Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate
Formerly known as Microsoft Flow – Power Automate is a component of the Microsoft Power Platform that allows business users to automate workflows within the organizations without writing any code for the same. Modern businesses are always gearing up for a faster and more automated environment to tackle most previously handled manual tasks. These tasks can be as simple as automating leave policies within an organization or sending an email once a task is completed in Jira.
How Does Microsoft Power Automate Work?
Automation triggers in the platform are accomplished through a robotic process automation (RPA) capability called Flows. Through Flows, API and user-interface-based automation capabilities are joined together in the Microsoft Power Automate platform, both on-premise and in the cloud. Step-by-step actions in user-interface Flows, such as mouse clicks, data entry, and keyboard use can be recorded and processed into intelligent, secure workflows.
Here Are The Different Types Of Automation Flows Inside Of The Platform:
Scheduled Flows
Once a designated time is reached or elapsed, the scheduled process is triggered and continues to complete the tasks on the schedule you assign to it.
Cloud Flows
Automations that use API connectors and are triggered by a specific event in the cloud or on-premise such as a notification of your company on social media or an email from a specific person. Within cloud flows, you have the ability to add intelligence to your automation with AI Builder. AI Builder lets you enhance your business with AI from language understanding, image recognition, processing forms, and optical character recognition (OCR).
Desktop Flows
With this flow, users can automate their user interface on the desktop by recording their screen, and the visual flow designer will automate mouse and keyboard clicks. Users can utilize desktop flows for extracting text from PDFs, retrieving files from folders, pulling info from Excel, and more.
Business Process Flows
Essentially provides a guide for end users to get work done in a streamlined fashion that leads them through organization-defined processes. This automation can be tailored so that people with different security roles can have an experience that best suits the work they do.