Offering great low-code tools for plugin creation is a priority for us. Power Platform is excited to announce 6 new Copilot connector Plugins, 74 new connectors, along with 116 updates to the existing connectors. These connectors are available in Power Automate, Power Apps, and Azure Logic Apps & cover the breadth & depth of solutions and tools for IT Operations, AI, Business Intelligence, Productivity and much more. Power Platform has an existing fleet of 1200+ connectors in the catalog to help creators and learners of all ages and backgrounds connect with the tools and information they need to build a more intuitive & productive solutions.

We are extremely honored to have a great partnership with all our Partners, and we look forward to partnering with many more Enterprises & community developers for contributing to the expansion of AI ecosystem.

New Copilot connector plugins released include:

1. DocuSign
2. DocuSign Demo
3. Data8
4. Plumsail HelpDesk
5. Zoho Mail
6. Zoho ZeptoMail

Below are the major releases for you:

1. Plumsail HelpDesk

Plumsail HelpDesk is a ticketing system tightly integrated into Microsoft 365 & SharePoint. This update integrates Microsoft Copilot’s AI capabilities into your HelpDesk. Now you can quickly access tickets and information about requesters on the go by asking Copilot a question. Management can ask Copilot to collect statistics about recent support requests and team performance.

Anton Khritonenkov, Chief Product Officer at Plumsail

Visit the Plumsail HelpDesk connector documentation to learn more.

2. Data8 Data Enrichment

Data8 are a world-leading innovator of data quality solutions. We’re experts in validating global address and geolocation data, as well as verifying bank details, phone numbers, email addresses and other pieces of data in real-time. This ensures unmatched data quality regardless of your system and its age.

Data8 is proud to release an updated connector with some additional options across all of our offerings as well as optimization allowing the connector to be used across the copilot ecosystem so you can manage your data quality in even more ways!

Visit the Data8 Data Enrichment connector documentation to learn more.

New connector releases include:

Interested in submitting your connector? Visit our documentation and our GitHub repository to learn how to get started.

Below are the major releases for you:

1. Power Platform for Admins V2

The Power Platform for Admins V2 connector is the next evolution in admin and control plane management for Power Platform customers. Leveraging all of the capabilities available from Microsoft Power Platform API, this connector will be routinely refreshed to have the latest and greatest capabilities from Power Platform admin center.

Visit the Power Platform for Admins V2 connector documentation to learn more.

2. Calculate Working Day

Mightora.io offers a premium suite of Power Automate connectors and APIs, designed to revolutionize your development process, minimize costs, and foster citizen development with a freemium model. Our Calculate Working Day API is a standout tool that enables developers to easily compute valid working days, catering to both standard and bespoke working schedules, including UK bank holidays. Among its most valuable features are the ability to identify the next working day, ascertain the first and last working days of a month, verify if a particular date is a working day, and calculate a date after a specific number of working days, all available under a freemium offering.

Visit the Calculate Working Day connector documentation to learn more.

3. Email Domain Checker

Mightora.io’s Email Domain Checker is a premium service aimed at ensuring the validity and authenticity of email addresses, thus significantly reducing bounce rates and enhancing data quality. This connector, crucial for maintaining accuracy and compliance in email communications, seamlessly integrates with Power Automate to facilitate easy verification of email domains within workflows. Offering both free and paid options, we empower developers and businesses to streamline their email management processes efficiently and cost-effectively.

Visit the Email Domain Checker connector documentation to learn more.

4. Socialinsider

Socialinsider is a cutting-edge social media competitive intelligence and analytics tool designed to assist marketers in gathering competitive insights and benchmarks, analyzing brand performance, and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) on social media platforms.

By enabling the integration of competitive insights, Socialinsider helps you compare your performance against your competitors to discover the strengths and weaknesses in your social strategies.

With Socialinsider’s data connector users can seamlessly create in-depth, customizable reports that help you understand where you stand in your market and what areas you need to focus on to generate better results and grow your company.

Learn how to quickly integrate your social data into your business’s dashboards and become a master in reporting.

Visit the Socialinsider connector documentation to learn more.

5. LawVu

In-house legal teams use LawVu to manage all their legal work in one efficient system of record. Now they can extend the value of their legal workspace even further.

Automating legal work is simple with the LawVu connector for Power Platform. A do-it-yourself tool that enables legal teams to customize their workspace by automating workflows, and connecting other systems, without advanced technical skills. LawVu’s connector comes with adaptable starter templates based on common legal workflows.

The LawVu connector provides many benefits:

• Increase ROI: Boost efficiency by removing steps, duplication and friction across repetitive workflows
• Achieve value fast: An approachable low/no-code tool and starter templates
• Improve service: Collaborate with the business more effectively by meeting teams where they work
• Reduce risk: Less manual input means less human error or people viewing sensitive information

Install LawVu’s connector from the Microsoft Power Platform listing. Explore the LawVu Help Centre and template guide and start automating your legal work today.

Brendan Knowles – Senior Product Manager, LawVu

Visit the LawVu connector documentation to learn more.

6. Aranda Service Management

Boost your company’s productivity and transform your users’ experience with Aranda Service Management Suite (ASMS), the multi-tenant Enterprise Service Management solution that helps your team to manage, integrate, and automate business processes and services for every business area (e.g. IT, HR, Facilities, Legal, etc …). Seamlessly exchange data between your existing applications and ASMS, delivering first-class customer experience powered by AI and across channels such as Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Web Portal, mobile apps, and email.

Alejandro Cañón, Product Management Lead

Visit the Aranda Service Management connector documentation to learn more.

7. Nimflow

Nimflow is a next-generation low-code platform designed to accelerate intelligent end-to-end business process automation.

Nimflow complements Microsoft Power Platform by enhancing its automation capabilities with a modern Case Manager. This feature enables the activation of the next-right tasks for both digital and human workers, accelerating the creation and operation of solutions at scale. Soon, Nimflow will also incorporate PowerFx as a language, further enhancing its dynamic and adaptive workflow capabilities.

For more information, visit Nimflow or email.

Please attribute the quote to:

**Name**: Fabián Ramos Pitsch

**Title**: CTO

Visit the Nimflow connector documentation to learn more.

8. Document Drafter

The Document Drafter is at the forefront of the second generation of document automation. Our platform is the only Word-based solution that combines robust functionality with an intuitive approach that template owners can easily understand.

With our Power Automate connector, you can seamlessly integrate workflows into your automated document creation. These workflows can be triggered during document creation to facilitate processes like storing, approval, or signing. Additionally, the connector enables 100% data-driven document creation, allowing you to use data from other systems to control conditional text and insert document data.

Michael Bjerg Hanse, Co-founder & CEO

Visit the Document Drafter connector documentation to learn more.

9. Cradl AI

Cradl AI empowers anyone to automate internal document processes with AI. Parse documents like invoices, receipts, order confirmations, purchase orders, income statements and ship certificates automatically and without any code. Train a custom AI model on as few as 5 documents and go into production from day one without any operational risk using Cradl AI’s built-in human-in-the-loop validation functionality.

With the Cradl AI connector for Power Automate, you can embed advanced document parsing capabilities in your Power Automate workflows in minutes and deliver efficient automations to your business users.

Sign up for a free account here,, and learn more about our Power Automate connector here.

Visit the Cradl AI connector documentation to learn more.

10. Priva

The Priva Power Automate connector is a powerful tool that integrates Priva Subject Right Request for data beyond M365  to automate the fulfillment of Subject Rights Requests for data across on-prem, multi-cloud data estates.. This allows organizations to streamline their subject rights request fulfillment. The connector extends the automation capabilities of Subject Rights Requests by using built-in Power Automate flows.

Visit the Cradl AI connector documentation to learn more.

11. Abstract Email Validatorby Andras Fordos

Improve your delivery rate and clean your email lists with Abstract’s industry-leading email validation.

View this connector in GitHub.

12. Abstract Phone Validator by Andras Fordos

Abstract’s Phone Number Validation and Verification is a fast, lightweight, modern solution for determining the validity and other details of phone numbers from over 190 countries.

View this connector in GitHub.

13. Deepgram by Troy Taylor

Deepgram has language AI models to power your apps. Power your apps with world-class speech-to-text and domain-specific language models (DSLMs).

View this connector in GitHub.

14. io by Troy Taylor

Host.io collects data on every known domain name from every TLD and update it every month, including DNS records and website data for each of the domains.

View this connector in GitHub.

15. Neum by Troy Taylor

With Neum AI, your context in prompts is always accurate and up to date. It enables you to create a pipeline that keeps your data synced between a source (ex. Document DB) and a sink (ex. Pinecone).

View this connector in GitHub.

16. Abstract Email Validator by Andras Fordos

Improve your delivery rate and clean your email lists with Abstract’s industry-leading email validation.

View this connector in GitHub.

17. Abstract Exchange Rates by Andras Fordos

Abstract’s Exchange Rates is a fast, lightweight, modern service for looking up the latest exchange rates for 80+ currencies, getting historical exchange rates, and converting an arbitrary amount from one currency to another.

View this connector in GitHub.

18. Abstract Holidays by Andras Fordos

Abstract’s Public Holidays is a fast, lightweight, modern solution that allows you to get the public, local, religious, and other holidays of a particular country.

View this connector in GitHub.

19. Abstract IBAN Validator by Andras Fordos

Abstract’s IBAN Validation for determining the validity and other details of the International Bank Account Number (IBAN).

View this connector in GitHub.

20. Abstract Phone Validator by Andras Fordos

Abstract’s Phone Number Validation and Verification is a fast, lightweight, modern solution for determining the validity and other details of phone numbers from over 190 countries.

View this connector in GitHub.

21. Abstract Timezones by Andras Fordos

The Abstract Time, Date, and Timezone service is the easiest way to find, convert, and manage time and timezone data across the world.

View this connector in GitHub.

22. Abstract VAT Validator by Andras Fordos

Abstract’s VAT Validation is a fast, lightweight, modern solution that allows you to stay compliant for all your domestic and cross-border sales.

View this connector in GitHub.

23. Amazon S3 Bucket by Michael Megel

This connector provides read and write access to objects of an Amazon S3 Bucket.

View this connector in GitHub.

24. Byword by Troy Taylor

Generate high quality, AI-written articles at scale. Trusted by over 30,000 marketers, Byword has written hundreds of thousands of articles, on every topic imaginable.

View this connector in GitHub.

25. FAANotam by SalesLighter

This connector will allow users to retrieve NOTAMs (Notices to airmen) directly from the FAA. Notams are used to notify pilots of any current and future issues within the United States Airspace.

View this connector in GitHub.

26. Google Gemini by Priyan

Custom connector for Google Gemini, providing advanced AI multi modal content generation functionalities.Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models developed by Google DeepMind, serving as the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano, it was announced on December 6, 2023

View this connector in GitHub.

27. Google PaLM by Priyan

Google Palm offers advanced text generation and manipulation capabilities

View this connector in GitHub.

28. GSA Per Diem by Rick Wilson

Per diem rates are the allowed reimbursement rates for hotel stays and meals for federal travelers. Rates are set for each of the federal government’s fiscal years (October 1st to September 30th) GSA is responsible for setting the rates in the continental United States. Many businesses and other organizations adopt these rates as well. This API provides access to the current rate information.

View this connector in GitHub.

29. io by Troy Taylor

The NewsData.io service gets you top live-breaking news from all over the world in real-time. Apply multiple filters to narrow down your desired results.

View this connector in GitHub.

30. Open-Elevation by Andras Fordos

Open-Elevation is a free and open-source alternative to the Google Elevation and similar offerings.

View this connector in GitHub.

31. Passage by 1Password – Auth by Troy Taylor

Passage is backed by 1Password’s 17+ years of industry-leading security expertise. Completely replace your existing authentication flow or build from scratch with a robust solution for passwordless authentication and customer identity management. Realize the full security, business, and user experience benefits of eliminating passwords by implementing login flows powered by passkeys, magic links, and login codes.

View this connector in GitHub.

32. Passage by 1Password – Manage by Troy Taylor

Passage is backed by 1Password’s 17+ years of industry-leading security expertise. Completely replace your existing authentication flow or build from scratch with a robust solution for passwordless authentication and customer identity management. Realize the full security, business, and user experience benefits of eliminating passwords by implementing login flows powered by passkeys, magic links, and login codes.

View this connector in GitHub.

33. ai by Andras Fordos

Sapling is building the AI assistant for business communication, one that helps teams communicate more efficiently and effectively with their clients, across diverse use cases.

View this connector in GitHub.

34. SearchAPI – Google Search by Troy Taylor

Google Search service scrapes SERP for real-time results. Scrape organic results, ads, related searches, inline questions and more.

View this connector in GitHub.

35. Woodpecker by Troy Taylor

Woodpecker products are tailored to your cold emailing and lead generation needs. We are helping leaders improve the workflow within the team and shape their campaign results.

View this connector in GitHub.

36. Lettria by Troy Taylor

Whether you want to automate a manual task or gain insight from multiple documents, Lettria’s text analysis features are designed to find new opportunities in your data. Using the service, you can easily understand text data that is given as input to the service, using artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

View this connector in GitHub.

37. Deck of Cards by Troy Taylor

Deck of Cards is a web service that allows you to shuffle and draw cards from one or many decks.

View this connector in GitHub.

38. GSA Site Scanning by Rick Wilson

Explore comprehensive insights into the health and compliance of US federal websites, offering a window into the dynamics and standards of the federal web presence. Through automated scans, this service generates detailed data on website policy compliance and best practices, enhancing the accessibility and management of government digital assets.

View this connector in GitHub.

39. HubSpot Settings V2 by Troy Taylor

HubSpot Settings allows you to retrieve information about a given HubSpot account, including the account settings, account activity, business units, and managing users.

View this connector in GitHub.

40. Microsoft Acronyms by Troy Taylor

You can use the Microsoft Search service in Microsoft Graph to search, add, and update acronyms in your organization.

View this connector in GitHub.

41. OpenQR by Troy Taylor

OpenQR is a static and dynamic QR code generator. Easily generate, manage or track your QR code and send your customers to the right place.

View this connector in GitHub.

42. Veterans Affairs Facilities by Rick Wilson

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Facilities service offers comprehensive details on VA health, benefits, cemeteries, and Vet Centers, including location, contact information, and services available. Data is sourced from both real-time and historical records, ensuring users have access to the latest facility updates. Authentication is managed via symmetric tokens, and the service provides a robust framework for accessing VA facility information efficiently.

View this connector in GitHub.

43. Veterans Affairs Forms by Rick Wilson

Access the VA Forms API to search, retrieve PDF links, and metadata for VA forms, including version tracking. Stay updated with the latest VA form information, search by form number or keyword, get detailed metadata, and more. Authenticate using an API token. Test in the sandbox environment before requesting a production API key. Track SHA256 revision history to ensure data integrity and validate PDF links. Identify deleted forms through metadata.

View this connector in GitHub.

44. Veterans Affairs Providers by Rick Wilson

The Provider Directory API facilitates the development of applications that can retrieve lists of VA providers, offering details on provider locations, specialties, office hours, and patient acceptance status. It leverages FHIR standards to ensure compliance with CMS requirements for public-facing API endpoints.

View this connector in GitHub.

45. Mistral by Troy Taylor

Mistral is open and portable generative AI for devs and businesses. Mistral models strike an unmatched latency to performance ratio, and achieve top-tier reasoning performance on all common benchmarks. Mistral designed the models to be as unbiased and useful as possible, providing full modular control over moderation.

View this connector in GitHub.

46. Perplexity AI by Troy Taylor

Unlock the most powerful AI research assistant. Raise Perplexity to the next level with more Copilot, upgraded AI, unlimited file upload, and web service access. Upgrade to Claude-2 or GPT-4 for more accurate answers, will pplx, Mistral, and Llama language models also available.

View this connector in GitHub.

47. Have I Been Pwned by Troy Taylor

Check if your email address or phone number is in a data breach.

View this connector in GitHub.

48. AccuWeather by Troy Taylor

AccuWeather provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide.

View this connector in GitHub.

49. ai by Troy Taylor

Stability.ai is the world’s leading open source generative AI company. We strongly believe that our open source ethos provides the definitive path for the creation and access of cutting-edge research. Stability AI-backed research communities are currently developing breakthrough AI models applied to imaging, language, code, audio, video, 3D content, design, biotech and other scientific research.

View this connector in GitHub.

Updates released for connectors include:

Below are few of the most significant updates.

1. Kyndryl mainframe

Unlock the Power of your mainframe data using Microsoft’s low code platform. Kyndryl’s Mainframe connector allows you to securely connect to your Mainframe and modernise your legacy applications without requiring COBOL developers. This unique functionality enables organizations to rapidly develop mobile friendly applications that provide read/write functionality to Mainframe data. Organizations can also benefit by extending Copilot to leverage this connector, opening up exciting opportunities to improve employee and customer experiences alike.

Visit the Kyndryl mainframe connector documentation to learn more.

2. IA-Connect Session

IA-Connect’s connectors allow you to automate line of business applications and related business processes with our patented nextGen RPA and API capabilities over UI, web, Java, SAP GUI, mainframes and more. IA-Connect has been designed from the ground up to provide automation capabilities over local, RDP or Citrix with complete feature parity, and without the need for installable agents on your Citrix or RDP machines.

IA-Connect’s latest release improves upon our popular joiner-mover-leaver capabilities for automating onboarding and offboarding users, as well as introducing multi-monitor and automatic resolution scaling. IA-Connect’s Inspector continues to evolve, allowing improved inspection of web and UI applications. The Inspector then allows easy creation of automation tasks to be pasted directly into the actions in Power Automate.

For more information, including a 30-day free trial, see the following: https://ultima.com/ia-connect/power-automate/

Visit the IA-Connect connector documentation to learn more.

3. absentify

We are excited to announce the latest update of our absentify connector, now officially certified for Power Automate and fully integrated into the Microsoft 365 infrastructure. absentify streamlines the management of leave and absence requests by offering deep integration with your Microsoft 365 environment. As a part of the Power Automate connector suite, absentify enables the automation of absence management processes right within your familiar tools, making the process more efficient and improving the user experience for both managers and employees alike. Learn more about the benefits of absentify and how it can transform your absence management at our website: Visit absentify.

Visit the absentify  connector documentation to learn more.

4. Emigo

“Emigo allows for efficient management of field or sales teams—employees working in the field using smartphones or tablets. It enhances their productivity in day-to-day operations. The Emigo Connector integrates with Power Platform services, enabling business and back-office users to access data from Emigo for automating data flows and streamlining business processes. This digitalization extends beyond the Emigo system New connector update introduces trigger. Combination trigger and operations enables customers to extend capabilities using Microsoft Power Platform to create much more with Emigo. For more information, visit the Emigo Connector documentation.”

Damian Dabrowski
Business Process Automation Engineer

Visit the Emigo connector documentation to learn more.

5. Content Manager Power Connect

About Us: Established in 2007, Kapish specialises in delivering secure information management and enterprise architecture solutions. We empower our customers to digitally transform their business and protect their data.

We implement cutting-edge technologies designed to empower data driven decision making, streamline discovery processes and fortify the security of your valuable information assets.

Important Function: Kapish Power Connect is the solution to connect Content Manager to all your business systems. Removing the need to develop custom or ad-hoc integrations, Power Connect lets you do it yourself with no coding skills required.

With no limitations on compatible systems, just add the connector to your flows within Microsoft Power Automate, and link to send or receive Content Manager data. Integration can be achieved within minutes… it’s powerful and ready to go!

Visit the Content Manager Power Connect connector documentation to learn more.

6. ALVAO

Overview:

With ALVAO connector, you can use Power Automate to automate actions in ALVAO or to integrate ALVAO with other applications. The connector allows you to start automations tied not only to the workflow of tickets in the Service Desk, but also to the lifecycle of assets registered in the Asset Management. Connector actions then allow you to move the ticket workflow or manage the asset lifecycle.

Name:
Jiří Fabík

Title:
Ing.

Visit the ALVAO  connector documentation to learn more.

7. HubSpot CMS V2 by Troy Taylor

Content management software that’s flexible for marketers, powerful for developers, and gives your customers a personalized, secure experience. Includes hosting, flexible themes, dynamic content, drag-and-drop page editing, memberships, and more – all powered by a CRM platform that allows you to build seamless digital experiences for your customers.

View this connector in GitHub.

8. HubSpot Conversations V2 by Troy Taylor

The HubSpot conversations services enable you to manage and interact with the conversations inbox, channels, and messages.

View this connector in GitHub.

9. HubSpot Engagements V2 by Troy Taylor

HubSpot Engagements is used for keeping your CRM records up-to-date on any interactions that take place outside of HubSpot. Activity reporting in the CRM also feeds off of this data.”,

View this connector in GitHub.

10. HubSpot Marketing V2 by Troy Taylor

Marketing software that enables you to drive revenue, save time and resources, and measure and optimize your investments. All on one easy-to-use platform. Drive revenue by connecting with leads at the right time and place across email, landing pages, forms, and more. Manage your contacts and campaigns in one place and use automation tools to scale your efficiency. Measure the success of your campaigns using powerful reporting tools.

View this connector in GitHub.

11. AmazonS3Bucket by Michael Megel

This connector provides read and write access to objects of an Amazon S3 Bucket.

View this connector in GitHub.

12. FInancial Conduct Authority (FCA) by Gulshan Khurana

The online Financial Services Register is a public record of financial services firms, individuals and other bodies regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

View this connector in GitHub.

13. Telegram Bot by last72

The Telegram Bot API is an HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram.

View this connector in GitHub.

14. Website Carbon by carfup (Clement Olivier)

This will calculate the emissions of a page by manually passing the bytes and whether or not it is powered by green hosting.

View this connector in GitHub.

Other New connectors released include:

1. Asite (Canada)
2. Asite (Hong Kong)
3. CMI
4. ISOPlanner
5. Lex Power Sign
6. Luware Nimbus
7. Mailform
8. MoreApp Forms
9. N-able Cloud Commander
10. OpenText Documentum
11. Pdfless
12. PRO WFM Authentication
13. SoloSign HMAC Hash Creator
14. Taktikal Core
15. Tribal – Maytas
16. Zellis
17. Zoho Calendar
18. Zoho Mail
19. Gravity Forms Professional
20. Bloomflow
21. OrbusInfinity

Other New connector Updates released include:

1. 3E Events
2. Adobe Acrobat Sign
3. Adobe Acrobat Sign Sandbox
4. airSlate
5. ArcGIS
6. ArcGIS Enterprise
7. ArcGIS PaaS
8. AvePoint Cloud Governance
9. Azure Text to speech
10. Cascade Strategy New
11. CivicPlus Transform
12. CMI
13. Connect2All
14. Converter by Power2Apps
15. Scheduler (on-prem)
16. Document Drafter
17. DocuSign
18. DocuSign Demo
19. Dokobit Universal API
20. DQ on Demand
21. EasyVista Service Manager
22. Encodian
23. Envoy
24. Experlogix Smart Flows
25. Feathery Forms
26. HiveCPQ Product Configurator
27. ai
28. HVI Vehicle Inspection
29. IA-Connect SAP GUI
30. iManage Work
31. iManage Work for Admins
32. Impower
33. KORTO
34. Lex Power Sign
35. Meisterplan
36. monday
37. Morta
38. Muhimbi PDF
39. OneBlink
40. Oneflow
41. PDF4me Connect
42. PDF4me SwissQR
43. PDFco
44. Pdfless
45. Planful
46. Plumsail Actions
47. Plumsail Documents
48. Priva
49. Projectum Present It
50. PROS AI
51. ReversingLabs TitaniumCloud
52. Scrive eSign
53. Seismic Configuration
54. Seismic Content Discovery
55. Seismic Engagement
56. Seismic Livedoc
57. Seismic Planner
58. Seismic Workspace
59. Shopranos
60. smapOne
61. Sparse Power Box Tools
62. StarRez REST v1
63. Strategic Portfolio Manager
64. Taktikal Core
65. Team Forms
66. Tendocs Documents
67. Tesseron Ticket
68. Tikit
69. Tribal – Maytas
70. Zoho Calendar
71. Zoho Mail
72. Zoho ZeptoMail

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We are thrilled to announce the inclusion of Power Platform Connector offer type through Microsoft 365 and Copilot Program in Partner Center. This is a key milestone in our AI ecosystem evolution announced at //Build 2024 which will ensure our Partners get accelerated go-to market for copilot capabilities by being available to all Microsoft Copilot users. Copilot Extensions are a critical component of what supercharges Microsoft Copilot and creating a plugin is one of the easiest ways to get started.

With this launch we are enabling the following capabilities for the Enterprises:

1. Certify & Publish Power Platform connectors- Enterprises can author the connectors in Power Automate and leverage Partner Center to certify them to make it available worldwide.
2. Certify connector based plugins from Microsoft Copilot Studio– Enterprises can leverage their Existing connectors in Microsoft Copilot Studio and extend them as plugins. In turn, these plugins can also be certified through Partner Center to be available in Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) for IT enablement for use inside of Copilot for Microsoft 365.
3. Modernized publishing & distribution though mainstream Commercial Marketplace-that enables ISVs to validate and certify Copilot connector plugins at-scale and in a trustworthy & standardized manner.
4. Visibility on movement of Copilot connector and plugin through certification- that enables quicker turnaround for Enterprises to rectify the errors in the connector and plugin & resubmit the offer by fixing the issues.

Over the last six months, we’ve forged strong partnerships with leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) spanning various industries, including Docusign, Zoho, Litera, Deskdirector, Elastic, Plumsail, and Data8. Together, we’ve extended Copilot for Microsoft 365 by integrating their existing Power Platform connectors as plugins, seamlessly connecting business applications with Copilot for Microsoft 365. Our primary objective was to subject these plugins to rigorous testing through the new Certification experience via Partner Center, ensuring standardized certification and expediting go-to-market strategies with minimal manual intervention. This process not only accelerates the release of new features but also provides complete transparency across all stages, a crucial requirement from our partners.

Building on this success, we’re excited to expand the access to Partner Center certification to our entire dynamic community of ISVs and Enterprise customers. This initiative aims to further enrich our robust ecosystem of over 1200 connectors, empowering them to be seamlessly integrated as Copilot plugins.

How can you extend your existing Power Platform Connector to Copilot Plugins ?

Offering great low-code tools for plugin creation is a priority for us, and Copilot Studio is where makers and professional developers can extend custom connector / certified connector into copilot plugin. Learn more about Authoring a connector-based plugin.

What can be certified as a Power Platform Connector offer in Partner Center?

Power Platform Offer in Partner Center supports certification for following scenarios:

1. Certifying Power Platform custom connector – Create a custom connector in Power Automate.
2. Certifying version upgrade to the existing Power Platform certified connector- Upgrade the version of existing Power Platform certified connector in Power Automate.
3. Certifying Power Platform custom connector and associated Copilot plugin-  Create a custom connector in Power Automate and extend it as Copilot Plugin through Copilot Studio
4. Certifying Version Upgrade to the existing Power Platform certified connector and associated copilot plugin- Upgrade the version of existing certified connector in Power Automate and extend it as Copilot Plugin through Copilot Studio

Get Started with Partner Center

• To get started you will need to sign-in/sign-up for Partner Center. If you’re new to Partner Center you will be required to submit additional material to verify and establish your account (see Getting Started with Partner Center).
• Once you are signed into Partner Center you will want to add yourself to the Microsoft 365 and Copilot program (see Enrolling in Partner Center programs).  This will allow you to submit Power Platform connector.

• Under Marketplace offers, you will now see the Microsoft 365 and Copilot program listed and when you choose to create a New Offer, Power Platform Connector will be an option.

• You will then name your offer, submit your power platform Copilot connector & plugin package (see packaging guidelines), that Microsoft will certify (see Verified Publisher certification process for certification process), and finally publish. Certified connector will be available on Power Automate, Power Apps & Logic Apps and the Certified Copilot plugins will be ready for IT enablement in the Microsoft Admin Center. The Copilot plugin will then appear as an installed plugin in Copilot for Microsoft 365.

What our Partners are saying about the new certification experience?

“Data8 Ltd, a proud Data Quality Independent Software Vendor, are very excited to be using the amazing features provided by Microsoft and its Copilot Studio. We are thrilled to share our passion for data quality by extending Copilot for Microsoft 365 using Power Platform and brining these essential services into the age of AI”

“Through our partnership with Microsoft, we are revolutionizing the way organizations do business. Docusign’s integration with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot for Sales harness the power of AI to drive intelligent automation and innovation, leverage Power Platform Plugins and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Meeting people where they work, these integrations empower organizations to accelerate revenue, reduce risk and create better experiences from the agreements that run their business. Together we are not just streamlining processes, we are redefining what’s possible in the digital era.”

“The previous certification process for our system used to take 2-5 weeks for testing. However, with the new and improved process through Partner Center, we have been able to reduce the time significantly. The entire process is now fully automated, which means that you can expect a much faster and smoother experience. One of the key features of the new certification process is the ability to identify and rectify any errors as soon as they occur. This means that any issues can be resolved quickly and efficiently, saving you time and effort.”

Learn more with following resources:

Click here for //Build2024 Breakout session on Build Microsoft Copilot extensions with Copilot Studio

Create Custom Connector

Authoring a connector-based plugin

Packaging your Copilot connector & Plugin

Verified Publisher Certification Process

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Power Fx is the low-code language, inspired by the Excel formula syntax, that brings the capabilities of logic expressions to Microsoft Power Platform. It’s versatile, declarative, and designed for both no-code makers and pro-code developers. With Power Fx, you can express complex logic in a human-friendly text format, making it accessible to everyone.

Power Fx in desktop flows (preview)

Power Fx made its debut for desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop December’s release. Since then, makers can harness the capabilities of this expressive language directly within their flows.

Power Automate for desktop’s March release will include the following features:

IntelliSense capabilities

• Syntax colorization: Enjoy a visually pleasing experience with color-coded expressions, allowing for quicker and clearer distinction of variable components.
• Real-time suggestions & autocomplete functionality: While typing, Power Fx provides context-aware suggestions, assisting in expression synthesis.

• Function signature helpers: Get a quick overview of function parameters and usage right within the respective input field (formula bar).

Revamped variable picker

An enhanced variable picker is now available, providing filtering and shorting capabilities allowing for more intuitive of selecting variables in the respective actions.

Function picker

The new function picker allows for scrolling through a list of Power Fx functions, providing a quick overview to the full list of available functions.

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These credentials can then be used in your desktop flow connections (instead of providing username and password values manually).

Key Features

Built-in credential manager: Centralized repository to manage all your credentials in one place, allowing you to easily manage and retrieve login information.

RBAC: Credentials can be shared and used without giving access to the secrets themselves.

ALM (application lifecycle management): Credentials are based on environment variables which are ALM compliant and can be exported using solutions.

Password rotation: Credentials and connections using them are updated when the Azure Key Vault secrets are updated.

Get started with credential management

Ready to create your first credentials and learn more about using them in desktop flow connections ?

Let’s get started today by visiting the Power Automate portal:

1. Select More in the left navigation pane, then select Discover all.
2. Under Data, select Credentials (preview). You can pin the page in the left navigation pane to make it more accessible.
3. Follow the steps described in our documentation !

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In February, the “Solution cloud flows by default” environment setting was released to public preview. This environment setting allows administrators to ensure that new cloud flows will be created in Dataverse solutions when Dataverse is available in the environment. The use of solution cloud flows increases manageability and allows those cloud flows to take advantage of Dataverse-specific capabilities including connection references, environment variables, the Dataverse API, and solution-based application lifecycle management (ALM).

Since release in February, there has been a list of cloud flow creation methods and entry points that we have been increasingly adding support for, including from Power Automate portal, Power Automate Management connector, Power Apps, Teams, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, Excel, the new mobile app, and SharePoint. We have one remaining integration scenario for Project Roadmap that will begin releasing next week.

With all integration scenarios complete, the environment setting will be generally available and turned on automatically so that environments with Dataverse will create solution cloud flows automatically. This change will begin to roll out in November.

Just over a third of cloud flows are already created in Dataverse as solution cloud flows, so this should be a minor change in environments that have Dataverse. During the public preview, we have incorporated customer feedback and also monitoring system performance and storage to ensure that the creation of solution cloud flows in Dataverse has minimal effects to the definition and running of those flows.

Citizen developers can migrate cloud flows into Dataverse solutions

In addition to automatically creating solution cloud flows, citizen developers can now add most non-solution cloud flows into Dataverse solutions, including flows with instant/button triggers, Power Apps triggers, and flows using connectors for Teams, SharePoint, Forms, Dynamics 365, Excel Online, or Project. Flows using delegated authorization are the last set of flows that can’t be added into Dataverse solutions yet, however that support will begin shipping in the next few weeks.

Admins can migrate cloud flows into Dataverse solutions

An Add-AdminFlowsToSolution PowerShell cmdlet is now available to allow administrators to quickly migrate multiple cloud flows into Dataverse solutions themselves, rather than following up with individual users. Administrators can quickly migrate all flows using the EnvironmentName parameter, specific flows using the FlowNames parameter, or a certain number of flows using the Top parameter. We recommend migrating a small number of flows initially and verifying those flows to ensure you understand the process.

If you have any questions about this change or are interested in release train specifics, join the conversation at Q&A: Manage automations easier when they are automatically defined in Dataverse

Happy automating!

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Automate across Power Platform environments

With this capability, cloud flows with the Dataverse connector can now be used for a wide range of integration and automation use cases including moving and linking data, working with data in-place from other apps and processes, and automating activities like provisioning, set-up, or clean-up steps across environments.

During the public preview, separate actions and triggers with names ending in selected environment (preview) are being introduced for use in new and existing cloud flows. The preview actions are available now, and the triggers and other improvements are planned to roll out in next several weeks. After the preview, Dataverse connector operations in existing flows will be automatically updated to include the Environment parameter. There’s no action needed from flow owners or changes to existing flow behavior as part of this update.

Connect to other environments dynamically

With the Environment parameter, you can select an environment to use for the operation, or specify the environment dynamically using an expression, environment variable, or dynamic content. To learn more about connecting to other environments and using the preview actions, visit the documentation.

Streamline cross-environment solution development

Before this update, cloud flows using the Dataverse connector needed to be deployed to the same Power Platform environment as the apps and data they were connecting to, and connecting to other environments was possible by falling back to the more limited set of actions and triggers in the Microsoft Dataverse (legacy) connector. While it’s recommended to use the Dataverse connector in the same environment for best performance, it’s no longer necessary to deploy the same flow to multiple environments or fall back to the legacy connector for cross-environment integrations.

Get started

To create a flow that connects to other environments, sign in to Power Automate and create a new cloud flow with the List rows from selected environments (preview) action or another action with a name ending in selected environments (preview). If you don’t have an environment with Dataverse as a data store, use the Environment selector at the top right to switch to one that does, or create a developer environment. Learn more from the documentation for connecting to other environments.

This update is for the Microsoft Dataverse connector in Power Automate. In Power Apps, you can build canvas apps with tables from other environments through the Change environment option.

Additional improvements to the Dataverse connector are arriving soon, including triggering flows from activity in other environments, the When a row is selected trigger, and an updated migration assistant for updating flows from the legacy Dataverse connectors. For the latest on the deprecation of the Microsoft Dataverse (legacy) connector, please see the deprecation announcement.

We look forward to your feedback on these enhancements to the Dataverse connector and others that you’d like to see. Let us know your thoughts and suggestions in the Power Automate community and Ideas forum.

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In this post we will show you how to customize security roles for Power Automate for desktop (RPA) and create a custom security role with minimum privileges to monitor production runs. Our post is filled with invaluable tips and tricks for keeping your data safe and protecting your company. So, whether you’re new to Power Automate for desktop or a seasoned pro, this is the ultimate guide for any administrator prioritizing data safety. Let’s get started!

Security Roles

Security roles are a key aspect of Power Platform that help maintain data security and privacy. These roles control access to restricted data and functions and are customized based on the company’s security requirements. With security roles, admins can define permissions for their staff and have better control over what data they can access. This helps prevent data leaks and unauthorized data access.

In Microsoft Dataverse, the role-based security model is used to secure access to the database. This allows environment-wide access to all resources or to configure access to specific apps and data in the environment. Security roles determine a user’s access to the environment’s resources. This access is determined by a combination of access levels and permissions included in a specific security role. This controls the user’s view of apps, flows and data, as well as their interactions with that data.

More information:

• Configure user security in an environment – Power Platform
• Security roles and privileges – Power Platform

Pre-Defined Roles

Within the Power Platform, every environment comes with a set of predetermined security roles. These roles are designed around common user tasks and provide access levels that are aligned with the best practice of providing the minimum amount of business data needed to properly use the app. This helps maintain your data’s security while allowing users to execute their necessary job responsibilities.

More information: Configure user security in an environment – Power Platform

Least Privilege Principle

The principle of least privilege is an important consideration when assigning permissions to users in a security role. This principle specifies that when assigning permissions to users in a security role, they should only be granted access to the data and functionality that is necessary to perform their job duties. Custom security roles can be created to ensure that users only have access to the tools and data they need to do their job, and nothing more. This helps ensure compliance with regulations and prevent data breaches.

Customization of Security Roles for Power Automate for desktop (RPA)

The least privilege model is a best-practice security principle that emphasizes the importance of users only being granted the permissions necessary to complete their authorized tasks or roles. In this post we will cover custom role “RPA Reviewer”, for Power Automate for desktop (RPA)

RPA Reviewer: Read only access for Power Automate for desktop (RPA) artifacts.

Creating RPA Reviewer Custom Security Role

In many organizations, it is typical for makers not to be granted access to production environments. However, to be able to view the workflow run history and other data relevant to daily operational activities, makers need access to this data. By creating a custom security role called “RPA Reviewer,” platform administrators can allow these makers read-only access to important automation information that resides within a production environment.

While establishing the minimum privileges, we need to define what actions RPA Reviewer role can perform within the production environment.

1. In Power Automate portal,
   • View desktop flows created by the user
   • View desktop flow runs
   • View desktop flow activity
2. In Power Automate for desktop
   • View-only desktop flow in designer

Let’s look at what permissions and privileges can be enabled to support the above requirements for this role:

To implement this custom role in an environment, download the solution and import the security role to support the needs around having a read-only role for production environments.

Solution with Custom Security Role – RPA Reviewer

Download solution: PADCustomRoleReviewer_1_0_0_1

Below is a snapshot of the custom security role after importing the solution.

More information:

• Learn how to import a solution – Power Automate
• Create or edit a security role to manage access – Power Platform

Note: The current approach is to import a solution to use this custom role.

Disclaimer: While the essential features utilized in creating the custom role are completely supported, the provided solution itself serves as an example implementation of these features and does not include any support. Our customers and community members have the freedom to utilize and modify this solution to establish custom roles within their organizations.

In conclusion, creating custom security roles is an integral part of maintaining data security and privacy in the Power Platform. Adhering to the principle of least privilege ensures that users only have access to the resources required to fulfill their job responsibilities, minimizing the risk of data breaches, and maintaining compliance with regulations. Custom security roles tailored to user roles and responsibilities not only provide a secure environment for users but also enhance their productivity and efficiency. By following the steps provided in this guide, admins can confidently customize security roles for Power Automate for desktop (RPA), empowering their makers in development and production environments.

Happy automating!!!

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In October of 2022 we released the Describe it to design it feature where you can write a simple sentence and get a flow based on this description. In this previous blog post, we shared how we initially built out this feature. Since release, we have seen it dramatically improve the experience of building flow reducing the flow creation time in half and flows are 1.8x more likely to run week-over-week compared to building from blank. In this post, we’ll dive more into the details of the improvements we’ve been making with this feature.

Model fine tuning

1) did NL2Flow suggest one or more flows, and

2) did the user review and accept the suggested flow

For privacy reasons, Microsoft does not, by default, get access to the sentences that you type or the details of the flows that are generated. However, administrators can opt-in to share this data with Microsoft, which can help us to improve our models. We used this opted-in data to identify which sentences had the lowest rate of successful suggestions and acceptance. With that data, we were able to generate more sample flows that targeted those areas and use that sample data for further fine-tuning of the model.

We have since had two additional rounds of model improvements – NL2Flow-003 (which was released in November) and NL2Flow-004 (which was released in January). Each release led to improvements in these two metrics. For example, between NL2Flow-002 and 003, we observed an increase in the flow acceptance rate by 3.0 points to 52.6%, and between NL2Flow-003 and 004 we saw an improvement of 2.2 points to 90.3% for successful suggestions.

This type of fine tuning is only possible because of the number of people trying out this feature – this month we’ve seen over 29K. As more people use Power Automate (and opt-in to helping Microsoft improve the model with their data), the models will only get better.

Finally, it’s worth noting that this process of fine tuning is distinct from traditional reinforcement learning (RL). In the future, we plan to apply RL, leveraging our A/B platform to handle the explore and exploit processes, but we need to have a large enough amount of data before we embark on this learning methodologyfor NL2Flow (like it has been done with ChatGPT).

Validating improvements

To ensure that the model is directly responsible for the improvements we observed, we show some users the current model and some a new one – a process called A/B testing. This is similar to the way we release new versions of the Power Platform, where a percentage of the users get newer release of the platform as well to test before full deployment to all. By doing so, we can know that the model itself is responsible for the changes, not other factors.

At the same time, it’s critical that we know that people are more successful with Describe it to design it, compared to other ways to build flows. And this is exactly what we see:

• 76% of flows created by NL2Flow in the last 7 days ran at least once (compared to 64% for flows created from templates, or 43% when created from scratch)

Together, with A/B testing and comparing to other ways users build flows, we have mechanisms in place to ensure we’re continually improving the experience for users.

Microsoft is committed to creating Responsible AI by design. Our work is guided by a core set of principles: fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. We are helping our customers use our AI products responsibly, sharing our learnings, and building trust-based partnerships. For these new services, we provide our customers with information about the intended uses, capabilities, and limitations of our AI platform service, so they have the knowledge necessary to make responsible deployment choices.

What’s next

As we shared at the Future of Work with AI event on March 16^th – the next step is to support interactive design with Copilot for Power Automate – so you can use natural language while you build out your flow. This will build on the NL2Flow models that have already been developed, as well as adding in new interactive behaviors powered by ChatGPT. We’re excited to share more details on this in the coming weeks.

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With the introduction of Web APIs, you can manage desktop flows without the need of using UI – allowing administrators and Automation Center of Excellence teams to manage at scale.

In this post, we will walk through how you can use the Web API capabilities of Power Automate to manage the Power Automate Desktop flows.

Administering Power Automate flows

Before we dive into the Web APIs, here we will explain the existing capabilities that you can use via UI.

Initiate a cloud flow run

Ad hoc initiation of Cloud flows can be achieved by using the Run action on the top ribbon as shown below –

By navigating to the Monitor section of the Power Automate portal, cloud flow run activity, desktop flow runs, and desktop flow queue activity can be accessed.

Cloud flow run

Desktop flow run

For more details, refer: Monitor desktop flow runs

Desktop flow queue

For more details, refer: Monitor desktop flow queues

How to use the web APIs to manage your Desktop Flows

Until recently, you had to go to these setup pages and views to access key information like Desktop flow queues etc. To streamline and optimize the management of Power Automate Desktop flows, additional capabilities were added to the Power Automate Web API.

For more details, refer: Work with desktop flows using code

Below is the list of Desktop Flows related actions enabled by the Power Automate Web API

• List available desktop flows
• Get the schema for desktop flows
• Get the status of a desktop flow run
• Get desktop flow outputs
• Trigger a desktop flow run
• Cancel a desktop flow run

In order to explore these API actions, the first step is to gather details for setting up the authentication with Dataverse.

For more details, refer: Use OAuth authentication with Microsoft Dataverse

For this walkthrough we will use Postman and connect to the web APIs with OAuth authentication. To do so, you need to register the application in Azure AD tenant. Follow the instructions listed in the tutorial: Register an app with Azure Active Directory on how to create application registration for Dataverse.

For more details on using Postman, refer: Use Postman to perform operations with the Web API

To gather the Access Token in Postman, gather below information to populate into the Authorization section of the Request.

Examples of Desktop Flow management actions via Web APIs

1. List available desktop flows

Description: Get a list of desktop flows sorted by name

URL: https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/workflows?$filter=category+eq+6&$select=name,workflowid&$orderby=name

Operation: GET

Request:

Response:

2. Get the input schema for desktop flows

Description: For a given desktop flow (Workflow Id), retrieve the flow schema for inputs

URL: https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/workflows([WorkflowId])/inputs/$value

Operation: GET

Request:

Response:

NOTE: Input schema value is valid only if desktop flow has defined input variables.

3. Get the Output Schema for Desktop Flows

Description: For a given desktop flow (Workflow Id), retrieve the flow schema for outputs

URL: https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/workflows([WorkflowId])/outputs/$value

Operation: GET

Request:

Response:

NOTE: Output schema value is valid only if desktop flow has defined output variables.

4. Trigger a desktop flow run

In order to trigger a desktop flow run, ID of the desktop flow and name of the desktop flow connection (targeting a machine/machine group) are required.

ID of the desktop flow can be looked up using the List available desktop flows action and filter it by name.

Name of the desktop flow connection can be found in the URL of the connection.

Description: Trigger to run a given desktop flow (Workflow Id)

URL:https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/workflows([Workflow ID])/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.RunDesktopFlow

Operation: POST

Request:

NOTE: This action requires a to send request variables as JSON body as shown above.

Response:

NOTE: The response contains the flowsessionId that can be used to get the status of the desktop flow run.

5. Get the status of a desktop flow run

Description: Get the status of a desktop flow run for given flow session (FlowsessionID)

URL:https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/flowsessions([Flowsession ID])?$select=statuscode,statecode,startedon,completedon

Operation: GET

Request:

Response:

6. Get the desktop flow outputs

Description: Get the outputs of a desktop flow run for given flow session (FlowsessionID)

URL:https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/flowsessions([Flowsession ID])/outputs/$value

Operation: GET

Request:

Response:

NOTE: Output value is valid only if the desktop flow has produced any outputs, else the response will be empty.

7. Cancel a desktop flow run

Description: Cancel a desktop flow run for given flow session (FlowsessionID)

URL:https://[OrganizationURI]/api/data/v9.2/flowsessions(d9687093-d0c0-ec11-983e-0022480b428a)/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.CancelDesktopFlowRun

Operation: GET

Request:

Response:

When you have the flow in running state, Response will be as below:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

In case if the flow is not in running state, below response message is shown –

We hope this post helped in providing information to manage Power Automate desktop flows from an external context.

Postman Collection for the above actions is available here.

Happy Automating!!!

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Some of our largest partners are already embedding Power Automate into their solutions. Adobe for example, as Satya mentioned in his keynote:” …is embedding Power Automate into Acrobat Sign so users can automate their document workflows directly from within the app itself. They can generate documents at scale and easily route agreements across stakeholders and systems.”

Earlier this year at the Microsoft Build conference, we also heard from Amy Bunszel, Executive Vice President of AEC Design Solutions at Autodesk. Autodesk is making design data more accessible and useable across their ecosystem of products, through a new integration with Power Automate that extends the value of low code to the AEC industry. Watch the full conversation between Julie Strauss and Amy Bunszel here starting at 0:31.

With this new approach to embedding both our low code capabilities along with licensing we have greatly streamlined both onboarding and operation of our embed capabilities: Whether you’re a long-time Microsoft ISV or brand-new partner to Microsoft, it is super simple for you to include Power Automate as part of your SaaS offering. There is no need to join the CSP , you can simply build and distribute your solution, and optionally, work with a reseller. Additionally, you can join the ISV Connect benefits program, should you want to do so. The standard revenue share fee does not apply to ISV Embed and if you have a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), you can use that to cover the licensing cost for the Power Automate pay-as-you-go meter. Finally, you can set up Power Automate Embed pay-as-you-go with just an Azure Subscription where only requirement on your customers is an Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenant.

To summarize this amazing new approach, that simplifies how you can include Power Automate as part of your SaaS offering:

• We have made it super simple to enhance the value of your offerings and embed industry-leading low code automation capabilities into your SaaS offerings: No need for the customer to go procure the required Power Automate license from Microsoft themselves or for you to become a CSP in every market you want to sell into. You simply embed the capabilities you want to extend to your customer and sell and deploy it as a unified offer.
• Your customers can work with a single vendor instead of procuring software from multiple vendors to stitch together a solution: Customers want to buy a solution that helps deliver on a business outcome, they are not buying licenses and having to transact with multiple vendors complicates the desired outcome.

With pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for what your customers use and eliminate the work associated with license assignment: No need to identify how many, and which users will be using Power Automate. Using the new license embed capabilities enables users to build and run premium Power Automate flows that uses connectors defined by you – the ISV – as part of your product definition. Subsequent usage is then calculated based on the number of times each flow is run and billed against an Azure subscription owned by you completely eliminating the need for the customer to think about the billing of the Power Automate capabilities being used.

To join the Public Preview, please register here and let us help you get started.

For more details on the ISV Cloud Embed program, please tune into the Inspire session OD30 where Per Mikkelsen, Principal Group Program Manager, along with Ecosystem Marketing Embed program lead Jerry Weber goes into more details, as well as how Power Automate Embed can easily work for ISVs that are already in the existing Embed program or are considering trying out this new approach with Power Automate.

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