In 2020 when school classes first moved online or students attended on a rotating basis, the rush of posting daily lesson plans while starting video calls and managing on premise students was an unneccesary stressor. I built Flows to automate that process - automatically posting the daily lesson to Teams (as channel posts as we were required, which could not otherwise be scheduled) at the beginning of each class, retrieved from a document I updated the day before. I have since expanded the use to school wide collection and distribution of announcements (Forms > Share Point > Teams, Outlook, HTML, RSS for students, staff, website, and TV displays), scheduling of resources in our Student Services departments, and various other time-saving applications. A rough estimate would be that my automations save me approximately 45 - 60 minutes of work each day. This time can be better spent actually interacting with students, rather than clicking through tedious yet necessary tasks.

Power Automate has allowed me to offload some of the tedious and repetitive tasks that would otherwise take me away from my teaching duties and the time available to interact with students.

A first attempt at Power Automate can quickly show even a seasoned technically-savvy individual just how much they do not know. Thankfully, there is a well-developed online support community, both from Microsoft and others, that documents and solves many of the common (and not-so-common) issues that users have experienced in their sometimes very-detailed automations.

Power Automate is fairly new in the market compared to players like IFTTT and Zapier but will surely give the competition a good fight. My first automation is still active and given the chance, I would utilize it to automate menial tasks and processes. Besides, it is backed my Microsoft and you can be sure that it will continuously improve as it matures.

I like that Power Automate is part of the Microsoft Suite. Integration between MS apps are seamless since PowerAutomate is native in the MS ecosystem

If you are a new user, you'll find navigating through the user interface is quite daunting. Although, if you are serious with Power Automate, you will soon get comfortable with its functions and where to find them

Automated a couple tasks but I'm struggling with several tasks on my list I cant seem to make progress on.

Wide and diverse platform with growing multi-functional capabilities and dynamic product development.

Unfortunately, needs to re-think and re-calibrate its business-governance, product development, marketing strategy, Customer Support, and business objectives due to recent decisions to begin charging fees on customers that want to produce their hard work in the .EXE format to run independently on a separate computer for their company or a customer. I don't believe this was the right revenue growth decision, and I believe they are feeling/will feel the pain from business customers migrating to more reliable platforms - I'm already shopping and others I know are as well. What were they thinking by charging a fee on something that the customer already paid for? ***What's next, fee for every job occurrence LOL?***. The Executive that made such bad management decision should go back to the Banking Industry. As a customer, to get more value from the product, I wouldn't mind paying a higher license upgrade fee or a upgraded Support fee, or they could make sizeable revenue from custom projects etc... there are tons of other revenue sources to tap, but charging a fee for .EXE will cause them major customer attrition - users won't upgrade to future versions because they have a new software in place. At the end of the day, users will simply pay for Python certification course and forget the growing WA bill.

Excellent

Power Automate is an easy to use low code tool that allows most users automate mundane business processes. I love that with some more advanced skills you can still use the platform to complete some more complex automation at low cost.

Premium connectors are sometimes a pain and also sometimes the connectors timing out or being throttled.

Microsoft Power Automate integration capabilities, ease of use, AI functionalities, and strong security and compliance standards make it popular to use for organizations within the Microsoft ecosystem

AI capabilities through Azure services , strong user community ,Power Automate has robust security, manage and monitor workflows on mobile app and user-friendly

Power Automate primarily operates in the cloud, which might pose limitations for users who require extensive offline capabilities

Instead of doing manual and repetitive tasks, we have created workflows to do the same tasks on schedule and automatically, without human intervention. Using Microsoft Power Automate we have saved many hours monthly.

It is easy to configure, people with no technical knowledde can create workflows. Is it powerful, you can create a lot of different kinds of tasks.

The tracking and monitoring of the workflow execution can be improved.

Power Automate integrated perfectly with a number of Microsoft Forms that we had set up. It allows us to quickly process data from those forms in an intelligent way, adding data to existing spreadsheets, sending confirmation emails, notifying a Teams channel. If you’re a MS office user then Power Automate is the natural addition to your suite of daily apps.

Power Automate has a lot of configuration options which is great - if you have time to work through them to get what you want. It can be time consuming to set up, but once it’s in place, it’s almost always worth that time!

Used primarily with PowerBI for scheduled querying of data and automatic exports.

Easy to use even for less tech-savvy colleagues. Saves a lot of time on manual tasks.

Integration with 3rd party products requiring premium connectors.

The ability to take mundane tasks and automate them to save time and create efficiencies.

The learning curve can be steep but once you get it, it's great!

Overall it's a jack of all trades kind of platform, it can get tedious with intergrations with other third party applications or suiting it for an environment which is not Microsoft

Ease of use and ability to be handled both by non-code and code users. If the company has a Microsoft suite it makes integrations much easier.

Being a friendly platform for non-developer users can make it difficult for code experts to use it. Documentation isn't as clear or abundant as one would like, and some errors aren't self explanatory. Blog posts or stackoverflow posts aren't much of an option when searching for error solutions, it's still an area that's being built upon.

Was good until v7 was released, now refuse to do business with them

Easy to use, very functional, was easy to distribute but read Cons below

Like others I am so disappointed by the direction WinAutomation has taken. Was a reliable product that would easily allow you to build and compile programs to perform your automation functions - we used it in various different areas. The when v7 was released they completely forgot about their customers and came up with the horrible idea of tokens (additional purchases) for each executable you wanted to compile, and worse they tried their damnedest to hide this from their users - so many of us upgraded to version 7 only to find out that we had been hoodwinked by this new licensing policy. And then they destroyed their user community further by killing their once-active forums where users would share ideas and methodologies - first they shifted it to LinkedIn, which never worked well, and then they realised their error and brought it back to their own domain, but they removed all the historic forum posts when they realised no one was upgrading but were still communicating solutions on the older version of the product - there just was not enough new functionality in v7 and onwards for people to justify their silly licensing decision. AVOID using this product! The company is untrustworthy and has made very poor business decisions to the detriment of a large user community. And just when they were starting to get good, too - such a shame. Other products on the market are just as powerful and less expensive.

We used to have 4 people performing redundant excel and database functionalities for 4 hours daily, but because of Winautomation we were able to reduce this task to 1 person 1 hour daily. Also, the software is great with automating batched DOS based functions like renaming thousands of files in a couple of minutes, up/down file via ftp sights, etc.

Easy to learn and use. So much features and a massive array of programming capabilities

Before their customer service is great with chat option on their site, they changed that. I sent out a request a week ago and received a response with vague answer. I replied back, no response. I made a new ticket and the response was, we sent you an answer, click here to see our conversation. I responded back 2x, 2 days now no reponse.

Overall happy with the software. It has been the first software I used for automation and multi tasking and so far I love it. I am looking forward to more improvements in the future to see what more can be automated.

This software is very easy to use and does not require any coding background. The code used is low level and very easy to understand. The software is easy to deploy in the company from the first day and benefits are seen almost immediately. Power automate cuts out a lot of manual effort. The best feature of this software is it's the fact that it integrates smoothly with the rest of Microsoft O365 environment. You can have data capture from Excel, forms and even outlook. Power Automate sends reminders for pending workflows, this has made it easy for key tasks to be completed on time consistently.

The main problem experienced so far is how fast a loop can time out when you have long flow chart. Sometimes the software will crash and you will get an alert about the failed loop, this happens even after successful trial runs before publishing the flow. I have to mention that this is not a major problem as it occurs infrequently, most of the time PA just works great.

a true life-saver tool to automate alot of manual processes, specially those related to "Approvals" and "Follow-ups". If you have an MS license within your organization then I highly reccomend to use this tool. Setting it up for a novice may take time to learn how to integrate and lnk things up but once done and the learning curve is done with, you'll find that you can automate and set SLA/KPI, Approval and Flow Matrices, Design flows with and without "Response" requirements, Create sub-flows for conditional requirements and much more ...... all in 1 place. added to that, the MS support pages & team can support in case needed for the basic requirements, so you're backed-up by a greatto a certain extend too :-)

MS Support team may not always understand how did we create such an extensive automated flow and are astonished to the extent the tool was used to reach the advanced level a flow of ours is at now ... !

A great automation tool that can do great automation job which can save a lot of time and avoid repetitive activities. The flows also integrates with other microsoft programs. Amazing tool

It helps to automate routine activities while saving time and cost. The flows work with external software and applications as well. Easy templates that can be used with user friendly interface. The flow wizard is amazing for those who are unfamiliar. It helps in connecting to data sources from other products other than Microsoft.

The third party addon connectivity is bit hard and little complex. The connections tend to break and we have to create the whole flow once again. Better History log can be provided. The flow can be made little less complex for the users who are new and unexperienced.

My overall experience with Microsoft Power Automate was excellent. I integrated it with SharePoint and used it to create an automated Sales site.I used Microsoft Power Automate to automate the approval process for sales and send emails to customers directly and to managers as a receipt. I even used Microsoft Power Automate to generate automated bills to send to customers.It is a handy tool.

Microsoft Power Automate is highly responsive and extremely easy to use, It has the best user-friendly interface. It is easy to understand to automate the approval status and emails.

Sometimes there is a glitch in the software which results in unresponsiveness and emails which should come on completing automation doesn't occur which makes user worry about the automation process and whether it's appropriately built.

Power Automate improve productivity and It also reduce the manual errors and effort.

Microsoft Power Automate provides extensive integration capabilities even with third party applications like share point, Dynamics 365 and more.

I haven't faced anything like that till now. I will update in future If I face anything.

I have learned a lot using Power Automate, and I am only using the the tip of the iceberg for this program. With more training and practice, I am excited to see what this program can do for our office!

Anything that is reoccurring or easy to miss in our office is now Automated using Power Automate. Every morning our task list awaits. When a student submits a time off request, we get an email with a link directly to the request. We can convert all our Word Docs into PDFs in seconds! Power Automate makes our team work more efficiently!

There is a major learning curve to the program. It is not easy to just jump in and use it.

Microsoft Power Automate is a fantastic platform for automating workflows and streamlining processes. Then it offers a wide range of pre-built connectors and templates, making it easy to integrate with various apps and services. Its user-friendly interface and the ability to create complex automation scenarios with ease. Overall, it seems like a great tool to increase productivity and efficiency in your work processes.

Some users have mentioned that the pricing structure can be a bit complex, especially if you need additional premium features or higher usage limits. It's important to carefully review the pricing plans and consider your specific requirements to ensure it aligns with your budget.

This program is absolutely amazing. Recording repetative actions, browser based activities or just plain keypresses works fast, effectively and most importantly really efficient. Easy to setup program with tons of features that enables you to do just about anything! From custom dialogs to writing values to excel or even pulling data from your database. It's all possible!

Fast, easy to program and most importantly not too expensive

The program could do with a newer interface. There are a few bugs which still occur every now and then.

We use it on a daily basis to integrate with other MS tools. The ease of deployment and low failure rate of created workflows are pretty nice. When it comes to integrate with 3rd party tools, some other tools are more up to the job.

Easy to integrate with native Microsoft tools like the O365 suite, MS Exchange, MS Teams, Sharepoint with low amount of coding involved.

Large RPA tasks are more difficult to process in Power Automate. Especially when it comes to integrations with third party (not Microsoft) products.

Generally speaking I am happy with the product. It has been the principal programming I utilized for computerization and performing various tasks thus far I love it. I'm anticipating more enhancements later on to perceive what more can be automated.

I like that this apparatus can be utilized to mechanize measures that are commonly done physically. Being able to computerize those cycles sets aside both time and cash and places the information into a sensible configuration for me to investigate.

The greatest drawback is that force computerize must be utilized inside the MS office climate. Would have been incredible on the off chance that it might have been usable in the windows climate as well. While utilizing this application I likewise understood that huge errands are difficult to computerize, assignments that require different beneficiaries additionally bomb when it surpasses around 60 clients thus I limit mine to around 20 all at once regardless of whether it implies making various streams

Its integration with Teams. Power Automate allows you to do so much more with company communication than other software if you utilize it.

The learning curve is pretty high. I've never found the documentation very useful, as they don't include many use cases. I have again and again returned to the tool with a need and have found a step that almost works. But I'll have to add 3 steps to make it work instead. For instance, "mention a tag", but you cannot "mention a channel". So you have to add the members to a tag to mention everyone in a channel.

I've found Winautomation to be very useful. It is easy to simply record tasks. But also powerful enough to program complex decision making.

Easy to use and powerful. Best of both worlds.

Rarely, but on more than one occasion, all tasks disappear so can't run. Not a big problem, a simple reboot brings them back.

I make my lessons automated. Students send homework to my gmail. Then I use Power Automation to add them to Google Sheets with the homework number and save the attachments to my Google Drives student folder. With every record of Google Sheets, it writes the date, email, and name. Finally, it sends an email to the student for his homework.

It has apps for desktop, iOS, and Android.  I like the OCR feature. So I can extract text from PDFs and pictures automatically from my email.  It is really fast to work.  Knowing how to use a computer is sufficient to create automation on it. 

The interface is not user-friendly. Sections are so detailed.  It takes too much time to find where to start and go on.  There is no integration with Telegram, Whatsapp, etc.