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Best automation tool from Microsoft
October 12, 2023

Best automation tool from Microsoft

Dineshkumar Rajendran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power Automate

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
  • Integration with Teams
  • Integration with Outlooks
  • SharePoint online integration to create/edit/delete list items
  • Trigger power automate using API calls
  • Files upload to SharePoint list/document library
  • Quickly design workflows for SharePoint solutions
  • Connectors to different tools/systems like Outlook, teams, Database for different activities
  • Allow any non-technical persons to build automation workflows
We also use Nintex automation workflows in our organization for SharePoint solutions. Currently the road map is to migrate all the workflows developed using Nintex to Microsoft Power automate. I have been involved in this migration project, migrated around 50+ workflows that are integrated with SharePoint online to Power automate. Power Automate has better user friendly UI and has more connectors compared to Nintex and dont see any challenges migrating the workflows to Power Automate
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.
Power Automate is very well integrated with Microsoft office 365 suit, Teams channel and SharePoint online. The workflow UI is very user-friendly and the users from non-technical background can easily understand the tool and start automating any simple and complex workflows. This is the best tool compared to Nintex Workflow products.

Do you think Microsoft Power Automate delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Power Automate's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Power Automate live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Power Automate go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Power Automate again?

Yes

Here are couple of use cases where Power Automate is well suited for us.

1. Send auto-reply to users whenever an email received to Shared mailbox. Currently Outlook 365 auto reply function allows to send auto response just onetime but the requirement is to send auto response to use whenever an email received. This was easily automated using Power Automate integration with Outlook 365.

2. Integrated well with Teams channel. The teams notification is expected to send when the status change in SharePoint online list time. This is the common use case from the business group, workflows can be automated in few seconds using Power automate