#1 most frequent
United States of America
48.0%11,109 installations of 23,151
What is Microsoft Power Automate?
Microsoft Power Automate is an advanced automation platform offering a range of features, including AI-powered automation, robotic process automation (RPA), business process automation (BPA), digital process automation (DPA), and process/task mining. The platform aims to empower organizations to securely automate their operations at scale by leveraging low-code and AI technologies.
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Who Buys & Uses Microsoft Power Automate
#2 most frequent
Canada
7.7%1,776 installations of 23,151
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.0%1,624 installations of 23,151
Power automate a effective tool for automation
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Mostly as the name suggests Power Automate helped me manage my clients tasks by automating them. One such scenario of i define would be automating a email and message trigger if a report takes longer than usual to refresh. Automate helped me creates those scenarios woth least coding and best results with all process working seamlessly automatically as programmed.
Pros
- Automatic data collection and sends
- Automated emails and texts sendings
- Automated monitoring
Cons
- Improved marketplace
- Release desktop version
- Cost
Most Important Features
- Integrations with other services
- Monitoring
- Scheduling capabilities
Return on Investment
- Time saving
- Fast development
- More accuracy
Alternatives Considered
Power Apps
Other Software Used
Power Apps, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage
Steep learning curve for 'citizen-developers', but a must have automation platform!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Power Automate fills a vital gap where teams can develop various workflows between systems that our technology team hasn't integrated, and we need automation. This is most useful with HR and L&D processes such as onboarding, induction, and employee exit. It helps us automate repetitive tasks, like updating a database of employee records, sending data to webhooks based on a set trigger, moving data from one system to another, and automating enrolment actions in our LEARN365, our LMS platform. Power Automate stands out for its ability to integrate with multiple systems, close gaps in our existing technology configuration, and give more flexibility to people's data.
Pros
- Connecting to many Microsoft and third party systems.
- Flexible automation workflows with many triggers.
- Little to no coding knowledge required to get started.
- Lots of templates and online support resources available.
Cons
- Steep learning curve.
- It can be slow to develop simple solutions compared to other automation platforms such as Smarsheet.
- Troubleshooting and developing can be frustrating without proper access to edit the code directly.
- Only able to edit through the GUI and with expressions.
- Many ways to do the same thing can be frustrating when you need to rework your flow.
Most Important Features
- Automated triggers.
- Connects to Smartsheet and LMS365.
- Webhooks (premium feature).
- Connects to all Microsoft apps.
- Basic plan included with most O365 licenses.
Return on Investment
- Reduce manual admin tasks, reduce administration hours.
- Automated notifications for timely HR action.
- Automating inductions prevented the need for third party platform.
Alternatives Considered
Smartsheet, IFTTT, Power Apps, Oracle Siebel CRM, Salesforce Sales Cloud and Azure Logic Apps
Other Software Used
Smartsheet, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SharePoint, LMS365, Workleap Officevibe, MYOB PayGlobal, Articulate 360, Microsoft Planner
Best Tool that is easy to integrate among other apps
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Microsoft Power Automate to share alerts, reports from Powerbi whenever a KPI has crossed a target or seeks attention. When we conduct surveys on feedback of processes and improvements areas it helps to connect with Forms & SharePoint to records the data. It helps in web scraping and save time.
Pros
- Creating, Editing and troubleshooting the flow is simple and easy
- Integrating with other Microsoft tools is flawless like PowerBI, Forms, SharePoint.
- Does not require human intervention at all and processes can be completely automated
Cons
- Integration with 3rd party services other than Microsoft owned
Most Important Features
- Triggering emails based on alerts or reports
- Integrating PowerBI, Forms, Sharepoint
- Vast source of template so we don't have to do everything from scratch
Return on Investment
- Saves time in creating, generating reports
- Improves turn around time in providing insights to reports and actionable items
- We could easily develop SME that could train other users to use the tool in their day to day activities.
Alternatives Considered
Appian, SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation and UiPath Automation Platform
Other Software Used
UiPath Automation Platform, SS&C Blue Prism Intelligent Automation, Appian
ease of automation
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microsoft Power Automate had been used in the integration of our Survey feedback into Ms Teams. where users now directly receive the survey as workflows in Ms Teams
Pros
- It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Teams and outlook
Cons
- The new interface has limited actions making modifications hard. one has to change to the old feature before features can be found
Most Important Features
- Ability to easily automate cumbersome workload.
Return on Investment
- it has improved efficiency by cutting our workloads to half
- allowed us to explore possibilities of automating repetitive actions
Automation tool for everyone
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Microsoft Power Automate to automate some data task. An example for this is to automate storing of CSV and JSON files to database that is sent via email. Another is to use this in sending email or notification to our end users. And lastly is sending of Power BI report in form of PDF with different applied filters per recipient. This really helps a lot and powerful to manage basic data automation.
Pros
- email automation
- data automation
- notification via team
- sharepoint automation
Cons
- improve performance of user interface
- transfer full ownership of jobs
- adding pdf password creation
Most Important Features
- email attachment processing
- interaction to D365 features
- power bi interaction
Return on Investment
- Prevents us from using expensive ETL tool on some cases
- remove the IT team dependency of business
- increased productivity of everyone
Other Software Used
Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks
