Plan and prepare for Power Automate in 2025 release wave 1

Overview

Power Automate provides a low-code experience to improve productivity of your organization by automating repetitive, time-consuming tasks, and creating intelligent automations based on generative AI. Power Automate provides a better way to get things done across your organization through cloud flows, robotic process automation (RPA), and process mining. It's deeply integrated with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and the rest of Power Platform.

Power Automate is investing in the following areas in 2025 release wave 1:

• AI-First: Dynamic, multi-modal and self-healing automations, with built in AI through generative actions and intelligent document processing. Build intelligent workflows through rich human in the loop experiences.
• Enterprise ready: Manage cloud and desktop automations end-to-end through the new process map. Achieve enterprise ready observability, orchestration and resource optimization through the automation center. Quantify the savings delivered through ROI analytics.

Updates to Power Automate 2025 release wave 1

Investment areas

Cloud flows
Cloud flows is a core automation capability in Power Automate that uses the latest in AI technology to allow customers to focus on what matters and automate the rest with natural language and low code. Cloud flow capabilities include:

• Copilot-assisted experience to create and manage automations across applications such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dynamics 365 suite.
• Integration with the rest of Microsoft Power Platform, including the ability to invoke workflows from an app created using Power Apps, when a data alert is triggered in Power BI, or to take an action in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
• Support for intelligent document processing and embedding intelligence through the built-in AI Builder capability.
• Mobile applications help customers receive notifications, perform approvals, and invoke and monitor automation runs on the go.

Copilot for Power Automate
Power Automate makes it possible for you to not just describe a flow to create but also improve and iterate on your flows with AI-driven conversations. This next-generation AI-based copilot in Power Automate sits inside the flow designer and helps with every flow built or changed.

Desktop flows
Desktop flows are the robotic process automation (RPA) solution within Power Automate. Desktop flows provide automation for Windows desktop applications, services, and experiences for orchestration and deployment within Power Platform.

Process mining
Power Automate Process Mining empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data and discover valuable insights that can accelerate their journey to operational excellence. Capabilities include:

• Use out-of-the-box templates for rapid deployment from data ingestion to pre-defined custom reports.
• Gain deep insights with powerful features including rework detectors, root cause analysis, process compare, and custom metrics.
• Create views, publish them to create custom Power BI reports, and share them across the organization.
• Seamlessly integrate with Power Platform to turn insights into action.
• Discover possibilities for automation and solutions for workflows and with task mining.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Power Automate below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

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