Microsoft support for RPA in the form of Power Automate UI Flows has recently been released. Here I have done a brief post to demonstrate how easy it easy to create and deploy a UI Flow. Before I explain the process involved I'm going briefly introduce what RPA and Power Automate UI Flows are all about. What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Robotic Process Automation … [Read more...] about RPA – Power Automate UI Flows
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Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights
The Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan was published today and here are some of the highlights that caught my eye. Power Automate RPA Microsoft recently purchased the RPA product WinAutomation and added it to Power Automate to improve their desktop automation capabilities. WinAutomation is a well established fully functional RPA product and its initial integration … [Read more...] about Power Platform – 2020 Wave 2 Highlights
Power Virtual Agents – Solutions
In the last week support for solutions has been added to Power Virtual Agents finally giving it ALM capabilities. Here is a quick post on how to add chatbots to a solution, how to modify deployed chatbot topics, and the impact of importing new versions of a solution. From the Power Apps Portal, you now have the option to add existing chatbots to your solution. This works for … [Read more...] about Power Virtual Agents – Solutions
Service Bus Queues & Power Automate
The announcement at Build 2020 that there is finally a Service Bus Explorer in the Azure Portal prompted me to write a post about using a Service Bus Queue with Power Automate. What are Message Queues? Messages queues are used to build scalable integration between platforms where a sender application puts messages on a queue and a receiver application reads the messages … [Read more...] about Service Bus Queues & Power Automate
Team Member Non-Conformant Report
Hopefully by now you are aware that Microsoft will be enforcing the usage of Dynamics 365 team member licences this year details here. There is a report you can access that helps determine if you have any non conformant team members licences. You need to go to Power Platform admin centre https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ and from the menu select the CDS option as … [Read more...] about Team Member Non-Conformant Report
Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson
The beauty of low code platforms is not just that you can build applications quickly but also you easily integrate platforms without any significant technical skills. In this post I am going to show how to call a Power Automate Flow using a Watson Assistant chatbot. I did a post a while back on how you can call a Power Automate Flow from a Power Virtual Agents bot to query … [Read more...] about Call a Power Automate Flow – Power Automate & Watson
Power Platform Irish Tour Waterford 26 Feb 2020
Last night I did a talk to the Water Tech Meetup on the Power Platform and the low code revolution. This was very well attended which I hope was down to me rather than the free pizza and beer. It was in a very nice venue called Boxworks which is a cool shared office space. From what I could gather the audience contained a large number of open source developers and in fact … [Read more...] about Power Platform Irish Tour Waterford 26 Feb 2020
Power Platform – 2020 Release Plan
The Power Platform 2020 Release Plan was published here today. I had a read through the details and picked out the ten improvements that caught my eye. There are not in any particular order of preference. Here is a list with a brief to follow after. The Save button is back.Responsive Reflowing Canvas AppsCreate PDF from Canvas App Power Apps Portals will be able to call … [Read more...] about Power Platform – 2020 Release Plan
Proactive Slot Filling in Power Virtual Agents
Up until recently a Power Virtual Agents chatbot would ask a user a series of questions to complete a task. The response of each question would be stored in a variable until all the questions were completed. Asking a user multiple questions to complete a simple task made the conversation slightly cumbersome and unnatural. Chatbot Entity Support for entities and … [Read more...] about Proactive Slot Filling in Power Virtual Agents
Build Watson Assistant ChatBot
I was recently demonstrating Power Virtual Agent to somebody who was suitably impressed with how easy it was to create a chat bot without any technical skills. Unfortunately when I explained that Power Virtual Agent costs $1,000 per month for 2,000 sessions they were suitably unimpressed. They asked me if I could suggest an alternative. So I decided to take a look IBM's Watson … [Read more...] about Build Watson Assistant ChatBot
