The Power of Azure Logic Apps

Logic Apps in Azure is probably one of my top 3 favourite features in Azure at this time, if your software exposes api endpoints you can do pretty much anything. 

"Out-of-the-box connectors reduce integration challenges. You can connect apps, data and devices anywhere – on-premises or in the cloud – with our large ecosystem of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud-based connectors that includes Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google services and more."

Find out more about Logic Apps here

The reason why I like Logic Apps so much is the almost endless possibilities, we all have systems running where we have some sort of logic, maybe its a service that runs and then sends an email as a very simple example.

Imagine you could write an application to do a lot of logical steps using almost anything you can possibly think of within reason and write the application without every writing a single line of code, sounds too good to be true doesn't it?

Let me show you some of the connectors you can use and then I will talk about some examples when Logic Apps could be very useful indeed.

 So the list on the right is just some of the connectors (there are a LOT)

 Here are a few examples of where you could use Logic Apps:-

• When Sharepoint is changed notify people via anything that has an api (chat, email, bot, etc)
• When your build fails due to a test failing, email that person with a shame picture from the web.
• When a new project is created, spawn off requests to do whatever you need to do.
• When a new team member joins, automate adding them to AD groups etc
• The take away from Logic Apps is that if the software has an exposed api you can do pretty much anything you want and the logic is created via a designer which needs next to no training, its very very simple and has enormous potential.