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October 13, 2020

Microsoft Power Automate: how it helps you automate your business processes?

In this competitive world, Business Process Management – BPM is gaining popularity. Many organizations are shifting their paradigm daily to a faster and more automated environment. In short, BPM is used to optimize, improve and automate business processes. This is easily achieved by automating workflows and ignoring time-consuming and menial tasks using various automation tools or business process management software – BPMS. And to save you from such tedious tasks, Microsoft has come up with a new tool. The tool is called Microsoft Power Automate. It is also previously known as Microsoft Flow.

So now the question is, what is Power Automate? Why should we use Power Automate? What are the Power Automate apps available in the market?

What is Microsoft Flow or Power Automate?

Well, Microsoft Flow is now called Power Automate. It is an online or cloud-based workflow service developed by Microsoft. It automates actions with connected resources such as MS Office 365 and other commonly used apps and services. This allows you to create a “flow” that automates processes that were run manually in the past. So it can help you simplify the business processes and save a lot of effort and time.

With the help of Microsoft Power Automate, you can easily automate your workflows between your applications and services to sync files, approve requests, receive notifications, collect data, and more to streamline your business processes. Let’s give an example: you can create a flow that states that when an influencer or individual with over a thousand followers tweets about your company, a lead is automatically added to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and a record is generated and added in MailChimp.

Moreover, Power Automate serves as the best solution to come to the table. An RPA – Robotic Process Automation is used to reduce repetitive manual tasks.

What can you do with Microsoft Power Automate?

  • Adjusts the workflow to create
  • Automate monotonous or time-consuming daily tasks
  • Automates business processes
  • Automates cloud-based applications and cloud data
  • Helps you design logic for PowerApps

Who can use Power Automate?

The Microsoft Flow tool has been booming lately. It has made a big impression in every sector with its functionality and features. And Microsoft has not failed to put automation in the hands of any user with a great vision. It doesn’t matter who you are in the eyes of Microsoft.

However, now we have a clear idea of Power Automate or Microsoft Flow. So now you must be wondering how you or your company can use Power Automate.

If you have an IT background or HR professional, you have all the power to use Microsoft Flow or Power Automate.

You can use the Power Automate to automate the process and streamline your workload in your own workflow. Many organizations have adopted and implemented this and are becoming a wealthy thing every day.

Benefits of Microsoft Flow

As we know, Microsoft Flow automates processes and can be integrated into Microsoft Office 365. Besides automating repetitive tasks through a business process management platform, it also offers several advantages. These are the main benefits that Microsoft Flow offers.

Seamless integration with other applications

Microsoft Flow allows the user to integrate workflows directly into various applications they use, using connectors. A connector connects two applications. In this way, one app can transfer data to another app. Therefore, it simplifies your menial tasks.

Easy to access and share data

As we know, connectors can easily move data from one application to another. So you can create a flow between two connectors and use Microsoft Flow to connect your apps. This way you can copy data from one app and share it easily with your colleagues. You can also access your data through various web applications. The real-time example is connecting Sharepoint to your Outlook.

Automate and streamline tasks

When you come to the office in the morning and log into your system, there are several mandatory tasks that you must perform on a daily basis. You can’t miss them. These monotonous or daily tasks take up half your office time and you cannot concentrate on the core task of the day. So what about automating that task with Power Automate? Well, here it comes to your rescue streamlining your daily/weekly time consuming tasks. So for that you can create your own workflow using available templates and connectors allow you to connect to other applications.

Improves efficiency

With PowerApps consulting using Power Automate, you can automate repetitive tasks in multi-step workflows. So if you’re creating an app in PowerApps, logic it out with Power Automate to run one or more tasks during the event time, for productivity on the go. This way you can save time and work effectively.

Secure Workflow

Power Automate enables users to quickly and securely connect to on-premise data and cloud-based services. It secures workflows even if you have no knowledge of encryption. So with built-in or customized data loss prevention policies, you can prevent sensitive information from leaving your company.

Conclusion

With this new innovative tool – Microsoft Flow, we have endless opportunities and possibilities to automate our processes. There are many organizations that have already implemented Power Automate to increase the efficiency of their business processes.

Source: concettolabs

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