Microsoft Flow - True Cross Cloud App Integration + Scheduled Workflows = Amazing Productivity

Microsoft Flow just released, is designed to do workflow across competitive services like Twitter, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Office 365.

Microsoft Flow allows you to create a workflows across these competitive services running at scheduled time. Samples including the ability;

1. create emails alerts to generate SMS or send another email, forward emails based on sender email 
2. pull tweets into Excel 
3. get Slack notifications when a file is uploaded to a Dropbox folder 
4. You can even create flows to copy files from OneDrive for Business to SharePoint 
5. When an object is created in Salesforce, create a row in SQL

So far here are cloud APIs that are supported;

Office 365, OneDrive, Twitter, Google Drive, Slack, Mailchimp, GitHub, Dynamics CRM, Sharepoint, Salesforce, SQL, GitHub, Yammer

and growing. Sky is the limit here. This very cool.

For technical people, you could consider Microsoft's Flow as cloud app version of Sharepoint Workflow.