Microsoft Power Automate consulting for Swiss enterprises: cloud flows, desktop flows, approval workflows and RPA. CNEXT – certified Power Platform partner from Bern.
CNEXT automates manual business processes with Microsoft Power Automate – approval workflows, document routing, ERP integrations, robotic process automation (RPA/desktop flows) and AI-enriched pipelines integrated with SharePoint, Teams, Outlook and Swiss ERP/CRM systems.
Typical results: 70–90% reduction in manual processing time, fewer errors, full audit trail. FADP-compliant. Power Platform overview | Free workflow templates →
Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-based workflow automation platform with 1,000+ connectors. Cloud flows automate tasks across cloud services; desktop flows (RPA) automate legacy desktop applications that have no API. Power Automate is included in Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plans.
CNEXT automates: invoice approval (SharePoint → Teams → ERP), leave request processing, contract review and sign-off, employee onboarding steps, purchase order routing, IT request fulfilment, document generation (Word/PDF from SharePoint data), social media posting and scheduled report distribution.
Power Automate Desktop flows record and replay UI interactions on desktop applications – equivalent to RPA. This enables automation of legacy applications (local ERP, banking portals, PDF tools) that have no API. CNEXT has used desktop flows to automate SAP GUI, Abacus and legacy accounting software for Swiss clients.
Power Automate is business-user-friendly with a visual designer, included in Microsoft 365. Azure Logic Apps is developer-oriented, hosted in Azure, ideal for enterprise integration and high-volume/mission-critical flows. CNEXT uses Power Automate for business-process automation and Logic Apps for infrastructure-level integrations.
Yes. Power Automate has native connectors for Microsoft Teams (post messages, adaptive cards, approvals) and Outlook/Exchange (send emails, calendar events). CNEXT builds approval flows where managers receive an Adaptive Card in Teams, approve/reject with a click and the result is written back to SharePoint.
A simple approval flow (leave request, document sign-off): CHF 2,500–8,000. A multi-step process automation (invoice processing, onboarding): CHF 8,000–25,000. A full RPA desktop flow for legacy application automation: CHF 15,000–50,000. CNEXT provides fixed-price quotes after discovery.
Yes when correctly configured. CNEXT ensures Swiss/EU data residency for all flow data, configures DLP policies to prevent sensitive data from leaving the Microsoft 365 boundary, uses Managed Identities for credential handling and documents flows in the processing register for FADP compliance.
Yes. CNEXT has built Power Automate flows connected to Abacus (REST API), SAP (ERP and HANA connectors), Sage (REST), Bexio (REST API), Dynamics 365 and custom SQL databases. For systems without connectors, CNEXT uses the HTTP connector with custom REST API calls.
CNEXT builds flows with proper error handling: try/catch scopes, failure email notifications, retry policies and centralised logging to SharePoint or Dataverse. We configure flow monitoring dashboards in Power BI and set up alert rules so that failures are caught before they affect business operations.
Power Automate can trigger AI agents (Copilot Studio), call Azure OpenAI via HTTP connector (text extraction, summarisation, classification), use AI Builder models (form processing, object detection) and pass results to SharePoint, Teams or ERP. CNEXT builds end-to-end AI-enriched automation pipelines.