Microsoft Power Automate
Automate workflows, reduce errors, and reclaim time for high-value work—without IT dependency.
What is Power Automate?
Power Automate helps businesses save time by automating routine tasks. Think of it as a digital assistant that handles things like sending reminders, approving requests, or transferring information between systems—without anyone needing to do it manually. It works with the tools you already use, like email and spreadsheets, so your team can focus on important work instead of repetitive tasks. It’s an easy way to improve efficiency and reduce mistakes.
Organizational Impact
Executive Perspective
As organizations mature within the modern Dynamics 365 environment, functional teams will continually identify repetitive, time-consuming tasks as opportunities for automation. With Microsoft Power Automate, individuals within business teams who plan, manage, and execute daily operations are the same people who define and automate workflow to benefit their department, eliminating the extra step of working through IT or with service providers for execution, which can cause delays or costs. Business teams will also recognize opportunities to automate upstream and downstream workflows to improve hand-offs between departments, improving collaboration and coordination across the enterprise.
Departmental Perspective
With Power Automate, business teams can automate repetitive administrative tasks that are a burden within their respective departments. As teams mature within the modern Dynamics 365 environment, teams will continually identify opportunities for automation. Functional leaders and analysts can learn to automate workflow within Power Automate, minimizing tactical work by enabling management by exception. As a result, teams work more efficiently, reduce manual errors, and improve departmental and enterprise performance.
Microsoft Power Automate: Streamline Your Workflows
Power Automate: Strategic Benefits
Power Automate helps organizations free up valuable time by reducing administrative burdens and creating capacity for more high-value, strategic work. By automating value stream processes like order-to-ship, the pace of execution increases, reducing lead times and improving organizational responsiveness to customers and profitability.
Power Automate can check on key metrics and triggers and alert you to potential issues that can impact process performance. For instance, if a financial approval process is incomplete, notification can be sent to the team members to complete the information before it affects the deadline.
When the cross-functional workflows are automated in Power Automate, the way the work is done is standardized. This consistency means that no matter what team you are in—sales, finance, operations or customer service—all critical tasks like approvals, data entry and reporting are handled the same way.
As business needs evolve, Power Automate allows for quick workflow adjustments. A cross-functional team, such as S&OP, can easily update or redesign workflows in response to new business goals, policies, or regulations.
Power Automate Key Features
Flow Creation (No-Code/Low-Code Automation)
Flow Creation (No-Code/Low-Code Automation): The users can design, develop and automate workflows without coding with simple drag and drop interface.
Pre-built Templates
Power Automate comes with a large number of pre-made templates. It is compatible with more than 200 third-party applications and services including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, payment gateways, DocuSign, Adobe, Marketo, Shopify.
Triggers and Actions
Flows are designed to work on the premise of triggers (events that start the flow) and actions (tasks that are performed once the trigger is set off). These triggers can be related to receiving an email, creating a new record, or a time-based schedule.
Business Process Flows
These assist the user in the performance of a business process flow, making sure that important procedures are followed correctly and in a timely manner across the organization or between different units.
Approval Workflows
Power Automate has the feature of developing approval workflows where managers or other stakeholders can receive and approve certain tasks before they are forwarded to the next stage of the process.
Scheduled and Triggered Flows
Flows can be designed to operate at specific intervals (e.g., every day, every week) or can be activated by certain events, for instance, new data submission or message receipt. Power Automate has in-built retry policy to resume operation without human intervention.
Robotic Process
Automation (RPA):
Power Automate has RPA features that enable the automation of repeated tasks that require the involvement of a user.
Analytics and Reporting
Power Automate offers statistics on the use of flows, which enable the user to know the success rate, the use of various elements of the flow and possible bottlenecks for improving the flow.
Mobile App
The Power Automate mobile application enables users to control and manage workflows, start flows, check for approvals, and receive notifications within the mobile application.
Why Ascent Innovations?
With 16 years of experience in Microsoft ERP, analytics, and digital transformation solutions, Ascent Innovations specializes in helping organizations maximize the value of Microsoft Power Platform. Our deep expertise in Power Pages ensures that businesses can seamlessly design, deploy, and optimize their external portals while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance.
We offer:
- Tailored strategy workshops to align Power Pages capabilities with business objectives.
- Integration services to connect Power Pages with Dynamics 365, Power Automate, and enterprise data sources.
- Security and compliance optimization to meet industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Power Pages enables businesses to modernize how they engage with external users, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experiences—all while maintaining robust security and governance. Contact Ascent Innovations to explore how Power Pages can transform your external-facing business operations.
Why Businesses Trust Ascent Innovations
Ascent Innovations is a trusted Microsoft Solution Partner, delivering scalable, business-driven D365 solutions that optimize operations and drive game-changing growth.
Why Businesses Trust Ascent Innovations
Ascent Innovations is a trusted Microsoft Solution Partner, delivering scalable, business-driven D365 solutions that optimize operations and drive game-changing growth.
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