Comparing Workflows and Flow services
Workflows and flow services enable you to automate and optimize monotonous tasks based on a set of predefined rules and business logic. These features give you the power to connect apps, devices, and on-premises systems with only clicks and zero code. Although workflows and flow services help you to accomplish the same goal, there are significant differences between both the features.
The following table showcases the differences between workflows and flow services.
| Workflows | Flow Services |
|---|---|
| Designed for Citizen developers. No code. | Designed for Integration specialists. Low code. |
| Offers a visual, drag and drop interface to create business use cases. | Offers steps and constructs from within the steps to create business use cases. |
| Offers in-built triggers to automatically trigger workflows when relevant events occur and actions to perform specific tasks. | Offers in-built applications and services to perform specific tasks. |
| Supports executing other flow services and workflows from within a workflow. | Supports executing other flow services from within a flow service. |
| Ideal for scenarios where basic data transformation on application data is required. This means you can execute simple business use cases with workflows. | Ideal for scenarios where complex integrations and advanced data transformation are required. This means you can execute simple as well as complex business use cases with flow services. |