Decoding Power Platform | What is Power Automate?

Low Code • Microsoft Power Platform • Microsoft Power Automate • Jul 12, 2024 11:15:29 AM • Written by: Insights by IntelliconnectQ

What is Power Automate?

Microsoft Power Automate is an automation tool to help with repetitive tasks that can be manually exhausting.

This tool has drag-and-drop actions and triggers which helps build workflows without any code. There are thousands of connectors including SharePoint, Excel, SQL, etc Power Automate which a non-coder, too, can use to build flows.

In this brief guide for Power Automate, we will go through the types of workflows you can make in Power Automate and how they can impact efficiency and its use cases!

Where can it be used?

Power Automate can be used to automate tasks such as scheduling emails, if any task is scheduled, or any approval flow, and even to get data for the Power App, Power Automate is used.

The global robotic process automation market is on the rise, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 38.2% from 2022 to 2030.

~https://blog.enterprisedna.co/what-is-power-automate-the-ultimate-guide/

Impact of Automation

Automation is changing the way businesses work. Manual task from monitoring to reporting can now be done using automation. That is to save manpower for brainstorming rather than manually doing everything.

Types of Power Automate Flows

Microsoft Workflow

This is also called Automated Cloud Flow where the trigger is there of a webhook, or if an email comes then, likewise. These triggers happen and then the flow runs. The flow can have many actions including conditions and loops.

To know more: visit https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/get-started-logic-flow?tabs=classic-designer

Business Process Flow

Filling form in today's time is enhanced by Business Process flows. It gives you stages to go as you proceed with it. It also gives security levels in the forms for different departments of the company or groups. As the stages complete, you can send an email, or call another workflow.

To know more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/business-process-flows-overview

Desktop Flows

The desktop flows allow users to automate the desktop systems such as copying a few files starting with some letters into a specific folder. It has many uses on desktop from organizing files to scraping websites in Excel. It works similarly to cloud flows.

To know more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/introduction

How does Automation Impact efficiency?

It makes manual work easier

The human force can look at things logically and automation can help them with the repetitive tasks. It helps lower the hours of manual work to be done. Automation also gives accurate results, it reduces the risk of mistakes.

Faster

Automation helps in doing tasks faster than ever. According to Service Now, 45% of the tasks we do can be automated. Now, it's almost half of the tasks.

Cheaper

Only to create daily reports and deliver them, how many resources do you need? With automation, you can generate reports in seconds, and not only once, you can schedule these tasks on repeat too.

Take the next steps

Power Automate is one of the best tools for automation. It gives you all the reasons to use it as it will handle all your small tasks with accuracy.

Its been discussed at various forums and channels that 40% of our tasks can be automated.

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