Microsoft is preparing to launch its own robotic process automation (RPA) solution in the near future. The Power Platform team is going to rebrand Microsoft Flow as Power Automate and add more features to that it says will fit the RPA segment.

That announcement, along with other changes coming to the Power Platform around bots, improved Teams integration, and new pre-built models for AI Builder, were announced around this week's Microsoft Ignite event.

Power Automate will provide "a unified automation platform that can bridge the gap between API-based automation and UI-based automation," writes James Phillips, Microsoft corporate vice president for the business applications group that covers both Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

One of the key additions for Power Automate is UI flows, which will give point and click tools to record manual processes and play them back.