With the latest Power Automate Release Wave , Microsoft is once again pushing the boundaries of what automation can do – away from complicated workflows and towards intelligent, dynamic solutions. Whether Copilot-controlled processes, optimized document recognition or new insights into the Automation Center: The new features are clearly aimed at greater efficiency, transparency and user-friendliness.
Now is the ideal time to reevaluate your automation strategy in Power Automate : Which tasks can be mapped even more easily with generative AI or AI Builder? Where can you identify bottlenecks in the process – and eliminate them directly? And how can non-technical teams benefit from the improvements? We have summarized the most important functions for you.
Release timeline at a glance
| Date | |
|---|---|
| 📑 Release Plan | 16. July 2025 |
| 🧪 Early Access (Preview) | August 4th, 2025 |
| 🚀 General availability | October 1st, 2025 |
Top 7 Features in Power Automate (Wave 2 2025)
Copilot creates automations on demand
What’s new?
Natural language can be used to create new flows in Power Automate and manage existing automated processes—without code and embedded directly in Microsoft 365.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
Even non-technical teams can automate repetitive tasks themselves. This saves IT resources and brings speed to everyday processes.
Generative AI is involved in decision-making – in real time
What’s new?
With generative AI, decision logic and process structures in flows can be dynamically adapted – based on the current context.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
Your automations become smarter and more adaptable, especially helpful for unpredictable or highly variable processes.
AI Builder processes documents even more precisely
What’s new?
The AI models for document recognition (e.g. for receipts, contracts or forms) have been improved – for higher recognition rates and easier integration.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
You save manual data entry, minimize sources of error and speed up the processing of incoming invoices or onboarding processes, for example.
Process Map for Holistic Process Overview
What’s new?
An interactive process map makes it possible to see how flows are connected, what steps are being performed, and where handovers are taking place.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
You can see redundancies, risks or inefficient branches at a glance – ideal for governance, scaling and quality assurance.
Process mining directly in the Automation Center
What’s new?
Power Automate analyzes process data directly in the admin center – including bottlenecks, waiting times and optimization recommendations.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
You can immediately see where your processes are stuck – without additional tools or complicated exports.
Automation Center: Orchestration & Analytics
What’s new?
The Automation Center bundles cloud and desktop flows and offers new ways to manage, monitor, and analyze.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
Especially for larger automation projects, you can keep track of everything – regardless of team, system or platform.
ROI analysis for automation in the admin center
What’s new?
A new view in the admin center shows how much time and effort has been saved by automations – visually presented with Power BI.
🔷 Why is this relevant for your company?
They can finally provide concrete evidence of which automations are worthwhile – and where there is further potential.
When will you use your new advantage?
Already using Microsoft Power Automate – but are you taking advantage of all the new possibilities?
Book a short meeting with our team now – we will show you which functions have the greatest leverage for your processes and how you can activate them in a targeted manner!
