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Automation reporting on WindowsForum.com centers on measuring the real value of desktop automation, especially in Microsoft Power Automate. A recurring theme is ROI tracking: calculating time and cost savings from desktop flows so IT administrators, automation developers, and Center of Excellence leads can show finance teams that robotic process automation justifies its licensing costs. The discussion highlights Microsoft's move to bring built-in time and cost savings tracking directly into Power Automate desktop flows, replacing brittle sidecar Excel spreadsheets and manual tallying with native aggregation. For Windows-focused automation teams, this tag covers the reporting side of proving efficiency gains rather than just building the bots themselves.
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    Power Automate Desktop Flows Add Built-In ROI Savings Tracking: How Time and Cost Rules Work

    Building a desktop automation in Microsoft Power Automate is often the easy part; convincing the finance department that your bot actually saved the company money is where the real heavy lifting begins. For years, IT administrators, automation developers, and Center of Excellence (CoE) leads...