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- Tammy Schwark asked if she should learn Power Apps and Power Automate at the same time as a newbie to the Power Platform or focus on one first. - Dona Sarkar recommends focusing on learning one tool at a time, starting with Power Apps, to avoid getting overwhelmed. Learn the tutorials, modify them, build your own app, and then integrate Power Automate when you want to automate something in your app. - Microsoft is committed to competing with UiPath and Blue Prism in the area of UI flows and robotic process automation to automate legacy apps that lack API hooks through recording and playing back user interactions.

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- Tammy Schwark asked if she should learn Power Apps and Power Automate at the same time as a newbie to the Power Platform or focus on one first. - Dona Sarkar recommends focusing on learning one tool at a time, starting with Power Apps, to avoid getting overwhelmed. Learn the tutorials, modify them, build your own app, and then integrate Power Automate when you want to automate something in your app. - Microsoft is committed to competing with UiPath and Blue Prism in the area of UI flows and robotic process automation to automate legacy apps that lack API hooks through recording and playing back user interactions.

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Nice.

Alright, let’s, let’s get a couple of listener and reader and viewer
questions in here. Tammy Schwark asked on Twitter about, it sounds from
Twitter, like she’s a newbie and she’s just getting her feet wet with Power
Platform. So she says, would Donna recommend digging into both Power
Apps and Power Automate at the same time? Or should I start with one before
the other when I’m trying to learn all about the Power Platform?

Dona Sarkar (14:07):


I love that. Okay. So just like any coding language, people when they try to do
more than one thing, they get confused and overwhelmed. So I’m a big fan
that you should go learn one thing. My process for learning is pretty straight
forward and I keep using it over and over. One, I do the tutorial. Two, I modify
the tutorial to use my pictures, my words, my text strings, you know, add new
fields, delete fields. And then, once I understand how, something is built, then
I start modifying to be completely different. And in that third phase of
modifying to be completely different, that’s when she may want to start adding
in Power Automate components and saying, Oh, when I click this button, I
would love a flow to be triggered to someone’s phone that something has
changed in this field. So that is when she might want to learn Power
Automate. I find Power Automate to be very useful when you know what
you’re trying to do. Just sitting down and learning Power Automate. Yeah, you
can, but I find it way more useful when you say, I wish a thing would happen
automatically. What is that thing?

Dona Sarkar (15:17):


Yeah. So I think Power Apps is the place to start. Do the tutorial, modify it,
make it your own, build something of your own, and then integrate in Power
Automate directly from the Power App itself.

Mary Jo Foley (15:28):


Okay. Speaking of flows, perfect segue into this next question here. Steve
Aras on Twitter is a robotic process automation dev, and he wants to know
about UI flows. He said, can you give us a brief roadmap? Will Microsoft ever
compete in the same space as UiPath and Blue Prism when we’re talking
about this kind of UI flow / robotic process automation stuff?

Dona Sarkar (15:56):


Yes. The answer Steve, is yes. Absolutely. UI flows or UI automation, RPA,
robotic process automation is a huge, huge opportunity in the world. The
number of legacy apps that exist out there that do not have API hooks that we
can plug into to automate is like maybe in the high millions.
Dona Sarkar (16:20):
These are all those apps that are built, you know, in the nineties, two
thousands, no one thought to have any other way of automating them. And
now we’re stuck with all of these legacy, legacy, legacy apps. Pretty much any
old financial app, any old government app. We’ve been seeing some of the
calls, right? Saying, Hey, does anyone have experience in COBOL?

Mary Jo Foley (16:41):


Right, yep.

Dona Sarkar (16:43):


We want API hooks on that. Right? So the way to get rid of the manual labor
of how do I need to do calculations in this app and then generate a total and
put the total into this form and then do something with that. Rather than a poor
human having to do this work. What we need to do is have the computer do
this work for us through UI automation. So the way UI flows works. And I
really liked this. It’s super cool.

Dona Sarkar (17:10):


If you haven’t tried it, go try it. There’s a , just on docs.microsoft.com there’s a
tutorial using a calculator that helps you do exactly this process. Where you
go to choose desktop UI flows. So you go to desktop UI flows, you click step
recorder, click it, and then you bring up calculator. You put in a series of
numbers, you add them, it generates a value, and then you stop recording.
Then you play it back and watch what happens. The exact same thing
happens, but without you doing the work. So I love this. I love when
technology does our work for us and makes us look smart.

Dona Sarkar (17:46):


And this is a huge opportunity and it’s so in Microsoft’s wheel house because
we deal with probably 1 billion companies who have legacy apps, right?

Mary Jo Foley (17:56):


Right.

Dona Sarkar (17:56):


This is not that weird for us to deal with. I really appreciate UiPath and all
these companies that exist, but we’re in it and we’re here to stay. And we just
got into GA a few months ago. We were in private preview for from Ignite.
We’re in GA now. The team is really looking for takers and feedback. So
Steve, if you have feedback, if you have takers, ping me on Twitter, ping me
on LinkedIn, send feedback using the actual feedback mechanism on the
page. The team looks at every single piece of feedback. I am not kidding. I
watch them do this. They get 24,000 pieces of feedback. They look at 24,000
pieces of feedback, so people send the scenar

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