Azure BizTalk

3. Business Rules
• Business Rules encapsulates the policies and decisions that control
business processes
• These policies may be formally defined in procedure manuals, contracts,
or agreements.
• These policies are dynamic and subject to change over time due to
changes in business plans, regulations or other reasons.
• Enable non-programmers to participate in creation and maintenance of
business policies.

5. Why Rules?
• There are 3 key reasons to use Business Rules in business process:
• Decouple Business logic from Application code
• Allow Business Analysts to have more control over business logic
management
• Changes to business logic go to production faster

7. Vocabulary
• A vocabulary is a collection of definitions consisting of friendly names
for the computing objects used in rule conditions and actions.
• Vocabulary definitions make the rules easier to read, understand, and
share by people in a particular business domain.
• Vocabularies are designed to bridge the gap between business semantics
and implementation.
An example … a data binding for an approval status might point to a certain column in a certain row in a certain
database, represented as an SQL query.

8. Vocabulary sample

9. Rules
• Business rules are declarative statements that govern the conduct of
business processes. A rule consists of a condition and actions.
• IF condition THEN action
• Consider the following example:
IF amount is less than or equal to available funds
THEN conduct transaction and print receipt

10. Policy
• A policy is a logical grouping of rules.
• Compose a policy, save it, test it and use it in a production environment.

12. «Calcolo Buste Paga» - Main Steps
Extract
Mainframe Data
Manage Data
with Business
Rules
Save to Cloud
(Business
Services)
Generate Output
(multiple
channels &
protocols)

13. Logical Architecture
Mainframe
Database
Data Factory
Reporting
(PowerBI)
Operational
&
Monitoring
Portal
Data Factory
{batch}
Rule Engine API
Identity
Management
Mainframe
API Management
Workflow
Management

14. Logical Architecture
Mainframe
Database
Data Factory
Reporting
(PowerBI)
Operational
&
Monitoring
Portal
Data Factory
{batch}
Rule Engine API
Identity
Management
Mainframe
API Management
Workflow
Management

15. App Service integrates on-premises and cloud
applications
IaaS SaaS
PaaS
Logic Apps

16. Sample Scenario #1
Azure App Service
Business
Rule Logic
Apps
API
Apps
API
Apps
SaaS AppAPI
On-Prem
DC

17. Sample Scenario #2
Azure App Service
Business
Rule Logic
Apps
API
Apps
API
Apps
On-Prem
DC
SaaS AppAPI
API
Management

18. Benefits
• Highly Scalable Rule Execution with Microsoft Azure
• More organizations are turning to Microsoft Azure to reduce costs and
provide scalability for mission critical applications.
• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership, Increase Adaptability
• Integrate with applications deployed in Microsoft Azure, reducing total
cost of ownership and increasing the adaptability of decision-making
applications.
• Reduce operating costs by eliminating server farms sized for peak
usage
• Scale out rule engine instances on demand