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Azure Logic Apps

Score8.6 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

What is Azure Logic Apps?

Microsoft offers the Azure Logic Apps as a cloud-based integration service, supporting data and application integration.

Categories & Use Cases

Azure Logic Apps Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Azure Logic Apps has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 32 ratings of Azure Logic Apps's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Pre-built connectors

    Pre-built, tested connectors to a wide variety of applications such as ERP, CRM, HCM, Marketing Automation, etc.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Connector modification

    Provision for modification of pre-built connectors to suit specific environments

    Category average: 7.5

  • Data quality services

    Software includes capability to perform data profiling, deduplication, cleansing etc.

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Monitoring console

    Central console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Support for real-time and batch integration

    Software supports both real-time and batch integrations

    Category average: 7.6

  • Data security features

    Data security features include rights management, LDAP integration, password encryption, etc.

    Category average: 7.8

Who Buys & Uses Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps Reviews

What users are saying about Azure Logic Apps.
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Azure Logic Apps Helps with Proof of Concepts and Steamlines Automation

Incentivized
AJ TatumView profile
Founder in Marketing at AJ Tatum Digital (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure Logic Apps for a variety of purposes, but it really shows it's strength in connecting other services from within the Azure ecosystem. For example, connecting Azure Service Bus so that when a message is received, it posts the message's body to an Azure Function. Logic Apps also can help connect services outside of Azure, mainly used as a way to easily access data from third-party APIs to retrieve data and then store it, message it, or post it to another application.

Pros

  • Receiving messages and handling them from Azure Service Bus
  • Posting data from Service Bus or third-party APIs to Azure Functions
  • Reading RSS feeds at regular intervals
  • Scheduling tasks to occur

Cons

  • To perform logic within the UI can be a bit tedious. It's very easy to click on something which can erase an ongoing mathematic operation.
  • I wish it provided better auto saving as drafts while working on existing logic apps
  • It would be nice if you could store templated steps that can be reused in other Logic Apps

Return on Investment

  • Azure Logic Apps have allowed for easy proof of concepts with little investment
  • Azure Logic Apps often don't require as much technical know-how or someone like a Senior Developer
  • Because of it's simplicity though, it's easy to overcomplicate things to try and force things to work through adding more steps.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Managed Applications, Azure Repos, Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB

Other Software Used

Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Media Services

Stable and safe platform.

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Logic apps are straightforward to use and are great for managing resources with Management REST APIs. The free tier is also a great way to perform tests and development. Otherwise, it would be very expensive. App services for Logic Apps are still excessively expensive.

Pros

  • EASY TO USE UI.
  • Stable platform.
  • Does not requires manual upgrades.

Cons

  • App Services plan that's extremely costful.
  • Lack of documentation.
  • Lack of python integration.
  • Better sdk/api

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use and maintain.
  • Trustful
  • Fast creation and modification.
  • Serverless

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Data Factory, Azure App Service and Azure Virtual Machines

Other Software Used

Azure Functions, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Data Factory

Azure Logic Apps - Powerful workflow tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure Logic Apps to automate the workflows mainly to extract the data from on-prem databases. My use case is to extract the customer related data stored in the database from the on-prem through gateway and load the data to SharePoint site for further processing. Implemented quite a lot of workflows targeting the similar extraction process.

Pros

  • SharePoint connection
  • Connect to SQL DB
  • Connect to Database from on-prem through gateway

Cons

  • Better user interface to develop workflows
  • Allow more than 500 workflow actions
  • All runtime retention more than default 90 days

Return on Investment

  • Easily automate workflows which reduces manual efforts and errors
  • Integration with other systems, other azure services
  • This tool helps business growth and adoptability

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power Automate, Nintex Process Platform and UiPath Automation Platform

Other Software Used

UiPath Automation Platform, Nintex Process Platform, Microsoft Power Automate

The best platform to create automated workflows with business app integration!!

Incentivized
Sachi SubaranView profile
Administrative Support Manager in Corporate at Teachables (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work as an admin support manager in a premium education management institution that is fully B2C. One of the main concerns our company had previously was to automate tasks with a central integration software without having to spend dollars on different software that did a certain job. But in the given time we did not have much expertise around integration software models or examples. With active search alongside the help of a few external consultants, we proposed a few software products to fit our needs, and fortunately, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps was one of them that we went for.

Pros

  • Create advanced and complex workflows
  • Easy deployment
  • Ability to host maps and schemas locally

Cons

  • More advanced action options can be added to the workflow templates.
  • More advanced workflow templates could be added.
  • Troubleshooting process could be improved.

Return on Investment

  • Increased adaptation to regulate company-wide changes.
  • Increased employee productivity rate.
  • Increased growth of sales and faster deal closings.

Alternatives Considered

Pabbly Plus

Other Software Used

Pabbly Plus, Zapier, SAP Integration Suite

Play Legos - The Microsoft way

Incentivized
mahesh marthiView profile
Cloud developer in Information Technology at Open Systems (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main USP of Azure Logic Apps is its connectors. MS has come a long way in providing various connectors to different services. The main implementation I have used is for services that provided Rest APIs to connect and also amongst Microsoft Saas and Paas offerings. Using MSI enables the management of authentication while using Paas/Saas offerings like Azure Functions, Log analytics, etc. The other scope where I have used it the most is for Playbooks (it's just a logic app with Sentinel Trigger) which offers huge relief for automation of SIEM (Sentinel.)

Pros

  • Connecting to different services using OOB connectors
  • Support for HTTP connectors which enables user to leverage RestAPIs
  • Readability, i.e., it looks just like a Visio diagram. Even managers or HRs can have a look and get to know what's happening
  • It's a Programmer's Lego. It's fun connecting them at the same time getting the work done

Cons

  • Limitations on a variable. For instance, an array can hold only 1500 as of now. There are several limitations like these. Increasing these numbers helps users a lot.
  • Nesting Depth: A single if-else statement itself takes two levels. If there are multiple levels, then there is no choice but to have another logic app.
  • Execution Time: This is a huge drawback as far as I am concerned. One can easily develop and deploy a logic app in 30 mins, which might take at least 3 hours if we have done it in any other way (like c# coding + functions). But the main pain point is the testing. If a loop has 5000 elements and is using the same variable, the runtime might take literally an hour to complete.
  • API connections: Let's say if an API has a limit of 1000 calls per 5 minutes, and my logic app needs to do 5000 calls. There is no way I can create 5 API connections and dynamically use them in Azure Logic Apps.

Return on Investment

  • Explaining the functionality to customer was easy using Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Logic Apps takes a long time to execute compared to conventional approaches (functions)

Alternatives Considered

Azure App Service

Other Software Used

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP), Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security), Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel), Azure App Service