From the course: Microsoft Power Automate: Business Process Flows

What is a business process flow? - Power Automate Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Power Automate: Business Process Flows

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What is a business process flow?

- [Instructor] If you've already created Flows in Power Automate, you've seen how they can help you with repetitive tasks. And you can set them up to trigger and run either manually or automatically based on specific events or schedules. Although Business Process Flows are available via Power Automate. They're really in a class by themselves. Rather than being a Flow, they're a collection of connected data, flows, actions, apps, and other artifacts to make up an end to end process. BPFs actually got their start within Microsoft Dynamics as a way of automating work flows. It was so successful there that Microsoft began expanding functionality to mesh better with their whole dynamic power platform. Power Bi, Power apps, Power Automate, etc. BPFs are a great tool for enabling teams through repeatable processes that the team needs to follow to accomplish their business goals. By using BPFs to guide people through the process, you can reduce errors and drastically improve quality via standardization. It's possible to add input forms plus links to documentation and other information in to the flow. So that it's all readily available at the point that it's needed in the process. You can also build in conditional branching to handle variables in the process. Although if you have too many variables, you might have some extra work to do. Business Process Flows also reduce the need to rely on developers. The tools visual interface and the ability to drag and drop elements in to the flow means that it's possible for people to create robust processes and routines without the need to write code. Although obviously having some experience with Power Automate is going to help greatly.

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