Safely Automating Everyday Operations With The Microsoft Power Platform

A Growing Need for Automation

The Power Platform is built on the idea that moving forward, organizations at all levels need to be able to create complex automation solutions to increase productivity and enable data-driven decision-making.

Whether it’s using Power BI Desktop tools to create and write reports, explore and analyze data in Power BI services and mobile applications, or letting employees use Microsoft BI data in Microsoft 365 applications to make accurate and efficient decisions, with Power BI it’s simple and convenient to process business data.

Between 2017 and 2019, companies using automation for mission-critical processes rose from 16% up to 50% Thinkautomation.com

With Power Platform 2021 Release Wave 2, Microsoft continues to enhance its Power BI business intelligence applications so that all employees, regardless of their experience, can process data more easily than ever. 

Seamless integration between Power BI and Office 365 (Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and more) adds insight into where decisions are made and where collaboration takes place.

With applications such as Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps, the platform can be used to analyze data, automate operations, and develop new applications.

Microsoft Power Platform is a set of low-code products that enable business users to easily access, analyze, and automate data collected across an organization.

Power Automate is an adaptable automation platform that seamlessly delivers hundreds of low-cost software applications and allows us to create automated workflows between applications and services to sync files, send an email, receive notifications, update rows, and more. 

Highly automated companies are 6x more likely to see revenue growth of 15%+ Thinkautomation.com

Easy to Implement and Use

From simple business users to IT professionals, anyone can use the no-code/low-code Power Automates platform to create automated processes.

Microsoft Power Automate is a way to automate many repetitive manual tasks to seamlessly connect with your favorite applications to increase work efficiency, fully integrated with the Microsoft Power platform.

Power Automate is a new PowerShell designed to automate the daily tasks of users in Microsoft 365 and Azure and is enabled by default in all Microsoft 365 applications.

Power Automate Desktop uses low-code / no-code robotic process automation (RPA) to automate repetitive and complex work tasks such as data entry.

The next step is to incorporate the automated processes into day-to-day operations. You can Set up a proof of concept and/or pilot RPA to ensure success by targeting automation processes that have high business value and defining success criteria before starting automation. 

And it’s not just Microsoft – you can create automation integrations that connect automated processes with legacy apps, third-party platforms, and more. Power users can use Microsoft Power Apps or Power BI to create their own business processes. 

By using workflows (also known as threads), users can easily map how applications should interact with each other. 

Cloud Security

With the increasingly fragmented workforce and the rapid adoption of cloud-based remote office applications, Microsoft Office 365 (now known as Microsoft 365) has become one of the most powerful and widely used collaboration and productivity tools in the world, with more than 250 million users.

Flexible, integrated, and reliable Microsoft Azure and modern workplace solutions from Microsoft enable government organizations to improve customer interactions, streamline operations, and reshape government business models.

Software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provides powerful cloud solutions for archiving and protecting critical business data. 

Microsoft provides a series of tools, such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Center of Excellence (COE) suite, and powerful Power Platform management center to help you manage and monitor critical data, applications, and workflows. 

As part of the Power Platform, Microsoft provides a low-cost and easy-to-use artificial intelligence model that can detect, read, and save information in standard documents such as invoices, purchase orders, and contracts.

These sites can be integrated with Microsoft services such as Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Azure to improve the user experience. Through integration, these applications can work together, allowing users to more easily adjust business processes to adapt to changing needs and requirements.

Operation and design automation provides self-service for the use of connectors, APIs, and data objects, and is responsible for indicators and usage monitoring.

It’s obvious that today’s businesses need a reliable way to detect and respond to suspicious logins, malicious app installations, email forwarding rules, and abuse of included Microsoft 365 tools.

The built-in application tools Power Automate and eDiscovery Compliance Search in Microsoft 365 have become important targets for attackers.

The malicious use of Power Automate was made apparent when Microsoft recently announced that it has identified advanced attackers in large multinational organizations who used this tool to automatically steal data.

Final Thoughts

Microsoft now allows everyone in your organization to collaborate on Dynamics 365 records using collaboration apps in Teams. And this simplified approval process works with data from Twitter and Microsoft Teams.

Power Automate / Microsoft Flow allows each of these applications to interact with each other and take actions based on triggers from other applications. Are your business processes automated?

A good place to start is working with a team of innovators with experience in building Power Platform automation solutions that can help organizations like yours make the most of these powerful tools.

Depending on where you are on the road to low-code implementation, your partner can help you establish a center of excellence and assist with vision, day-to-day operations, legacy application evaluation, or support plans as needed.

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