Announcing RPA, enhanced security, no-code virtual agents, and more for Microsoft Power Platform

It is a privilege to work with global organizations every day to help them compete and innovate in a modern data-driven economy. Our goal with Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to help your organization achieve more effective business results and take proactive measures that will uniquely position and differentiate your business in the rapidly changing market.

We introduced more than 400 new features just a few weeks ago with the second release wave of 2019. Today, at Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announce other major updates for Microsoft Power Platform that unlock new possibilities, including:

Microsoft Flow is being renamed to Microsoft Power Automate, for better alignment with Microsoft Power Platform.

Robotic process automation (RPA) has been added to Microsoft Power Automate, offering an end-to-end automation solution that includes AI, API, and user interface on Microsoft Power Platform.

Microsoft Power Virtual Agents- an app with no code / low code that allows anyone to create and deploy AI-based smart virtual agents.

A host of new security enhancements for Microsoft Power BI, that add industry leading data security capabilities no matter where your analytics data is used and accessed.

Tighter integration between the Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Teams, approaching the world’s most popular collaboration app and Power Platform.

A new set of prebuilt models for AI Builder which offers even higher AI models with Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps available to everyone.

These new features and products greatly enhance our vision of the Power Platform, an unmatched set of capabilities that enables everyone to analyze, act and automate within their organization to transform businesses from scratch.

Be sure to check out my tech talk today at Microsoft Ignite (or on demand after the 11am presentation) for a deep dive into these new features.

Introducing RPA in Power Automate

One of the biggest challenges facing organizations is scaling and automating business processes, from digitizing paper and pen processes to automating complex processes that incorporate legacy and modern applications. Robotics process automation is fast becoming a key technology to address many of these scenarios, but in general many automation services require integration and management before the real work can be done.

Power Automate simplifies these end-to-end scenarios through a unified automation platform that can close the gap between API-based automation and UI-based automation.