When Should Enterprise AI Workflows Use Azure Logic Apps, Durable Functions, or Power Automate?
As AI-enabled business workflows become more complex, the orchestration layer becomes just as important as the AI model itself. I’m interested in how teams are deciding between Azure Logic Apps, Durable Functions, and Power Automate when building production workflows that may include AI models or agents. For example, consider a workflow such as: AI request → data lookup → business-rule validation → external API call → human approval → final action Some areas I’m particularly interested in: When is Logic Apps the better option for integration-heavy workflows? When do Durable Functions become preferable for stateful or long-running processes? Where does Power Automate fit for business-user-driven automation? How are teams handling retries and partial failures? What patterns work best when an AI agent is only one component of the overall workflow? How are human approval steps being implemented? I’d be interested to hear how others are approaching this architecture in production environments.Microsoft AI Partner Innovate, Brisbane, April 16 | Content now available
Hi everyone, I'm happy to share the content from the "Microsoft AI Partner Innovate" run in Brisbane on April 16. You'll find 3 files here - one for each key segment - early morning, late morning, and after lunch. Again it was so good to catchup with the partners, share learnings, gain insights and enjoy chatting about work and life. I look forward to coming back to Brisbane, the Gold Coast and other parts of Queensland in the near future to help innovate further around Microsoft 365, the Copilots, Business Applications and Azure. Regards, PhilEpisode 002 of the new series of Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meetings starts in 3 hours
I look forward to you joining the second in our new series of Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meetings. It's starts at 12:30pm Sydney time today, Tuesday November 18. If you don't have the invitation please quickly let me know. Just an email to me, mailto:email address removed for privacy reasons, and I'll send you the registration details. As you can see the focus is Prepare for Microsoft Ignite and let me warn you ... the "Did You See?" segment is big. There's been plenty of learning and skilling since we last met and I'll do my best to summarize and offer links to records so as to save you time and focus on the most relevant to you and your team. See you online soon. Regards, PhilEpisode 001 of the new Series in Cloud & Hosting Partner Online Meetings starts in four hours
Hi, yes, after 17 years and 166 episodes of the Cloud & Hosting Partner Online Meeting we have a reset, a restart, a rewire, a new chapter. As many of you know I took redundancy from Microsoft about 2 months ago and nothing can hold me back from wanting to help the Microsoft Partner Community. "I'm back" 😎. In just four hours from now we start with Episode 001 of the new series and here is the agenda It's not too late to register. Just click https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4a9991d2-4d76-4c73-b02a-ec3d010d6305@3f10d240-96cd-405f-8075-e66a8c526be5. See you online soon. Regards, PhilEpisode 166 of Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partners starts in two hours
Hi, just to let you know the next episode of the Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner online meetings will start at 12:30 Sydney time today. Todays session is one I'm really looking forward to as the focus is "Dynamics Contact Center" to be presented by Josh Burgess. To me Dynamics Contact Center embodies so much of the Microsoft story ... Modern Work, Teams, Dynamics, Azure, Agents and 3rd party technologies too. And moreover offers an incredible opportunity for Microsoft Partners to help customers with Customer Service with omni-channel capabilities linked to current Customer systems and accelerated with Copilot AI. If you don't have the invitation please send me, mailto:email address removed for privacy reasons an email. The pre-approved content for the meeting is available in the Community OneDrive http://aka.ms/chpom to download. See you online soon. Regards, PhilEpisode 165 of Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting starting in two hours
Just two hours until the start of the next Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting. Tuesday June 3, 12:30-1:30pm Sydney time. This meeting will cover the May 1 Partner Announcements, a review of other updates to Commerce and Operations, and a feature focus on "Highlights from Microsoft Build". I've also adding in, last minute, a quick look at the latest Sustainability Report from Microsoft. And as usual we'll cover recent Industry News, look at some forthcoming events and review what you might have missed. To register just click here. Attached here are the slides so you can follow along. These meetings are not recorded and are quite conversational. I hope to see you online soon. Regards, PhilThirty minutes until Episode 164 of Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting
Hi everyone, just to let you know the next Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting starts in 30 minutes. Attached here are the slides. Our focus for this one will be "50 years of Microsoft" and I'll be bringing a few personal perspectives from my nearly 35 years here. As usual we'll touch on recent CSP announcements including the new 3 year subscriptions, other industry news, skilling and review some of the webinars and events held of the past month. See you online soon.Episode 163 of Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting starting soon
Just one hour until our next episode in the Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting series. Focus for this month will be "Deliver business impact through sustainability with AI". As usual we'll start with a look at recent news around Commerce and Operations then move to the focus topic. After that we'll look at updates to some recent meetings, News and Events coming in the near future, and summary of webinars in the last month that you may have missed in the segment called "Did You See". See you online soon and please find here the approved slides for the meeting. Regards, PhilEpisode 162 of Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting | Tuesday Feb 18, 12:30-1:30 Sydney time
Tomorrow is episode 162 of the Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meetings and we have a feature topic "The Future of Hybrid Cloud Partners" to be shared by Dean Corcoran, Regional Technology Strategist for Hybrid Cloud and Data Centre Optimization. Full agenda is Commerce and Operations Update Updates from Past Meetings The Future of Hybrid Cloud Partners by Dean 30 Days in 30 Seconds which is a look at recent news items News, Views and Venues looks more deeply at some of the significant announcements and events Skilling, Training and Readiness covering options for education of Sales, Pre-sales and Technical staff Did You See seeks to summarize some of the skilling events in the past month Please join us online for the one hour Teams meeting. If you don't have an invitation just send me, philme@microsoft.com, an email. Also, please note these sessions are not recorded and using any recording apps will be removed from the meeting. Join the meeting to understand why. Content for the meeting is available here. Regards, Phil
