Approvals Connector vs Approvals Kit vs ISO 19650 Governance
Microsoft Approvals and the Approvals Kit orchestrate decisions (approve/reject). They do not provide ISO 19650 governance primitives: information states, release gates, naming/metadata enforcement, or repeatable project blueprints. A policy-driven ISO layer treats approvals as one step inside a gated state transition—not the governance engine itself.
The terminology problem
In Microsoft 365 environments, “approval” conflates two distinct concepts: a workflow task (approve/reject an item) and a release authorization (transition information into a contractually binding state). Treating Power Automate approval flows as ISO 19650 publication governance produces fragile implementations, incomplete audit trails, and operational complexity at scale.