Getting to know Microsoft Flow

As described earlier, Microsoft Flow is a cloud-based service that allows us to create automated workflows between different applications and services. The list of applications and services we can use with Microsoft Flow is constantly expanding. Currently, Microsoft Flow supports more than 170 service connectors, which includes popular applications like Dynamics 365, Office 365 Outlook, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Twitter, and Facebook.

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For a full list of the available connectors in Microsoft Flow, visit the following link:https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/

If this is not enough, we can also build our own connector for our RESTful API that uses JSON.

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Create custom connectors in Microsoft Flow at https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/register-custom-api/

Apart from cloud-based services, we can also connect to on-premise data sources. To connect to on-premise data sources like SharePoint, SQL Server, Oracle, and so on, we can create...