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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.
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
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Microsoft Power Automate Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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.
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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- 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.
- 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
March 05, 2024
Why we need Microsoft Power Automate
- Outlook
- Scripting
- Interface
- 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
March 04, 2024
Power Automate in a tribal government setting.
- Streamline everyday tasks.
- Automate repetitive tasks across business systems.
- Increase employee satisfaction and reduce human error.
- Some advance functionality is paywalled.
- Mobile app lacks several features.
December 06, 2023
Why I am Power Automate Advocate
- 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.
- 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 05, 2023
How Microsoft Power Automate Streamlined Our Workflow
- responses to customer inquiries
- personalized recommendations
- proactive issue resolution
- Troubleshooting complex workflows with multiple connectors and dependencies time-consuming and frustrating
December 04, 2023
What an excellent tool
- 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 29, 2023
Automation at your finger tips!
- Un-attended RPAs
- Process Mining
- Business automation
- I would love to see Python in Power Automate someday
November 29, 2023
Microsoft Power Automate, the tool that has everyone's eye on !
- 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
November 29, 2023
Microsoft Power Automate - Really powerful!
- RPA module to extract data from PDF
- Workflow process
- Seamless integration with Microsoft suite apps
- Ease of use in workflow
- Ability to handle Microsoft Forms complex workflow
- Rest is all good
November 22, 2023
Win in process efficiency with power automate
- Easy to use
- Aesthetic interface
- Allow integration with more apps/softwares
October 18, 2023
Seamless Integration with Office 365
- Automated email attachment saving
- Renaming of files with expression based rules
- N/A
October 18, 2023
Power Automate Review
- 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
- 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.
- Frontends
- Workflows
- Rapid Application Design
- Iterative Design
- Mobile
- Licensing
- Cloud
October 16, 2023
Workflows and automation made easy
- 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.
- 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 13, 2023
Power Automate Really Reviewed
- Send automated emails
- Notifies colleagues / managers when records have been entered.
- Sometimes I have to really research how to do something in power automate. It's great, but it would be better if it could be even more user friendly
- Is there something other than forums to learn how to do certain things in power automate?
- 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 12, 2023
Best automation tool from Microsoft
- 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 12, 2023
Not for the faint of heart
- Work with other Microsoft apps
- Checks reliably for triggers
- System itself is very stable
- They fail to update when external APIs are updated
- Difficult to set up for non-IT
- Can be overkill for those used to simpler products
October 11, 2023
Integrate with Microsoft Power Automate
- Integration
- Cost efficient
- Easy to Use
- 90 days turn off for workflows is very limiting
- More actions for teams integration
- Being able to have a super admin account that shows all workflows in the company
October 11, 2023
Microsoft Power Automate : remarkable tool
- (re)direct emails
- handle documents upon creation in a folder
- excellent connections with other software solutions
- event handling on unsurpassed level
- reading the content of pdf files. Not everybody is fluent in Regex commands