Apps I Connect with Power Automate

Outlook
SharePoint
Microsoft Teams
Excel Online
Dynamics 365
SAP
Dataverse
OneDrive
Power BI
SQL Server
DocuSign
Salesforce
Planner
Forms
+ 400 more

What Power Automate Can Do for Your Team

Approval workflows

Route requests through the right people automatically — purchase approvals, leave requests, document sign-offs — with reminders and escalation built in.

Email to action automation

Trigger actions when specific emails arrive — create tasks, update spreadsheets, notify teams in Teams, or kick off an entire downstream process automatically.

Document processing

Extract data from PDFs, invoices, or forms and push it into the right system — no manual re-keying, no lost attachments, no version confusion.

Automated notifications & alerts

Surface the right information to the right person at the right time — budget thresholds, deadline alerts, status changes — without anyone having to check manually.

Cross-system data sync

Keep your CRM, ERP, and reporting tools in sync automatically. No more weekly export-import cycles or maintaining two versions of the same data.

Scheduled report distribution

Generate and email reports on a schedule — the right format, the right recipients, automatically. Used this at Citi to replace a 3-analyst weekly reporting process.

📌 Example: SAP to Excel reporting pipeline

Three analysts spent every Friday extracting data from SAP, reformatting in Excel, and emailing customised reports. A Power Automate + VBA workflow now handles the full pipeline on a schedule — extraction, formatting, validation, and distribution. Zero errors over the measurement period. Three analysts freed up for analysis work.
Illustrative scenario based on patterns from enterprise automation work.

What Every Project Includes

Frequently Asked Questions

A Power Automate consultant designs, builds, and deploys automated workflows that connect your Microsoft 365 apps — Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Excel Online, Dynamics 365, and others. The consultant maps your existing manual process, identifies the automation opportunity, builds the flow with proper error handling, tests it with real data, and hands it over with documentation and training. Common projects include invoice approval workflows, scheduled report distribution, email-triggered data logging, and cross-system data synchronisation.
Power Automate consulting is typically scoped per project rather than charged hourly. Simple flows (email notifications, form routing) can be completed for £500–£1,500. Multi-step approval workflows with error handling and testing typically run £2,000–£4,000. Complex end-to-end automations connecting multiple systems (SAP, Dynamics, SQL) can reach £5,000–£15,000 depending on the number of integrations and edge cases. At Athena Stream, all projects are fixed-price — no hourly billing, no retainer.
Simple flows — email notifications, SharePoint logging, form routing — take 1–4 hours. Approval workflows with multiple branches, conditions, and retry logic typically take 1–2 days. Complex multi-system automations with premium connectors, error handling, and custom data transformations typically take 3–10 days. Most standard business use cases fall in the 1–3 day range from scoping call to go-live.
Power Automate is included in most Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plans (Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, E3, E5). Standard connectors — Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Excel Online, Planner, Forms — are available at no extra cost. Premium connectors (SQL Server, Dataverse, SAP, Salesforce, HTTP) require a Power Automate Premium licence (approximately £12–15/user/month). Most business automation projects use a mix of both — I identify which licence tier each flow requires before building.

From the Blog

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End-to-end reporting pipeline guide

Other Services

Workflow Diagnostic
$500
Automation Sprint
From $3,500
Process Overhaul
From $10,000
Excel VBA Automation
Custom scoping

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