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Microsoft Power Automate
Formerly Microsoft Flow

Overview

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…

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Best Tool that is easy to integrate among other apps

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Dhruv Sharma
Analyst - Product Management
Analyst
Molex
Microsoft Power Automate2 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Steep learning curve for 'citizen-developers', but a must have automation platform!

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 26, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 use...
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Matt Aldridge
Manager - Human Resources
L&D + Automation Lead
Ryman Healthcare
Microsoft Power Automate2 years of experience

Best automation tool from Microsoft

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 18, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Power Automate solution to automate workflows for SharePoint online solutions. Few business problems that addressed using Power automate: 1. SharePoint Approvals flow 2...
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Dineshkumar Rajendran
Vice-President - Information Technology
Applications Developer
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Microsoft Power Automate5 years of experience

Work reduction with process automation with Microsoft Flow.

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 14, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Microsoft Flow to automate internal processes such as material purchase approval flow, document file upload, customer data collection, technical teams communication whe...
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Sandro Silva
Consultant - Customer Service
IT Consultant
dormakaba
Microsoft Power Automate3 years of experience

Microsoft Power Automate has come a long way - it is a solid process automation tool now

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 8, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use Microsoft Power Automate to help clients automate their business processes, such as onboarding/offboarding, employee recognition and others. We typically use Microsoft P...
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Jeff Crowell
Director - Information Technology
Director of Service Delivery
Netrix LLC
Microsoft Power Automate3 years of experience
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Pricing

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Power Automate Premium

$15

Cloud
per month per user

Power Automate Process

$150

Cloud
per month per bot

Hosted RPA add-on

$215

Cloud
per month per bot

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://powerautomate.microsoft.com/pri…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $15 per month per user
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Product Demos

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powerautomate.microsoft.com
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Product Details

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.

Capabilities

  • (DPA) digital process automation through cloud flows to connect apps, data, and services.

  • Automates repetitive tasks using UI-based automation with (RPA) robotic process automation through desktop flows.

  • Ensures consistency with business process flows—the (BPA) business process automation capability in Power Automate.

  • Process advisor: Power Automate also includes process and task mining capabilities to analyze and optimize workflows.

  • AI Builder: Power Automate uses AI to automate tasks that are repetitive or time-consuming. For example, its AI can automatically extract data from documents, generate reports, or answer customer questions.

  • The "describe it to design it" feature allows users to create flows by simply describing them in natural language, making it faster and easier for users to create flows, to produce flows that are more likely to be used.

  • The Power Automate platform offers a wide range of connectors, so users can more easily integrate existing applications and systems.

Microsoft is now adding two new features to Power Automate:

  • Copilot, an AI-powered assistant that suggests actions, connectors, parameters, and supports flow debugging.

  • "Create text with GPT," an AI-powered action used to generate text for various purposes, including content creation, feedback gathering, and document information extraction.

  • Power Automate Process Mining (launched August 2023) - Optimizes operations and uncovers opportunities for automation.

Microsoft Power Automate Features

  • Supported: (DPA) Digital Process Automation - Cloud Flows
  • Supported: (RPA) Robotic Process Automation - Desktop Flows
  • Supported: (BPA) Business Process Automation - Business Process Flows
  • Supported: AI Builder
  • Supported: Process Mining - Process Advisor
  • Supported: Task Mining - Process Advisor

Microsoft Power Automate Screenshots

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Microsoft Power Automate Videos

Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-first, comprehensive automation platform powered by low-code and AI with GPT, designed to accelerate development without comprising visibility and control, modernize business processes, and integrate operations at scale. Key features: advanc...
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Al Builder's new Azure OpenAl service model enables businesses to integrate intelligent text generation capabilities into their Power Automate and Power Apps solutions. With pre-built templates, users can incorporate relevant prompts into their workflow.

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Microsoft Power Automate Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Supported CountriesAsia, Australia, Canada, Europe, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South America, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian (Cyrillic script, Serbia), Serbian (Latin script, Serbia), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Microsoft Power Automate starts at $15.

UiPath Automation Platform, SS&C Blue Prism, and Automation Anywhere are common alternatives for Microsoft Power Automate.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Microsoft Power Automate are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Easy to Use, Well Integrated and Complete Package

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 26, 2022
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering
Computer Networking Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The flow wizard is amazing for those who are unfamiliar. It helps in connecting to data sources from other products other than Microsoft. We use it on daily basis. This app support flow in multiple applications. And integrate seamlessly with any application.
Pros
  • Helped under making Business Decisions.
  • HR system.
  • Multiple application integration.
Cons
  • Some application are yet to be integrated with Power Automate.
  • Add support to Linux or Mac.
Likelihood to Recommend
The interface and code used are low-level and very easy to understand. The software is easy to deploy in the company from the beginning and benefits are seen almost immediately. It's very easy for freshers to understand. The graphical user interface to click and drag functions together to build an automated workflow. It also has advanced AI/ML analytics/functional capabilities.

Best Automation tool in Market with multiple business applications integration and easy-to-use.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 30, 2022
Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering
Information Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microsoft Power Automate helped my organization to integrate multiple applications and automate Business as usual tasks which helped my team save multiple hours of work. This tool integrated well with all Microsoft Office 365 applications which saved a lot of effort. The experience with this tool is exceptional in terms of environment building, and deploying the solution for the production run.
Pros
  • Helped Integrating Business application
  • Automated BAU Task
  • Ease to use
Cons
  • Customer Support
  • Mobile Application is laggy
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Power Automate is the best tool to automate and is well integrated with Microsoft Office 365. This will help organizations to automate multiple BAU tasks with few clicks. This is a very easy-to-use tool. Even fresher can quickly learn and start automating stuff.

Best Tool that is easy to integrate among other apps

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 30, 2024
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
Likelihood to Recommend
When we conducted survey the responses need to measure like a KPI so integration Forms to SharePoint via Microsoft Power Automate enabled like data transmission which can be consumed in PowerBI for visualization and reporting. We had operation, data related KPI developed for Plants, Factory, Supply chain Hubs since daily users doesn't open the PowerBI reports daily so by setting the threshold on Yellow and Red Flags and triggering the alert via email allowed attention from the users and improve issue in the process.

Affordable and easy way to set up automations in a Microsoft environment.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 10, 2023
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Building Materials Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We needed a solution for our payables department to receive invoices from email attachments, going into a one drive folder. Microsoft Power Automate gave me the tools needed to design a product that achieves our end goal in simplifying payables document management. We linked it from our Exchange Online mailbox to our Microsoft OneDrive account.
Pros
  • Allows you to create automation and scripts that speed up productivity in the workplace.
  • Shows an overview of the workflow and job history.
  • Has lots of plug-ins with other Microsoft and third party vendors' product's.
Cons
  • Would like to see deeper integration with Exchange online, specifically the plugin realizing that an email is being sent via an alias address, not the primary SMTP address. We had to do a workaround that involved creating multiple single-member distribution groups to get power to automate to differentiate different email addresses going to the same mailbox.
  • The interface is slow to load at times.
Likelihood to Recommend
The integrations for Microsoft products seem robust and reliable. It's well suited for workflows staying inside 365 products, but not as much when it comes to third-party integrations. Microsoft Power Automate also is not suited for IoT due to a lack of integration with those services.

Workflows and automation made easy

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 16, 2023
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Power Automate
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My team has access to Power Automate through our O365 licences. we caught its potential usages after Microsoft made a presentation of the Power platform.
Since it is a cloud based solution depply linked to office 365, our main usages were first around Word, Excel, Sharepoint and Outlook simple but repetitive tasks automation. we then automated daily paperwork/management workflows.
we then began to use power Automate for some company wide business processes.
Pros
  • easy to use workflow solution
  • very efficient integration with all O365 components, especially Word, Outlook, Sharepoint, MS Teams...
  • easily extracts data from a great number of sources ( and can be used as an ETL tool)
Cons
  • updates are sometimes not backward compatible and can break existent workflows
  • Power Automate can be tough to learn for people that aren't used to Microsoft/Azure products and UI
  • 3rd party connectors troubleshooting can be confusing
Likelihood to Recommend
if your company relies on Microsoft Office products, Power Automate helps to set up workflows, approval forms and everyday paperwork custom apps with minimal development charges.
If you use MS Teams collaboration features, power automate makes it easier to bring/process information from various sources to a single place
Data teams can also easily use power automate as an ETL to bring data to PowerBI, regarding the large number of connectors available.
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