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by dfxm12 1555 days ago
It's supposedly a "citizen developer" tool that records your actions, as a macro, and runs it later, so all those executives got it in their head that if they buy RPA tools, they won't have to spend extra on developers for automation tasks, but then, people decide they don't have the time, wherewithal or just think it is beneath them to learn this stuff and end up hiring "pro" developers to do it anyway, so it usually ends up becoming just as expensive to build and maintain, and usually nowhere near as robust.

If you really do have citizen devs in your org, it's great. I think people are more willing and able to learn Power Automate for Desktop than PowerShell/Python/what have you, then add in the governance, inventory and monitoring/analytics options in an RPA tool like Power Automate, and it can be easier to manage.