May 12, 2021
Utilizing Microsoft Power Apps to Automate Data Entry
Data entry is a vital, albeit time-consuming and complicated facet of both large and small companies alike.
Using data entry automation and business process automation (BPA), you can streamline tedious, manual tasks allowing your employees to greatly reduce the time spent on these activities, save money, reduce human mistakes, and improve the accuracy of information.
Why is Data Entry Automation Critical for Businesses?
Organizations change over time. Often they encounter times of peak production and low seasons. They will observe economic growth, run into recessions, and adapt to the ever-changing landscape to keep up their competitiveness.
However, in most cases, the organizations processes themselves remain relatively the same. So as operational requirements become different, the ability to be adaptable and flexible is essential to company owners and stakeholders.
Automated data entry have a number of use cases such as:
- Retrieve information from one system to insert into another (an example pricing information from your CRM into your credit card processing tool).
- Creating and dispersing business documents.
- Repetitive, real-time communication between divisions, supplies, and customers.
- Financial approvals: production orders, invoices, etc.
- Reporting on changes to or acquisition of sensitive data.
- Pathing of general consumer inquiries.
The Advantage of Employing Automation Solutions for Data Entry Systems
No Matter your organization size or specialty, increasing productivity through automation tools and generating more revenue are universal concerns.
By creating automated systems, you can simplify a number of your regular business processes and data entry tasks and eliminate the manual data entry tasks that complicate and slow down your company. This results in a number of significant advantages for your organization including:
- Reduced spending on labor
- Minimize typos, data loss, and various administration errors
- Enhanced approval processes
- Improved accuracy in auditing
- Better visibility and decision making
Automate Your Data Entry Processes with Microsoft Power Apps
By using Microsoft Power Apps, you can quickly create and share applications that streamline your workflows and automate monotonous functions witha small amount of to no code.
By using Power Automate, specifically, you can automate your workflows, enable business logic to simplify app building, and model your processes across connected data sources and services. Let’s explore these benefits more closely.
1. Develop Business Logic
Use Power Automate to develop logic for your Power Apps. Without having to employ a developer to create endless amounts of code, you can use Power Automate’s simple point-and-click flow designer to create your business logic. These flows can fire-and-forget, or return data back to your app to show information to the user removing the need for manual data processing.
2. Confirm Data Accuracy
Ensure consistency and keep users on track no matter what stage of the business process the data is inputted.
3. Bridge All Your Data
You can connect all of your data and build automated workflows that push your team to collaborate productively. This includes deep integration with SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Dynamics 365 supplies automation right in-context of the applications you use on a regular basis.
4. Increase Your Functionality
With the use of an excel-like expression language, you can bridge more systems and have improved control via native extensibility for professional developers.
Combining Power Automate with Power Apps can help you to improve productivity by building these time-saving workflows into every aspect of the data entry process and perfectly 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 business and your customers.
Wave Can Help You Get Started Automating Your Data Entry Processes
If your business is running outdated tools, Wave is here to help!
If you’re ready to learn more, reach out today and we can find a time to talk.