5 Repetitive Tasks You Can Automate This Month with Power Automate

Every business has them: the small, repetitive, manual tasks that consume valuable time and energy. Copying data from an email to a spreadsheet, saving attachments to a specific folder, sending reminder notifications. While small individually, they add up to a significant drain on productivity. Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool designed to solve exactly this problem.

Quick Wins with Power Automate

Here are five high-impact processes that are perfect candidates for your first automation project:

• 1. Save Email Attachments Automatically: Create a flow that monitors your inbox for emails from a specific sender or with a specific subject line, and automatically saves any attachments to a designated folder in SharePoint or OneDrive.
• 2. Get Notifications for Important Events: Set up a flow that sends you a push notification or a Teams message whenever a high-priority email arrives, a new lead is added to your CRM, or a specific file is modified.
• 3. Simple Approval Workflows: Automate your leave request or expense claim process. When an employee submits a form, a flow can automatically route it to their manager for approval and notify the employee of the decision.
• 4. Sync Data Between Systems: Create a flow that automatically creates a new row in a Google Sheet or Excel spreadsheet whenever a new entry is made in a SharePoint list, keeping your data synchronized without manual copy-pasting.
• 5. Social Media Monitoring: Set up a flow to monitor Twitter for mentions of your brand or a specific keyword and automatically add those tweets to a spreadsheet or send you an email alert, helping you stay on top of your online reputation.

These are just a few examples of how you can start reclaiming time and reducing manual errors. As a Microsoft Partner, Akinary can help you identify and implement these and more complex automations to transform your business operations.