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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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Best Tool that is easy to integrate among other apps

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Microsoft Power Automate to share alerts, reports from Powerbi whenever a KPI has crossed a target or seeks attention. When we conduct surveys on feedback of processes ...
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Dhruv Sharma
Analyst - Product Management
Analyst
Molex
Microsoft Power Automate2 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Steep learning curve for 'citizen-developers', but a must have automation platform!

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 26, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Power Automate fills a vital gap where teams can develop various workflows between systems that our technology team hasn't integrated, and we need automation. This is most use...
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Matt Aldridge
Manager - Human Resources
L&D + Automation Lead
Ryman Healthcare
Microsoft Power Automate2 years of experience

Best automation tool from Microsoft

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 18, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Dineshkumar Rajendran
Vice-President - Information Technology
Applications Developer
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Microsoft Power Automate5 years of experience

Work reduction with process automation with Microsoft Flow.

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 14, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Microsoft Flow to automate internal processes such as material purchase approval flow, document file upload, customer data collection, technical teams communication whe...
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Sandro Silva
Consultant - Customer Service
IT Consultant
dormakaba
Microsoft Power Automate3 years of experience

Microsoft Power Automate has come a long way - it is a solid process automation tool now

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 8, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use Microsoft Power Automate to help clients automate their business processes, such as onboarding/offboarding, employee recognition and others. We typically use Microsoft P...
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Jeff Crowell
Director - Information Technology
Director of Service Delivery
Netrix LLC
Microsoft Power Automate3 years of experience
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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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://powerautomate.microsoft.com/pri…

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 Demos

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powerautomate.microsoft.com
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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

Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-first, comprehensive automation platform powered by low-code and AI with GPT, designed to accelerate development without comprising visibility and control, modernize business processes, and integrate operations at scale. Key features: advanc...
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Al Builder's new Azure OpenAl service model enables businesses to integrate intelligent text generation capabilities into their Power Automate and Power Apps solutions. With pre-built templates, users can incorporate relevant prompts into their workflow.

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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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Steep learning curve for 'citizen-developers', but a must have automation platform!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 26, 2024
MA
Matt Aldridge
L&D + Automation Lead
Ryman Healthcare (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Power Automate fills a vital gap where teams can develop various workflows between systems that our technology team hasn't integrated, and we need automation. This is most useful with HR and L&D processes such as onboarding, induction, and employee exit. It helps us automate repetitive tasks, like updating a database of employee records, sending data to webhooks based on a set trigger, moving data from one system to another, and automating enrolment actions in our LEARN365, our LMS platform. Power Automate stands out for its ability to integrate with multiple systems, close gaps in our existing technology configuration, and give more flexibility to people's data.

Best automation tool from Microsoft

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 18, 2024
DR
Dineshkumar Rajendran
Applications Developer
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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

Work reduction with process automation with Microsoft Flow.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 14, 2024
SS
Sandro Silva
IT Consultant
dormakaba (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.

Microsoft Power Automate has come a long way - it is a solid process automation tool now

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 08, 2024
JC
Jeff Crowell
Director of Service Delivery
Netrix LLC (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.

Best Tool that is easy to integrate among other apps

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 30, 2024
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Microsoft Power Automate to share alerts, reports from Powerbi whenever a KPI has crossed a target or seeks attention. When we conduct surveys on feedback of processes and improvements areas it helps to connect with Forms & SharePoint to records the data. It helps in web scraping and save time.
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