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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

You're reading from   Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate Drive digital transformation with AI-powered automation and low-code business workflows

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Aaron Guilmette is a Principal Architect at Planet Technologies, an award-winning Microsoft Partner focused on the Public Sector. As an author of over a dozen IT books, he specializes in identity, messaging, and automation technologies. Previous to Planet Technologies, Aaron was a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft focusing on Microsoft 365 Customer Experience. When he's not writing books or tools for his customers, Aaron can be found tinkering on cars.
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1. Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Drive digital transformation with AI-powered automation and low-code business workflows FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Power Automate 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Power Automate 4. Chapter 3: Working with email 5. Chapter 4: Copying files 6. Chapter 5: Creating Button Flows 7. Chapter 6: Generating push notifications 8. Chapter 7: Working with shared flows 9. Chapter 8: Working with Conditions 10. Chapter 9: Understanding Expressions and Functions 11. Chapter 10: Getting Started with Approvals 12. Chapter 11: Working with Multiple Approvals 13. Chapter 12: Posting Approvals to Teams 14. Chapter 13: Using Databases 15. Chapter 14: Working with Microsoft Forms 16. Chapter 15: Posting to Slack 17. Chapter 16: Accepting User Input 18. Chapter 17: Automating Entra ID 19. Chapter 18: Introducing Robotic Process Automation 20. Chapter 19: Contributing to an Access database with RPA 21. Chapter 20: Automating webpages with RPA 22. Chapter 21: Introducing AI Models and Generative AI 23. Chapter 22: Creating a sentiment analysis flow 24. Chapter 23: Using Copilot to create and manage flows 25. Chapter 24: Using Generative AI to summarize documents 26. Chapter 25: Exporting, importing, and distributing flows 27. Chapter 26: Monitoring and troubleshooting flows 28. Chapter 27: Governance in the Power Platform

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As you've seen so far, Power Automate is an extraordinarily capable automation platform when it comes to SaaS-based offerings. While Power Automate's focus had originally been to integrate cloud services through the use of REST API interfaces, Microsoft recognized a gap and updated the platform to support robotic process automation (RPA) flows in mid-2020.Originally named user interface (UI) flows, RPA flows are designed to capture and replay operations performed by manual intervention, such as data entry via keyboard and mouse clicks. RPA flows can help automate tasks where no scripting or API interfaces exist. Common examples might include:

  • Duplicating data entry into multiple systems through copy and paste
  • Reading hand-written order forms and translating them into an application
  • Performing a series of keyboard presses or acknowledgements for legacy machinery
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Aaron Guilmette is a Principal Architect at Planet Technologies, an award-winning Microsoft Partner focused on the Public Sector. As an author of over a dozen IT books, he specializes in identity, messaging, and automation technologies. Previous to Planet Technologies, Aaron was a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft focusing on Microsoft 365 Customer Experience. When he's not writing books or tools for his customers, Aaron can be found tinkering on cars.
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