{"id":8326,"date":"2022-06-03T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:49:36","slug":"making-application-lifecycle-management-alm-easier-in-power-automate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/making-application-lifecycle-management-alm-easier-in-power-automate\/","title":{"rendered":"Making application lifecycle management (ALM) easier in Power Automate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)\u00a0is the end-to-end lifecycle management of applications and automations, including considerations like governance, development, and maintenance. ALM aims to drive efficiency through predictable and repeatable software delivery. ALM tools automate the process of software development and delivery and facilitate collaboration between software development teams and related departments, such as test and operations. ALM can be as simple as a maker building an app or flow and sharing it with a colleague. We have a documentation site dedicated to Power Platform ALM<\/a>\u00a0since it is such an important topic and a team across Power Platform drives a comprehensive response to the opportunities it presents.<\/p>\n

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Based on your feedback, Power Automate has two categories of enhancements that are improving the ALM story:<\/p>\n

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  1. Solution cloud flow improvements<\/li>\n
  2. Core ALM improvements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Below are details about each enhancement category and information about what has\u00a0recently been released, is being released, or is planned.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Solution Cloud Flow Improvements<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Solution cloud flows are stored in Dataverse, so they are ready to take part in ALM and can be administered and managed via Dataverse APIs along with other Power Platform components.<\/p>\n

    A solution can contain flows, apps, tables, and more. Solutions are the mechanism for implementing application lifecycle management (ALM) in the Power Platform<\/b>.<\/p>\n

    See\u00a0Solutions overview, Microsoft Docs<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n

    Flows created in a solution or added into a solution can be referred to as solution flows or solution-aware\u00a0flows. A typical use case is for customers to develop flows in a development environment and then move those flows to a test environment for isolated testing. After testing, the customer can then move the flows to a production environment. This process is much easier using solutions with all artifacts stored in Dataverse and leveraging the flexibility of connection references and environment variables. Solution flows are also easier to administer and manage since, once flows are in Dataverse, administrators can audit, query, and inventory them by querying Dataverse.<\/p>\n

    See Overview of solution-aware flows, Microsoft Docs<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n

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