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What is Power Automate

Automate Workflows with Microsoft Power Automate

We design governed workflows that connect systems, synchronise data and remove manual steps, improving accuracy and speed across teams.

Empower your enterprise

Unlock the power of automation with Aureus Intelligence AI

Automation shouldn’t be complex. At Aureus, we use Microsoft Power Automate to turn error-prone manual tasks into reliable, connected workflows that let your teams focus on high-value work. When you partner with us, you gain foresight, speed, and measurable results.

We don’t just deploy flows; we design intelligent automation that adapts to your systems, connects across the Microsoft Power Platform, and grows with your business.

Our Approach

Every automation starts with discovery. We learn how your operations actually run before architecting flows that integrate seamlessly with your existing tools. The outcome is automation that feels natural, not forced.

Built for Scalability

We combine low-code engineering with Microsoft Dataverse to ensure every workflow is governed, secure and ready to scale. Whether it’s a single approval process or enterprise-wide orchestration, Power Automate adapts without heavy rework.

AI in Action

With Copilot Studio and built-in AI, your flows become smarter with every run. From natural-language flow creation to AI-powered error handling and monitoring, we bring intelligent automation that learns from your business data.

With Aureus, Your Digital Transformation Delivers

Faster Results

  • Shorter cycle times and fewer hand-offs.
  • Approvals and notifications that run automatically.
  • RPA for desktop and legacy tasks where APIs are limited.

Measurable Outcomes

  • Clear KPIs and audit trails in one place.
  • Data synchronised across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and third-party apps.
  • Copilot-assisted logic that flags issues and suggests fixes.

Smarter Operations

  • Flows that adapt as processes change.
  • Triggers from Power Apps and Power BI keep work moving.

  • Governed builds on Dataverse for security and scale.
For organisations that want to move faster, Aureus Intelligence AI helps you automate with confidence, scale with precision, and free your people to focus on what really drives growth.
Understand the platform

What is Microsoft Power Automate, and why does it matter for your business?

Microsoft Power Automate is a service within the Microsoft Power Platform that lets organisations build and run automated workflows to streamline repetitive operations and eliminate manual bottlenecks. It gives you the ability to automate business processes by connecting apps, services and data, all without writing code.

Power Automate removes the barriers between people, processes and platforms. From approvals and notifications to robotic process automation (RPA) for legacy systems, it ensures work moves seamlessly across your business while maintaining governance and control.

How it works with Microsoft

Power Automate works hand-in-hand with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Azure, and Power BI, all within the broader Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem. It connects departments and data, ensuring automation scales across your environment rather than sitting in silos.

Connectors & third-party apps

Power Automate uses hundreds of pre-built connectors to link both Microsoft and third-party systems, so your tools can communicate effortlessly. By connecting existing apps, you minimise friction, reduce manual effort and lower technical debt. Automation becomes an enabler, not a replacement, of your current systems.

What We Can Automate with Power Automate

Finance & Accounting

PROBLEM
Month-End Slows Down

Manual invoice approvals and spreadsheet reconciliations slow month-end.

Finance & Accounting

SOLUTION
Approvals and Audits, Simplified

Multi-step approvals with reminders, postings to ERP, and checklists with audit trails.

HR and People Operations

PROBLEM
Onboarding Varies by Team

Onboarding and offboarding handled by email, with inconsistent access setup.

HR and People Operations

SOLUTION
Access and Training, Automated

New-starter and leaver flows that create or remove access, assign training, notify managers, and record completion.

IT and Operations

PROBLEM
Support Tickets Pile Up

High ticket volumes and slow triage.

IT and Operations

SOLUTION
Requests Routed, Fast and Right

Auto-categorise requests, route to the right queue, and notify stakeholders with status updates.

Sales and CRM

PROBLEM
Leads stall between systems

Leads stall between systems and follow-up is slow.

Sales and CRM

SOLUTION
Every Lead Moves Forward

Lead capture synced to CRM with alerts, tasks, and SLA timers to keep deals moving.

Procurement and Supply Chain

PROBLEM
Purchases Lack Consistency

Purchase requests and vendor onboarding are inconsistent.

Procurement and Supply Chain

SOLUTION
Approvals and Vendors in Sync

PR-to-PO approvals, vendor checks, and master-data updates with full traceability.

Customer Service

PROBLEM
Cases Scatter Across Channels

Cases arrive across channels with no single process.

Customer Service

SOLUTION
One Process, Every Channel

Unified intake with priority rules, escalations, and proactive customer updates.

Transforming business processes results in measurable gains.

Automating repetitive tasks eliminates delays and human error, improving productivity and freeing teams to focus on higher-value work.

Because Power Automate turns complexity into clarity, enterprises can reduce waste, align technology with strategy and respond faster to change. It is not just about efficiency; it is about creating operations that are adaptive, measurable and resilient.

Empower your enterprise

What We at Aureus Intelligence AI Offer

Aureus delivers Microsoft Power Automate consulting services that help you simplify, optimise and connect your business processes. From mapping process automation opportunities to deploying and maintaining intelligent automated workflows, we help teams reduce manual effort, remove inefficiencies and accelerate results across every department.

Automation with Purpose

Every automation we build starts with a clear business outcome. We align Power Automate workflows with your strategic goals to remove manual work, improve accuracy and free time for higher value innovation.

Intelligent Collaboration

Successful automation blends people and technology. Our consultants work alongside your teams to design workflows that complement human decision-making, so your Power Automate environment lifts productivity without disrupting operations.

Our Services Include

Power Automate Consultancy and Implementation

We deliver fully managed services across every stage, from discovery and design through deployment and optimisation. Our six-step delivery model ensures each workflow is aligned with your business goals, compliant with regulatory standards and built for long-term scalability.

Audit and Optimisation

We review current SOPs, pinpoint repetitive tasks across finance, HR and operations and convert them into streamlined, rule-based automations that return time to your teams.

Integration Across Microsoft and Third-Party Systems

We connect Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Azure and external tools so data flows reliably and decisions move faster.

Modernisation and Legacy Migration

We upgrade or migrate outdated automation to Power Automate, building cloud-first workflows that improve performance, governance and reliability.

Governance, Compliance and Security Frameworks

Environment strategy, DLP policies, access control and audit readiness. We set the guardrails so your automation scales securely.

Staff Augmentation

Certified Power Automate specialists who embed with your team to increase capacity, accelerate delivery and maintain quality.

Tailored Solutions and Industry-Specific Frameworks

Workflows shaped to your sector. From finance approvals to healthcare compliance, we design for process accuracy, regulatory fit and measurable efficiency.

We combine automation strategy with hands-on implementation to turn everyday processes into intelligent, connected workflows.

With ongoing guidance and enterprise-grade governance, your automations stay secure, scalable and ready to evolve with your business.

Why We Build with Power automate

How We Use Power Automate to Deliver Business Impact

As Power Automate experts, we don’t just automate tasks, we understand your unique operation and use Power Automate to connect systems, enforce logic, and simplify your business with governance, scalability, and speed.

Automation That Understands Your Process

We tailor automations to your real-world process. No rigid templates, just clean logic that fits how your team works.

outcomes
Errors
Smooth Handovers

Built Fast With Logic That Lasts

We launch working automations in days, with scalable structure and best practices baked in from the start.

outcomes
Delivery Speed
Reworks

Integrated Across Your Entire Stack

Connects tools like Outlook, SharePoint, SAP, and SQL, so data flows smoothly, without manual intervention.

outcomes
Silos
Admin

Triggered at the Right Time, Every Time

Flows react instantly to file uploads, form submissions, or deadlines, automating follow-ups without delay.

outcomes
Execution
Delays

Governed for Enterprise, Not Just Convenience

Every flow meets enterprise-grade security and compliance using Azure AD, role controls, and policy guardrails.

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Control
Risk

Enhanced with Intelligence, Not Just Logic

We embed AI to read, classify, and decide. Making workflows smarter, not just faster.

outcomes
Better Decisions
Workload

Power Automate

Explore what’s possible

Types of Automations and Their Features

Power Automate gives you options between many automation types, allowing you to pick one that suits your tasks and your tech best. The choice is primarily between business process, desktop, and cloud flows.  

Business Process flows

These types of flows are about guiding a sequence of activities that people in an organisation or company follow to enforce data consistency.

Think of sales qualifying leads, customer service handling tickets, and invoice approvals; they are meant to provide structure to these processes and show users what stage they’re in and what steps remain.  

Power Automate Desktop flows

This is a type of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which helps automate repetitive tasks on your local machine or legacy systems, whether they are web-based or desktop applications.

If something doesn’t expose a modern API, or if actions need to mimic human interaction, desktop flows handle it.  

Cloud flows

Flows which run in Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. You can trigger them automatically, instantly or on a schedule. They do so by attaching systems with services and apps using built-in connectors or custom connectors to automate tasks across your ecosystem.

Key Features Across Flow Types

Trigger-based automation

Cloud flows run automatically when events occur, whereas desktop flows monitor local triggers or timers to initiate actions.

Pre-built connectors & templates

Unlike desktop flows, cloud flows include hundreds of ready-made connectors, simplifying integration across apps and legacy systems.

Drag-and-drop / low-code design

Most flows, whether cloud or business process flows, are built visually with minimal coding, making them easy to adopt.   

Rule stages & data validation

In regulated or structured processes, business process flows help you define required fields, enforce stage sequences, and control who can move to the next step.

When to Pick Which Type?

Cloud Flows

Cloud flows are ideal for notifications, data movement and scalable web-based workflows. So, if your task spans multiple services or needs to act on events in the cloud, use cloud flow.

Power Automate Desktop Flows

When automating tasks that interact with legacy apps or user interface elements, use Power Automate Desktop flows.

This works great with things that run locally or where APIs are lacking.

Business Process Flows

In situations like sales pipelines, compliance workflows, approval flows, etc, you need consistency. Use business process flows, as they provide visibility and a structured multi-step process that’s followed by many.

Intelligence that learns with you

AI-Powered Automation & Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio brings AI forward in automation, giving you a low-code, graphical canvas to build agent flows that merge with Power Automate. These flows are triggered by events, schedules or other agents, allowing you to create intelligent automations with very minimal coding. You can even author them by describing what you want using natural language. Copilot Studio will then interpret and construct the initial draft for you.

Natural-language authoring isn’t just about convenience anymore; it has now reshaped how teams work. Non-technical users have started to gain agency, developers now gain speed, and with Copilot integration, you get more suggestions for triggers, actions, logic partition and even error handling. Your workflow broke? It’s no hassle, Copilot can now help you debug or repair! Want to monitor flows? Copilot now shows insights, analytics, and performance views on all types.

Accelerate Developers

Faster build cycles with AI-assisted scaffolding.

Suggestive AI Logic

Context-aware triggers, actions, and branches.

Empower Non-Technical Users

Author flows in natural language and validate visually.

Auto-Debug & Repair

Copilot pinpoints and proposes fixes for failures.

Performance Insights

Metrics and analytics for every flow type.

Agent flows connect what businesses need to how they work.

Using artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered capabilities, they automate repetitive parts of processes like document extraction, data synthesis, anomaly detection and more.

To ensure seamless integration and transitions between Copilot-driven logic and existing Power Automate workflows, you can also map the flows to legacy systems or prebuilt connectors.

Productive automation with Power Automate is now a reality.

With Copilot services built around the platform, your organisation doesn’t need to end with automated tasks; you can now transform operations. By embedding agent flows into core business-oriented scenarios, every flow and every action can scale into bigger wins.

Connected by design

Integration with Microsoft Power Platform and Power Apps

An automation tool alone can accomplish standalone tasks, but true efficiency can be achieved using a unified ecosystem. That’s the true strength of the Power Platform. At its core, Power Apps gives form and interface; Power Automate is the engine that drives continuous motion and connection across your entire organisation.

Power Automate turns repetitive, time-consuming work into intelligent and autonomous workflows.

Manual activities can now be automated with precision. For example, a new sales order can trigger a flow that checks stock, posts to the ledger, pushes shipping requests, and updates a CRM record.

An expense approval can ripple across finance, notify the requester, and adjust budgets, all without a person lifting a finger.

By removing human bottlenecks in repeatable work, Power Automate frees your teams to focus on important tasks.

What makes Microsoft Power Automate even more powerful is its vast reach. Through hundreds of native connectors, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, SQL, SAP, etc., the platform breaks down silos and enables users to work across systems.

No more logging into ten systems, copying values, or wrestling with inconsistent data. Instead, flows ensure the right information is available exactly when and where it's needed and that's made possible by Microsoft Dataverse, a secure cloud-based data platform that unifies and governs data across Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI.

Building on a Shared Source of Truth

Dataverse doesn’t just store native application data, it also connects with external sources like SQL databases, Excel workbooks and third-party services, bringing fragmented data into one consistent, governed foundation.

By operating on this shared foundation, your automations maintain consistency and integrity across systems, rather than relying on fragmented silos.

Built to scale intelligently

Connects with
third-party tools

Secure and
Cloud-Based

Another benefit is that the automations don't stay isolated. Your Power Apps front ends can initiate flows that write back into your systems, and the results are fed into Power BI dashboards.

A bot built with Copilot Studio can call flows behind the scenes, delivering interactive experiences powered by the same logic and data foundation.

At Aureus Intelligence AI, we design automation not just as discrete rules, but as flexible, evolving systems.

We start by understanding your workflows, weak points, and friction. Then we architect flows that directly address those weaknesses that span departments, systems, and functions. The result? Not just faster operations, but an environment built for agility and continual innovation.

With Power Automate at the centre of your Power Platform strategy, your processes become self-sufficient assets, not liabilities.

A new standard of efficiency

Power Automate vs. Traditional Automation

With traditional automation projects, you often face a choice between heavy bespoke code, an expensive and slow process or SaaS workflows that are more affordable but limited and inflexible. Power Automate bridges this gap by providing a governed, fully integrated workflow automation engine with extensive connectors, desktop and cloud support. It enables you to build deep integrations across your data fabric while maintaining the control and scalability of true enterprise automation.

Speed

Cost

Flexibility

Integration

Automation/AI

Security

Scalablity

Maintenance

Control

ROI

Power Automate

Build flows fast with low-code templates

Cost-efficient in Microsoft 365; scales with licensing

Automates across cloud, desktop and APIs

1000+ connectors across Microsoft 365 and third-party; custom connectors available

Combine RPA, API, AI Builder, Process Mining and Copilot

Enterprise-grade via Microsoft Cloud, Entra ID and DLP (with proper configuration)

Cloud-native; scales across users and regions (capacity planning required)

Managed by Microsoft; built-in versioning and monitoring

Governed in Microsoft Cloud; strong visibility over flows, data and connectors

Potential ROI in weeks for many cases (depends on scope and readiness)

RPA Suites
(UiPath, Blue Prism etc.)

Slower setup; needs specialists

Higher licence and setup cost per bot and orchestrator

Strong for repetitive UI tasks; limited beyond that

Mainly UI-level; custom APIs and scripts needed

Robot-centric; AI via add-ons or separate services

Varies by vendor; governance handled separately

Scales but adds licence, infra and orchestration complexity

Bots can break with UI changes; high upkeep

On-prem or cloud control varies by vendor

ROI varies with process complexity and maintenance

SaaS Workflow Builders
(Zapier, n8n etc.)

Quick for simple automations; complex takes longer

Low entry cost; spend rises with volume and premium steps

Often limited to provided integrations; deeper changes need advanced work

Depends on vendor connectors, APIs and rate limits

Mostly rule-based; advanced AI needs add-ons or premium plans

Basic app-level controls; limited enterprise governance

Best for small to mid teams; limited enterprise capacity

Vendor runs infrastructure; manual checks often needed

Vendor controls platform and behaviour

Quick start; ROI depends on fit and scale

How we deliver results

Our Proven Power Automate Consultancy Process

Our Power Automate consulting services are built to convert operational bottlenecks into intelligent, end-to-end automations that deliver measurable impact. We follow a six-stage process that brings structure and clarity to every engagement, ensuring every solution is built with precision and aligns with your operational goals. Here is the detailed process we use to transform manual workloads into fully automated, future-ready solutions.

Discovery & Assessment

We begin by studying your current operating procedures and workflows. This helps us understand your business requirements and uncover areas where manual work slows everything down. After this stage, our team of experts begin to survey your legacy systems, considering integration needs and data sources which matter.

Solution Design & Planning

Once we understand your current situation, we draft the blueprints. In which there’ll be a defined flow path (cloud, desktop, business process), designed logic, set naming conventions, decided retries and built templates. This tailored solution will align perfectly with your current state but also with your growth roadmap.

Development & Configuration

Our developers build automated flows and integrate with APIs or legacy systems to bring everything together seamlessly. Each component is designed with precision by using modular structures, clean logic, and error-handling so your solution runs smoothly.

Testing & Validation

Every flow is tested repeatedly, from performance to usability, with scenarios that mirror your daily operations. We fine-tune run scopes, validate error-handling, and ensure each component works seamlessly together so your automation remains stable, reliable, and ready for production.

Deployment & Adoption

At this stage, we deploy your Power Automate solutions into configured environments. We follow a gradual rollout or pilot phase to ensure stability. Dashboards are also set up to monitor real-time flow performance and ROI, giving your team full visibility as automation goes live.

Support & Optimisation

Post-deployment, our team monitors flow health, tracks performance, and reviews feedback to identify opportunities for improvement. When needed, we roll out updates and refinements to keep everything running smoothly. With Aureus, your automation keeps evolving while staying efficient, stable, and ready for what’s next.

Real impact, real change

How Power Automate Transforms Your Business Operations

You can’t expect huge transformations from just automating; for optimal results, you must first make sure you’ve targeted the right operations. With Power Automate, you’re redesigning the business process, meaning that the reaction will be dynamic to demand.

Faster Approvals

Approvals that once took days should now flow in minutes.

Instant Synchronisation

That real change is when data synchronisation can happen instantly.

Automated Updates

In turn making approvals, notifications, and inventory updates move automatically.

That’s how you see productivity power grow

Think of the benefits this may impart to different industries:

Supply Chain

Companies using Power Automate could gain end-to-end visibility over shipment details, hence be able to reduce stockouts with smarter alerts, optimise restocking cycles and cut carrying costs.

Inventory

In the field of manufacturing and distribution, improved inventory management means a lot; it results in fewer delays and less waste.

Customer Service

Customer service is another major win. When you automate processes like ticketing, customers receive faster, consistent responses. Consequently, agents can spend less time on manual triage, freeing them up to handle more complex cases.

Your CRM, ERP, Microsoft 365 apps, and legacy systems all speak with one another, so choose productivity by automating.

Repetitive tasks, data entry, invoice validation, and document approvals are perfect for workflow automation. Operational efficiency only rises when systems integrate seamlessly.

Why Aureus?

Why choose Aureus Intelligence AI as your Power Automate partner?

Plenty of providers can deploy an automated flow, but the question is whether they can make meaningful changes. Aureus is a Microsoft Solutions Partner deeply rooted in the Microsoft Power Platform, trusted by organisations demanding more than surface-level fixes. Our team of Microsoft Power Automate consultants delivers automation that scales and adapts.

Every Engagement Begins with Analysis

Uncover Bottlenecks

We begin our work with your team by first uncovering bottlenecks, identifying risks, and pinpointing where exactly manual efforts start to slow down performance.

Designing Flows That Connect

From there on, we design flows that do more than just replace repetitive tasks. We make sure they connect different departments, reinforce stronger governance, and remove friction across the entire process.

Our consultation lays the foundation for measurable business growth.

Automation at Aureus is designed to move work across your entire stack. When a customer order is created, Power Automate coordinates what happens next.

Stock is checked in your ERP → records are written to Dataverse → finance raises the invoice → shipping is queued → customers are notified → and Power BI dashboards are updated for live visibility.

This is the level of detail we bring into every automation project, where flows become the backbone of end-to-end operations.  

We achieve this by utilising the full Microsoft ecosystem.

Azure Cloud Services

Providing the foundation for enterprise-grade resilience.  

Azure Functions

Handling complex back-end logic.  

Azure AI Foundry

Bringing intelligence that preserves your automation's adaptive components.  

We engineer each flow to be performance-ready, ensuring uptime is maximised and risk is minimised.

Automation Built Around You

Every organisation carries their very own mix of systems and rules. The hidden inefficiencies embedded in your system are what block you from copying and pasting existing automation.

At Aureus, we solve that by shaping flows around the inefficiencies present; whether that means modernising the legacy platforms you still use, adding RPA into your daily operations, or building you an entirely new workflow.

Our intended outcome is automation that mimics native traits, reduces cost complexities, and continues to grow as your needs grow.

With Aureus, launch is just the spark; the momentum comes from automations that learn, adapt, and scale globally. We remain with you every step of the way.
Proof in performance

Success Stories

Our work with organisations across industries shows how Power Automate delivers measurable outcomes. These career success stories demonstrate how strategic automation drives real efficiency, saving hours and creating results that manual processes could never achieve.

One case study comes from Trylon, one of Canada’s leading engineering companies.

With thousands of projects and massive document libraries in SharePoint, their teams were drowning in manual checks across nested folders. Hours were lost simply searching for updates.

Our solution was a scalable automation built with Microsoft Graph API, designed to track over 400,000 file changes per day.

The outcome was transformative: engineers gained real-time visibility into project activity, saving countless hours and enabling faster decision-making. What looked like a small fix created measurable business results at enterprise scale.

400,000+

Daily Changes Tracked

10+

Hours Saved Weekly

Another example highlights SwiftShift, a home care technology platform in the United States.

Facing severe nurse burnout and declining morale, they needed transparency and fairness in their financial processes. We built an automated reporting and forecasting system that tracked profits and distributed bonuses in real-time.

Nurses received equitable pay tied directly to performance, resulting in a 30% jump in efficiency and a 25% rise in overall profits. Morale turned around, and patient care quality improved as a direct consequence.

+30%

Efficiency

25%

Rise in Overall Profits

Morale Boost

We regularly share our insights on our Case Studies and Blog pages, showcasing how Aureus uses automation to help organisations work smarter, scale faster, and improve team performance.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Power Automate

If your question isn’t covered here or you’d like further details, please contact us. The Aureus Intelligence AI team is ready to help.

What does Microsoft Power Automate consulting services include?

We offer fully managed services that cover your entire automation journey from discovery and design, through deployment, to ongoing optimisation and support. Each solution we build is tailored to align with your business goals, meet compliance standards and drive long-term scalability.

Is Microsoft Power Automate consulting right for my business?

If your business, like any, requires error-prone work, still uses legacy systems, or struggles with repetitive tasks blocking employee productivity, the answer is most definitely, yes. Rather than relying on improvisation, our clients repeatedly see measurable benefits when our experts lead the strategy.

How do automation solutions differ from app solutions?

Primarily, app solutions tend to focus on front-end interfaces, while automation solutions act behind the scenes to connect apps, move data, handle triggers, and reduce manual oversight.

What role-based support do I get?

We support the different roles within your organisation where automation makes an impact. IT teams get guidance on governance and integration, business users receive role-based dashboards and training, and decision-makers gain visibility into performance and ROI.

How do I know if automation is worth the investment?

After we help you evaluate ROI, we assess your cost of automation vs maintaining manual work, then your regulatory or compliance overhead, and finally your overall system readiness. This is to advise pilot programs when parts of the business operations show lower risk.

Get Started with Power Automate Consulting Services

Automation cuts delays and errors. At Aureus Intelligence AI, our Power Automate consulting services connect you with an experienced Power Automate consultant to review your workflows, triggers and connectors, then translate that into reliable flows across Microsoft 365, Dataverse and your external systems.

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