Automate Your Manual Business Processes

Turn the approvals, hand-offs, and notifications that still run on email into automated workflows, over your own data. Route work to the right people, trigger emails and updates on any event, and add every user without a per-seat fee.

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Why Automate Processes With m-Power?

The slow part of most processes is the follow-through: An approval sitting in someone's inbox, or an email nobody remembered to send. m-Power automates those steps, over your own data, on the same security model as your other applications. Build the workflow internally with m-Power, or have our consultants build it for you.

Real m-Power Workflow Designer flowchart with conditions, database lookups, and automated actions
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Route work to the right people

Send each request to whoever needs to act on it, in the order your process follows, with approvals, sign-offs, and escalations built in.

02

Trigger emails and alerts on any event

Send email or SMS on a schedule or the moment something happens, so nobody has to remember to follow up.

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Add workflow to apps you already have

You don't have to start over. Layer approvals and automation onto your existing m-Power applications.

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Keep a full trail of every step

Every submission, approval, and escalation is time-stamped and logged, so you always know where a request stands.

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Runs over your data, in your environment

Workflows read and write your own database, on-prem or in your cloud, next to the apps they automate.

06

Roll it out to everyone

Perpetual license, no per-user fees. Route work to every employee, approver, and department.

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m-Power could create our order entry application, provide our business intelligence, create an on-line portal, and solve workflow requirements. All of this in the hands of our existing 2-person IT team.

Paul Scyner, IT Manager, Daiwa Sports

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We are really able to fine tune m-Power to match our business processes. You just can't get that from out-of-the-box software.

Sharon Hadley, Systems Analyst, Pearl Buck Center

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Right from the start, m-Power was the clear leader. We saw the power it offered and also the potential speed of development.

Matt Craig, Senior Technical Specialist, IBP

What Can You Automate?

Build over your existing database tables, on-premise or in the cloud. Whether your team builds with m-Power or our consultants build for you, here's what you can put on autopilot:

01 · Workflow Build

Automate a Manual Process in Minutes

Watch a complete manual process become an automated workflow with m-Power's Workflow Designer, from the first form to the final approval and notification.

  • Build the steps with no code
  • Add approvals and business rules
  • Trigger emails at any point
Video: automate a workflow process in m-Power Watch: Automate a Workflow · 7 min
02 · Approvals

Approval Routing and Sign-Offs

Route requisitions, credits, time off, and change requests to the right approvers in the right order, with escalations when something sits too long.

  • Multi-step, role-based approvals
  • Escalations and reminders
  • A full audit trail on every request
Request Manager Finance Reminder sent Approved AUDIT TRAIL 09:14 11:02
03 · Notifications

Event-Triggered Emails and Alerts

Let the system do the reminding. Send email or SMS the moment a record changes, a threshold is crossed, or a step is due, so the right person always knows.

  • Alerts on any data change or event
  • Scheduled reminders and digests
  • Email and SMS to the right people
Record changes limit Threshold crossed Email SMS
04 · Multi-Step

Document Intake and Multi-Step Processes

Turn a form or an incoming document into a process that runs itself: Capture the data, move it through each step, and update the systems it touches along the way.

  • Form-to-workflow in one build
  • Document and request intake
  • Updates pushed to your other systems
Document or form 1 Capture 2 Review 3 Approve ERP CRM Systems updated

Use Cases

A few of the processes teams automate with m-Power. Build these yourself, or have our consultants build them for you:

Approval routing

Send requests through the right approvers in the right order, every time.

Document intake

Capture incoming forms and documents and kick off the process automatically.

Notifications and alerts

Email or text the right people the moment something needs attention.

Multi-step processes

Chain the steps of a process so each one starts when the last one finishes.

Escalations

Move a stalled request up the chain so nothing sits unresolved.

SLA tracking

Watch deadlines and flag anything at risk of missing its target.

Form-to-workflow

Turn a web form straight into a routed, tracked process.

ERP-triggered workflows

Start a workflow off a change in your ERP or another system.

Set up a demo and we'll automate a process over your data, live.

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Customer story

Pearl Buck Center Cut a 10-Day Process Down to One

Pearl Buck Center's restrictive cloud software was slowing the whole organization and locking down their data. They replaced it with a custom m-Power solution that automated the manual steps and gave them control back.

  • Cut a 10-day monthly budgeting process to one day
  • Eliminated data re-entry between systems
  • Built a solution that fits their exact needs
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BEFORE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 days of manual work, every month AFTER 1 One day, start to finish Their systems No re-entry Their m-Power app

Every Workflow Runs on Your Security Model

Automate on the same security model as the rest of your applications, so you control who can submit, approve, and see each step.

Row-level permissions

Control which users see which requests and rows.

Role-based access

Decide who can submit, approve, and act at each step.

Use your authentication

Integrate with Active Directory, OAuth2, or SAML.

Audit trails

Full logging of every submission, approval, and action.

Frequently asked questions

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What is m-Power workflow automation?

m-Power is the low-code development platform from mrc that builds workflow and business process automation over your existing databases. You design the steps, approvals, rules, and notifications with no code, and the workflow runs on your own data, under your security model.

Approvals, document intake, notifications, escalations, SLA tracking, and multi-step processes of almost any kind. If a process runs on forms, data, and hand-offs today, you can route and automate it in m-Power.

Yes. You can build new workflow applications or layer approvals and automation onto existing m-Power applications, so you don't have to rebuild what already works.

Yes. Workflows can send email or SMS on a schedule or the moment an event happens, such as a submission, an approval, a data change, or an SLA at risk, so the right person is notified without anyone remembering to do it.

Yes. Route requests through multi-step, role-based approvals, and set escalations so a request that stalls moves up the chain. Every submission and approval is time-stamped and logged.

No. m-Power is a one-time perpetual license with no per-user fees, so you can route work to every employee, approver, and department without the cost climbing as you add people. See the pricing page for how licensing works.

In your environment. Workflows run over your own database, on-prem or in your cloud, next to the applications they automate. There's no data sent to a separate workflow cloud.

Yes. m-Power's open architecture lets a workflow trigger off a change in your ERP or another system, and push updates back to those systems as it runs, so automation spans more than one application.

The build video automates a full process in about seven minutes, and most real workflows come together in hours or days. In a demo, we'll automate a process over your own data.

Both. Your team can build with m-Power's low-code tools after a 5-day training, or our consultants can build it for you or alongside you. 96% of first-time services clients come back for another project.

Last updated: July 2026

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