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When Point-to-Point Integrations Stop Scaling

Moving from direct connections between Microsoft 365 and line-of-business systems to an event-driven layer on Azure

Direct connections are the right call for the first few integrations and the wrong one by the twentieth. A study of the failure modes that show up at that point — silent failures, duplicate writes, Graph throttling — and what an event-driven layer on Azure does and does not fix.

Hours to minutesMean time to detect an integration failure · Projected
AzureMicrosoft 365Power AutomateMicrosoft Entra IDMicrosoft Graph+5
Cloud & PlatformResearch-Based24 min read20 Aug 2026