K2's 2024 The ABCs of Automation With Microsoft's Power Platform

Overview

Microsoft’s Power Platform – incorporated into many Microsoft 365 subscriptions – offers tools to automate common business processes. Learn how to take advantage of the Power Platform in this session.

Highlights

• Overview of the Power Platform and its components
• Review examples of business processes that may benefit the most from using automation
• Discussion and demonstration of its low-code/no-code app development environment

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of business-related technology

Designed For

Accounting and financial professionals seeking to automate workflows in their organizations

Objectives

• Identify the major steps in automating business processes
• Identify two rudimentary process automation applications in Microsoft 365 and explain how the use cases for these applications differ from those for Power Platform
• List the applications which make up the Power Platform
• From a list, identify significant differences in expected use cases and user bases for Microsoft Forms in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Power Automate/Power Apps in the Power Platform
• Identify the Power Platform components used to solve common problems when creating process automation solutions

Preparation

None