Hello Friends,
Welcome back with another post. Today, we will discuss a very important comparison which is usually asked during interviews. It's a comparison between-
- Microsoft Power Automate Flow
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Workflow
Let's see the advantages & disadvantages-
Advantages of Power Automate Flow-
- Power Automate Flows can work with various web-based applications / services. For example - SharePoint, Dataverse, Twitter, Gmail, SQL.
- Power Automate provide 600+ built-in connectors and custom connectors to connect with various apps / services. For example-
- You can create a record in CRM based upon a tweet posted in Twitter.
- You can create a case in CRM based upon an email received on Gmail.
- You can send notification in Microsoft Teams to notify users when an opportunity is created, or a case is created.
- Power Automate Flows facilitates to perform CRUD operations upon data.
- Power Automate provides pre-built templates to create the flow.
Advantages of Dynamics 365 Workflow-
- Dynamics 365 Workflows can be synchronous as well as asynchronous.
- Dynamics 365 Workflows are faster than Power Automate Flows.
Additional Comparision:
| Feature (Capability) | Power Automate Flow | Dynamics 365 Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Conditional Branching (Modeling) | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamics Content (Composition) | Yes | Yes |
| Trigger on Field Changes (Execution) | Yes | Yes |
| Trigger Conditionally on Field Values (Execution) (e.g., On a Certain Date in a Date Field) |
No | No |
| Run On-Demand (Execution) | Yes | Yes |
| Run-as Scopes (Execution) (e.g., Organization, Business Unit, User) |
Yes | Yes |
| Auditing (History) | Yes | Yes |
| Solution Support (Authoring & Portability) | Yes | Yes |
| Feature (Capability) | Power Automate Flow | Dynamics 365 Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Looping (Modeling) | Yes | No |
| Wait Conditions on Fields (Modeling) | No | Yes |
| Parallel Branch (Modeling) | Yes | No |
| OOB Connectors to External Systems (Modeling) | Yes | No |
| Access To Pre-Image of Event Data (Composition) | No | Yes |
| Run Child Workflows (Composition) | No | Yes |
| Run CDS Actions Including Custom (Composition) | No | Yes |
| Run Custom Workflow Activities (Composition) | No | Yes |
| Group Steps to Run in a Transaction (Composition) | Yes | No |
| Approval Workflows (Composition) | Yes | No |
| Trigger on Multiple CDS Entity Events (Execution) | No | Yes |
| Run on a Schedule (Execution) | Yes | No |
| Run Synchronously (Execution) | No | Yes |
| Run Analytics (History) | Yes | No |
| Modern Designer (Authoring & Portability) | Yes | No |
| AI Assisted Authoring (Authoring & Portability) | Yes | No |
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