Microsoft Flow is a brand new SaaS offering, for automating workflows across the growing number of applications and SaaS services that business users rely on. This session introduces Microsoft Flow and how it can help you save time, and make your business highly visible by partnering with Microsoft's growing ecosystem including O365 and SharePoint Online. It demonstrates how you can create an automated workflow between your favorite O365 apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more!

1. Go with the Microsoft Flow
Ahmad Najjar

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WHO I AM? INTRODUCTION
⁞ Ahmad Najjar, Oslo, Norway
⁞ Senior Consultant @ Infoworker
⁞ Passionate and enthusiastic developer, heart and soul
⁞ +13 years of experience in SharePoint
⁞ Business-Tech focused:
⁞ Nintex.
⁞ PowerApps.
⁞ Microsoft Flow.
⁞ Logic Apps.
⁞ Power BI.
⁞ Azure Machine Learning.
⁞ SPS Oslo Co-organizers
@ahmadn82

5. NOOO!

7. Most business automation challenges
today are met with a single solution

8. You

10. Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating
workflow across your apps and services
Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals

11. Get started quickly
with over a
hundred useful
templates

12. Common workflow scenarios:

13. Build your own flows in an easy to use visual designer
Sending an Exchange email when a new file
is added in Dropbox
Authenticate to your O365 account.
Build email Subject and Body
Choose to include properties
from previous step (Dropbox
file) to improve relevance
Specify Send To email address
and additional properties
(optional): From, CC, BCC and
ImportanceConnected to
johnsharp@contoso.com
Authenticate to your Dropbox account.
Select folder to monitor
PowerApps

14. Integrate the systems you’re
already using…
even custom APIs.

15. • Exploring Microsoft Flow
• Our very first workflow!
Demo

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Enterprise Readiness of Flow
1.Common Data Platform
Environments
Data Loss Prevention Policies
Flow Sharing and Collaboration
App Source
Localization (42 languages)

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Company name
Environments
Isolated spaces where Flows/Data are
running/stored
• HR, Marketing, Development, Test, UAT, Production…
Different rules
• E.g. Marketing can use Twitter but, Legal can’t
Different regions if needed

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Company name
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Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Deployment environments
Support for environments to enable enterprise scale out
and improved manageability
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Contoso Canada
Contoso Corp.
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Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
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Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
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Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso Canada
Apps Flows CDM
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Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso Canada
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Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso USA
Apps Flows CDM

19. Where is
SharePoint
in all this?

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Office 365 Extensibility

21. • When you build your SharePoint solutions
you can now leverage Microsoft Flow
• Microsoft Flow can pull in data from
external services into SharePoint lists or
document libraries
• Can also be used for automation on
top of SharePoint content like list items
or documents (e.g. when an item is
added to a list, do something)
SharePoint Scenarios

22. Microsoft Flow
♥
SharePoint

23. With SharePoint
Demo

24. Where are
Flows
Available?

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Creating and managing Flow
Microsoft Account (free) or Office 365 or Dynamics 365 or Flow (paid)
or PowerApps ( or free new PowerApps Community Plan)
Flow.microsoft.com
Powerapps.microsoft.com
A modern SharePoint Online list
Mobile app (iOS and Android, Windows Mobile is coming)

26. Packaging for PowerApps & Microsoft Flow
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Microsoft Flow for Office 365
Enterprise Edition Plan 2
Enterprise Edition Plan 1
Business Edition Plan
Microsoft Flow
PowerApps
Microsoft Flow
PowerApps
PowerApps for Office 365
Microsoft Flow for Dynamics 365
PowerApps for Dynamics 365

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On-prem Capabilities

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Extensibility: Communicating with the outside (On Demand)
PowerApps
Custom app (Action Request)
Power BI (Data Alerts)
Flow to the Outside
• Custom Connector (REST API described in a Swagger)
• Action HTTP

29. BAM!
More Demos

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Approval Roadmap

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The Common Data Platform
Operational data store
Common Data Model
and custom entities
Real time
sync
Data
API
Built-in platform for extending your existing Dynamics 365 & Office 365 data

32. Build modern business apps fast
Compose analytics, user experiences, and automation
using an integrated set of services from Microsoft
More efficient developers
Seamlessly extend capabilities for power users and
leverage powerful Azure platform services
Business application platform innovation
Empowered power users
People who understand their business needs best can
now build apps quickly without writing code
Connected data across apps
Whether built on the Common Data Model or integrated
with existing systems, get more value from your data
App Services
Service Fabric
Azure Functions
…
Logic Apps
API Management
BizTalk
…
SQL Server BI
Data analytics
Internet of Things (IoT)
…

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Building out your solutions
⁞ Microsoft Flow enables your employees and co-workers to build out solutions more
easily.
⁞ With the lower threshold, the volume of solutions you’ll be able to build increases!
⁞ Build your solutions for SharePoint, Dynamics and more with Microsoft Flow directly
⁞ Logic apps are a great opportunity for you to build more powerful solutions
⁞ You can use a Flow as a starting point and then grow that up into a
full Logic app solution.

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For Advanced Scenarios
Join Me!

35. Get started at flow.microsoft.com

36. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS

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38. Thank You
@ahmadn82