Item: Microsoft Power Automate
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power Automate

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To automate manual processes within my company. Many processes involve a Word document form or Excel spreadsheet. By using Power Automate, we can streamline the processes by creating MS forms and SharePoint lists with responses automatically populating for us by Power Automate. The service also allows us to send email reminders for some processes.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Automated emails.
Read from excel table.
Read from sharepoint list.

Cons

Improve copying from clipboard - not always possible.
Provide better error messages.
Show progress while in an apply to each loop.

Most Important Features

Having co-owners.
Links to an MS Team.
Copying a flow.

Return on Investment

We are reducing the need for manual emails with automated reminder emails set up after x days.
Recurrence on flows reduces manual checking so more time to spend on other tasks.
Embedding catch and try statements to alert us if uploads were incorrect, minimizing time spent checking uploaded data's accuracy.

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Power Automate go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft Power Automate again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Power Apps, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Pages

Likelihood to Recommend

Our end goal is to automate processes as much as possible. Using Power Admin, we can automate where our data goes, where it is read from, and how our data is inputted/outputted. Power Admin has lots of connectors that help us, e.g., read and populate from/to file shares.

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