From the course: Microsoft Power Automate: Business Process Flows

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From the course: Microsoft Power Automate: Business Process Flows

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- [Instructor] Although Power Automate business process flows are powerful tools, they're not for everyone. One big consideration is that business process flows, I'm going to start calling them BPFs for convenience, BPFs are created by joining components together to form an end-to-end process. And in some cases, those components have to exist prior to building the BPF. That can mean already having a data source for customer or product information, maybe in SharePoint, maybe in Excel or some other data service. Although this isn't 100% necessary. And it could include custom forms or other applications built in Power Apps, as well as Power Automate flows, for steps within the process. There are some things which we'll create as part of setting up our BPF, but that's not the focus of this course and I won't spend a tremendous amount of time on them. Also, using business process flows can require some configuration at the O 365 admin level, especially if you're working within the Dataverse, formerly known as Common Data Services. If you don't have admin rights, you'll need to work with whoever does for your organization. If they're not willing or able to work with you on this, you won't be able to use all the features of BPFs. So, if you're not already comfortable with these subjects, I would strongly suggest that you spend some time working with them before attempting business process flows. There are great courses in the online library for most of this. Search for Power Automate or Power Apps or Dynamics and you'll see plenty of choices. I'll also add some direct links to an Additional Resources document that you'll find with the course files. And an important point, which you will hear me mention repeatedly in this course, it is a lot easier to automate processes if you define them first. Understanding the flow of your work, including the variations that can come up, is an important part of trying to set up an automated routine. So, with those caveats understood, I think we're now ready to dive in.

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