Thursday, December 29, 2022

Power Automate Flow vs Dynamics 365 Flow

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-

  1. Microsoft Power Automate Flow
  2. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Workflow
Let's see the advantages & disadvantages-

Advantages of Power Automate Flow-
  1. Power Automate Flows can work with various web-based applications / services. For example - SharePoint, Dataverse, Twitter, Gmail, SQL.
  2. Power Automate provide 600+ built-in connectors and custom connectors to connect with various apps / services. For example-
    1. You can create a record in CRM based upon a tweet posted in Twitter.
    2. You can create a case in CRM based upon an email received on Gmail.
    3. You can send notification in Microsoft Teams to notify users when an opportunity is created, or a case is created.
  3. Power Automate Flows facilitates to perform CRUD operations upon data.
  4. Power Automate provides pre-built templates to create the flow.

Advantages of Dynamics 365 Workflow-
  1. Dynamics 365 Workflows can be synchronous as well as asynchronous.
  2. 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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