Microsoft Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow until November 2019, is an
iPaaS platform by
Microsoft
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for automation of recurring tasks. It is part of the
Microsoft Power Platform line of products together with products such as
Power Apps and
Power BI.
History
In 2016 October, Microsoft Flow was officially released.
Formerly, workflows in
SharePoint
SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates natively with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and its usage v ...
environments could be created using either
SharePoint Designer
Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, is a discontinued HTML editor freeware for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites, workflows and web pages. It is a part of Microsoft SharePoi ...
Workflow or various third-party products. For long, SharePoint Designer workflows was still running on the 2010 engine, since the 2013 workflow engine was less powerful. Later, Microsoft Flow was set to replace the SharePoint Designer Workflow as Microsoft's standard tool for workflow automation.
In 2019 at November 4, Microsoft announced the renaming from Microsoft Flow to Microsoft Power Automate. At the same time, a number of new functions were announced, including
robotic process automation
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation technology based on metaphorical software robots (bots) or on artificial intelligence (AI)/digital workers. It is sometimes referred to as ''software robotics'' (not to be ...
capabilities.
See also
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UiPath
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IFTTT
IFTTT (, an acronym of If This Then That) is a private commercial company that runs online digital automation platforms which it offers as a service. Their platforms provide a visual interface for making cross-platform if statements to its u ...
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Zapier
Zapier is a product that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. The company is fully remote. As of 2021, it connects to more than 4,000 apps, with free and paid plans.
Overview
Zapier provides workflo ...
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Microsoft Power Fx
References
Further reading
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External links
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Microsoft software
2016 software
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