{"id":110704,"date":"2016-07-06T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/automating-business-activities\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:18:09","slug":"automating-business-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/automating-business-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer story: Automating Business Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to highlight how different customers are building and using flows. Each week we will show off a particularly cool story. <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/Flow-Forum\/bd-p\/FlowForum\">Please submit yours on the Forum<\/a> and we&#8217;ll show it here on the Microsoft Flow Blog.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent blog post, technology consultant Venkat Rao demonstrates how one might conceive a business idea and bring it to life through Flow.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/automate-your-business-activities-microsoft-flow-using-venkat-rao\">here<\/a>. In it are two videos, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sgQdBIZB19A\">first<\/a> demonstrating how a business can use Flow to engage more consistently with users (when a user posts to your business&#8217; Facebook page, notify appropriate employees, document in an excel file, and generate a lead in Dynamics CRM).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sgQdBIZB19A\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jzUtsJd2uxE\">second<\/a> demonstrates how you can sync important documents across a business group and never forget an action item (for emails with attachments, upload the attachment to a group OneDrive folder, and create a Wunderlist task to follow up).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jzUtsJd2uxE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We hope you find this useful, please submit your stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first in a series of different customer stories we will highlight. 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