Power Automate

Product

A service for automating workflows between apps and services. Cloud flows react to triggers such as a new email or file, desktop flows automate Windows applications, and both can include AI steps.

Description

Power Automate builds workflows that connect apps and services. Cloud flows react to triggers such as a new email or SharePoint item, desktop flows automate Windows applications through RPA, and process mining shows where workflows can be improved. It was called Microsoft Flow until 2019.

Sessions on this topic (4)

• Don’t Just Ask AI — Let It Act: Building AI Copilot Agents with Power Automate · Shiv Sharma · M365Con 2027
• Power Pages for Power Platform Pros: Everything You Need to Get Started · Nicholas Hayduk · M365Con 2027
• Don’t Just Ask AI — Let It Act: Building AI Copilot Agents with Power Automate · Shiv Sharma · M365Con 2027
• Power Pages for Power Platform Pros: Everything You Need to Get Started · Nicholas Hayduk · M365Con 2027

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Related topics in brief

• Microsoft · Developed by · Organization
  Microsoft Corporation is a technology company that develops software and cloud services such as Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365.
• Microsoft tool · Is a · Category
  A software product or service developed by Microsoft.
• Low-code tool · Is a · Category
  A tool for building apps and automations with little or no programming.
• Power Platform · Part of · Platform
  Microsoft's low-code family consisting of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages and Copilot Studio. Together with Dataverse it lets business users build apps, automations, reports and agents.
• Power Automate Desktop · Related to · Product
  Robotic process automation (RPA) tool for Windows that records and runs desktop flows to automate repetitive tasks in desktop and web applications.
• Connector · Related to · Concept
  Prebuilt wrapper around an API that lets Power Apps, Power Automate and Copilot Studio read and write data in hundreds of services.
• AI Builder · Related to · Product
  Power Platform capability that adds prebuilt and custom AI models, such as document processing, text classification and prompts, to apps and flows.
• Microsoft Teams · Related to · Product
  Microsoft's collaboration hub for chat, meetings, calls and apps. It is also a main surface for Copilot and for agents built in Copilot Studio.
• SharePoint · Related to · Product
  Microsoft 365's platform for intranets, document libraries and team sites. Most files shared in Teams are stored in SharePoint, so its permissions directly decide what Copilot can find.
• Microsoft Forms · Related to · Product
  Tool for creating surveys, quizzes and polls whose responses flow into Excel, Power Automate and Teams.
• Microsoft Outlook · Related to · Product
  Email, calendar, contacts and tasks client of Microsoft 365 that connects to Exchange Online and other mail accounts.
• Robotic Process Automation · Related to · Concept
  Software robots that mimic clicks and keystrokes to automate repetitive tasks in applications that offer no API. In Microsoft's world this is Power Automate for desktop.
• Process Mining · Related to · Concept
  Analysing event logs from business systems to reconstruct how processes really run, where they stall and where automation pays off. Microsoft offers it in Power Automate as process mining.
• Microsoft Flow · Related to · Product
  Former name of Power Automate. Microsoft renamed the workflow service in November 2019; the product continues as Power Automate.

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