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To establish a successful automation culture, you typically need to build an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) to maximize your organization\u2019s investments and define guardrails to develop RPA and other hyperautomation scenarios for digital transformation in a controlled manner.\u00a0 Back in December 2021, we blogged<\/a> about\u00a0HEAT (Holistic Enterprise Automation Techniques)<\/a> and automation adoption best practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We also released a private preview version of Automation Kit (previously Automation CoE Starter Kit), which has been implemented by many customers across the globe at early stages of the development.<\/p>\n

Today, we are happy to introduce the Automation Kit for Power Platform<\/a>, now available to the public as an open source GitHub project.<\/p>\n

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What is the Automation Kit?<\/h2>\n

The Automation Kit for Power Platform is designed to help organizations manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption based on industry best practices. The toolkit is a collection of components and tools based on HEAT<\/a> concepts and built using Power Apps and Power Automate, so you can easily extend and customize the kit to your needs.<\/p>\n

The Automation Kit for Power Platform helps you accelerate your organization\u2019s automation CoE. It includes a set of Power Apps applications and Power Automate flows that provide ready-made solutions to manage your automation projects, capture near-real-time value tracking, and gain insights to your automation initiatives. The kit was built based on feedback from customers across the globe using Power Automate as their choice of hyperautomation and RPA platform.<\/p>\n

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Case study: Cineplex accelerates establishing their Automation Center of Excellence with Automation Kit<\/h2>\n

Cineplex Inc. is a leading media and entertainment company that welcomes millions of guests through its 170+ cinemas and entertainment venues.<\/p>\n

Bo Wang, Vice President of Taxation & Treasury, started using Power Automate desktop flows back in September 2020 to automate business processes within his team. After realizing the benefits in process efficiencies and time savings, he decided to set up the Automation Center of Excellence so that he could further scale the use of Power Automate across the entire organization. To do so, Bo and his team adopted the Automation Kit to manage and have visibility across the automation development lifecycle. The Automation Kit helped Cineplex:<\/p>\n