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Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by jdc0589 »

quanticle wrote: post #9
viraptor wrote: post #2

This seems like a IFTTT + pipes mashup? With multiple steps, simple logic blocks, and enterprise integration.

Yes, and that's probably why it'll be successful. There is a lot of money to be made in taking and adding enterprise integration. I mean, look at Slack. It's "merely" IRC + enterprise integration, right?

shit, my company had a "when a user is created or deleted in AD, do X" type of functionality, we could save so much freaking money money its ridiculous. Im still. planning on sitting down and building it.

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by mintplant »

sumitgt wrote: post #15
cyberferret wrote: post #13

Do you have to include a Microsoft asset somewhere in the flow pipeline, or can it work totally independently of any Microsoft apps? (eg/ Twitter => Slack etc.)

It doesn't need any Microsoft asset in the pipeline.

Besides Flow itself, of course.

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by nmstoker »

It's got potential, mashing up pipes and IFTTT with Enterprise as others have said, but I can't help hearing Admiral Akbar's "it's a trap!". It would need to be amazing and look long term viable enough before I'd suggest putting key processes in to it. Something like this seems more appealing: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/blob/master/README.md

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by nmstoker »

It's got potential, mashing up pipes and IFTTT with Enterprise as others have said, but I can't help hearing Admiral Akbar's "it's a trap!". It would need to be amazing and look long term viable enough before I'd suggest putting key processes in to it. Something like this seems more appealing: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/blob/master/README.md

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by adventurer »

They're trying to charge for the ease? of doing things like sending notifications for item creation in Sharepoint lists, when Sharepoint does this already for you free. It looks like a hard push for transitioning the whole suite of products to the Azure cloud. $$

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by robinhowlett »

This is an area I work in [1]. Folks understandably mention IFTTT/Zapier a lot but the big players in the enterprise integration space are SnapLogic, Mulesoft, Informatica, Dell Boomi, with maybe a couple of others making noise also.

App integration is only one part of it (and arguably the easiest part) - there's also Data integration, IoT/event streaming pipelines, and integrations suitable for Big Data processing.

Enterprises naturally have quite specific demands on things like security, governance, encryption, support etc. that move things away from the free integration products, and also

I haven't seen much of Flow so far but will pay attention to it. The UX appears quite simple - it is difficult to build an effective integration product that is friendly to non-technical folks, while still being powerful enough for orchestrating complex pipelines by skilled data architects and developers.

It's a crowded space however, so getting traction may be challenging. I'm interested to seeing how they go forward with this.

[1] http://www.snaplogic.com

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