Vincent ter Maat | IoT & Integration Consultant
Met de Internet of Things oplossingen die ik help ontwikkelen staan we aan het begin van een revolutie
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
Emrah Yazici | Junior Integration Consultant
Als je integratiespecialist wilt worden, doe het dan bij de beste van Nederland
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
Eva Hamers | Junior Integration Consultant
Ik ben enorm gemotiveerd en leergierig
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
Modern Open Source Messaging: Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ and NATS in Action
Last week I was in London to present at INTEGRATE 2016. While the conference is oriented towards Microsoft technology, I mixed it up by covering a set of messaging technologies in the open source space; you can view my presentation… Read More ›
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
Integrate 2016 – My take-aways
Last week I attended Integrate 2016 in London, the biggest Microsoft integration event this year, organized by BizTalk360. The outcome was almost 400 attendees, and there were sessions from the Microsoft Product Group, industry leaders and MVP’s.
The major take-away I have from the event, is that Microsoft now has a great vision on the future of integration, which I felt was missing the last couple of years. Now though, they recognize that even though the cloud is a great asset, on premise is not going away for a long time. Also Microsoft has now officially announced that their on-premise integration solution will be BizTalk, which has not been getting a lot of love lately.
This means BizTalk will be getting adapters which will allow it to be easily integrated with the cloud, like Service Bus (which we already have) and Logic Apps, allowing it to consume Logic Apps and the cloud connectors.
Also we will be getting connectors in Azure which will allow us to easily connect from Logic Apps to BizTalk, giving us a true solid hybrid experience.
Microsoft has a very wide offering with Azure, and now with BizTalk and Logic Apps in the center of their integration offering, things are really starting to get together. We can use BizTalk for our on-premise applications and Logic Apps for our cloud applications, but there is much more. For example, we can use Azure Functions to create small re-usable pieces, which we can use stand-alone, or from Logic Apps. The Service Bus stack can be used for our messaging needs or IoT scenarios. For exposing and managing our API’s, including those provided by Azure Functions and Logic Apps, we have API Management to our disposal. And there’s many more services we can use to build and complement on our scenarios.
As for our B2B and EAI, Microsoft will introduce a premium pack on Logic Apps called Enterprise Integration Pack, which will be able to handle your EDI requirements, including TPM etc.
As you can tell from my blog posts, I am a big IoT fan, and I really think this will be one of the major growth enablers for us integrators. It was good to see that a lot of sessions at Integrate 2016 were on this subject as well, including announcements from the Service Bus team. For example the Premium tier has been announced for Service Bus, which will allow larger messages, isolation and dedicated resources. Also we heard that both Service Bus and Event Hubs will be coming to on-premise with the Azure Stack. Looking at the numbers for the Service Bus stack just keeps amazing me.
Integrate 2016 was once again an amazing event for me, I had a lot of fun catching up with old friends, making new friends, hearing all this great new news, and seeing love Microsoft is once again showing for us integrators. For anyone working in the Microsoft integration space, I can only recommend attending these events as well.
For those who want to read some more recaps, here are some of my favorites.
Steef-Jan Wiggers
A solid vision for integration – Day 1 Integrate 2016
Kent Weare
Integrate 2016 – Day 1 Recap
Integrate 2016 Wrap-up
Gijs in ‘t Veld
Integrate 2016 – highlights from the Microsoft product team sessions
Rob Fox
Integrate 2016 – Day 1 Recap
Wrapping up Integrate 2016
Codit
Integrate 2016 – Day 1
Integrate 2016 – Day 2
Integrate 2016 – Day 3
BizTalk360
INTEGRATE 2016 – A Recap of Day 1 & Announcements from the Product Group
Updates on Azure Service Bus – INTEGRATE 2016 Day 2
Integrate 2016 – Day 3
The third, and last, day of the event. Hard to top day 2 after we won the BizTalk360 Partner of the Year award, but the program looked promising.
First up: Stephen W. Thomas. His presentation was called “Azure IaaS Essentials for the BizTalk Developer”. The main point in this presentation was (as he stated): Azure IaaS is about putting the power of infrastructure in the hands of the developers!
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
Updates on Azure Service Bus – INTEGRATE 2016 Day 2
Read more onMicrosoft’s vision and road map and their key announcements from Day 1 at INTEGRATE 2016. BizTalk Summit in London only got bigger and better this year as INTEGRATE 2016. Microsoft usually has very little representation for integration topics at //build/ and TechEd events. INTEGRATE 2016 is the place to be for technologists interested […]
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Blog Post by: Arunkumar Kumaresan
Integrate 2016 – Day 2
Because of the fully packed agenda, the second day of the event already started at 8am. The first session of the day was presented by Chris Anderson, who showed the attendees how to leverage Azure App Service and Azure Functions for integration scenarios. Azure App Service is a cloud platform that focuses on rapid development and enables you to build, deploy and manage web and mobile apps that connect to data anywhere: in the cloud or on-prem.
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
INTEGRATE 2016 – A Recap of Day 1 & Announcements from the Product Group
After all the hard work from the team for the past 2 months, it’s finally INTEGRATE 2016 time. It was a murkyday at ExCeL London with temperatures hovering around the 15 degree mark and light showers. However, the showers weren’t light enough atLondon City airport (the airport closest to the event venue), which meant that […]
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Blog Post by: Sriram Hariharan
New LogicApps and BizTalk features announced
At the BizTalk360 Integrate2016 conference today, Microsoft announced a whole slew of new features and functionality for both BizTalk 2016 and Logic Apps.
Some of these include:
1) BizTalk 2016 will have a Logic Apps Connector
2) Logic Apps will have a BizTalk Connector…
Yes, you read that right: it will be possible to execute/initiate a Logic App from BizTalk on-premises (or in a VM/IaaS); and from a Logic App, you will be able to send a message directly to BizTalk.
Now although both of these scenarios are possible today (by exposing a RESTful service on BTS, or using the REST/JSON functionality on BizTalk), these new announcements make this even easier.
The BizTalk Connector in Logic Apps connects directly to your BizTalk Server on-premises, although details of how this is achieved were not released.
3) Integration Accounts
Integration accounts are an EIP feature which will allow storage of schemas, maps, certificates, TPM etc. and allowing this data to be shared by a number of Logic Apps.
4) Visual Studio Integration
The Logic Apps designer will be available in Visual Studio… soon! They will be part of an ARM resource Group project (which exists in Visual Studio today) and when you open an ARM template (JSON file) which contains a Logic App, then that file will be opened in the Logic Apps designer, but within Visual Studio.
Additionally, Visual Studio will allow any items within your Integration Accounts (maps, schemas, etc.) to be added to a project and synced magically up to Azure.
And all of this can be stored in your source control repository (VSTS/Git).
And… this integrates with ALM/Build so you can deploy it all up to Azure: you can parameterise your ARM Templates so you can use a single template for Dev/Test/Prod etc.
And that’s just on Day 1.
Excited to see what Day 2 brings!