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Workflows and automation made easy
October 16, 2023

Workflows and automation made easy

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • Unattended RPA add-on
  • Power Automate Process Mining

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power Automate

My team has access to Power Automate through our O365 licences. we caught its potential usages after Microsoft made a presentation of the Power platform.
Since it is a cloud based solution depply linked to office 365, our main usages were first around Word, Excel, Sharepoint and Outlook simple but repetitive tasks automation. we then automated daily paperwork/management workflows.
we then began to use power Automate for some company wide business processes.
  • 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
  • workflow/business process setup
  • Office 365 integration
  • the great number of 3rd party connectors
  • Task automation made easy (less development for the same result)
  • a lot of time saved with repetitive tasks automated, that means more time for more added value tasks
  • time is money so it is cost efficient
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

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

if your company relies on Microsoft Office products, Power Automate helps to set up workflows, approval forms and everyday paperwork custom apps with minimal development charges.
If you use MS Teams collaboration features, power automate makes it easier to bring/process information from various sources to a single place
Data teams can also easily use power automate as an ETL to bring data to PowerBI, regarding the large number of connectors available.

Microsoft Power Automate Training

  • Online Training
  • In-Person Training
after reviewing the main features of Power Automate, the Microsoft trainer focused on some of our real life use cases implementation, from simple to more advanced.
although it was productive, it is more difficult to stay focused and in a 7 hours a day online training (including screen share issues and the fact that the trainer just can't precisely show the exact location of your mistake)