Ontdek de kracht van de nieuwe mogelijkheden binnen Azure Solution Integrations

1. Logic apps and more in Production
Kelvin van Geene
Creating a workflow with
Azure Logic and API Apps

2.  Kelvin van Geene,
Software Engineering
 Worked in IT for 8 years,
5 for Avanade as
Integration Consultant
 Main technology focus:
BizTalk and WCF
Who am I?

3. What are Logic Apps?

4. “Logic Apps provide a way to simplify and implement
scalable integrations and workflows in the cloud.“
What are Logic Apps?

5.  Microsoft’s Integration Platform as a Service (IPAAS) on
Azure
What are Logic Apps?

6.  Microsoft’s Integration Platform as a Service (IPAAS) on
Azure
 Part of the Azure App Service
What are Logic Apps?

7.  Microsoft’s Integration Platform as a Service (IPAAS) on
Azure
 Part of the Azure App Service
 Since July 27th General Available in Azure
What are Logic Apps?

8. Example

9. Example

10. So, why does this matter?

11. To me the system integration is very black box. I don’t know
how it works.
Why do you need 40 hours to setup a connection between
these systems?
Why is Integration a dark art that can only be done by an
expensive consultant ?
Some quotes about Integration

12. To me the system integration is very black box. I don’t know
how it works.
Why do you need 40 hours to setup a connection between
these systems?
Why is Integration a dark art that can only be done by an
expensive consultant ?
Some quotes about Integration

13. To me the system integration is very black box. I don’t know
how it works.
Why do you need 40 hours to setup a connection between
these systems?
Why is do you need again 40 hours to built this? It is the
same system?!
Some quotes about Integration

14. 1. Complex and tedious
Why are Logic Apps important?

15. 1. Complex and tedious
2. Specialized knowledge required
Why are Logic Apps important?

16. 1. Complex and tedious
2. Specialized knowledge required
3. Custom hard wired coding
Why are Logic Apps important?

17. 1. Complex and tedious
2. Specialized knowledge required
3. Custom hard wired coding
Why are Logic Apps important?

18. What is available?

19. Connectors out of the box

20.  Check tweets on certain hashtag, analyze the data,
create an alert on this.
Common Integration scenarios

21.  Host an endpoint to receive XML messages, map this to a
different message and sent it towards the destination
Common Integration scenarios

22.  Retrieve data from SQL database every 5 minutes and
migrate it to a SFTP server. Notify subscribers when
complete.
Common Integration scenarios

23.  B2B communication
Enterprise Integration

24.  B2B communication
 Trading Partner
Management and
encryption possibilities
Enterprise Integration

25.  B2B communication
 Trading Partner
Management and
encryption possibilities
 Still in preview
Enterprise Integration

26.  Push and connect your own API Apps
 Similar to MVC controller actions
 Deploy existing As-Is
 Third party vendors can push API Apps in the
marketplace
Custom & Third Party

27. Logic Apps for Business people
Microsoft Flow

28. Production example

29.  Started using in production for 1,5 years.
Production example

30.  Started using in production for 1,5 years.
 Integration between local SAP systems and CRM Online
Production example

31.  Started using in production for 1,5 years.
 Integration between local SAP systems and CRM Online
 AS2 communication protocol
 Message Signing
 Message Encryption
Production example

32.  Started using in production for 1,5 years.
 Integration between local SAP systems and CRM Online
 AS2 communication protocol
 Message Signing
 Message Encryption
 7 countries live on the platform
 34 Logic Apps
 6 API Apps
Production example

33. Production example

34. Production example

35. Did I inspire you?

36. 1 month every minute poll = 43,200 billable actions
* 0,0007 = 30,24
(1 poll / min) x (60 min / hr) x (24 hrs/day) x (30 days)
Additional - Pricing

37.  Control flow in the Logic Apps is still limited, the BizTalk
Orchestrations allow you to run much more complex scenario where
you use control shapes like the Listen Shape, Parallel Shape or Loop.
 There is no easy way to make routing, pub/sub or correlation of
messages easy but you can still do it by using the available
connectors in combination with Service Bus Queues, Topics or even
the Azure Table or Blob Storage
 Reliability, no message lost guarantee, de/batching, large
messages and transaction support are very niche requirements and
have not been fully addressed in this release
 End to end tracking, currently there is no such thing that is
equivalent of BAM, or an ability to extract important business critical
information to be consumed by someone that is not interested in the
technical details of the solution
Additional - BizTalk

38. Additional - Disadvantages
Not easy to
retrieve
information if
something
goes wrong
Formatting of
data in web
viewer
Settings /
Configuration
management

39. Additional - On premise gateway