Azure Integration

Azure Integration Services - Connectivity Everywhere

Connecting your business applications together, seamlessly

Azure Integration Services

Azure Integration Services is an offering by Microsoft Cloud for performing mission-critical integrations. A serverless computing experience is made available to Azure customers, which helps to ensure both efficiency and consistency when connecting apps.

In the area of IT integration, a lot of things have undergone fundamental shifts. A number of years ago, we had integration specialists and architects whose main responsibility was to provide assistance to corporations with integration. Things are not the same as they were in the past. Integration is currently being driven by the requirement that businesses accelerate the rate at which their businesses change (digital transformation).

There are many different kinds of mission-critical apps that businesses use. Cloud workloads that are vital to an organization's purpose can be easily managed by Microsoft Azure. The value of mission-critical applications will be reduced if a corporation is unable to successfully integrate them into an organization. The integration services and capabilities offered by Azure provide enormous value to businesses on both the inside and the outside of their organizations.

Integration Scenarios with Azure

A great number of businesses have either already refocused their information technology (IT) strategy to take advantage of public clouds or are in the process of doing so. Systems that require massive amounts of infrastructure that are scaled vertically are at risk for catastrophic failures that take a long time to recover from and are a target for either modernization or replacement. This is also true for integration middleware, in addition to other forms of technology.

There are basically four different ways for integration. They include:

Application to Application

This entails connecting applications inside the enterprise. These programs might run on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.

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Software as a Service (SaaS)

The connecting of business applications to the applications offered by Software as a Service providers is required for this step. Integration of this kind is typically accomplished through SOAP and REST interfaces.

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Internet of things (IoT)

Specifically, this entails integrating applications with various Internet of Things devices. The popularity of IoT is expanding, and a cloud-based integration solution is perfectly suited to address this range of new integrations. This is because firms may access it from any location.

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Business to Business (B2B)

To accomplish this, the applications used by your organization will need to be connected with those used by a partner organization. It does this by utilizing well-established file formats, such as the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

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Microsoft Azure as Cloud Platform

Microsoft is also a leader in the cloud computing industry and is constantly improving the goods it offers. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions as well as, more recently, an eiPaaS with Azure Integration Services are all part of what makes Microsoft Azure a premier Cloud Platform that can meet the requirements of any enterprise.

The power of four key Azure services is combined in Azure Integration Services (AIS), which are as follows:

API Management, for digital exposure

A fully featured, scalable, multi-cloud management platform that enables enterprises to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs across all environments in which they operate. Advantages of adopting Azure API Management include:

  • It is enticing to real estate developers.
  • It is compatible with any size, API, or host system.
  • It will launch APIs that are safe and optimized.
  • It provides you with information regarding the performance of your APIs.

Logic Apps, for workflow, routing, and orchestration with more than 200 connectors.

A platform that is hosted in the cloud and enables enterprises to build and execute automated workflows that combine local and on-premises apps, data, services, and systems. Advantages of Microsoft Azure Logic Apps include:

  • Reduce the difficulties of integration by using connectors that come standard.
  • Messaging for enterprises and business-to-business conducted over the cloud
  • Integrate and connect data from the cloud to a deployment that is hosted on-premises.
  • Web-based workflow designer

Service Bus, for publish/subscribe and reliable messaging

Implements highly secure messaging workflows while connecting on-premises and cloud-based applications, devices, and services to other applications. Advantages of Azure Service Bus include:

  • It makes using cloud messaging easier
  • It enables the construction of cloud solutions that are both scalable and trustworthy.
  • It constructs enterprise messaging networks that feature intricate message routing.

Event Grid, for capturing and delivering events

Application for the reliable and secure delivery of messages, meant to be utilized on a vast scale and also offered as a fully managed service on Kubernetes clusters. Advantages of Azure Event Grid include:

  • It uses HTTP for event delivery, which is a standard protocol and makes it straightforward to use
  • Through the use of reactive programming, you may construct apps that are more reliable
  • It frees up your attention so that you may concentrate on developing new products

AIS also interacts very well with other Azure Services such as Azure Functions and Azure Web Apps to provide bespoke add-ons on top of the standard functionality that is provided by AIS. This is also the case with Storage Accounts, App Insights, and other similar services. Because it may operate in any environment, AIS can be an invaluable asset to your integration, as we shall demonstrate in the following sections.

Why Integrating Azure Services is Important

  • Business Agility - Raise the level of business agility by providing the firm with access to newly acquired capabilities.
  • Cost-effectiveness achieved through increased reusability and decreased expenditures
  • Increasing the level of security on both the system and the network
  • Capability of responsive operation and greater maintainability
  • Provide a level of abstraction between systems, which is known as "abstraction," and reduces impact of change in the IT landscape
  • Automation - Automate business process

Microsoft Azure integration benefits

  • Effortless deployment: Can be readily installed from any place, executing logic apps and different workflows seamlessly locally and on-premises, and enabling private endpoints.
  • Productivity is increased by enabling the design of big, complicated workflows with access to real-time telemetry and integrated assistance.
  • Scalable cloud solutions: Scale enterprise applications to meet your requirements by harnessing the power of asynchronous messaging patterns and integrating cloud resources to ensure smooth operation and durability.
  • Construct messaging topologies and send messages to numerous recipients, distributing message delivery to downstream systems at scale.
  • Managed APIs across different environments: Optimised API traffic flow by installing API gateways alongside APIs hosted on-premises, in Azure, and in other clouds.
  • Using the pub/sub architecture and HTTP-based event delivery, event publishers can isolate themselves from event subscribers, allowing them to develop scalable serverless applications, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Multiple alternatives for programming languages and hosting: Determine what is appropriate for each case and swiftly increase or decrease it to fit the expanding needs of your organization.
  • Accelerated data transformation: code-free data preparation, ETL and ELT process construction, pipeline orchestration, and monitoring.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services over competitors

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Cybersecurity

Each year, Microsoft pours more than one billion US dollars on the research and development of their cybersecurity systems.

2

Expertise

Microsoft has more than 3,500 security specialists on staff who are committed to protecting customers' personal information and data privacy.

3

Accreditation

In comparison to other cloud service providers, Microsoft Azure has received more certifications.

4

Trusted worldwide cloud presence

Data Factory is available in more than 25 areas around the world to guarantee data compliance, increased efficiency, and decreased costs of network egress.

5

Seamless DevOps

Apply CI/CD best practices to your workflows and make use of built-in technologies to ensure deployments are both seamless and secure.

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Connect your logic programs to your virtual networks with hybrid connectivity to integrate cloud-based and on-premise systems in a seamless and secure manner.

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Container deployment

Containerize your workflows to deploy and operate applications anywhere, whether in the cloud, locally, or on premises. This may be accomplished through containerization.

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Working with trading partners using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards, such as EDIFACT, X12, AS2, and others, is required in order to support complicated mapping.

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Hundreds of connectors that are ready to use out of the box

Utilize a huge ecosystem of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud-based connectors like as Salesforce, Office 365, and SQL to your benefit.

E-Strategy and Azure Integration Services

At E-Strategy, our team of experienced integration specialists has the skills and expertise to help your business leverage the power of Azure Integration. Whether you need to connect on-premises systems to the cloud, integrate SaaS applications, or expose APIs, we can help you achieve your integration goals. Contact us today to learn more about how our Azure Integration services can benefit your organization.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, E-Strategy provides scalable support for the entire suite of Microsoft products. This support include Microsoft Azure, Teams telephony, and Office 365, among others. E-Strategy has also been acknowledged as being among the top-tier IT organizations in London in terms of the provision of Microsoft Azure integration services to growing businesses.

E-Strategy offers a three-step approach, which consists of plan, optimize, and run, to support organizations in their transition to a new, highly optimized platform, as well as to manage the ongoing steady state and day-to-day operations of the business.

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