Introducing the Automation Kit for Power Platform

The Automation Kit for Power Platform is designed to help organizations manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption based on industry best practices. The Automation Kit for Power Platform is now available to the public as an open source GitHub project.

10 New Independent Publisher Connectors in August 2022

We are excited to announce that we have 10 new Independent Publisher connectors that were published in August 2022. Read about the connectors, learn about the talented publishers, and take a look at the connector files!

Power Automate for desktop – July 2022 update

Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in July 2022 release, including the preview of supporting UI automation in Citrix and RDP environments and the introduction of datatable actions.

Create advanced bot scenarios with Power Automate and Microsoft teams

Power Automate has supported a wide range of actions helping you achieve complex automation scenarios within Microsoft Teams. We’re excited to announce two new bot actions that have been highly requested which will help take your flows a step further: Update adaptive card messages in Teams, and, Trigger a flow when an adaptive card action is submitted.

Announcing public preview of pay-as-you-go for Power Automate

We are introducing pay-as-you-go for Power Automate where you only pay for what you use. This is a new flexible way for you to pay for Power Automate that doesn’t need upfront licenses, which means you can get started with Power Automate at low risk and then scale your investments over time based on your usage patterns.

Mars automates enterprise IT processes using Power Automate

Mars, Incorporated, is a global manufacturer of confectionery, pet food and food products, and provides animal care services. Mars has been a proud, family-owned business for over 100 years with over 130,000 employees spread across the globe. There are several teams at Mars responsible for supporting the daily global enterprise processes. One of these teams is the Digital Demand Engineering team with employees based in North America and Europe. In this team, a Collaboration Architect transformed several enterprise use cases by automating their processes with Power Automate cloud flows.

New ways to share Power Automate Ideas

Between July 18 and July 20, 2022, Power Automate Ideas will migrate to a brand-new community platform powered by Dynamics 365 Customer Service Community.

Komatsu Australia accelerates hyper automation with Power Automate – from licensing to production in 4 weeks

Komatsu is an industry-leading manufacturer and supplier of equipment, technologies and services for the construction, forklift, mining, industrial and forestry markets. This article describes how a team at Komatsu Australia built a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with Power Automate and AI Builder to automate their manual and repetitive processes for fixing invoices. They went from purchasing licenses to an RPA solution in production within a short span of four weeks. They’ve also built a Center of Excellence for scaling up automation and citizen development within the organization.

Power Automate for desktop – June 2022 update

Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in June 2022 release, including the support of more data types for input and output variables and the ability to trigger desktop flows via an external link.