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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

By : Peter Krause
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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

By: Peter Krause

Overview of this book

Whether you want to organize simple files or perform more complex consolidations between different Office programs and remote-control applications that don't allow outside access, Power Automate Desktop helps meet these challenges. This book shows you how to leverage this workflow automation platform by explaining the underlying RPA concepts in a step-by-step way. You’ll start with simple flows that can be easily recorded and further processed using the built-in recorder. Later, you’ll learn how to use the more advanced actions to automate folder and file management and enable Office programs to interact with each other. You’ll also get to grips with integrating desktop flows into other cloud environments and further enhance their value using AI. As you progress, you’ll understand how flows can run unattended and how they are managed in the Power Platform, as well as key concepts such as creating, modifying, debugging, and error-handling UI flows. Finally, the book will guide you to use Process Automation Designer (PAD) in conjunction with your frequently used desktop systems to automate routine tasks. By the end of this book, you’ll have become a Power Automate Desktop expert, automating both professional and personal tasks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

More ways to use AI

AI and its capabilities have gained popularity in recent years, and we can see an increased use of this technology. In Power Platform and Dynamics 365 alone, AI is used in many places, such as the following:

  • Conversational intelligence: Information and insights are extracted from a seller’s call recordings by using analytics and data science to proactively coach sellers.
  • Intelligent content suggestion: Email responses can be suggested based on the previous conversation. Questions can be detected, and possible answers suggested, which helps a seller to be very quick and productive.
  • Power Virtual Agent: The intelligent chatbot within the Power Platform can leverage LUIS models to digest the meaning of conversations in chats and provide corresponding responses.
  • Copilot for Power Automate: This allows the creation of a Power Automate by verbal and natural language description (see https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-ways-to...