Terminology

This page contains information about the terminology related to Power Platform. The purpose is to give a quick overview of the terminology that is used.

• Power Automate - Originally released as Microsoft Flow.
• Cloud flows - A Power Automate flow type. Traditional flow, what we created with Microsoft Flow.
• Business process flows - A Power Automate flow type.
• Desktop flows - A Power Automate flow type.
• Power Apps - Originally released as PowerApps.
• Dataverse - Originates in xRM, was previously called Common Data Service (CDS).

Terminology changes within Dataverse. What we once knew as Entity, Field, Record, Option Set and Two Option are now Table, Column, Row, Choice and Yes/No. Terminology updates

About the CRM functionality from Microsoft

First there were CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Then came Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE). Then came Power Apps and the former Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365 became customer engagement (model-driven) apps, built on Power Platform. Now we have customer engagement apps built on Power Platform, e.g. Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service etc. The on-premise version still goes under the name Dynamics 365 CE.