You can think of it as a Macro with steroids. Power Automate Desktop is a low-code RPA tool that enables you to automate your day-to-day repetitive tasks. This is a game changer and I expect this will considerably disrupt the automation industry. Yesterday, 2 nd March 2021 Microsoft has announced that very soon it is making the Power Automate Desktop available for free for all Windows 10 users in Microsoft Ignite 2021 virtual event. Microsoft holds the largest pie of enterprise customers, and it becomes easy for Microsoft users to adapt the Power Platform products for their day-to-day tasks than exploring new tools. Now that employees get to create their own apps and automations for simple day-to-day tasks easily using these tools to streamline their work. In the past couple of years, we have witnessed automation software platforms already democratized application development to a great extent. They can be used by people with minimal coding skills to create and deploy customized applications that run on desktops and mobile devices via a low-code interface.

Microsoft’s Power Platform is a suite of products, that includes Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI. With low-code to no code automation development emerging as one of the hottest markets in enterprise technology, Microsoft is well equipped to disrupt the market leaders in a big way as it rolls out another slew of updates to its Power Platform.

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