Plan and prepare for Power Automate in 2024 release wave 1
Important
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Important
The 2024 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2024 to September 2024. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Power Automate.
Overview
Microsoft Power Automate provides a low-code experience to improve productivity of your organization by automating repetitive, time-consuming tasks, and creating intelligent automations basd on generative AI. Power Automate provides a better way to get things done across your organization through cloud flows, robotic process automation (RPA) and process mining. It's deeply integrated with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and the rest of Microsoft Power Platform.
2024 release wave 1 will have investments across three major themes:
Easier experiences to build, troubleshoot and manage automations: Copilot in Power Automate allows more of your organization to apply the power of generative AI to build richer automations faster, and make it easier to manage your automation estate.
Ensuring scalability and privacy: Power Automate continues to simplify large-scale management, and bolstering governance and privacy controls.
Democratization of process mining: Through AI to recommend actionable insights, additional out of box capabilities, and deep integration with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, process mining is democratizing process insights to all citizen makers.
For official product documentation and training for Power Automate, go to:
Updates to Power Automate 2024 release wave 1
Investment areas
Cloud flows
Cloud flows is a core automation capability in Power Automate that uses the latest in AI technology to allow customers to focus on what matters and automate the rest with natural language and low code. Cloud flows capabilities include:
- Copilot-assisted experience to create and manage automations across applications such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dynamics 365 suite.
- Integration with the rest of Microsoft Power Platform, including the ability to invoke workflows from an app created using Power Apps, when a data alert is triggered in Power BI, or to take an action in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Support for intelligent document processing and embedding intelligence through the built-in AI Builder capability.
- Mobile applications help customers receive notifications, perform approvals, and invoke and monitor automation runs on the go.
Copilot for Power Automate
Power Automate makes it possible for you to not just describe a flow to create, but also improve and iterate on your flows with AI-driven conversations. This next-generation AI-based copilot in Power Automate sits inside the flow designer and helps with every flow that’s being built or changed.
Desktop flows
Desktop flows is the robotic process automation (RPA) solution within Power Automate. Desktop flows provide automation for Windows desktop applications, services, and experiences for orchestration and deployment within Power Platform.
Process mining
Power Automate Process Mining empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data and discover valuable insights that can accelerate their journey to operational excellence. Capabilities include:
- Use out-of-the-box templates for rapid deployment from data ingestion to pre-defined custom reports.
- Gain deep insights with powerful features including rework detector, root cause analysis, process compare, and custom metrics.
- Create views, publish them to create custom Power BI reports, and share them across the organization.
- Seamlessly integrate with Power Platform to turn insights into action.
- Discover possibilities for automation and solutions for workflows and with task mining.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Power Automate below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.
Get the most out of Power Automate
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Power Automate. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Power Automate. |
| User community | Engage with Power Automate experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Power Automate. |