Presenting Power Automate flows
Power Automate is dedicated to providing cross-application and cross-technology automation solutions. Compared to the previously described Dataverse automation capabilities, Power Automate is independent of Dataverse. Power Automate offers two main automation solutions:
- Cloud flows: The cloud flows technology is used to build automations across IT systems and solutions, having an API, which can be connected using some of the Power Platform data connectors.
- Desktop flows: The desktop flows technology is used to automate IT systems and solutions that have no possibility to provide an API, so Power Platform connectors cannot be used. Desktop flows are automated by replicating the processes a human user would perform on the IT systems.
Both automation technologies are solution aware so that the flows can be distributed between environments within Power Platform solutions.
Let us now provide some more details about the two types...
