Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Use business process automation to achieve digital transformation with minimal code

by Aaron Guilmette

Make your organization more productive and simplify your workflow by using Microsoft Power Automate for business process automation Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format. MS Power Automate is a workflow automation tool built into MS 365 to help businesses automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. It is a low-code tool that is part of the Microsoft applications framework, the Power Platform. If you are new to Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and a smooth transition from beginner to advanced topics to help you get up to speed with business process automation. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of applications, using examples within Microsoft and including third-party apps like Dropbox and Twitter. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you'll learn how to manage user input, documents, and approvals, as well as interact with databases. This edition also introduces new Power Automate features such as using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy applications, interacting with the Microsoft Graph API, and working with artificial intelligence models to do sentiment analysis. By the end of this digital transformation book, you'll have mastered the basics of using Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with automation technology. This book is excellent for information workers and Power users who are looking to automate repetitive tasks for their organizations or for projects they are undertaking. To make the most of this book you should have some basic exposure to the MS 365 platform.

420 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2022

Reviews

[Otto · Rating 2 out of 5]

I find writing for any SaaS at this point an exercise in futility, but I gave this one a shot.

A lot of assumptions have been made in trying to create this book as step forward instructions to different types of flows. Certain connectors are not available to everyone in every version of Power Automate. It does give enough for a complete beginner to get some bearings, but the everyday reality of development is so tied to online search it feels a bit vestigial.

Reza Dorrani on YouTube probably has the most soup to nuts content on the power platform. If you have better resources please comment below and correct me.