On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. Over 3.5 lakh companies are now making use of the service's low-code solutions, the company said in a press statement.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us Microsoft also offers an AI Builder to extract information from documents and a process advisor to identify what's slowing down businesses processes, while users can control automation workflows through a centrally managed system.Īlso read: Microsoft shows redesigned icons for Recycle Bin, Document folders and more in latest Windows 10 buildĪccording to Microsoft, the company's acquisition of Sofomotive, a Robotic Process Automate systems company in the UK helped it bring more low-code RPA capabilities to the Microsoft Power Automate service, which is available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. This means you can build a flow that combines DPA (digital process automation), RPA (robotic process automation) and AI. Until now, a per-user license for Power Automate Desktop would set you back at least $15 per month.Meanwhile, the company is also offering businesses the ability to automate tasks across an organisation, as part of an ‘Attended RPA plan' that allows clients to utilise over four hundred connectors via the cloud. In Power Automate (web), you can connect to flows created in Power Automate Desktop- enabling you to bring together your modern, cloud based systems with everything else you might do on your computer. Users who want to give Power Automate Desktop a try can now download it from Microsoft, but in the coming weeks, it’ll become part of Microsoft’s Insider Builds for Windows 10 and then eventually become a built-in part of Windows 10, all the way down to the standard Windows Home version.

It’s based on Microsoft’s acquisition of Softomotive in early 2020, but Microsoft has since extended Softomotive’s technology and integrated it deeper into its own stack. Power Automate Desktop originally launched last September.

It comes with 370 prebuilt actions that help you build flows across different applications, but its real power is in letting you build your own scripts to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Power Automate Desktop is what Microsoft calls its “attended Robotic Process Automation” solution, but you can think of it as a macro recorder on steroids. Microsoft today announced that it is making Power Automate Desktop, its enterprise-level tool for creating automated desktop-centric workflows, available to all Windows 10 users for free.

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