Hooking up to SaaS solutions using the SaaS connectors

Connecting to a SaaS solution is greatly simplified and it is a key feature of the SaaS connectors.

Consider what would be required to connect to a cloud-based solution without an accelerator such as a Logic App SaaS connector. With Dynamics 365 in the cloud, for example, custom code would be required to manage the process of obtaining an OAuth 2.0 token, caching the token for maximum performance, and managing the steps of obtaining a new token when it expires. This is summarized in the following sequence diagram:

An alternative option to writing custom code to support the interactions mentioned earlier is to let Microsoft do the heavy lifting and manage this process instead.

Office 365 follows the same approach, and once authenticated with both, it is possible to start building a solution that allows Sunny Electricals to create a process that ties together these two popular Microsoft SaaS solutions. This will form the basis for...