Power Automate (previously known as Microsoft Flow) is a component of Power Platform which represents user friendly and intuitive way of creating automated workflows between applications and services to generate notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and produce other actions.
Types of Power Automate Flows
- Business process flows: These flows are used in model-driven apps to help people get work done. They provide a streamlined user experience that leads people through the processes their organization has defined for interactions that need to be advanced to a conclusion of some kind.
- Cloud flows: These are the most used flows. Cloud flows begin with a trigger such as receiving an email from a specific person, or a mention of your company in social media. Once triggered, they also generally include one or more actions such as creating a record in a different system or sending an approval request to someone.
- Desktop flows – These robotic process automation (RPA) flows allow you to record yourself performing actions on your desktop or within a web browser. You can then trigger a flow to perform that process for you. You can also pass data in or get data out of the process, letting you automate even “manual” business processes.
Power Automate Applications
To ensure that Power Automate flow creators can create the flows and automations that they need, there are three different Power Automate applications that makers can use to create and manage the different types of flows available.
- Power Automate Portal: The maker portal provides a single access point for makers where they can easily create, manage, and monitor the different Power Automate flows they have created.
- Power Automate Mobile: Power Automate Mobile provides access to Power Automate functionality while on the go.
- Power Automate for Desktop: Power Automate Desktop is used to create robotic process automation flows.
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