Hyperautomation, and 10 Reasons Microsoft’s Power Automate is a great option for your automation program

Bart Thomas
18 min readJan 23, 2023

Are you familiar with the term “Hyperautomation”? According to Gartner’s IT Automation Trends for 2022, within two years organisations will successfully lower operational costs by 30% by combining Hyperautomation technologies with redesigned operational processes.

Which sounds brilliant, but what is Hyperautomation?

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Gartner define it as “a business-driven, disciplined approach that organisations use to rapidly identify, vet and automate as many business and IT processes as possible”.

UiPath’s view is that “Hyperautomation is robotic process automation (RPA), expanded with AI, process mining, analytics and other tools that together amplify the ability to automate work.”

Automation Anywhere would have us believe that it is “automating the automation — dynamically discovering business processes and creating bots to automate them”, while Forbes’ definition is even more ambitious — “Fully autonomous business processes that identify patterns through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to create automations that can evolve and adapt on the fly.”

Suspect lingo (and with no real consensus as to what it means) aside, there is no doubt that organisations are…

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