May 12, 2021

Using Microsoft Power Apps to Automate Data Entry

 
Data entry is a necessary, albeit time-consuming and complicated facet of both large and small businesses alike.

Using data entry automation and business process automation (BPA), you can streamline tedious, manual tasks permitting your staff to greatly reduce the time spent on these tasks, save money, reduce human error, and improve the accuracy of data.
 

Why is Data Entry Automation Important for Organizations?

Organizations change over time. Often they experience times of peak production and off seasons. They will observe economic growth, run into recessions, and adapt to the ever-changing landscape to preserve their competitiveness.

However, in most cases, the organizations processes themselves won’t change much. So as operational demands change, the ability to be adaptable and flexible is of utmost importance to company owners and stakeholders.

Automated data entry have a variety of uses such as:
  • Extract data from one system to insert into another (for example pricing information from your CRM into your credit card processing application).
  • Generating and distributing business reports.
  • Repetitive, real-time communication between departments, supplies, and consumers.
  • Financial agreements: production orders, invoices, etc.
  • Reporting on alterations to or acquirement of sensitive data.
  • Pathing of general consumer inquiries.

The Benefits of Utilizing Automation Solutions for Data Entry Systems

Regardless of your organization size or specialty, improving productivity using automation tools and generating more revenue are universal problems.

By creating automated systems, you can simplify a number of your regular business systems and data entry tasks and remove the manual data entry tasks that complicate and slow down your business. This results in a series of excellent advantages for your company 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


By using Microsoft Power Apps, you can quickly develop and share applications that streamline your workflows and automate repetitive functions withminimal to no code.

With Power Automate, specifically, you can automate your workflows, enable business logic to simplify app creating, 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 develop logic for your Power Apps. Instead of having to employ a developer to write 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 getting rid of the need for manual data processing.

2. Ensure Data Consistency
Ensure accuracy and keep users on track no matter what part of the business process the data is entered.

3. Connect All Your Data
You can bridge all of your data and build out automated workflows that motivate your team to work together productively. This includes deep integration with SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Dynamics 365 provides automation right in-context of the applications you use regularly.

4. Broaden Your Functionality
Using an excel-like expression language, you can bridge more systems and have enhanced control via native extensibility for professional developers.

Combining Power Automate with Power Apps can help you to boost productivity by creating these time-saving workflows into every aspect 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 a small amount to no code, and automate all of your mundane data entry tasks.

This frees your team members up to focus on tasks that directly contribute value to your organization and your consumers.
 

Wave Can Help You Begin Automating Your Data Entry Processes

If your company is operating with outdated systems, Wave is here to assist!

If you’re ready to find out more, reach out today and we will find a time to chat.
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