Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate
About Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate is an advanced automation platform that offers a range of capabilities, including BPA, DPA, RPA, process/task mining, and AI-powered automation. With Power Automate, users can streamline their workflows and automate tasks across multiple applications and services. The platform, which has built-in AI capabilities, is aimed at both "Citizen Integrators" within enterprise organizations and IT decision-makers wanting to delegate workflow creation to line-of-business partners. The platform allows users to streamline repetitive tasks and paperless processes, offering seamless integration with other products - including Salesforce - using hundreds of prebuilt connectors. The ability to manage an on-premise data gateway allows connection to both on-premise and cloud data.
Microsoft Power Automate allows users to create complex, multi-step flows to trigger multiple actions or advanced options with a single event. Advanced options allow users to customize the actions carried out, such as marking an email sent through the workflow as high priority. Conditions can also be added to flows to specify that actions should only be performed in certain situations. One example usage is to archive received Tweets in SharePoint based on keywords they contain, but only if the Tweet is retweeted a certain number of times.
With Microsoft Power Automate, users can create multiple approval flows to automate approvals for vacation, travel, or overtime requests, or budgets, contracts, articles, and other documents, eliminating manual processes. Approvers are automatically sent email notifications for new requests, and all requests can be viewed and approved from the unified approvals center. Users can also create custom data loss prevention (DLP) policies to ensure that organizational data is protected and prevent workflows from accessing or using protected data.
Free trial available. Subscription plans start at $15/user/month; visit https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ for more information.
Key benefits of Microsoft Power Automate
• Multiple actions and advanced options can be added to flows with a single trigger, such as using an item added to SharePoint to trigger sending an email and creation of a file in Dropbox.
• Microsoft Power Automate provides a flow template library for users to select from and either use directly, or customize to their needs.
• Recurring flows can be scheduled to perform single or multiple tasks once every minute, hour, or day, on a specified date, or after a defined number of minutes, hours, or days.
• Automated workflows can be created to process approvals for requests or documents, with email notifications for approvers, and all approval requests accessible through a unified approvals center.
• Data loss prevention (DLP) can be used to define which connectors can access or share business data to prevent sensitive data from being published.
• AI Builder can effortlessly automate repetitive or time-consuming tasks. It can extract data from documents, create reports and even respond to customer inquiries without human intervention.
• Using the "Describe it to design it" feature, users can easily create flows by describing them in natural language. This simplifies and speeds up the flow creation process, resulting in flows that are more likely to be utilized.
• The native iOS and Android apps allow users to create automated workflows, generate and share buttons that trigger workflows with a tap, and receive push notifications for flow activity.
• The Power Automate platform offers a wide range of connectors, so you can easily integrate your existing applications and systems.
Microsoft has recently introduced two new features:
• Copilot, an AI assistant that provides suggestions for actions, connectors, parameters, and supports in debugging flows.
• "Create text with GPT," another AI-powered feature that generates text for multiple purposes like content creation, feedback collection, and document information extraction.
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- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2023/11/24
Microsoft Power Automate integration capabilities, ease of use, AI functionalities, and strong...
Microsoft Power Automate integration capabilities, ease of use, AI functionalities, and strong security and compliance standards make it popular to use for organizations within the Microsoft ecosystem
Pros
AI capabilities through Azure services , strong user community ,Power Automate has robust security, manage and monitor workflows on mobile app and user-friendly
Cons
Power Automate primarily operates in the cloud, which might pose limitations for users who require extensive offline capabilities
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Intern making automations to improve workflow
Reviewed on 2024/03/12
It was great, I loved making stuff in it. I also tried out the air feature and it worked super well...
It was great, I loved making stuff in it. I also tried out the air feature and it worked super well too.
Pros
It is a great low code environment that perfectly integrates with all other Microsoft products. I think any large business already paying for Microsoft services should consider getting this too. It’s very easy for employees to learn and begin using in their daily work.
Cons
Sometimes for very niche issues there wasn’t a lot of support on how to fix it. But overall there were not really any cons in my mind as a user.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Automate everything
Reviewed on 2023/07/20
Pros
It is easy to automate your business processes based on events or daily, monthly programming etc. So that you save a lot of time when generating reports or processing data so that they are always ready.
Cons
Sometimes the fact of being low code means that more complex tasks cannot be carried out directly or cannot be customized to the millimeter.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Plenty of cool stuff if you're willing to learn
Reviewed on 2024/10/09
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Integration with Microsoft - especially with SharePoint and Office apps
Cons
The workflows and solutions can get complex pretty fast and making changes is very unintuitive
- Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Power Automate for Secondary School-Wide and Classroom Information
Reviewed on 2023/09/16
In 2020 when school classes first moved online or students attended on a rotating basis, the rush...
In 2020 when school classes first moved online or students attended on a rotating basis, the rush of posting daily lesson plans while starting video calls and managing on premise students was an unneccesary stressor. I built Flows to automate that process - automatically posting the daily lesson to Teams (as channel posts as we were required, which could not otherwise be scheduled) at the beginning of each class, retrieved from a document I updated the day before. I have since expanded the use to school wide collection and distribution of announcements (Forms > Share Point > Teams, Outlook, HTML, RSS for students, staff, website, and TV displays), scheduling of resources in our Student Services departments, and various other time-saving applications. A rough estimate would be that my automations save me approximately 45 - 60 minutes of work each day. This time can be better spent actually interacting with students, rather than clicking through tedious yet necessary tasks.
Pros
Power Automate has allowed me to offload some of the tedious and repetitive tasks that would otherwise take me away from my teaching duties and the time available to interact with students.
Cons
A first attempt at Power Automate can quickly show even a seasoned technically-savvy individual just how much they do not know. Thankfully, there is a well-developed online support community, both from Microsoft and others, that documents and solves many of the common (and not-so-common) issues that users have experienced in their sometimes very-detailed automations.
Microsoft Power Automate FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Power Automate.Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Power Automate offer?
Microsoft Power Automate offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$15.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Microsoft Power Automate can be licensed on a per-user or per-bot basis.
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Power Automate?
Microsoft Power Automate has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Microsoft Power Automate support?
Microsoft Power Automate supports the following languages:
Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Microsoft Power Automate support mobile devices?
Microsoft Power Automate supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Power Automate integrate with?
Microsoft Power Automate integrates with the following applications:
Box, Google Drive, Mailchimp, Meta for Business, Microsoft 365, Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Trello, Twitter/X
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Power Automate offer?
Microsoft Power Automate offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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