Item: Microsoft Power Automate
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Power Automate

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Power Automate is widely used to automate rule-based processes in our organization. All processes based on the Microsoft ecosystem, such as SharePoint, Excel, and OneDrive, are automated using Power Automate, as they offer native out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft products. The best part is that with Power Automate Cloud, there is no additional hardware cost, as it's hosted in the cloud with very low monthly fees for premium usage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Seamless integration with Microsoft products like SharePoint, making automating processes such as file processing or list-based automation with SharePoint very easy.
Power Automate also offers seamless integration with Power Apps, which helps link your automation developed in Power Automate with Power Apps.
Very less license cost of 25 dollars per month for premium license.

Cons

Currently, a deployed automation can run for only 30 days, and the process will time out after that. would like to see support for an automated run that lasts more than 30 days.

Most Important Features

Cloud deployment of automation workflows without requiring any physical hardware resources.
Very stable with very less automation failure rates even when its running in the cloud.

Return on Investment

Very high ROI generation as the cost of deploying a solution is very minimal . Most of the features are available in the office 365 plan free of cost and only some users need to upgrade to premium for using premium connectors .from day one as soon as automation is deployed there is very high Roi and learning curve is also less as its a drag drop based UI

Implementation Rating

Implementation is very seamless. It can be linked to Power Apps workflows with a few clicks or run on application triggers, such as file/list modifications in SharePoint. Power Automate Cloud offers a very seamless deployment experience, as the end user does not need to worry about infrastructure since it runs in the Microsoft Cloud.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Power Automate go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Power Automate again?

Yes

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Likelihood to Recommend

Very useful RPA tools for automating processes with minimal coding and drag-and-drop functionality, with a wide variety of triggers, including scheduled time-based triggers and activity-based triggers, such as modifying a file/list in SharePoint to run a Power Automate flow. Very easy-to-use UI with native integration with every Microsoft product, and a very low automation failure rate for deployed workflows.

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A great no code cloud RPA tool from Microsoft.

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