Introduction
Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool designed to automate repetitive tasks and optimize workflows across various platforms. It offers a range of features including desktop and cloud flows, and process mining integration that help analyze and create different types of automations for your organization. Power Automate provides tools like templates, triggers, actions, connectors, loops, branching, approvals, and flow controls to help build flows.
Imagine you're a project manager in a large corporation. Your daily tasks involve managing files, extracting data from websites, interacting with legacy applications, and coordinating tasks across cloud-based services. You also need to analyze your business workflows to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement. However, these tasks are time-consuming and repetitive, leaving you with little time for strategic planning and decision-making. Furthermore, you're struggling to integrate your favorite applications into your workflows, and you're finding it difficult to manage decision-making processes efficiently. You're looking for a solution that can automate these tasks, streamline your workflows, and enhance your operational efficiency.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Describe some use cases for Power Automate workflow automation.
- Describe process mining.
- Describe cloud flow templates.
- Describe triggers, actions, and connectors in Power Automate.
- Describe loops and branching in Power Automate cloud flows.
- Discuss approval actions.
- Describe the Power Automate home page, the Power Automate mobile app, and Copilot features.
- Describe the use of flow control actions in Power Automate for Desktop.