Power Platform | Democratize automating Automation

Yesterday, Microsoft made two sinificant announcements regarding Power Automate as being part of the Power Platform offer. Stephen Siciliano shared via the Power Platform Blog his view on Power Automate Desktop being general available as of Dec. 9th – a milestone for Microsoft´s RPA offer and shows the fast adoption of the portfolio of Softomotive since acquisition.

New capabilities to help us #FlowFam members further scale RPA and the management of our automation becoming available as well, such as lifecycle management for RPA, real-time run and queue monitoring, out-of-the-box usage and error analytics reports, and role-based sharing experience for automations. 

Furthermore, the announcement contained information around a public preview of Process Advisor a process mining inside Power Automate that extends Microsoft´s automation portfolio. That reminded me of a visual I´ve discussed with customers previously and like to share with all of you.

It starts based on a prediction from Gartner saying that in Automation sector we´re stepping in an era of orchestrated tools as a platform which allows for agile digital transformation and provides a baseline for creating new business empowerment inside a company.

Compared to project driven decisions on single task automation tools that ended up in having multiple process automation tools, companies should think of a platform approach that allows faster adoption, minimizes maintenance and ensures governance, control and security around those service offerings.

I was part of many discussions around the complexity of joining forces between different vendors to orchestrate them as a company platform, both for development as well as for automation. Not saying there´s no way of orchestrating. But the amount of effort to invest into this, leads to customer´s asking about alternatives.

It seems with latest announcement, Microsoft is fair to be assessed as such alternative, considering that beside Power Automate, there´s more inside the Power Platform that a company could benefit from.

If you need an argument for taking into account this kind of assessment, have a look at the Power Automate Blog article, where Marios Stavropoulos takes you on a tour of Process Advisor and new RPA enhancements. I´d also like to highlight this short video, MVP Daniel Laskewitz shared via YouTube. Happy watching.

Until then, …