Power Automate（图 2-2）允许您为组织建立工作流或自动化业务流程。其目标通常是执行一组可重复的预定义步骤，例如审批工作流程，在该流程中，某人会收到某种类型的通知，以执行审查和审批文档等任务。这些业务流程可以小到向某人发送一封包含信息的电子邮件，也可以大到执行仅在特定条件下触发的任务，并连接到 SharePoint、SQL、Salesforce 等系统。
图 2-2. 电源自动化
Power Automate 后来增加了桌面版 Power Automate（图 2-3），于 2020 年 12 月推出。桌面版 Power Automate 可以记录本地计算机上的点击和按键等操作。桌面版 Power Automate 的目的是实现手动任务的自动化；这通常被称为机器人流程自动化，简称 RPA。在介绍 Power Automate for desktop 时，我经常展示的一个例子是从 Microsoft Forms（使用基于 Web 的表单）中收集信息，然后将收集到的信息触发一个流程，将信息自动输入到桌面应用程序中，而无需使用任何代码。在没有 API 的情况下，这个解决方案对于自动完成乏味的数据录入任务非常重要。
图 2-3. 台式机的 Power Automate
Power BI
第三个是 Power BI（图 2-4）。Power BI 是您的商业智能解决方案，它允许您使用图表和仪表盘等数据可视化方式从数据中收集见解。它还有一些很酷的功能，比如自然语言处理，你可以用自然的方式输入一个问题，然后它就会使用人工智能来判断你问的是什么，以及这个问题与你的数据有什么关系，这样 Power BI 就可以返回一个数据可视化来回答你的问题。图 2-4显示了 Power ...
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