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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Second Edition

You're reading from  Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237671
Pages 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Aaron Guilmette Aaron Guilmette
Profile icon Aaron Guilmette

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate 2. Getting Started with Power Automate 3. Working with Email 4. Copying Files 5. Creating Button Flows 6. Generating Push Notifications 7. Working with Shared Flows 8. Working with Conditions 9. Getting Started with Approvals 10. Working with Multiple Approvals 11. Posting Approvals to Teams 12. Using a Database 13. Working with Microsoft Forms 14. Accepting User Input 15. Automating Azure AD 16. Introducing Robotic Process Automation 17. Introducing AI Models 18. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows 19. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Choosing what to automate

Frequently, people do work that they don’t need to do. It’s important to differentiate between work that doesn’t need to be done at all and work that needs to be done, but doesn’t require you to do it.

From both the administrative and end user perspectives, there are a number of activities, processes, and tasks in Office 365 and other line-of-business applications that can be automated through the use of Power Automate.

Automation is a key business technology to reduce the impact of repetitive, low-skill tasks on the workforce. Consider the following diagram:

Figure 1.2: Candidates for automation

When looking at business processes, they can generally be divided into one of the four quadrants:

  • High value, low skill: Requires minimal specialist skill, but is critical or produces high-value output.
  • High value, high skill: Requires human intelligence or processing to determine value, skills, and...
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