Power Platform and related services
In Chapter 1, we learned that Power Automate Desktop is a part of Power Platform. With this direct relationship comes a unique advantage that can be used in conjunction with the other members of the Power Platform family. In the previous examples, we saw that a UI flow connects to another application based on specific use cases, or browser automation is used to retrieve information remotely. By using Power Platform, this scenario of outbound connections can now be extended to an inbound scenario – for example, a UI Flow can be called automatically from outside and do its work. In this respect, PAD can close the gap between cloud and local networks and thus ensure an interconnected process flow.
To gain a bit more understanding of this concept and how all this fits into the Microsoft ecosystem, I want to explain what all this means at a high level. The following figure shows the conceptual structure of the Microsoft cloud:
