Microsoft Power Automate allows you to bring automation to your business processes. With a different type of flow to cover different business processes plus the ability to connect to data from hundreds of data source with a few clicks, Power Automate affords great flexibility. All it takes to get started is knowledge of your business process.

Now that you have reviewed this lesson, you should be able to:

• Explain the difference between the different types of flows and where they are used

• Design flows that pull data from many data sources and include artificial intelligence

• Build a Power Automate flow by starting from blank or a template

Key takeaways

Here are the four key takeaways:

1. Power Automate is a web-based service for automating your business processes.

2. Power Automate has different offerings to meet your needs. Cloud flows, business process flows, and desktop flows each have their own unique properties.

3. Power Automate can connect to hundreds of data sources with the built-in connectors or you can build your own custom connectors.

4. If you know your business process, you can bring automation to it with Power Automate and without writing any traditional code.