

Power Automate is a cloud-based tool that has 370 prebuilt actions (connectors) that allow you to build flows across different applications so that you could instead focus on more important tasks. It works just like the macros in Excel but it can help you automate anything in a Microsoft environment.įor example, you can use power automate desktop to move data between systems on a schedule or send an email to a higher authority triggered by a particular event, or to handle complex business workflows, etc. Power Automate is a low-code application that allows users to automate repetitive and time-consuming manual tasks using robotic process automation capabilities. Microsoft Power Automate, formerly called Microsoft Flows is a free automation tool, included in Windows 11 as a native app.
