Reviewing general terminology
You’ve already seen a few terms, and if you’re familiar with SharePoint or other collaboration tools, they may be recognizable. But just to make sure we have a solid foundation on which to build, we’re going to go over some basic terminology, and then we’ll start getting into specific Power Automate terminology.
Business process
A business process is any sequence of tasks needed to accomplish the business’s purpose. This may be something as simple as submitting a timecard or getting a signature on a purchase order. Business processes generally fall into three categories:
- Primary or operating processes: These typically result in some sort of customer value delivery, such as a customer placing an order and the business shipping a product. They also may include things such as product design and engineering.
- Support: These processes are necessary for the primary or operating processes to take place...