In this session, Serge Luca, aka Doctor Flow, describes what it takes to create mission-critical enterprise applications with the Power Platform 4 essential Power Platform patterns + 1 reference implementation: his open-source Power Platform BPM Toolkit

1. 1
aOS Germany
1/12/2020
Advanced Business
Process
Management with
Power Automate
and Doctor Flow

2. ◦ THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
2

3. Business Applications/Power Platform MVP
(14th year)
Business Apps & O365 Solution Architect
@sergeluca
Power Platform Associates, Brussels
Office365
Power Aut.
Power Apps
Architecture
Bullshit
Doctor Flow aka “Serge Luca”

4. Keep it simple, yes but…
Know the limitations
Four patterns
The BPM Toolkit

5. Keep it simple,
yes but…

6. Presentation Layer
Business Layer
Data Access Layer

7. Presentation Layer
Business Layer
Data Access Layer
Power Apps, Teams, SharePoint Forms, MS Forms, bots…
Flows
Child Flows
SharePoint CDS/Dataverse Oracle …

8. Presentation Layer
Business Layer
Data Access Layer
Power Apps, Teams, SharePoint Forms, MS Forms, bots…
Flows
Child Flows
SharePoint CDS/Dataverse Oracle
Analytics Layer
Power BI
Logging Layer
Azure Application Insight, SP,
Dataverse
…
Security Layer

9. Know the limitations

10. No State Machine
Flow Approval duration : 30 days
Flow duration : 30 days
ALM/devops weak
Cannot resume a flow from where it
stops
API Calls limitation
Use the BPM Toolkit
Use the CDS trigger : “when a record is updated” (Premium) or Use
the Controller Pattern or use the BPM Toolkit
Use the BPM Toolkit
Devops Tools not OK with SharePoint
Depends on the license - Watch the Flow analytics & buy Capacity
add-ons
No custom task Forms BPM Toolkit or Adaptive Cards
No tasks delegation BPM Toolkit
Use the BPM Toolkit

11. 3 types of throttling
Ex: SharePoint
Connector: 600
calls/60 sec
Ex: SharePoint
Online: …
Ex: 2000
calls/User/24h
for O365 license

12. 4 patterns

13. Pattern 1 : elevation of
privilege

14. Alexia
Flow Maker
Account
Alexia
accesses
SharePoint
PowerApps

15. 1 per flow license for
the whole company
(500$/month)
Flow Maker
Account
Flow Maker
Account
PowerApps
Premium
Alexia

16. Flow Maker
Account
Flow Maker
Account
PowerApps
Premium
Alexia API Call : who pays ?

17. Advice
Danger (compliance) : no
traceability
Pass current user claims to child flow and log it…

18. Pattern 2 :
Secure record pattern

19. Create blank
record
Secure the
record
Fill in the
record

20. Pattern 3 :
generic way to submit
information

24. Pattern 4 :
Case management pattern

25. Approvals
BPM (Business Process
Management)
Approvals

26. Case study

27. Requirements
60 types of HR requests
7 types of workflows
The whole approval process can take 1 year
Supervisors & users want to see next steps & previous steps
Supervisors & users want to see a dashboard of all business processes

28. Leave Request (medical reason)
from an employee in Paris
Validation by Doctor
Validation by 1st Line HR Paris
Validation by Supervisor HR Paris
Validation by Supervisor HR Brussels
Validation by Director Brussels
Validation by Line Manager
Legal dept checks if it is a right

29. The BPM Toolkit,
a generic tool

30. State
Machines
Tasks
delegation
No workflow
duration
limit
Visual
Workflows
Custom tasks
Forms
Pipeline
security
Business can
create
workflows
RPA
Integration
Workflows
can change
at runtime
No premium
licenses
100% written
with the
Power
Platform
Free & Open
Source
BPM Toolkit - facts

31. Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Cases
Cases lifecycle
The Case Management Pattern
Requests
BPM Toolkit

32. BPM Toolkit

41. Task/Process ownership and locking

58. BPM Toolkit – Permission matrix

59. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyixctkKXM
RPA (Robotic Process Automation)

67. BPM Toolkit Modules
Power Automate or Logic Apps
SharePoint Online OR CDS
Core
WF Runtime
Workflow Generator
Security Module
Proxy Flows
Tasks Delegation Analytics
Process ManagementNotification
Task Manager
Tracing
Case Launcher
Workflow Optimizer Archiving
SharePoint Access Layer CDS Access Layer
Task Forms Processes dashboardCust. Request forms Cust. Task Forms
UI

68. 51 Flows
4 Power Apps
Canvas Apps
BPM Toolkit Code : 100% Power Platform

69. Workflow
Runtime
New Case is
submitted
Steps
generator
Core Modules
Workflow
Launcher

70. The BPM Toolkit
Code

71. Roadmap

72. This is a Poc, we are working on a clean generic version
State machines must be visible in the graph
Generic Analytics
Dataverse (CDS) implementation + other premium
features
Different types of workflows (extension points)
Security model
More params
Parallel stages,…
RACI (Responsibility assignment matrix)
Yes, free & open source on GitHub (November 2020 ?)
Compliance
Minimize human approvals (machine learning)
Alert supervisor when there is something strange (ML)
Generic Analytics
Different types of workflows (extension points)
Security model
More params
RACI (Responsibility assignment matrix)
Compliance
This is a Poc, we are working on a clean generic version
State machines must be visible in the graph
CDS implementation + other premium features
Yes, free & open source on GitHub (November 2020 ?)
Generic Analytics
Different types of workflows (extension points)
Security model
RACI (Responsibility assignment matrix)

73. Planner Integration
Stress tests
RPA Integration
Teams Integration (Oakdale)

74. @sergeluca

75. 75
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