Elevate your digital transformation with azure integration services

The fast-changing customer behaviours and competitors in the market nowadays are driving businesses to compete on speed and agility.

Achieving business transformation requires more than technology alone – integrating the right operating environment, organisational structure, and execution is important.

Many organisations currently have siloed applications, a lack of integrated reporting, and a need for cross-application workflows. To get the most from the software you build or buy, you need to connect it to other software. This means that effective application integration is essential for just about every organisation.

Sometimes, it’s as easy as connecting one application directly to another. More often, though, application integration means connecting multiple independent systems, often in complex ways.

As the world is moving towards digital and cloud, integration is evolving to stay relevant. More and more organisations are now using integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) solutions for mission-critical enterprise integration.

Microsoft is a long-term player in the integration space and Azure Integration Services (AIS) has over 40,000 customers across the globe, with more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies using AIS for their business integration needs.

What is Azure integration services (AIS)?

Azure Integration Services is a collection of services for integrating applications and data. It enables organisations to connect applications, data, services, and devices, often in complex ways. Through integration, organisations bring workflows together so they’re consistent and scalable.

The four components of AIS today are:

• • API Management, which provides an API service

• • Logic Apps, supporting the orchestration of business processes, workflows, and more

• • Service Bus, providing reliable enterprise messaging

• • Event Grid, which allows raising and delivering events

Azure Integration Services is not an isolated, standalone iPaaS. Instead, it’s part of the larger Azure offering, giving you immediate, integrated access to any other cloud services you need. 

What are some of the integration challenges?

Outlined below are some of the challenges that businesses face when it comes to integrating data and applications.

Siloed applications:

• • Siloed applications mean repetitive fields across multiple applications

• • Manual processes and re-keying of data

• • Risk of disparate and outdated datasets

• • Costly to maintain applications and datasets

• • Teams unable to work together

• • Lengthy approval processes

• • Lack of audit trails

• • Manual processes
    
    

• • Unable to report across applications

• • Manual data manipulation

• • Lack of enterprise reporting

Security:

• • Inconsistent security across applications

• • No ability to report or audit security

• • Insecure applications

• • Inability to provide security on a data level

What are the benefits of AIS?

Microsoft’s Azure Integration Services helps organisations rapidly build, deploy, and manage all sorts of solutions with ease. Here are some of the key benefits.

Analytics and intelligence:

• • AIS supports data querying language and has the tools to uncover insights to improve business processes

Cost-savings:

• • The pay-as-you-go model allows you to pay for what you use to build and expand resources for your cloud deployment.

• • It helps cut down upfront costs and administrative costs since you don’t have to invest in infrastructure and maintenance. 

• • Reduces manual and repetitive processes

• • Out-of-the-box connectors to a large number of applications (e.g., Microsoft 365)

Security:

• • Identity management through Azure AD for all your user access needs. Leverage your existing access policies for any solutions built on the platform

• • Best-in-class security by Microsoft

WANT TO LEARN MORE?

If you would like to discuss ways to integrate your applications, ensure that you have consistent security across applications, reduce manual processes, and integrate workflows, reporting, and more, get in touch.

Huon IT offers strategic road map consultations, support services, and training programs for businesses that plan to adopt a platform-led connectivity strategy. If digital transformation and integrated services are a priority, let’s chat today.