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Last updated: July 14, 2021

Power Automate
2021 release wave 2
October 2021-March 2022

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Release overview

Microsoft Power Automate provides the tools that you can use to improve
your business’ productivity by automating repetitive, time-consuming
tasks. Power Automate provides a better way to get things done across
your organization through digital and robotic process automation (RPA).
Power Automate is investing in several areas as a part of Power Platform
2021 release wave 2, including the following.
Microsoft Teams - With more than 100 Million daily active users, is central
to Microsoft's remote work strategy, and Power Automate is key to the
Microsoft Teams extensibility strategy for providing automation for your
collaboration scenarios. We will build more and easier entry points across
the Microsoft Teams experience, such as in meetings/calendars and other
types of conversations. It will also be possible for administrators to push Learn more about latest updates
solutions that contain flows across the teams in their organization. Watch latest capability overview videos.
Visit: aka.ms/Updates/PowerAutomate
Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power BI, and Microsoft Dataverse - With
deeper integrations, we're making it easier for professional developers and
users to collaborate and deploy solutions on Microsoft Power Platform.
Power Automate Desktop – This component was released to general
availability in 2020, and it enables makers to automate the diversity of
applications on their desktops. Going forward, we will provide migration
for existing Softomotive and UI flows customers, secure credential
management, and much more. We’re building enterprise trust for desktop
flows by providing what centers of excellence need in the cloud:
centralized management, monitoring, and reporting that allows users to
scale beyond the per-flow experience in the portal. These experiences will
provide security, governance, and administration so that administrators can
extend their control over desktop flow artifacts in the Power Platform Join the community
admin center and Center of Excellence toolkit. Engage with experts and peers.
Visit: aka.ms/Community/PowerAutomate
AI builder - Effective automation in any organization relies heavily on AI to
be reliable and scalable, so we are further investing in content intelligence
– specifically, in document automation where we’ll be adding better
support for multiple layouts, extracting content from tables, working with
checkboxes and radio buttons on forms, and support for more languages. Help us improve
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Process advisor – Process advisor is the newest component in Power Visit: aka.ms/Overview/2021RW2/Feedback
Automate. This component provides organizations with insights into their
tasks via a process map that shows variations across different instances
and analytics. With this knowledge, organizations can use the
recommendations that process advisor provides to make more informed
decisions on which areas to automate to optimize their processes.
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Last updated: July 14, 2021

Power Automate
2021 release wave 2
October 2021-March 2022

Overview
Microsoft Power Automate provides the tools that you can use to improve your business’ productivity by automating
repetitive, time-consuming tasks. Power Automate provides a better way to get things done across your organization
through digital and robotic process automation (RPA).
Power Automate is investing in several areas as a part of Power Platform 2021 release wave 2, including the following.
Microsoft Teams - With more than 100 Million daily active users, is central to Microsoft's remote work strategy, and Power
Automate is key to the Microsoft Teams extensibility strategy for providing automation for your collaboration scenarios. We
will build more and easier entry points across the Microsoft Teams experience, such as in meetings/calendars and other
types of conversations. It will also be possible for administrators to push solutions that contain flows across the teams in
their organization.
Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power BI, and Microsoft Dataverse - With deeper integrations, we're making it easier for
professional developers and users to collaborate and deploy solutions on Microsoft Power Platform.
Power Automate Desktop – This component was released to general availability in 2020, and it enables makers to
automate the diversity of applications on their desktops. Going forward, we will provide migration for existing Softomotive
and UI flows customers, secure credential management, and much more. We’re building enterprise trust for desktop flows
by providing what centers of excellence need in the cloud: centralized management, monitoring, and reporting that allows
users to scale beyond the per-flow experience in the portal. These experiences will provide security, governance, and
administration so that administrators can extend their control over desktop flow artifacts in the Power Platform admin center
and Center of Excellence toolkit.
AI builder - Effective automation in any organization relies heavily on AI to be reliable and scalable, so we are further
investing in content intelligence – specifically, in document automation where we’ll be adding better support for multiple
layouts, extracting content from tables, working with checkboxes and radio buttons on forms, and support for more
languages.
Process advisor – Process advisor is the newest component in Power Automate. This component provides organizations
with insights into their tasks via a process map that shows variations across different instances and analytics. With this
knowledge, organizations can use the recommendations that process advisor provides to make more informed decisions on
which areas to automate to optimize their processes.

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Power Automate
2021 release wave 2
October 2021-March 2022

What’s new and planned

Process Advisor
Process advisor quickly captures detailed steps for each process in your organization to help you better understand places
to streamline workflows.

Power Automate Desktop

Power Automate Desktop continues to get quicker to get started, get simpler to use, easier to deploy, more scalable and
easier to govern. 2021 release wave 2 will make substantial improvements across the board on these capabilities.

Cloud Flows
Cloud flows are automation that runs in the cloud using our 475+ connectors and can be triggered either automatically,
instantly, or via a schedule.

Document Automation
Document Automation is a solution that allows you automate processing of your documents in an end-to-end process. It
includes the following capabilties:
• Process documents received in emails orchestrated by Power Automate
• Extract data from documents using AI Builder models
• Process the data extracted and allow users to review and approve data, through a central manual validation Power App
• Export the processed data to external systems using Power Automate connectors
• Statistics on number of documents processed

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, visit:
aka.ms/Plan/2021RW2/PowerAutomate

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Power Automate
2021 release wave 2
October 2021-March 2022

For application administrators

End-user impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
End-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
“End 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 end users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged “End users by admins, makers, or analysts” in
the release plan.

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2021 release wave 2
October 2021-March 2022

Get the most out of Power Automate

Release plan
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Product updates
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Release calendar
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Licensing
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Product documentation
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User community
Engage with Power Automate experts and peers in the community. aka.ms/Community/PowerAutomate

Upcoming events
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Product trials
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