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Eickhel Mendoza
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Eickhel Mendoza

Eickhel Mendoza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP with many years of experience in project management, Microsoft Azure development, and Microsoft Power Platform technologies. He is a team lead of the Business Apps department and oversees all Microsoft 365 and Power Platform projects. He has contributed to significant community events such as the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays. He coordinates the TenerifeDev and Power Platform Canarias user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. Eickhel is also a member of the organizing committee of the Business Applications Summit Spain.
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Automating applications using desktop flows

Building automation solutions between connected systems is an easy task using Power Automate. Develop the logic, tie everything together using connectors, and solve your business requirements using actions in a cloud flow. But what if the systems/components we need to automate don’t have a native way to connect? What if the integration is to a legacy system without API access or database connectivity?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) aims to solve these questions through UI-based automation. It’s a specific add-on for Power Automate, which allows you to build steps just like when creating cloud flows, but this time using UI activities such as opening applications, sending keystrokes, or simulating mouse actions.

This feature also helps solve those repetitive tasks people tend to do every day. Imagine a situation where you might be working with an ERP system tied to a mainframe giving you only a console to communicate...

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Eickhel Mendoza

Eickhel Mendoza is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP with many years of experience in project management, Microsoft Azure development, and Microsoft Power Platform technologies. He is a team lead of the Business Apps department and oversees all Microsoft 365 and Power Platform projects. He has contributed to significant community events such as the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays. He coordinates the TenerifeDev and Power Platform Canarias user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. Eickhel is also a member of the organizing committee of the Business Applications Summit Spain.
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