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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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As working within the RPA automation department. The Microsoft Power Automate is one of the RPA tool we use in our project just to reduce the human intervention within the repetitive process giving best solutions to save both time and cost. In our project it have offered us to create many automated workflows within the Office 365 application
- AI Copilot capabilities in cloud workflows
- Process mining feature
- automated workflows with pre designed solutions
- only applicable with Office 365 license
- workflows can penetrate through security ,reducing data privacy
- malicious workflows can be made with automation capabilities
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.
November 29, 2023
Microsoft Power Automate, the tool that has everyone's eye on !
We are using Power Automate desktop to automate mostly desktop based applications like Navision, HIKVISION, VSphere for VMWare and much more. We have mostly automated use cases in every sector that is be it Pharma, Finance, IT or HR. Most innovative solution that we provided was in IT automation where we automated their IT based use cases like monitoring, ticketing. Power Automate has a very strong hold on automating desktop based application because of its best in class recorder functionality. It address mainly all business problems right from sending an email to handling complex excel formulas. Easy on deployment and cheap in terms of licenses makes it even more outstanding RPA platform.
- Excel Automation
- Desktop and Cloud Based Automation
- Intelligent Document Extraction
- SAP Automation
- Advanced Trigger Options like changes in desktop files
- Complexity of Expressions : According to my experience Power Automate's UI needs to be more User friendly as it moves more towards an environment which suits developers
- Versioning and Source Control
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
Workflows and automation made easy
My team has access to Power Automate through our O365 licences. we caught its potential usages after Microsoft made a presentation of the Power platform.
Since it is a cloud based solution depply linked to office 365, our main usages were first around Word, Excel, Sharepoint and Outlook simple but repetitive tasks automation. we then automated daily paperwork/management workflows.
we then began to use power Automate for some company wide business processes.
Since it is a cloud based solution depply linked to office 365, our main usages were first around Word, Excel, Sharepoint and Outlook simple but repetitive tasks automation. we then automated daily paperwork/management workflows.
we then began to use power Automate for some company wide business processes.
- easy to use workflow solution
- very efficient integration with all O365 components, especially Word, Outlook, Sharepoint, MS Teams...
- easily extracts data from a great number of sources ( and can be used as an ETL tool)
- updates are sometimes not backward compatible and can break existent workflows
- Power Automate can be tough to learn for people that aren't used to Microsoft/Azure products and UI
- 3rd party connectors troubleshooting can be confusing
October 16, 2023
Work reduction with process automation with Microsoft Flow.
We use Microsoft Flow to automate internal processes such as material purchase approval flow, document file upload, customer data collection, technical teams communication when new documents are published in the file repository, and recently the integration between our chatbot to support technical and commercial teams, implementing in the bot the sending of emails with attachments and password validation by 2FA. All these automation have been integrated with Office365 products: SharePoint, Microsoft Forms, Outlook 365, Office 365 Users, and Microsoft Teams. Activity flows utilize various integration components such as HTTP webhook, Egnyte, Office 365 user, and groups search. As a result, we reduced the time spent on internal processes, with email exchanges and billing between teams, improved the dissemination of important documents, and expanded the resources and services available to our internal users.
- Easy to configure and implement the flows.
- Large catalog of addons and integration components.
- Ease of working collaboratively.
- Allows creation of custom flow components.
- Easy to share and distribute the flows.
- Depending on your license type, access to different integration components
- Documentation about some components, functions, and usage syntax needs to be improved.
- A tool for creating custom connectors.
- Poor visualization of complex flows with multiple steps and unfolding
October 12, 2023
Best automation tool from Microsoft
We use Power Automate solution to automate workflows for SharePoint online solutions. Few business problems that addressed using Power automate: 1. SharePoint Approvals flow 2. Capture audit version from the SharePoint items 3. Read email attachments and upload to SharePoint 4. Monitor the field status change in the SharePoint list and send email notifications to users for action
- Automate SharePoint Approval flows
- Integration with Outlook
- Item updates in SharePoint list
- File uploads to Document library
- Integration with RPA tool like UiPath
- No activity disable feature in the workflow, this would have saved lot of time
- Allow turn off feature to not trigger any pending runs in the queue or add new feature to just run pending runs when the workflow is turned off
- Allow easy copy and paste activities from UI
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.
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 09, 2023
Great and Robust Automation solution!
We use Microsoft Power Automate to create flows that can run when an outreach is made to a patient. Essentially Microsoft Power Automate is the logical backbone of the product where all actions including, pre-checks, post-checks, data retrieval , Vendor integration, outreach is done through the flows constructed on Microsoft Power Automate.
- Extensive actions can be used as a part of the flow
- Easy integration with other vendor tools
- Robust and can handle high volumes
- Service and response time is not that great
- Any customisations are not possible
- Any bugs reported are not immediately resolved
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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Verified User
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
Used Power Automate to create instant flows linked with SharePoint Lists to collect/Modify data and notify users. Flow captured the data and converted it into a pdf file and sent it to relevant users in an email.
1. Power Automate helped us streamline our internal expense approval process.
2. Customer Voice Survey results were collected using Power Automate.
3. PowerBi report's data refreshed using Power Automate to show the most relevant data in the dashboards.
1. Power Automate helped us streamline our internal expense approval process.
2. Customer Voice Survey results were collected using Power Automate.
3. PowerBi report's data refreshed using Power Automate to show the most relevant data in the dashboards.
- Capture/modify data in real time.
- Notifying the users of any changes in data.
- Customized response email to customers service request emails.
- Approval file size limit can be increased. currently 50mb in attachment limit.
- Ability to recover the flows. Currently if a flow is deleted there is no way to recover it.
- Converting data from SharePoint into pdf can be done but need to use 3rd party connections.
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.
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.
March 23, 2022
Power Automate does A Good Job at a High Price.
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.
- 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
- 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.
February 03, 2022
Great software with little to no learning curve
I have used MPA to make the business processes easier and streamlined (email generation based on task status, document migration from email to SharePoint, etc.). It removes a lot of manual labor from task management and mass communication across a team. I have been able to reduce time spent on remedial projects or tasks.
- Easy to follow icons to build flows
- Simple UI
- Templates to get started
- Maybe adding some drag and drop functionality for building flows
September 20, 2021
MS Power Automate - Usage & Benefits
MS Power Automate is a part of the overall o365 suite and is directly available for any of our staff who wishes to use it. It helps us to automate all those repetitive functions over desktop and SharePoint with ease. Best part is it is very easy to take up and learn and not requires the user to get too technical unnecessarily.
- Repetitive task can be automated
- Filling up forms and managing plans and data flow/ approval processes
- Integrates well with other commonly used products in office suite
- For 3rd party products, it can be used by means of mouse movements and keyboard click recording
- integrations to PowerPoint not as strong as one might see or expect.
- similarly, integrations to Outlook could also be enhanced.
- sometimes the "flow developer IDE" is a bit slow and laggy that lowers user experience
June 25, 2021
Microsoft Power Automate time saver
We are using Microsoft Power Automate to automate a lot of our old procedures. For example, we created a Return Material Authorization (RMA) which goes through a process of approvals. Also, have new hire and employee exit forms that automatically create a help desk ticket with Jira. The best part is that you can set it up to run automatically, on schedule, or ever use manual triggers to activate the services.
- Saves time
- Make live and instant changes
- Makes working with SharePoint much easier
- Create a flow and clone it for easy use
- Phone app works great for button trigger flows
- A lot of free pre-made flow templates available
- Still need to do a lot of research on getting the flows to work once you add more function
- Naming convention for the answer/result fields (the answers to questions ) gets confusing [in my experience]
- [I feel it] needd simpler code for non-coders or make it easier to search for required code
April 08, 2020
Best way to automate routine works
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft flow (Power Automate) is the best product of Microsoft, and it came to the organization as a part of Office 365. We have been using it for three years now. And it is one of the best products to automate our work efficiently. Because it allows us to automate the routine activities for saving our time, so, it makes our lives easier and smarter. And anyone can quickly learn to use it. So, this is also a plus point of Microsoft Flow.
- Mainly it helps to automate the routine activities for us. And it helps to save time and money.
- Microsoft Flow works with other applications, software, and operating systems very smoothly. Also, it is easy to use and straightforward.
- It allows for essential tasks, reminders, and emails to be automatically redelivered and pinned for importance.
- It consists of easy and attractive templates. So, it is very user-friendly.
- The initial set-up process of this is a little confusing and challenging.
- The 3rd party add-on connectivity is a bit complex.
June 10, 2019
Automate your Simple & Semi-Complex tasks with ease.
We use Microsoft flow for automating tasks within our processes. As we are using an Office 365 subscription in our office, the flow has helped us a lot from downloading the data from Twitter to publishing it to Power BI. Flow has been a life saver in most of the tasks that I work on.
- Scheduling the flow- this feature has helped to schedule the flow late into the night, so that the data is ready when you come to the office in the morning.
- Social Media Triggering: Once of the major use of flow in our company is to trigger an email to us whenever there is a not-so-good review about the brand. As soon as we get a trigger from flow, we work on it.
- Inbuilt templates have made most of my manual tasks easier such as storing your personal email to OneDrive .etc
- Third-party add-on connectivity is a bit complex and not as seamless as Microsoft add-ons.
- Initial setting up the automation flow could be challenging as it involves giving the right passwords, doing the right connections, but after that, things are smooth.