Process Automation in a nutshell
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What is “Process Automation”?
Process automation involves using technology to perform repetitive tasks or processes with minimal human intervention. This can include anything from simple tasks like data entry and email responses to more complex workflows involving multiple systems and applications.
Areas of usage
- File handling
- Web interaction
- Data entry
- Report generation
- Excel data handling
- Data formatting
- Monitoring workflow
- Management tasks
- AI document processing
- Request approval
- Email management
Benefits
- Precision in execution
- Minimal risk profile
- Uniformity in processes
- Cost efficiency
- Compliance & traceability
- Enhanced productivity
- Uninterrupted operation
- Optimized resourcing
- Employee satisfaction & retention
- Agile scaling
- Fast-paced returns
Examples of automation use cases
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Invoice processing from email
This video illustrates an automated flow that will monitor an email inbox for messages with an attached invoice.
It will gather the invoice information, copy it in an Excel spreadsheet, send a confirmation email to the sender, move the email to a specified folder and save the invoice in a directory.
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On-demand Web form filling
This automation demonstrates how to fill out a basic web form using the content from an Excel file stored on SharePoint.
The scenario fully leverages Power Automate for Desktop and can be easily customized for various types of data sources and destinations
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Report from Web scrapping
This video demonstrates a use case of web scraping to create an online Excel report. It also covers typical date conversion and the use of an Office script. While the target audience isn’t specifically developers, the video provides detailed execution steps and a closer look at Power Automate in action.