May 12, 2021
Utilizing Microsoft Power Apps to Automate Data Entry
Data entry is a vital, albeit time-consuming and frustrating facet of both large and small organizations alike.
With data entry automation and business process automation (BPA), you can streamline monotonous, manual tasks allowing your workers to greatly reduce the time spent on these tasks, save money, reduce human mistakes, and increase the accuracy of information.
Why is Data Entry Automation Vital for Organizations?
Businesses change over time. Often they experience times of peak effort and low seasons. They will see economic growth, face recessions, and adapt to the ever-changing landscape to preserve their competitiveness.
However, in most cases, the organizations processes themselves don’t alter much. So as operational requirements alter, the ability to be adaptable and flexible is of utmost importance to business owners and stakeholders.
Automated data entry have a variety of use cases such as:
- Extract data from one system to put into another (an example pricing info from your CRM into your credit card processing system).
- Developing and distributing business documents.
- Repetitive, real-time communication between divisions, supplies, and customers.
- Financial approvals: purchase orders, invoices, etc.
- Reporting on changes to or gaining of sensitive data.
- Pathing of general consumer inquiries.
The Advantage of Employing Automation Solutions for Data Entry Systems
Whatever your company size or specialty, improving productivity using automation tools and generating more revenue are universal concerns.
By developing automated processes, you can simplify a number of your regular business processes and data entry tasks and eliminate the manual data entry tasks that consfuse and slow down your team. This results in a series of meaningful advantages for your business including:
- Minimize spending on labor
- Minimize typos, data loss, and other administration issues
- Enhanced approval processes
- Better accuracy in auditing
- Greater visibility and decision making
Automate Your Data Entry Processes with Microsoft Power Apps
Making use of Microsoft Power Apps, you can quickly develop and share applications that streamline your workflows and automate monotonous functions withlittle to no code.
With the use of Power Automate, specifically, you can automate your workflows, enable business logic to simplify app building, and model your systems across connected data sources and services. Let’s take a look at these benefits closer.
1. Develop Business Logic
Use Power Automate to design logic for your Power Apps. Instead of having to hire a developer to create endless amounts of code, you can use Power Automate’s simple point-and-click flow designer to build out your business logic. These flows can fire-and-forget, or return data back to your app to show information to the user removing the requirement for manual data processing.
2. Guarantee Data Accuracy
Confirm accuracy and keep users on track no matter what part of the business process the data is inputted.
3. Connect All Your Data
You can attach all of your data and create automated workflows that push your team to work together productively. This includes deep integration with SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Dynamics 365 supplies automation right in-context of the applications you use each day.
4. Expand Your Functionality
With the use of an excel-like expression language, you can connect more systems and have enhanced control via native extensibility for professional developers.
Combining Power Automate with Power Apps will allow you to improve productivity by developing these time-saving workflows into every part of the data entry process and seamlessly integrating with all your data sources, like SharePoint.
With the use of robotic process automation (RPA) and optical character recognition (OCR), you can construct secure workflows, with little to no code, and automate all of your tedious data entry tasks.
This frees your workers up to focus on tasks that directly contribute value to your company and your clients.
Wave Can Help You Get Started Automating Your Data Entry Processes
If your organization is using outdated systems, Wave is here to help!
If you’re ready to learn more, reach out today and we can find a time to talk.