What is Power Automate :

  • Microsoft’s Power Automate (Previously called Microsoft Flow) is all about automation. In very simple words it’s a tool that allows you to automate any task or process.
  • The cool thing is you can use any kind of application with Power Automate, like take an Outlook email and post it on Teams or like based on specific keywords in slack messages send an email to someone. Power Automates have hundreds of connectors for applications like Slack, Skype, Twitter, File System, Outlook, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. If you don’t find any connector available, Power Automate supports third-party API to connect two different types of applications.
  • Tasks can be very personal like sending reminders daily or monthly for some medicine or birthday. It can be business specific for any complex process like automating invoice process.

 

Tasks Are Interactive :

  • Tasks can interact with different people or events. Consider invoice payment we don’t want to automate if payment is in million. So, we can have an approver flow. We can have conditional flow if the invoice amount is greater than $500 it will seek permission from the Manager.
  • Power Automate’s Flow can take control of your desktop, then can control mouse, access files, do backup, etc.

What Skills Do I Need To Use Power Automate:

  • Any basic business users who know how to use Office 365, IT Professionals can create automated business processes using Power Automate’s no-code/low-code platform.

Features Of Power Automate:

  1. Ease of use – No code/Low code, very simple interface so you can define workflow, just with drag and drop.
  2. Comprehensive – Power Automate has UI to design flow, provides hundreds of connectors, and Supports third party.
  3. Powerful – We can design any complex workflows with many conditions, loops, and approvals.
  4. Scale – Highly scalable. For example, a new employee can use existing Flow instead of learning complex business processes.

 

What is Workflow/types of flows:

  • Workflow (also known as Flow) basically states an action that in turn triggers an Event. Every task has a Trigger on which Action is done. For example, you want to create a flow where on some Tweet we want to send emails to yourself. In this case, Trigger can be a Tweet, and the Email will be Action. The trigger can be just based on Button click or Time-based. For example daily at 9 am you want to move a desktop file from Location A to Location B.

Types of Flows:

  • Instant – Triggered on Button Click
  • Automated – Triggered with an event. Can automate any tasks
  • Scheduled – Triggered on the scheduled time and mostly it is recurring
  • UI – Triggered by a Button click or an Event or specific recurring Time

What Is Power Automate Templates:

  • Power automate templates are pre-built Flow provided by Microsoft that cover the most popular uses. It will allow you to automate a process in minutes.

What are Connector’s:

  • Connectors allow users to integrate and connect directly to any kind of apps within the Microsoft Office 365 suite or third party.