What is Power Automate?

Power Automate, formerly called Flow, is cloud-based software that allows employees to create and automate workflows and tasks across multiple applications and services without help from developers.

Automated workflows are called flows. To create a flow, the user specifies what action should take place when a specific event occurs.

Key features of Power Automate

Power Automate does not just integrate with other Microsoft products. It can be used with a wide variety of apps and services -- what Microsoft calls connectors -- including Salesforce, SQL Server, Twitter, Box, DocuSign, Slack, Skype and Google Drive.

Users can take advantage of an extensive library of prebuilt flows, also known as templates. Example templates include the ability to do the following:

• Save email attachments to OneDrive.
• Notify people by email when a message is sent on Teams.
• Notify people when a file has been uploaded to OneDrive or SharePoint.
• Get a push notification when you receive an email from your boss.
• Trigger an event when a Microsoft Form has been completed.
• Have automated emails sent on a particular date each month or year.

If none of the templates fit the process that needs to be automated, users can also make their own flows. Power Automate is designed so that nontechnical staff can automate workflows without the help of a developer.

What is Power Bi?

Power BI stands for Power Business Intelligence.

While the platform is commonly used by business analysts, it is also designed to be easily accessible for those without any specialized data knowledge.

Power BI's dashboard is capable of reporting and visualizing data in a wide range of different styles, including graphs, maps, charts, scatter plots, and more. Power BI's "AI Insights" functionality, meanwhile, uses AI to find insights within data sets for users.

Power BI itself is composed of several interrelated applications including but not limited to:

• Power BI Desktop: Create interactive reports with visual analytics.
• Power BI Pro: Collaborate on interactive reports throughout your organization.
• Power BI Mobile: Access business intelligence data from any device.

While some of these applications are free to use, paid subscriptions to the pro and premium versions provide greater analytics

capabilities.

What is Power BI used for?

Data visualization and reporting

• Create reports and dashboards that present data sets in multiple ways using visuals.
• Turn data into a wide range of different visuals, including pie charts, decomposition trees, gauge charts, KPIs, combo charts, bar and column charts, and ribbon charts—among many other options.

Data integration

• Connect various data sources, such as Excel sheets, onsite data warehouses, and cloud-based data storage, and then transform them into business insights.

Business intelligence

• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics in real time.

Collaboration and sharing

• Collaborate on workspaces and shared datasets.

Financial analysis

• Create financial statements and balance sheets.
• Analyse sales performance and profit.

Marketing and sales

• Integrate Power BI with a CRM system to analyse customer data and use insights to improve customer experience. Analyse market trends and consumer behaviour to discover opportunities.