Item: Azure Logic Apps
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We heavily use Azure Logic Apps as a connection tool between several of our cloud-based resources through a no-code or low code solution. The main use case we had was to be able to send files to an email and have it trigger a logic app to send the data to a function app.

Pros and Cons

We use it for an email connector to a function app and as a way to move items into a storage account.
We use it as a way to preprocess information before it goes into function app or a SharePoint site.

Some of the integrations can be a bit tricky to work with and the help info isn't that straight forward.
Triggers can be challenging sometimes.
The programmability in Logic Apps needs improvements.

Return on Investment

Has allowed us to quickly build applications and bring them to production.
Allowed us to integrate existing workloads easily.
Quick and easy way for us to experiment with integrations.

Usability

Azure Logic Apps is a quite handy tool for your toolbox as it integrates very easily with other MS products. It also has a lot of features that allows it to be easily deployed and updated via JSON and can be torn down and brought back up in different accounts quickly.

Support Rating

As with other Microsoft Azure support, Microsoft Logic Apps is hit or miss depending on the issue you are having. If it's simple then the resolution can be very quick. If it requires an engineer to review, then it will take them quite a while to look up a solution as they dig through.

Alternatives Considered

IFTTT

Microsoft Logic Apps is much more enterprise-ready. With our company being more invested in Microsoft, this was a no brainer for us to leverage the tool. Its ease of use and scalability makes it a good choice for an enterprise workload.

Other Software Used

Azure Bot Service, Azure Active Directory, Azure Logic Apps

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Logic Apps is well suited for situations where you are already using several Azure workloads or Microsoft products and need to connect them together through orchestrations. It doesn't fit so well when you have systems in other platforms and want them to talk seamlessly to each other. Support is very lacking there.

An enterprise ready orchestration tool

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Logic Apps