What is capabilities of Power Automate
Do you find yourself regularly downloading email attachments and then uploading the file to the database? Every business in every industry has repetitive tasks that impact their organization. The process of getting a new purchase order approved might involve taking a form from your desk to get it approved. An employee might need to log into a website every morning to find daily numbers and then save those numbers into another system. Not only can repetitive processes like these be time consuming, but they can also be prone to errors. If someone mis-enters something, it could result in a missed deadline or a financial loss.
Microsoft Power Automate is about having computers manage repetitive tasks. It gives anyone with the knowledge of the business process to create a repeatable flow that when triggered, leaps into action and performs the process.
Common scenarios and capabilities of Power Automate:
- Automating repetitive tasks such as moving data from one system to another.
- Guiding a user through a process so they can complete the different stages. For example, a sales organization might want to guide sellers through the process of selling products to customers.
- Automating desktop based and website processes with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities. For example, a user working at a bank needs to update the exchange rates daily. The user would use RPA to log in to the website and retrieve the exchange rates. They would then save these rates to their desktop and update them in a company spreadsheet.
Power Automate works by creating flows. These flows are then used to do things such as interact with different systems, guide users through a process, or make users more productive by automating daily tasks.