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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 Demos

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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October 11, 2023

The wonders of Power Automate

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Phillip Templeton
IT Support Analyst
Guy Brown (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
10
There are many avenues for support for Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow). There is the support through Microsoft as well as forums and websites dedicated to providing support and information. The Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) docs pages are very useful for providing insight into what a function does and how to use it. You should be able to use all of these avenues to build a robust flow.
October 11, 2023

Power Automate, reduce your interactions with your email beyond just using mail! then Automate all the things!

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
7
Microsoft has provided a number of avenues for documentation and support to develop and grow the Power Automate infrastructure. Power Automate has available to it the 'application in an afternoon' fundamental courses that will help you to develop and support an entire application in one afternoon's virtual training session. Microsoft Learn provides a full documentation of Power Automate, it's functions and data types, as well as the more advanced topics of iterating through data as arrays, functions and variables.
October 10, 2023

Great product, just needs to sand off some rough edges

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Outsourcing/Offshoring Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
9
both Community support and Microsoft official support typically respond to (and resolve) reported issues in a VERY expedient manner, usually going above and beyond for education and bugfixing. I have been thoroughly impressed with the level of support I had been provided in the past.
June 11, 2021

Microsoft Flow Has Huge Potential

Matthew Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matthew Smith
Estimator and Project Manager
Century Exteriors Inc. (Construction, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
2
So Microsoft Flow support for its general troubleshooting or correcting issues is excellent. But to my knowledge, Microsoft Flow itself does not have service providers, even though they offer templates on their online app. I have found myself many times trying to complete individual actions that have no known template or even forum example. Every business is unique, and Microsoft does an excellent job of providing versatile yet straightforward systems. Microsoft Flow is definitely on the more advanced side of things. Having support or being able to purchase superior service (on building personalized flows) would be great.
January 20, 2020

Microsoft Flow is in its Infancy but has a lot of Potential

Boris Skylar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Boris Skylar
Vice President, Application Systems
Penn Treaty Network America (Insurance, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
8
  • Microsoft Flow does a great job at automation.
  • Repetitive Microsoft Flow can save a lot of time; eliminates repetitive and monotonous things.
  • Microsoft Flow has a lot of ways it can integrate into other Microsoft programs.
August 08, 2019

WinAutomation - A Real Time Saver

Verified User
General Manager in Corporate
Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
8
I really have had a need to contact Win Automation support, but when I do google how to do a task, Win Automation has an extensive message board with a broad number of topics and questions answered where I could see how other people were able to solve similar problems to the ones I have.
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