After yesterday’s post 5 reasons to use Azure LogicApps instead of Microsoft Flow you might have thought that I switched to using Azure LogicApps instead of Flow. Wrong! In this post I’m going to give 10 reasons to use Flow instead of LogicApps.
Reason 1 – Power Apps integration
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When you use PowerApps and call flows from PowerApps you will know the magic that this can do for you. Quickly running a complicated set of actions on the click of a button. Or starting a Flow every time someone runs your app. Imagine receiving an email every time someone runs your app.
Reason 2 – Licensing
Hey, this was a reason to use LogicApps!
Well, licensing can work in the advantage of both products. With Flow you know what you pay every month as it doesn’t depend on usage
Reason 3 – It is easy to get to
How much easier can it get than going to any modern document library and find that create a flow option in the menu!
Reason 4 – Mobile App
One other benefit of Flow is that you can access almost anything within Flow form the Mobile App. Have you tried developing a flow from the mobile?
Do you want to check why a flow is failing while you are nowhere near a PC?
Reason 5 – Approvals
Approvals is another one of these features that you will only find in Microsoft Flow and not in Logic Apps. Can you do without approvals?
Reason 6 -BPF
Business Process Flows is something that is still quite new to Flow. Coming from the Dynamics related Common Data Services this is a whole new way to guide your users through the business process that they should follow.
I’m sure I will write many posts of this in the future. For now please have a look at the Business Process Flows documentation
Reason 7 – Geo fencing
The Location connector is another connector that is only available for Flow.
John Liu posts a nice example of this connector on twitter.
Reason 8 – Document Generation with Word
Generating documents using word (in an easy manner!) can be done with Flow.
There are two actions available within this connector
Convert Word Document to PDFPopulate a Microsoft Word template
You can use these actions to generate PDFs or to populate your variable data in document from your document properties.
Reason 9 – Buttons
Wouldn’t you like to click a button on your mobile phone just to start a flow?
Buttons in Flow, how can I not refer to Daniel Laskewitz’s post. This is a great feature very well described by my Dutch Flow friend.
Reason 10 -Data Los Prevention
The final advantage of Microsoft Flow is Data Los prevention. With the DLP policies you can configure which connectors can be combined in any flow that your users may create. e.g. you can make sure that users don’t collect information from your SharePoint intranet and publish the information on twitter using Flow.
Final thoughts
If you want any more information about choosing between Flow and Logic Apps and you have both reviewed this post and yesterday’s post then have a look at Kent Weary’s post as well.