Business process automation (BPA) is the use of information technology to help companies automate their business processes. It’s a broad term that can encompass anything from simple, repetitive tasks like data entry to more complex workflows like customer order processing.
Power Automate and Azure Logic Apps are workflow services that can automate your processes, business, or system and integrate with Microsoft and 3rd party services with over 300 connectors. These powerful services are designed to get you going quickly, building the workflow between business services providing that familiarity without having the steep learning curve.
Power Automate provides a user-friendly and focused experience within Office 365 that can easily get end-users going once assigned an appropriate license.
Azure Logic Apps provide a user-friendly designer surface similar to Power Automate with the option to build complex integration solutions, utilize advanced development tools, DevOps and monitoring, if required.
The main difference between Power Automate and Logic Apps is that Power Automate is a Robotic Process Automation tool while Logic Apps is an Integration Platform as a Service. Both tools can be used to automate business processes, but they differ in terms of the scale and scope of automation possible.
Power Automate is better suited for automating simple, repetitive tasks that can be performed by a robot with no need for human intervention. These tasks are typically well-defined, rules-based processes such as data entry or form submission. Power Automate can also be used to automate more complex processes by chaining together multiple actions and triggers, but this requires more setup and maintenance than using Logic Apps.
Logic Apps is designed for automating complex processes that involve multiple systems and require human interaction at various points. For example, a process might start when an order is received in an e-commerce system, then trigger an approval request in a CRM system, followed by a series of actions in an accounting system to generate invoices and payments. Each step in the process can be configured to run automatically or wait for manual intervention before proceeding to the next step.
Power automate:
1. It is available as part of O365 applications
2. Power automate is a browser-based application which means you can modify it only using the browser
3. Microsoft Flow can be accessed and modified in a Mobile app
4. For Power Automate, either you pay on a per-flow or per-user basis.
5. If you have a relatively simple application to create then you should go for Power Automate.
6. If your application is using Office 365 / Dynamics application then you can probably pick Power Automate.
7. If Citizen Developers are creating the application, you can go with Power Automate.
8. Visio Plan 2 offers the feature to create a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams and export for Power Automate.
Logic apps:
1. Logic apps is a part of the Azure platform
2. You can work with Logic apps in a browser as well as in a visual studio designer.
3. Logic Apps cannot be operated from a mobile app
4. For Logic Apps you pay as you use. That means whenever Logic apps run, connectors, triggers, and actions are metered and based on that the user is charged.
5. If you want to create an application that has complicated requirements then you should go for Logic Apps
6. If your application is mostly using Azure services, then you can go ahead with Azure Logic Apps
7. If Pro developers are working, then you can go ahead with Logic Apps without any hesitation.
8. Visual Studio supports working with Azure solutions, including Logic Apps, that allows you to connect to a subscription and provides a logic app editor experience.
9. Visual Studio Code is a free and open-source code editor with wide-range support for programming languages with IntelliSense, extensions to select the tools you work with extending the functionality of the tool as best fits the project you are working on.
You can install the extension (Azure Logic Apps for Visual Studio Code) from the Marketplace - Visual Studio Marketplace
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