Today I’d like to talk about integration with Azure Logic Apps and how they can help your organization to do enterprise integration. Logic Apps is similar to Flow, but is an Azure tool, as opposed to an Office 365 tool. Logic Apps allows you to integrate a variety of apps, such as Salesforce, Office 365, SQL Server, Azure Event Hubs, etc. You can create interactions to allow these applications to integrate with each other.
As an integration tool, it’s typically triggered on a timer or by an action. For example, if you had an email from your boss come in that has “action required” in the subject line, you can have that action added automatically to your planner. What it does is interacts and moves data around with connectors that know how to connect between the apps, as well as what the APIs are; no need for custom work on your end.
As Logic Apps are like Flow, you could possibly start in Flow and upgrade to Logic Apps if that makes sense in a scenario. You do get more benefits when you use Logic Apps. With Logic Apps you get the ability to do custom development as needed. You can build and integrate yourself by getting into the code page in Logic Apps, which is not possible in Flow.
You also gain the ability to do source control. And it can be opened in Visual Studio, so when you go into Logic Apps you can use Team Foundation or another source control solution of your choice and be able to manage that project and source control around that.
Logic Apps does a much better job at supporting business to business type integrations, in scenarios where you want to trigger something based on what your partner in business is doing. Plus, it takes advantage of the security model since it’s an Azure tool. If you’re actively using Flow and as that becomes more complex or you decide to have it become an enterprise managed resource, it makes sense to move over to Logic Apps to gain the control and leverage Azure security and auditing.
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