Kent Weare – In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of UI Flows on April 2nd, for customers worldwide. UI Flows is an addition to Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, that enables democratized access to automation and workflow. In this this latest release, Microsoft is enabling robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in the Power Automate service.

Power Automate is already a popular service that is used by many organizations to automate business processes. Charles Lamanna, cvp at Microsoft, explains why Microsoft is further investing in this cloud service and adding RPA capabilities:

The existing features of Power Automate focus on automating business processes, through the use of API-based connectors. For organizations that have legacy systems, APIs may not be available for those systems. As a result, automation becomes more difficult. Organizations can now automate business processes across both modern systems, that have APIs, and legacy systems that do not. Power Automate will allow data to flow back and forth between API-based automated flows and UI flows. Read On: