Brian Madden – Microsoft recently announced a new flow as part of their newly renamed Power Automate workflow app called UI flow. What makes it stand apart from their previous flows is that it uses robotic process automation (RPA).

Now, RPA isn’t a new product to the market by any measure, but we realize not everyone in EUC may understand what it is and what it provides. Additionally, RPA relates to the modernizing legacy apps conversation that we’ve been having at BrianMadden.com for a long time now (pre-dates me for sure).

The most common method to add automation to applications is through APIs, but not many older applications have exposed, documented APIs the way we think of them with modern apps. This is where robotic process automation comes into play. RPA is designed to automate repetitious, high-volume processes where reducing errors is in everyone’s best interest. It can be used to either automate a workflow entirely or speed up one that will also include partial human interaction. Read On: