Public Preview of Power Automate Desktop Announced by Microsoft India

Public preview of its Power Automate Desktop has been announced by Microsoft. This is a new desktop based Robotic Process Automate (RPA) solution expanding low-code automation ability for businesses. The solution lets non-coders and coders, to automate tasks and processes throughout the web applications and desktops with minimal effort from a single intelligent platform.

Commenting on the announcement, Irina Ghose Executive Director – Cloud Solutions, Microsoft India, said, “Organizations and IT departments are seeking ways to quickly adapt to the unprecedented pace of change across every industry around the world. With Microsoft Power Automate Desktop, we aim to empower organizations automate tasks across the desktop and web, using an integrated platform to complete tasks at speed and scale. It enables businesses to free their knowledge-workers from time-consuming and repetitive jobs and focus on strategic tasks to deliver higher value to customers. Organizations can minimize human errors, simplify workflows, reduce maintenance effort and cost, and improve scalability while ensuring security. This will play a vital role in transforming and reimagining their businesses in the new normal.” 

The advanced functionalities of Power Automated Desktop will let the business organizations to:

• Accelerate automation with an easy-to-use visual designer:It enables users to automate and process the tasks from their Windows machines. The process can be automated with live debugging tool and drag and drop visual designer that place the steps in a logical manner, helping ideas turn into reality.
• Simulate multiple scenarios with the web and desktop recorders:The favorite web apps if users with capture on-screen elements or web recorders for Windows apps with desktop recorder. The recorders track the mouse and keyboard to interactions. With the help of this it translates them into clear automation path.
• Automate between Windows applications with key actions:Users can automate both legacy systems and modern Windows applications without making changes to existing IT infrastructure. Tasks of systems that include legacy terminals, SAP and websites can be supported by a single flow.
• Reduce bottlenecks with flexible exception handling: Thesolutionsmakesure that the automations run with speed and precision by setting up safeguards. The script’s every action supports exception handling, no-code error and execution logs, including screenshots and error details to help with troubleshooting.

More than 350,000 organizations worldwide use Microsoft Power Automate service to build and deploy custom end-to-end by using low-code solutions.