GA: Microsoft PowerApps and Flow

Dean,

Thanks for responding.  I agree that we won't lose support anytime soon and that is certainly a good thing!

However, we are designing our product around Microsoft SharePoint and Office365 and counseling our many customers to use products such as SPD as an integral part of our solution.  So when MS discontinues that offering with absolutely no upgrade path it is still a huge concern for us and our customers.  No other workflow vendor we work with has ever done this because their customers would revolt on them.  Maybe it is MS's size and breadth of product offering that doesn't make them take things like this as serious.  After all, if 2000 customers are affected, what does that actually do to their bottom line?  Probably not a whole lot.  

The other option we have is to build all of this functionality ourselves like Nintex or K2 does.  We were trying to take advantage of what MS is offering and counsel customers to use as much of the native functionality as possible and only use our products to fill in the gaps.  This is not the first decision like this that has made us re-think our strategy.  When MS killed Foundation server and offered no concurrent or server based licensing for SharePoint we began re-thinking our entire strategy to even build our product on top of SharePoint at all.

I guess the bottom line for us is that MS seems to push us more and more towards abandoning them as a platform for our solution with decisions like this and they seem to be oblivious to it and don't take feedback about it seriously.

Love much of what MS does though and we are still seeing a lot of value right now but I think our executive team is slowly losing confidence in our current direction.

Thanks,

Bill