All Things Microsoft Flow with Stephen Siciliano
Stephen Siciliano
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/59
- Technical skills and career journey with Microsoft
- Dream job growing up and how this dream evolved
- Journey to becoming part of the Microsoft Business Applications team
- Envisioning a future product line for Microsoft
- Relationship between Logic Apps and Microsoft Flow
- The story behind the creation of the Power Platform
- Thoughts on workflow foundation
- Workflow engine and Microsoft Flow
- The biggest challenge to achieving the move off of the old technology
- Impact of the Power Platform to old technologies and what you need to do
- Migration endpoint from the Legacy to the Power Platform
- Focus on UX and design
- Personally using Microsoft Flow to get things done
- Business process flows becoming part of Microsoft Flow
- Involvement in the interface level
- Importance of getting up to speed with Flow
- Opportunity for ISVs to innovate solely on Flow
- Where connectors fit into the picture of Flow
RESOURCES
- Azure Autoscale – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/autoscale/
- Azure Logic Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-overview
- Common Data Service – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/get-started-with-powerapps-common-data-service/1-introduction
- Power Platform – https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/help/4347019/introduction-to-the-microsoft-power-platform
- Microsoft Flow release notes, October 2018 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/microsoft-flow/planned-features
- Business Process Flows – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/customize/business-process-flows-overview
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Stephen Siciliano
Stephen Siciliano is the Vice President of Power Automate, a low-code application within Microsoft's Power Platform portfolio that enables anyone to create automated workflows that reduce manual, repetitive tasks using low-code, drag-and-drop tools. It's simple to automate repetitive tasks with hundreds of pre-built connectors, thousands of templates, and AI assistance. End-to-end processes can be recorded and visualized using process and task mining with process advisor, with AI Builder making your automation even smarter.
Prior to founding Power Automate, Stephen worked on Azure Logic Apps, Azure Autoscale, and Azure Alerts. He joined Microsoft in March 2013, when Microsoft acquired MetricsHub, a SaaS company that kept its customers' cloud applications up and running at the lowest possible cost. He was a co-founder and Chief Design Officer of MetricsHub.
Stephen holds Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Michigan.
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