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This seems like a IFTTT + pipes mashup? With multiple steps, simple logic blocks, and enterprise integration.

Yes, and that's probably why it'll be successful. There is a lot of money to be made in taking <consumer facing thing> and adding enterprise integration.

I mean, look at Slack. It's "merely" IRC + enterprise integration, right?

shit, my company had a "when a user is created or deleted in AD, do X" type of functionality, we could save so much freaking money money its ridiculous. Im still. planning on sitting down and building it.

They have that. Check out Quest/Dell/whatever ActiveRoles and other Identity Management type competitors. I think any big enterprise vendor has an offering. The problem with a lot of them is the price-they're pretty spicy. But they are going after enterprise players with deep pockets.

Cool, I'll take a look. I've evaluated a couple identity management solutions, but for the most part we don't need it. We have an AD/ADFS/SAML/etc... setup that works great for the most part.

I just want to avoid paying the stupid premium on stuff like the enterprise version of Slack just for AD integration.

Mattermost?

That's a pretty cool idea for Mattermost to have triggers that go off on new account creation.

Maybe a customizable welcome email as well for new team members.

You're basically still writing the automation yourself at that point since it would just be a bot right? I'd think you might as well just create it as a separate service and have a bot interact with it or handle events from it in Mattermost/Slack/IRC/etc.

it sure does. But it looks like it's trying to focus mainly on companies and business users instead of normal everyday people. Almost all integrations are very business-ey

What I am also happy to see is a clear pricing model right from the start [0], in contrast to what IFTTT is doing.

[0]: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

The business focus reminds me of Zapier.

https://zapier.com/

I don't know if IFTTT should be worried –or happy– about this.

Maybe worried. I looked at IFTTT a few times and came back with "I'd like to use that, but I need a filter / processor in between". I suspect there are more people like that.

Pretty interesting. Which filtering or processing are you interested in doing?

Zapier is in the same game.

This is what Yahoo could have gotten into, had Bartz not axed their engineering department.

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