Stephen Siciliano articles

Stephen Siciliano
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Join us at the 2017 Microsoft Data Insights Summit 

The Microsoft Data Insights Summit, our user conference for business analysts, is back June 12 – 13, 2017 in Seattle, WA! Choose from lots of learning opportunities to deepen your expertise – from incredible keynotes and breakout sessions to hands-on workshops featuring a wide range of Microsoft’s business intelligence tools.
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Trigger your Flow buttons from the Flow web site 

You can now trigger Flow buttons right from the Flow web portal. When looking at your list of flows, simply select the “…” menu and choose the Run now command. This week, we are also adding support for five new services, including Oracle Database.
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Five new services and improved advanced capabilities for JSON and HTTP 

We five new services in the last week: Azure Data Lake, Bitbucket, Eventbrite, Infusionsoft and Pipedrive. In the flow designer it’s now possible to use authentication with custom HTTP endpoints, and to parse JSON objects returned from APIs. Finally, we added more options for filtering flow runs.
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Announcing the Preview of Team Flows 

Today we are announcing the preview of Team flows. Team flows make it possible for multiple people to own and manage a flow together, and, if someone leaves an organization, the flows they created can continue to run. Your organization’s custom APIs can be shared along with your Team flows as well.
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Flow of the Week: Show real-time weather data in Power BI 

See how to use the new integration between Microsoft Flow and Power BI to stream data directly into a Power BI dashboard from a flow. In this example we will demonstrate displaying real-time weather data on a Power BI dashboard.
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Flow of the Week: Schedule tweets from a SharePoint list 

Use the scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Flow to have schedule posts to happen in the near future. In this Flow of the Week we will show how you can save scheduled tweets to a SharePoint list and have them posted to Twitter exactly when you want. See the template here.
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Search by service when you build flows and other new features 

Microsoft Flow has added so many new services (now 90) that it could be hard to find the trigger or action you want. To help, we added browsing by service when you add a trigger or action — so you can see all the actions for each service.