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What?
• Automating workflows across the growing number of applications
and SaaS services that business users rely on.
• React to an event in one service (such as SharePoint online) and do
something with the data from that event in another service.
• Flow is built on top of Azure Logic Apps.
• Flow is a SaaS offering
• Helps create, develop and deploy the cloud based integrations.
• Help line-of-business users create automated workflows.
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Why?
• Automates number of common scenarios
• Simplify and implement scalable integrations and workflows in the
cloud.
• It helps in seamlessly synchronizing/pushing the content from one
platform to another.
• More than 140 Services/Connectors Available.
• Not only OOB connectors, You can also develop the custom services,
and connect to the custom services for passing data between
multiple systems
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Capabilities
• Design the flow using OOB configurations
• History - Monitor the flow runs
• App expands in time, most notably to include flow creation on
mobile, as well as support for things like triggering, remediation, and
approvals
• Connects with AI Services
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Scenarios
• Only chosen when the two or more systems are involved.
• Approval processes
• Running tasks on a schedule
• Opt for business users for developing business processes.
• OOB configurations and No custom development
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Today Actions
• Create Simple Flow
• Create custom connectors
• Protecting SharePoint Data
• Create Environments – Helps creating and securing the flows, gateways and connections
• Create Policies – Helps preventing data loss between services
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Benefits
• No code solution
• Business can build simpler workflows themselves
• Less dependency on IT
• Zero deployment time
• Reuse common use cases and workflows
• Custom connectors created can be reused across the organization
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Limitations
• Limits with in Microsoft Flow -
• Request limits - Message size, Retry policy
• Run duration and retention
• Looping and debatching limits
• Definition limits
• There are known issues with SharePoint
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/limits-and-config