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Microsoft Power Automate

A workflow automation product within the Microsoft Power Platform for building automated processes between Microsoft and third-party applications, including robotic process automation.

Workflow automation

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Main use cases

  1. Automate internal approvals
  2. Schedule a recurring task
  3. Sync data between systems

Ranked in the order the vendor's pages put them.

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Feature list with quotes

  • Connector library of 1,000 or more apps: Yes1

    More than 1,400 prebuilt, certified connectors are available for Power Automate, including popular services such as Dynamics 365, SAP, and Salesforce.

  • Built-in AI or LLM step: Yes1

    Apply leading built-in AI models to intelligently automate document and image processing, prediction, and analysis.

  • Error handling and retries: Yes1

    Take advantage of superior exception handling, work queues, and management experiences powered by Copilot in Power Automate.

  • Self-hosted option: No1

    No, Power Automate is a cloud service.

  • Team collaboration on workflows: Yes1

    Add coworkers or groups in your organization as owners to edit and manage the flows.

  • Built-in data storage: Yes2

    Microsoft Dataverse entitlements of 250 MB database and 2 GB file

  • Templates marketplace: Yes1

    Templates are prebuilt flows for popular and common scenarios.

  • On-premise or local agent: Yes1

    you can securely connect to your own on-premises services through its on-premises data gateway.

  • Robotic process automation (RPA): Yes1

    Use robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy systems with prebuilt or custom user-interface actions.

  • AI workflow generation from a prompt: Yes1

    Create, edit, and extend process automation faster using natural language with Copilot in Microsoft Power Automate.

Not stated on the vendor's pages: Visual workflow builder, Conditional branching, Scheduled triggers, Webhook trigger, Custom code step, Workflow version history, Execution history and logs, Rate limiting or concurrency controls, API access, Approval steps.

Sources

  1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-automate, checked 20 Sep 2026
  2. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-automate/pricing, checked 20 Sep 2026
  3. https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=%22microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fpower-platform%2Fproducts%2Fpower-automate%22&restrictSearchableAttributes=url&tags=story&hitsPerPage=1000, checked 2 Oct 2026
  4. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/, checked 20 Sep 2026

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