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Serious question: What exactly is the advantage of Microsoft Flow compared to a scripted solution (using python or - to stay within the Microsoft ecosystem - PowerShell)?

What particular use-cases can it solve? E.g. is it easy to template Word/Excel document generation with it?

Is it just that you don't have to write any code to use Flow?

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> Is it just that you don't have to write any code to use Flow?

"just"? that seems like a massive selling point to me. If the people that are supposed to use the tool in a company are not technical (or not technical enough) it doesn't matter how good the tool is, the first check is "does it need programming skills"

It's a tool for motivated non-programmers to get things done.

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