Microsoft recently revealed Flow, a brand new business tool for automating messaging and data-sharing. The sharing mechanics will be open between any third-party business-related apps and Microsoft.
With the recent accidental revelation, Microsoft appeared close to launching its Flow app, a tool that will allow users to automate various web accounts actions such as Twitter, Salesforce, and OneDrive. Reportedly, this is a nifty tool for all non-programmers who wish to automate and systematize actions between their online accounts. The tool's announcement appeared on the Microsoft official website quickly and was taken down instantly.
Microsoft's Flow is more like IFTTT, MSPoweruser reported. IFTTT is a popular tool, which allowed users to create basic If-Then commands that are referred to as recipes. The recipes, in turn, can be used for various smart devices.
Google, meanwhile, announced that its very own OnHub router already supports IFTTT. For instance, the router will let parents design a recipe from scratch for OnHub to automatically receive an email every time their child gets home. The feature is made possible because the event is being detected by the device of the child, which is connected to the router.
Rather than using IFTTT recipes, Microsoft refers to similar commands as flows. The tool's main aim is to cater more services for business teams, instead of individual consumers.
Through the Microsoft blogpost, it was announced that a free Flow public preview will occur. The preview will be showing the tool's ability to connect with 35 services or more like Office 365, OneDrive, and SharePoint. However, Google Drive, Salesforce, Twitter, Slack, MailChimp and GitHub will be added in the coming weeks.
Microsoft Flow's program manager Stephen Siciliano said that Flow made it possible to mash up more services and overcome the difficulties of collecting data from individual services.
Flow can be used to send the user an automatic SMS when the boss sends emails. Another feature would be automatic copying of files from OneDrive to where the team saves information, the SharePoint for instance. With regards to Slack, an instant notification in Slack can be automated when an uploaded file is saved, created or modified in Dropbox.
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