How To Automate Processes In Windows

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In 2020, Microsoft Ability Automate doubled downwardly on its investments in the robotic process automation (RPA) space with the introduction of Microsoft Power Automate Desktop. We first introduced RPA in Ability Automate at Microsoft Ignite in 2019, and we have seen tremendous growth with hundreds of thousands of organizations using Ability Automate and taking billions of actions each month.

Today, we are continuing this momentum by announcing that desktop automation in Power Automate Desktop will be available to Windows 10 users at no additional toll. Windows 10 users can harness the power of low-code RPA by downloading Power Automate Desktop on March 2, and it will be included in Windows Insider Preview builds in the coming weeks.

Keep reading to learn how this convenient, low-code awarding empowers coders and non-coders alike to optimize their workflows by automating repetitive and time-consuming manual tasks in Windows 10.

Build personal desktop flows with easy drag-and-drop capabilities in Power Automate Desktop.

Automate everyday tasks and free upwardly time for college-value work

The pace of business organization is accelerating and everyone is looking for ways to be more than productive and drive faster time to value while delivering more strategic and innovative thinking. All too often "busy work"—repetitive, manual, time-consuming tasks—consumes the finite hours in each workday.

Ability Automate Desktop uses depression-code RPA (no coding required) to give you time back for more high-value work by automating "busy piece of work." RPA makes information technology possible to automate workflows across modern and legacy applications on your desktop by recording actions such as mouse and keyboard clicks. Information technology works much like macros piece of work in your favorite Microsoft Office app, past recording repetitive actions from your desktop across multiple applications—like SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, and many third-party applications—as well as websites, and then lets you replay the automation whenever needed.

A common scenario we see is the need to scale and automate the creation of large-calibration weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting. With Power Automate Desktop, you can automate the consolidation of data across multiple sources—such as a database, webpages, Excel files, PDFs, and more—to car generate a report based on your requirements.

Outset automating everyday tasks—no coding required

Information technology'southward piece of cake to get started with Power Automate Desktop and build your first desktop flow—the series of steps that automate a specific activeness or task—using either prebuilt drag-and-drop deportment or by recording your own desktop flows to run later. An intuitive drag and drop visual designer provides more than 400 actions that run on your desktop, a recorder to capture clicks and mouse deportment, as well as a robust authoring experience to edit and modify the recordings.

Picket the "Automating benefits for the Communications sector" video to see how a marketing department generates reports and saves time using RPA along with boosted capabilities in Power Automate.

Extend automation even further in Power Automate with a limited time offer

In addition to the capabilities you get with Ability Automate Desktop for Windows ten, you can extend this one step further with capabilities in the Power Automate per user with Attended RPA plan. With this you tin can enable automations across an organisation to share and interact across flows, admission more than 400 built-in connectors through cloud flows, identify bottlenecks in your business processes with process advisor (preview), extract data from documents in AI Architect, and manage and control flows with centralized governance.

To have advantage of these capabilities and to further support organizations seeking to adopt RPA, we are introducing a limited time offer. Beginning April 1, 2021, and available through September xxx, 2021, the Ability Automate per user plan with attended RPA will exist available for $fifteen per user per calendar month. The limited time offer volition be available to eligible customers in commercial, and United States government and worldwide government through volume licensing (VL), cloud solution provider (CSP), and web direct channels. A minimum purchase of 5,000 licenses and other weather condition may apply.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (Coca-Cola United) is i example of a visitor taking advantage of additional RPA capabilities in Power Automate today to reduce errors and streamline their order direction.

Exist on the scout for the Power Automate per user plan with attended RPA limited time offer to become available on April ane. In the concurrently, learn more almost Power Automate plans and pricing.

Create your own automation story—get started today

By bringing RPA to Windows 10 users, everyone across an organization can collectively focus on piece of work that makes a departure for the bottom line. Starting time your desktop automation journey today by downloading the Power Automate Desktop app.

Learn how to build your first desktop catamenia and automate your tasks in the getting started documentation, along with of import boosted helpful information.