Microsoft Power Platform: Automate, Apps, Virtual Agents & Pages


Take care of what’s important. Automate the rest. Streamline repetitive tasks and paperless processes with Microsoft Power Automate—so you can focus your attention where it’s needed most.

Power Automate is a cloud based application for automating workflows across a growing number of systems that business users rely on. It can optimize processes and automate repetitive mundane tasks with ease so your workforce can focus on other higher value tasks. It incorporates Artificial Intelligence models that are designed to optimize your business processes by learning insights from your data. Power Automate helps businesses boost productivity, save time, and reduce redundancy and data entry errors.

Automate quickly and more securely

Empower everyone to build automated processes with flows in Power Automate. Use low-code, drag-and-drop tools and hundreds of pre-built connectors that automate repetitive, mundane tasks with ease.

Boost efficiency

Record and visualize your end-to-end processes with process advisor, providing guided recommendations for creating flows and deep insights that take the guesswork out of what to automate. Process Advisor lets you understand and improve your processes: Simplify how you work by discovering workflow bottlenecks and automation opportunities through process advisor, the process and task mining capability in Power Automate.

Enhance workflows with AI

Make your automation even smarter with AI Builder. Quickly process forms using document automation, process approvals, detect images and text, or create with prebuilt models. AI Builder lets you bring AI to automation. Create intelligent automation and find insights by building tailored AI models within Power Automate. It lets you build AI models in minutes. It’s easy to create – Let everyone develop and manage AI models with step-by-step guidance and simplified management and governance. Easy to connect – Apply AI to all your data sources using a library of more than 500 connectors including for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. And it’s easy to extend – It gives our developers the tools to quickly extend AI capabilities using many built-in connectors.

  • Connect to data and systems you are already using.
  • Create workflows using triggers and actions without code or scripts.
  • Edit flows on web and mobile.
  • Approve requests or manage them on web and mobile.

 Why Power Automate

  • Get rid of the manual processes.
  • Save Time and Money.
  • Connect old systems to new systems. Comes with built-in connectivity to over 800 cloud services, file providers, databases, application programming interfaces (API), productivity applications, and more.
  • Get rid of the paper process.
  • Use Artificial Intelligence to speed up processes.
  • Connect to on-premises systems via Data Getways.

How It Works?

  • Automated approvals across Data stores and services.
  • Recurring processing – e.g., expire all records over 7 days.
  • Process guidance – interactive step by step completion of common business processes.
  • Automated triggering from data or service events – record or file created.
  • Mobile user clicks a button to launch a flow in the background.

It’s All About Connecting

  • Built-in connectivity to over eight hundred Microsoft and non-Microsoft cloud services, file providers, databases, web application programming interfaces, productivity apps, and more.
  • Connect to on-premises systems via Data Gateways.

Sample Automation Templates

  • Save Office 365 email attachments to OneDrive for Business
  • Get an email reminder
  • Send a customized email when a new file is added
  • Follow up on a message
  • Send a customized email when a new SharePoint list item is added
  • Get updates to Roadmap from Project
  • Send a customized email when a new file is added
  • Track Microsoft Forms response in Excel and notify through Teams and email

Microsoft Power Apps

Easily create and deploy mobile apps across your organization; a fast, low-cost solution to a variety of challenges. Apps built using Power Apps provide rich business logic and workflow capabilities to transform your manual business operations into digital, automated processes. What’s more, apps built using Power Apps have a responsive design and can run seamlessly in browser and on mobile devices (phone or tablet). Power Apps “democratizes” the business-app-building experience by enabling users to create feature-rich, custom business apps without writing code.

Power Apps also provides an extensible platform that lets our pro developers programmatically interact with data and metadata, apply business logic, create custom connectors, and integrate with external data.

Power Apps

  • Connect to hundreds of data sources, such as Adobe, Azure, Business 365, Excel, Word, DocuSign, Google Sheets, LinkedIn, Dataverse, Teams, Outlook, Oracle, Power BI, Salesforce, SAP, SharePoint, Twitter & SQL Server. Or we can create a connector for you.
  • Drive innovation and save time with Microsoft Dataverse. Use common tables or build your own data schema.
  • Discovering new ways to put accurate, timely, and relevant data in the hands of your employees can transform your business.
  • Power Apps is a service for building and using custom business apps that connect to your data and work across the web and mobile – without the time and expense of custom software development.
  • Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provides a rapid development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your data stored either in the underlying data platform (Microsoft Dataverse) or in various online and on-premises data sources (such as SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on).
  • Apps built using Power Apps provide rich business logic and workflow capabilities to transform your manual business operations into digital, automated processes. What’s more, apps built using Power Apps have a responsive design and can run seamlessly in browser and on mobile devices (phone or tablet). Power Apps “democratizes” the business-app-building experience by enabling users to create feature-rich, custom business apps without writing code.
  • Power Apps also provides an extensible platform that lets pro developers programmatically interact with data and metadata, apply business logic, create custom connectors, and integrate with external data.
  • We simplify app development with Power Apps. We can Connect to data sources—such as Adobe, MailChimp, and Microsoft 365—with more than 500 connectors.
  • Power Apps is a service for building and using custom business apps that connect to your data and work across the web and mobile – without the time and expense of custom software development.

 


Microsoft Power Virtual Agents – Empower everyone to easily create conversational bots.

  • Respond rapidly to your customer and employee needs – at scale – using intelligent conversational bots built with Power Virtual Agents. Enable anyone to create powerful chatbots using a guided, no-code graphical interface, without the need for data scientists or developers.
  • Build your bots quickly and easily.
  • Make, test, and publish powerful bots faster than ever using automation, AI, and using a collaborative, low-code graphical interface – with no training required.
  • Deploy across channels and languages.
  • Engage with customers and employees in multiple languages across websites, mobile apps, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework.
  • Deploy bots securely using central administration, built-in security roles, and simple management across environments to maintain compliance and governance.
  • Improve your bots over time.
  • Automatically track critical KPIs and identify future bot topics, plus let self-learning AI with natural language processing continuously improve your bots.



Microsoft Power Pages

Quickly create secure, low-code business websites. Do more with less by enabling all your teams, not just developers, to create professional websites—so you get to market faster at lower cost. Create in Design Studio – Easily build with ready-to-use templates or create customizable experiences. Design your pages with text, video, imagery, and business data forms and lists.
Build faster with the Template Hub: Get up and running quickly; Tailor to your specific industry needs; Solve common use cases cross-industry; Extend your Dynamics 365 applications.

Microsoft Power Pages