Benefits of Power Automate

Discover a better way to get things done across your organization through digital and robotic process automation.

• Boost productivity
  • Build time-saving workflows into everything from individual tasks to large-scale systems with seamless integration using hundreds of prebuilt connectors.
• Quickly and securely automate - at scale
  • Enable everyone to build secure workflows with a no-code guided experience and cloud-based data loss prevention, identity, and access management services.
• Put intelligent workflows to work
  • Automate time-consuming manual tasks with built-in AI capabilities, giving you more time to focus on strategic, high-value opportunities.

Power Automate is one of the pillars of Power Platform. It provides a low code platform for workflow and process automation. Here's a list of the different types of flows:

• Automated flows
  • Create a flow that performs one or more tasks automatically after it's triggered by an event.
• Button flows
  • Create a flow that performs one or more tasks automatically after it's triggered by an event.
• Scheduled flows
  • Create a flow that performs one or more tasks on a schedule.
• Business process flows
  • Define a set of steps for people to follow to take them to a desired outcome.
• UI flows (Preview)
  • Record and automate the playback of manual steps on legacy software.

Features of Power Automate

• In Power Automate, creating a UI flow is a point-and-click experience, though it does require some coding experience.
• We can do both API-based automation and UI-based automation.
• It has pre-built connectors for more than 275 apps and services that do support API automation.
• Power Automate enables us to automate windows based applications using recorders, orchestrate tasks across APIs, SAS providers, and databases.
• Power virtual agents and AI builders let us create a chat-bot that can be integrated with Teams, Facebook messenger, and in our own application.
• It’s AI models provide Key phrase extraction, Language detection, Text recognition, Sentiment analysis, etc.
• AI builder let Think form processing, object detection, and text and binary classification.
• It has the Microsoft bot framework and cognitive technology integrated with it to develop chat-bots seamlessly.
• Thousands of pre-built templates to automate common business processes immediately.

For more information on the Power Platforms other offerings please checkout out recent article, Benefits of the Power Platform

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