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The 5 best things about Power Automate Part one of a six-part series of blogs
A separate blog lists the 5 worst things about Power Automate; this more positive blog lists its 5 best features! The 5 best things about Power Automate (this blog) 1 - The scope of Power Automate 2 - The concept and implementation of triggers 3 - Testing flows 4 - Consistency 5 - Waiting for approvals

The 5 best things about Power Automate

Part one of a six-part series of blogs

A separate blog lists the 5 worst things about Power Automate; this more positive blog lists its 5 best features!

The 5 best things about Power Automate (this blog)
1 - The scope of Power Automate
2 - The concept and implementation of triggers
3 - Testing flows
4 - Consistency
5 - Waiting for approvals

Posted by Andy Brown on 29 October 2022

The 5 best things about Power Automate

Power Automate is an amazing bit of software, providing a way to programmatically control a huge range of cloud-based software applications in a consistent way. This blog lists my 5 favourite things about Power Automate.

In the interests of fairness, I've also summarised my 5 worst things about Power Automate (it's good to see things from different angles). I think a fair summary would be that while I love what Power Automate does, I don't always like the way it does it!

Here is my top 5 list:

Number	Feature	Notes
1	Its sheer range	Power Automate provides a single environment in which you can link a bewildering range of apps running in the cloud in a consistent way.
2	The concept of triggers	Kudos to Microsoft for managing to get so many events in so many applications to trigger flows and handle actions.
3	Testing flows	It's clever that you can not only test flows by triggering them, but also test them by running a simulation of a previous occasion on which a flow was triggered.
4	Consistency	I don't always like the way that Power Automate lets you create flows, but it is consistent: the user interface is the same whatever you're trying to do.
5	Approvals	The process for managing approvals for a task is not only really useful, but also neatly implemented.

What I won't do in this blog is to review the individual cloud-based Microsoft applications (so you'll have to read a separate blog to hear me raving about Forms, for example).

To quote Julie Andrews, let's start at the very beginning (it's a very good place to start) ...

Parts of this blog
The 5 best things about Power Automate (this blog) 1 - The scope of Power Automate 2 - The concept and implementation of triggers 3 - Testing flows 4 - Consistency 5 - Waiting for approvals