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Microsoft Power Automate
Formerly Microsoft Flow

Overview

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…

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Pricing

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Power Automate Premium

$15

Cloud
per month per user

Power Automate Process

$150

Cloud
per month per bot

Hosted RPA add-on

$215

Cloud
per month per bot

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $15 per month per user
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Product Details

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.

Capabilities

  • (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

Microsoft Power Automate Screenshots

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Microsoft Power Automate Videos

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Microsoft Power Automate Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Supported CountriesAsia, Australia, Canada, Europe, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South America, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Supported LanguagesEnglish, 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)

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

UiPath Automation Platform, SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation, and Automation Anywhere are common alternatives for Microsoft Power Automate.

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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The MS Power Automate provides the feature of Copilot within the cloud flows. This allows the user to create flows which are quick and time effective with the usage of natural language expression.
The Copilot can answer the queries of user regarding the workflows and upon user request it can respond and make changes to the same.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AI models for document understanding can be integrated into workflows to automate the extraction of information from documents, such as invoices, receipts, or forms, streamlining data entry processes. Integrating NLP capabilities allows for more natural and context-aware communication within workflows. This can be beneficial in scenarios where interaction with users or external systems involves understanding and generating human-like language. AI models for image and object recognition can be employed to automate tasks that involve analyzing or categorizing visual content, such as identifying objects in images or processing scanned documents. AI can be used to identify anomalies or unusual patterns in data, helping organizations automate the detection of issues or irregularities in various processes. Integrating sentiment analysis can be useful in workflows that involve customer feedback, social media monitoring, or other scenarios where understanding sentiment is important.
October 18, 2023

Power Automate Review

Shine Nazeer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Power Automate's integrated AI tools, such as AI Builder, can have several positive impacts on an organization's automation capabilities:
  1. Enhanced Data Processing
  2. Automation of Data-Intensive Tasks
  3. Advanced Decision-Making
  4. Personalization
  5. Predictive Maintenance
  6. Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  7. Process Optimization
  8. Pattern Recognition
The impact of these AI tools on automation can be depending on how effectively they are implemented.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As it is AI tool very easy to use no much knowledge of coding and programming is required
As this tool gives you the best application of use and once you are used to it you can do whatever you want to perform on it.you can just click the run and your work will done on background.



Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Integrated AI tools in Microsoft Power Automate can significantly boost an organization's automation capabilities. These tools, such as AI Builder and chatbots, play a vital role in creating smarter and more efficient workflows.
By automating decision-making processes, they reduce manual intervention, streamline operations, and enhance customer engagement. Chatbots and virtual agents deliver quicker and more personalized responses, improving customer satisfaction. Moreover, AI-driven analytics offer valuable data insights, enabling data-driven decisions and process optimization.These AI tools contribute to increased efficiency, accuracy, and adaptive workflows.
However, their impact depends on alignment with an organization's specific needs and the extent to which they harness AI capabilities. Effective implementation and user training are essential to fully realize the potential of AI-enhanced automation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we didn't use the conversational AI Tools as help during automations development, as we relied more on the dedicated "human" support that Microsoft provided.
we are more considering to try the Power Automate AI Builder feature in order to extract data from scanned paper documents
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have not yet used the existing AI resources in PowerPlatform, so far only the flow performance analysis has been interesting as it points out the average start-to-end execution times of each flow, and at which stage there were bottlenecks or longer processing times.The idea of using the Virtual Agent with some internal process flows is being studied and evaluated.
Dineshkumar Rajendran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WE are now under consideration to try AI tools for image processing. Currently we have RPA tool UiPath but the extraction of texts from image processing which is not 100% accurate. We would like to explore soon Power Automate AI tools for better text extractions from image and PDF.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oh yes. Certainly the solution where 5 or more examples are needed to get information out of a document is very helpfull and reduces a lot of time. Once use to this solution we were able to automate a number of flow more efficiently.
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