending push notifications to business teams to give the details
4. Many others
- API Interaction
- UI Automation
- MS 365 tools interaction
- Reading, and sending outlook emails
- Dealing with bulky json response: There should be an inbuild json explorer so that Power Automate itself can parse the json response responded by Power Automate flow so that developer could easily digest the json
- Test logs action activity: There is no activity that can print log messages.
- Way to comment out an activity: Currently there is no way to comment out an activity. There should be a way to do so.
November 22, 2023
Win in process efficiency with power automate
I used power automate to create more efficiencies for my tasks. With this, I was able to build a solid process for new product launch tracking and benchmarking.
- Easy to use
- Aesthetic interface
- Allow integration with more apps/softwares
October 18, 2023
Power Automate Review
For automating repetitive tasks that helps in daily process. There was a problem in checking the mails everyday and processing the invoices attached with it. So with the help of Power Automate we are able to automate it by reading the mails as soon as it receives and process the invoices. This helped in SLA and was able to free 2 staffs from this process and they can concentrate on other processes.
- Email Automation
- Teams and SharePoint automation.
- Monitoring resources with API's
- Forms and Survey automation.
- Need to have more options in handling datatables in the desktop version.
- Need to fix the minor bugs that happens while running the bot.
- Debugging tool improvement
- Performance optimization
October 18, 2023
An Effective tool to automate your work
In our organization we need to share the follow up Emails to the same receipents on periodic bases so this Microsoft Power Automate with flow is saving multiple time to draft and share the Email. Also it shares it with the recent communication so the time to search the last chain and add the participants, to add the body everything is saving and as we are not doing it manually there will be less chances of missing on the Email or missing on the persons.
- Microsoft Power Automate is ensuring the data is accessible teams, promoting collaboration and efficient use of data.
- Microsoft Power Automate is very use ful in case of creating the flows. And schedule a task
- Microsoft Power Automate flow is very useful in case of sharing the multiple emails and sharing to required participate
- If the steps can be reduced to set up a flow
- Also platform can be more user friendly
- Every time we need to open the particular flow and then only can run it if it gets automatrd willl help
October 16, 2023
If already knee deep in Microsoft licensing, it's good, if not, there are better choices.
We develop solutions based on Power Automate for customers, the business problems typically range from simple approval workflow solutions to other simple applications development and based on the customers licensing with micrsofot.
- Frontends
- Workflows
- Rapid Application Design
- Iterative Design
- Mobile
- Licensing
- Cloud
Implement Business process primarily around sending emails, and status updates. Also used in Lift & shift of data between various systems. The availability of the connectors makes it very easy to integrate with other systems. Mostly used with SharePoint online in the backend. Automation tasks are also implemented when there is a need to schedule certain overnight jobs
- Sending Emails based on status updates
- Connectors with other systems
- Failure back mechanism & tracking
- Time to develop complex workflows
- Code tracking
- Commenting in the steps for easy manageability
- better UI to split steps in viewable pieces
October 11, 2023
Accessible automation for simple request processes
I use Microsoft Power Automate to create approval processes. Requests are submitted using an MS Form form, the responses are collated in an MS List document and approve/deny requests are sent to decision-makers. In some cases, subsequent approvals are required from different individuals or teams, so I build a second approval process following the first. These usually end with a notification for action via email and/or MS Teams to the responsible team, after a request has been approved by the various levels of approval. Throughout the process, the List document is updated as to the decisions made and the progress of the request through the process, and the original form respondent, ie the requestor, is notified by email/Teams as well.
- Automates request processes
- Moves processes from email inboxes to a public document
- Automates the compilation of a record of all requests
- The need to constantly refresh connections
- More third-party software integrations
- More auto-completing where long flows recycle information
- Better templates
- Better help resources, particularly re the more technical details like strings, numbers
- Support of non-US time zones!!!!
- Support of non-US date format!!! You're the only country that uses mm/dd/yyyy
October 11, 2023
Time invested leads to greater time savings
We use Power Automate to streamline and improve data entry, automatically add information required for reporting, communicate with colleagues about new gifts entered that are of importance to them, share when there is action requested from colleagues within and outside of the department, move data files used for reporting or importing, and track assignment progress.
- Power Automate makes it easy to connecting a variety of applications together without any technical skill
- Flow history makes it easy to troubleshoot and determine where exactly a flow has failed.
- Flow checker points out errors before you move forward in a flow rather than having to test the flow and have it fail.
- While this is a product largely built for low to no code users, I find some of the errors and instructions a bit too technical and could have a few more examples.
- Copying and pasting apply to each loops or scopes is often no possible/fails.
- Make it easier to create custom connections with limited API experience.
October 11, 2023
The wonders of Power Automate
We use Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) to automate business processes ranging from simple emails based on data entry to a full email survey system built using this software, Outlook, and Microsoft Forms. We use the vast amount of connectors to link our data to the solutions offered to create complex systems using very little code.
- Connecting solutions
- Data manipulation
- Automation
- Better error messaging for troubleshooting
- More non-premium connectors to compete with the premium connectors
- Clearer understanding of the limits within the flow and the ability as an administrator to adjust those limits on your environment.
October 11, 2023
Power Automate, reduce your interactions with your email beyond just using mail! then Automate all the things!
There are always forms and reports that need to be moved out of one system, and imported into another one. Power Automate is the perfect tool to do this. A new item added to SharePoint, or Teams files? You can automate how to archive the information, how to notify people that there is new content.
- If/then automation in the the Microsoft Office environment.
- Linking different data systems outputs to automate data chains.
- Link internal process to Internet sites and services.
- Web Flows designer needs more development.
- Process isn't always intuitive.
- Product is powerful, but requires effort to dig into.
October 10, 2023
Great product, just needs to sand off some rough edges
We use Microsoft Power Automate extensively throughout the business. My usage of it is to streamline, schedule, and automate the evaluation, training, and onboarding of qualified individuals who meet the skillset required for the job. It addresses the primary business problem of being able to track/manage thousands of candidates in a way that works for a temp/outsourcing firm. It does everything from staged onboarding to scheduled mailings of bespoke examinations, to preparing emails to our customers for items such as employee terminations. My scope handles over 90,000 unique records.
- "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.
- The Power Automate tool can often take upwards of 10 minutes to start a "When an item is changed" flow, which is very frustrating when the action is time-sensitive.
- The Power Automate builder's search is hot garbage - it only searches the names of the already-fetched Flows. so if you are looking for a flow with the word "Resignation" in it, you have to sit there and click "Load More", and wait ~30 seconds per click for it to fetch more data.
- The documentation is Poor at best, and even the Forums can be rather incorrect.
October 10, 2023
Coding for the Non-Coder
I used Power Automate for non critical business processes. I have developed tools to capture digital ideas using other Power Platform tools and I use Power Automate for the flow of information from one Power Platform tool to the other (MS Forms, Power BI and Power Apps). This allows users across my organisation to easily submit ideas which then Power Automate easily diverts all of this information to exactly where I want it such as a Power BI report and specific Sharepoint location to store this data. The key problem it addresses is the movement of data across my organisation which cleverly performs actions to route the user down a specific path. This is time consuming and has allowed me to send auto messages to the MS Teams environment. If I was to describe in one statement about Power Automate, I would say it is the cement to other Apps
- Allows logic application to take User to chosen route
- Moves data in a consistent manner
- Bridges many Power Platform applications
- The UX/UI could be improved as the landing page is far too busy and is quite overwhelming at first until you realise these do not apply.
We needed a solution for our payables department to receive invoices from email attachments, going into a one drive folder. Microsoft Power Automate gave me the tools needed to design a product that achieves our end goal in simplifying payables document management. We linked it from our Exchange Online mailbox to our Microsoft OneDrive account.
- Allows you to create automation and scripts that speed up productivity in the workplace.
- Shows an overview of the workflow and job history.
- Has lots of plug-ins with other Microsoft and third party vendors' product's.
- Would like to see deeper integration with Exchange online, specifically the plugin realizing that an email is being sent via an alias address, not the primary SMTP address. We had to do a workaround that involved creating multiple single-member distribution groups to get power to automate to differentiate different email addresses going to the same mailbox.
- The interface is slow to load at times.
October 10, 2023
Microsoft Power Automate has come a long way - it is a solid process automation tool now
I use Microsoft Power Automate to help clients automate their business processes, such as onboarding/offboarding, employee recognition and others. We typically use Microsoft Power Automate in conjunction with a forms tool - usually PowerApps or Microsoft Forms - and store data in SharePoint Online and/or Dataverse. Power Automate can be effective in automating any process which is repeated at your business as long as the rules for the process are well defined.
- Workflow
- Email notifications
- Task management
- Approvals
- Connect to multiple data sources
- Integration difficult with on premises apps (e.g. Active Directory)
- Connectors to certain systems are not free
- Limitations on how many flows can run based on subscription
October 07, 2023
Excellent tool for automation of simple and repetitive tasks
We use Microsoft Power Automate to streamline various business processes and enhance overall operational efficiency within the organization, both within IT teams and the wider business. It is used primarily for workflow automation as manual processes can often lead to delays and errors in our workflows, especially when dealing with large volumes of data and complex approval processes. Power Automate is used to automate routine tasks such as data entry, approval workflows, and notifications, ensuring seamless and timely processing of tasks. This also frees up our employees to focus on more value-adding activities rather than spending time on routine, low-value tasks such as approvals.
- Simple approval workflows with mail notifications
- Seamless integration with other Microsoft products including Forms, Outlook, SharePoint etc. as well as other data sources
- Automating basic data processing tasks such as validation, transformation, and loading
- Creating complex conditional statements like nested conditions or intricate logical operations can be challenging due to UI limitations
- Cannot set breakpoints so debugging flows and understanding errors in the flow logic can sometimes be difficult especially when dealing with large and interconnected workflows
- Lack of version control features makes collaborative/team flow development difficult. It is often easier for one person/account to create a flow.
October 07, 2023
Microsoft Power Automate - Revolutionary Process Automation Tool
I use Microsoft Power Automate to automate the repetitive tasks which has low to moderate complexity but high in volume. I basically use Parent child bot methods to run concurrent processes. Business problems in which we have used Power automate are fetching data from the upline environment, processing it and then emailing it to the concerned departments. Another use case was to read content from the different documents (pdf, word) and using it to type into the client’s ERP system. We used Microsoft Power Automate’s AI builder feature to extract the content. In some use cases the ERP connector was not available so we managed to create custom connectors and able to push and pull data from clients proprietary systems.
- AI Builder for intelligent Automation
- So many connectors for popular applications to have a seamless data transfer and easy integration
- Great connectivity and support for Microsoft office 365 applications
- Extremely easy to use and doesn’t require much technical knowledge
- Works well only with sequential processes
- Can’t change permission on SharePoint item without using a third party connector
- Allows only 250 actions in a single flow
- Maximum time allowed for a flow to be triggered is just 15 mins
April 11, 2022
Most Powerful and well integrated Automation tool
Score 10 out of 10
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We are using Microsoft Power Automate to integrate multiple Office 365 applications and other third-party applications. It helped to automate multiple businesses as usual workflows which saved a lot of time for manual work. It does not require any coding skills and is very easy to use. Any kind of scenario could be easily automated with this tool instantly.
- Integration with Office 365 suite and third-party applications
- Easy to use and does not require any coding knowledge
- Any workflow could be easily integrated
- Customer support sometimes is slow
- Couple of third party applications are yet to be fully integrated with the tool
- Mobile application could be optimized more
Through connectors, Microsoft Power Automate allows us to link with other programs or services, ensuring that data
flows seamlessly from one application to another.
We can communicate with and access organizational data through Microsoft Power Automate connections.
Microsoft Power Automate is adaptable to automate the operations of our organization; it is cloud-based and allows us to create secure workflows without the need for code.
- We can use Microsoft Power Automate to automate the most time-consuming and manual activities using pre-built AI capabilities.
- Microsoft Power Automate is great for implementing effective workflows ranging from single tasks to large-scale procedures; it will save us time and allow us to operate effectively.
- Microsoft Power Automate doesn't support starting a second flow as a continuous operation of the main flow.
- We can't rearrange the steps set for each process with Microsoft Power Automate.
March 26, 2022
Easy to Use, Well Integrated and Complete Package
The flow wizard is amazing for those who are unfamiliar. It helps in connecting to data sources from other products other than Microsoft. We use it on daily basis. This app support flow in multiple applications. And integrate seamlessly with any application.
- Helped under making Business Decisions.
- HR system.
- Multiple application integration.
- Some application are yet to be integrated with Power Automate.
- Add support to Linux or Mac.
March 26, 2022
Microsoft Power Automate Review
I am using Microsoft Power Automate to create recurring tasking in Teams Planner for the entire department. We have daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly tasks that we have been copying the task cards for and I believed it would be more efficient for the team to have these tasks set-up as recurring tasks.
- Our Finance teams annual audit task for our Accountants.
- Finances daily and weekly A/P tasks.
- Finances monthly A/R tasks.
- It would be nice to have it linked to Teams.
- It could have the codes in laymen terms for non-IT users.
- It could have templates for daily, weekly, monthly, and annual tasks.
Microsoft Power Automate templates make it easy to send and
forward emails, as well as receive notifications when a new item is added to
your list.
Microsoft Power Automate allows additional flexibility in
prioritizing and marking tasks, as well as sending emails up or down.
Microsoft Power Automate helps us automate repetitive tasks
in the Microsoft 365 cloud environment.
Workflows in Microsoft Power Automate can be linked to many
data sources.
Microsoft Power Automate's no-code/least-code architecture
simplifies process design.
- Microsoft Power Automate offers benefits to automate the business activities of the organization.
- Microsoft Power Automate is a great tool for sending automatic reminders of overdue tasks.
- With the ability to transfer robust data between systems on our schedule.
- Microsoft Power Automate offers a variety of connections and capabilities for Premium customers only for an additional fee.
- I would like the customer service section to be decisive and attentive at all times.