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Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

In this AI era, employing leading machine learning and AI models such as ChatGPT for responding to customer feedback and prototyping applications is crucial to drive business success in the competitive market. This book is an indispensable guide to integrating cutting-edge technology into business operations and leveraging AI to analyze sentiment at scale, helping free up valuable time to enhance customer relationships. Immerse yourself in the future of AI-enabled application development by working with Power Automate, Power Apps, and the new Copilot Studio. With this book, you’ll learn foundational AI concepts as you explore the extensive capabilities of the low-code Power Platform. You’ll see how Microsoft's advanced machine learning technologies can streamline common business tasks such as extracting key data elements from customer documents, reviewing customer emails, and validating passports and drivers’ licenses. The book also guides you in harnessing the power of generative AI to expedite tasks like creating executive summaries, building presentations, and analyzing resumes. You’ll build apps using natural language prompting and see how ChatGPT can be used to power chatbots in your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll have charted your path to developing your own reusable AI automation patterns to propel your business operations into the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating a flow

With all of the prerequisites out of the way, it’s time to start working with some automation! This flow will be broken into several sections to help you conceptualize the actions.

Configuring the trigger and variables

In the Designing a solution section, we identified a shared mailbox as the way resume content will be ingested. In the real world, that might only be one way you choose to receive resumes. You might also have a website where candidates can upload their resumes or even a third-party job posting service that you may configure to store or forward resumes. In any case, the processes will be very similar. The triggers will depend on what access, polling, or notification methods you have available to you.

For simplicity’s sake, this example will use a shared mailbox.

This flow will make use of variables—essentially, placeholders that can be used to hold temporary content or values in memory throughout the flow. There will be...