by nadeemahamed.riswanbasha | Jun 3, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This blog is a transcript of the session “RPA in Enterprise Integration” presented by Kent Weare, Microsoft Power CAT PM Lead – RPA & BOTS at Integrate 2020.
In this session, Kent will introduce the new service and then demo many different scenarios where RPA can be used in the enterprise.
Agenda
- What is a Bot?
- Bots and the Power Platform
- What is RPA and Why Should I care?
- Demo
- Call to Action
What is a Bot?
A bot is a software application that is programming to do certain tasks. Bots are automated, which means they run according to their instructions without a human user needing to start them up. Bots often imitate or replace a human user’s behaviour. Typically, they do repetitive takes, and they can do them much faster than human users could.
Next, Kent discussed about two kinds of Bots. They are Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Bot and another one is Conversational Chat Bots.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is typically used to perform time-consuming tasks on legacy platforms where integration is not possible or expensive. This tool help organisations accelerate their digital transformation projects without having to replace legacy systems or develop expensive integration solutions.
Conversational bots allow users to interact with your web service through text, interactive cards, and task modules. Example of Chat Bots like Facebook messenger, web chat, WeChat etc. Conversational bots can be scoped to handling a few simple commands or complex, artificial-intelligence-powered and natural-language-processing virtual assistants.
Microsoft Power Platform
The ‘Power Platform’ is a collective term for four Microsoft products: Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate (previously known as Flow) and Power Virtual Agents.
Power BI
Make informed, confident business decisions by putting data-driven insights into everyone’s hands.
Power Apps
Turn ideas into organizational solutions by enabling everyone to build custom apps that solve business challenges.
Power Virtual Agents
Easily build chatbots to engage conversationally with your customers and employees—no coding required.
Power Automate
Microsoft recently released a new service in Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow) that provides makers with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities. RPA can be used to integrate legacy applications like web and desktop applications into modern automation solutions
Demo – Hello world Power Automate – UI Flow
Step 1: Log on to flow.microsoft.com
Step 2: Select My flows > UI flows > New.
Step 3: Select Web app > Next
Step 4: Enter a name for your UI flow into the Flow name field.
Step 5: Enter the URL for the Website you want to automate into the Base URL field, and then select Launch recorder. The Selenium IDE launches.
Step 6: In Selenium IDE, select the red REC button in the top right side of the screen to launch the recorder. The URL you chose in the previous step opens.
Step 7: Perform the actions that you want to record on the website.
Step 8: When you are finished recording, select on the red Stop button in the top right corner of the Selenium IDE.
Step 9: Select the Run current test button from the top left side of the screen to see the UI flow you just created run.
Step 10: Select the Save project button in the top right of the Selenium IDE. This close, and then uploads the project.
Time Sheet Scenario
In this scenario is that we have a legacy timesheet application that requires us to be on the corporate intranet in order to fill in our timesheet. But, since we have UI Flows available to us, we can just provide our time entry details to the bot and UI Flows will take care of inputting that information into our timesheet application.
Our architecture includes creating a flow that exposes an HTTP Trigger. We will then retrieve details about the person submitting the timesheet by looking up their details in Graph based upon the Authorization token that is provided from Power Virtual Agents. We will subsequently call a UI Flow where our data will be inputted into the timesheet application. From there we will return our status back to the bot conversation so that our user knows that their timesheet has been successfully saved.
Summary
The use of RPA will help with routine, mundane and repetitive task. This blog covers various scenarios covered on topic “RPA in Enterprise Integration”. The key parts of discussion focus on the RPA, Chat Bot, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. The discussion extended with Demo of Time Sheet applications using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents.
The post RPA in Enterprise Integration appeared first on BizTalk360.
by Sivaramakrishnan Arumugam | Jun 2, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Introduction
This blog is an extraction of the session “Setting up a highly available BizTalk Server in Azure” in the Integrate 2020 event presented by Samuel Kastberg, Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft.
It gives you an overview of setting a highly available BizTalk Server in Azure using BizTalk2020 at a very high level. More and more it is common to install BizTalk environments in Azure. As especially Production environments require high availability, today Samuel gives guidance on HA related topics like network configuration, load balancing and alternatives for clustering SQL Server
Things we will focus on
- Focus on BizTalk Server 2020
- No consideration on moving to Azure Integration services
- Things that are different/ specific to Azure
Considerations
When you are setting up the BizTalk server environment, we have lots of considerations. When it comes to Azure just as on-premises you have set of rules and it will vary on how your environment works, your requirements, organization policies, what kindly of policies were followed.
Here are some important aspects,
Governance
- Rules, requirements from Organizations
Set of Products what you are working
- BizTalk server
- SQL
- MSDTC
- MSMQ
- IIS
Clustering
Networking
- Load balancer
- Network Security Group (NSG)
- Application Gateway
Provisioning Automation
- ARM templates
- Scripting, e.g. PowerShell
Performance
- Expectations
- Measure
- Resource Sizing
Governance
When it comes to Governance, it will be considered based on your organization’s flexibility.
Things like,
- What set of policies and rules to be used?
- How the resources will work in Azure?
We need to determine first-hand with the owners or administrators of the corresponding Azure subscription. For Example,
- Who is the owner of different things?
- Who can perform different sets of actions?
And for resources, the following are the important aspects to be considered
- They will be placed in the Azure subscription under the resource groups.
- In order to organize the resources in the subscriptions, it will be different from business to business. For example, some customers have one subscription for everything and different subscriptions for different environments (Dev, QA, Production)
- This way it is easy for the admins or decision-makers to determine the privileges to be given for each environment.
- To organize the resources, it is important to device the plan like whether all the machines should be in the same resource group or hub (BizTalk Servers and SQL servers in different groups).
- And of course, who will be the owner of the resources is differs from customers to customers.
- Resource tagging is another important criterion where you need to tag the resources in order to identify different environments (Dev, QA, Production)
Cost Management
This is one of the essential criteria when you are working with Azure as the bill will be paid every month based on resource usage. Basically, a license in the Azure costs the difference between different products. Users will pay in advance for the resources or pay per usage. Purely, it depends on what kinds of enterprise you have with the Azure.
Tip: Azure pre-purchased License cost will be cheaper than when you pay as go.
Resource Provisioning is an essential task, you need to determine where you will organize your files and how to use it?
Security
Security is another important aspect to be considered. You need to have your account, groups, and determine the access control between your Azure Active Directory and the hub with networking security.
Networking
Basically, BizTalk will access to different folders in the on-prem solutions. And, communicate with SQL servers, Services (Http, Https), and other infrastructure elements. To have a seamless connection, the proper plan needs to devise with your infrastructure team.
Products
If we look at a little bit on the product side that is necessary to set up highly available here are some of the products SQL Server, MSMQ, BizTalk Server, MSDTC.
Here are some important aspects to be considered,
SQL server
- Only IAAS is supported (the only version of SQL that supports SQL transactions)
- Licensing BYOL or pay as you go
- Backup BYOL or pay as you go
- Backups to Blob storage
Tip: In Azure, it is cheaper with blob storage than using the file.
SQL Server High Availability (HA)
- Availability Groups that own its own storage
- Failover Cluster instance (FCI)
- Shared Storage
MSMQ HA
- Shared Storage
- Storage spaces direct
BizTalk server
- Licensing BYOL or pay as you go
BizTalk server HA
- Clustering for single instance hosts
- Enterprise SSO Master Secret Server
- Application gateway for incoming HTTP traffic
MSDTC HA
- Clustering and configure the Load Balancer
- Fixed port
- Use the same cluster role as SQL
- Shared storage
Clustering
For the clustering,
- Networking, you must use a load balancer to route traffic.
- Shared storage (will see the alternative solutions).
Internal load balancer
Let’s see the structure of the Internal load balancer
SKU Matters
There are two SKU Matters available as Basic and Standard for the load balancer. In the standard, there is always needed to have the network security group and the network card you select should be in standard SKU’s.
Frontend
- The front end is the service address. It could be SQL, MSDTC, EntSSO, etc.,
- Backend pool is the virtual machines and address
- To identify which machine is the current owner of the service, the health probe should be configured. This way load balance will ping and check the currently available service.
Load Balancing Rules
It will bind the front and the backend.
Port mapping is taken place here to determine only one port to be configured.
The other parameter is the Cluster. The ProbePort parameter needs to be set as it will check the health of the load balancer.
Shared storage
This will be needed for clustering when you use Fail over clustering,
MSMQ, MSDTC. So, there are alternatives, storage spaces direct which is a software-defined storage solution that uses SMB3. The synchronization is happening for a number of VM’s that have two or more disks dedicated to the specific storage spaces. You can create disk areas that represent the clusters and used by the services. For MSDTC, It is only available for Windows 2019 and onwards.
Performance
Virtual machines are coming in different editions, that are optimized to handle different kinds of workloads on the size that matters. It is one of the important aspects that we must look into it,
Selected VM size/option
- Optimized for different workloads
- Size matters for disk speed
- Review what you need CPU/Memory
- Remember licensing – BYOL/Pay as you go
Disk speed/size
- Size matters, size of the disk, and VMS affects IOPS that can be reached.
- Measure with e.g. Diskspd
- Baseline with your current environment
- Compare with your Azure Disks
Resources/References
- MSDTC Supported configurations
- Storage Spaces Direct
- Azure Shared Disks
- Azure VM Storage Performance and Throttling
Conclusion
It was indeed a fantastic session by Samuel. I hope it gives you an overview of setting up a highly available BizTalk Server in Azure using BizTalk2020 at a very high level. Happy clustering!
The post Setting up a highly available BizTalk Server in Azure appeared first on BizTalk360.
by Priyadharshini | Jun 1, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This blog is an extraction of the session “BizTalk 2020 and Beyond” in Integrate 2020 Remote event presented by Valerie Robb, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft.
It gives a detailed overview of BizTalk Server 2020 and future of BizTalk On Premise solutions. This session has also update on BizTalk Migration Tool. BizTalk Solutions
BizTalk Server 2020
Valerie started the session with Microsoft has announced the release of BizTalk Server 2020 early this year 15th January. Explained what’s new features How the features of BizTalk Server 2020 have been developed year on year (2017, 2018 & 2019) after BizTalk Server 2016.
BizTalk Beyond 2020 Version
It’s most anticipated announcement from Microsoft Product Team about the future of BizTalk Server. BizTalk Product Team have the plan about the vNext version with Cloud Native and Hybrid Solutions. However, timeline to release of next version is not determined, but It could be as like of BizTalk Server 2016 incremental updates (Service Pack). It’s too early to predict the next version of BizTalk Server, it’s purely based on platforms which runs on and update which version of Visual Studio/ SQL Server supports.
BizTalk Migration Tool
Announcement of BizTalk to Azure Integration Tool is the next major update in the session. The following are the highlights of BizTalk Migration Tools;
- Command Line Tool to assist with Migrating
- Runs against BizTalk MSI files to gather information about the BizTalk solution
- Currently in development – Fall availability planned
- Will be Open Source as designed to be extensible and written in C#
- Migration Tool has divided into six stages, each with their own interfaces;
- Discover
- Parse
- Analyze
- Report
- Convert
- Verify
AIM
Azure Integration Migration is the abbreviation for the tool command line. It starts the migration with assess command with source path to BizTalk MSI Directory. It will assess the BizTalk MSI and point the hosting environment with Azure CLI Tools.
Migration Tool has other command line options
- Migrate: This command will execute the following stages in migration process
- Discover
- Parse
- Analyze
- Report
Convert: Runs only the stages associated with conversion stage
Verify: Runs only the stages associated with verification stage
Migration Report
Azure Integration Migration Tool will generate report with detailed information about
- Discovered Resources
- Each Application Artifacts migration – for example FTP Adapter is migrating to FTP Connector in Azure, some manual intervention is needed to authenticate the FTP Server
Migration Path
Next, speaker explains how the resources are associated in Azure. Explained how Logic Apps able to send message using FTP and other connectors, how will use Routing to upload to the subscriber(s). For Example, Logic Apps use the Integration Account to converted Flat File schema into XML Schema.
Service Bus Topics
Demonstrated content-based routing and abilities to use context properties with the Service Bus Topics and APIM Routing Manager.
It is initial migration tool with basic information being migrated to Azure. There are gaps needs to be filled based on the customer feedback. BizTalk to Azure Integration Migration Tool is opened source and user can extensible the tool to migrate the BizTalk Applications to Azure.
- BRE is not part of migration tool
- EDI(X12), EDIFACT is not possible now
Conclusion
Microsoft has encouraged the customers of BizTalk On-premise to use the latest Azure Technologies. AIM is in initial phase to migrate the BizTalk Solutions from on-prem to Cloud. Future will be focused on Cloud Native + Hybrid integration.
The post BizTalk 2020 and Beyond appeared first on BizTalk360.
by Priyadharshini | Jun 1, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Introduction
This blog is an extraction of the session “BizTalk Server 2020 – Migration Path” presented by Sandro Pereira at Integrate 2020.
Back in January 2020, Microsoft announced the availability of BizTalk Server 2020 for public release with lots of exciting features and enhancements. It’s the time to migrate to the new version to enjoy the features. Sandro, Microsoft Azure MVP talks about the upgrade process, key information, and step-by-step instructions for upgrading from any of the previous BizTalk Server version. It also covers the reasons to upgrade to BizTalk Server 2020.
Why should you upgrade your BizTalk Platform?
People in the Integration space would always remember the BizTalk stickers that they receive from Sandro and here it is for BizTalk 2020.
Here are a few reasons:
- Lots of support
- If you are in an older version of BizTalk, then it’s time for you to migrate for continuous support especially the Enterprise clients.
- Environmental constraints
- BizTalk Server heavily depends on performance of the Windows server and SQL server. It’s time to upgrade for better performance
- New features
- Every release of BizTalk comes with a bunch of exciting features for Hybrid Integration
- Support for TLS 1.2
- Support for XSLT 3.0 which is a feature asked for many years
- More privacy and security for GDPR
- Feature packs
- New features can be added through the feature packs, so you need not wait for 3 to 4 years for the new features
- Move to cloud
- Ability to run on Azure VM as IaaS
- Administrator and Developer productivity enhancements
- New Visual Studio console features
What are the migration options?
- Migrate to Azure
- Migrate to BizTalk Server 2020
Migrate to Azure
- Hosted Azure Servers
- This is the easy option as most of them run BizTalk on the Azure VMs. There are options of high availability and, they can be hosted in various regions.
- Migrating to Azure Services
This is completely moving out of BizTalk. All the BizTalk related artefacts will be migrated to the Azure services. It is a complete redesign of the Integration solution. For example, there will be no MessageBox and Service Bus needs to be used to persist the messages. It is a difficult option even with the new BizTalk Migration Tool.
BizTalk Server has a rapid release cadence of major version every 2/3 years with radical changes. Azure is completely different. BizTalk server with the long release history is very stable. On the other hand, there is release for Azure every week and the features get deprecated. There is no one to one mapping in Azure. The process on arrival needs to be improved in Azure. There are some interesting options still missing in Azure like Business Rules.
BizTalk 2020 Migration
In- Place Upgrade
Here is the list of the supported and unsupported migration options:
There are few constraints like the SQL Adapter that has been deprecated, TIBCO Enterprise Message Adapter has been removed and the RosettaNet has issues in BizTalk 202 for which the hotfix needs to be installed for smooth functioning.
Migrate to the brand-new environment
The AS-IS migration
This is without any non-mandatory changes. The .Net framework needs to be changed, the deployment properties need to fix and the solution to be rebuilt.
Migrate and Improve
This needs to be done on the analysis of the business requirements and what needs to be improved on the solution side. This requires more prolonged version of testing as lot of improvements would be added and for the integration between different teams.
With his experience of more than 16 years working in BizTalk, Sandro shares the statistics on the effort of different migration options.
There are some pain points while migrating the BizTalk Server artifacts/components.
- Mappings will be critical
- Older versions are difficult to migrate
- SAP adapter is removed. So, all generated schemas need to be recreated
- EDI might have problems. Because of TPM, parties cannot be directly migrated. You will need to use the BizTalk Server Party Migration Tool
- BTDF is not available
- RFID and Human workflows are removed
- BRE is a simple export/import
How easy is the migration from the older versions
Wrap Up
Hope the insights on the BizTalk Server 2020 gives a clear picture on the migration path. Sandro and Tom Canter are working on the book on the BizTalk2020 Migration which would be available soon.
Happy migrating!
The post BizTalk Server – 2020 Migration Path appeared first on BizTalk360.
by stephen-w-thomas | May 20, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As the title of this session suggests, you will learn about the benefits of event-based integration and how it can help modernize your applications to be reactive, scalable, and extensible. The star of the show here is Event Grid, a lynchpin capability offered as part of Azure Integration Services.
Event Grid offers a single point for managing events sourced from within and without Azure, intelligently routing them to any number of interested subscribers. It not only supports 1st class integration with a large number of built-in Azure services but also supports custom event sources and routing to any accessible webhook. On top of that, it boasts low-latency, massive scalability, and exceptional resiliency. It even supports the Cloud Events specification for describing events, as well as your own custom schemas.
My talk will feature a demo showing how Event Grid easily enables real-time monitoring of Azure resources – but this is only one of many possible scenarios that are supported.
Why I should attend INTEGRATE 2020 Remote?
With INTEGRATE 2020 Remote, we are consolidating all Microsoft Integration focused content in a single place covering on-premise (BizTalk Server), cloud (Azure Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Power Platform), and Hybrid in an intense 3 days conference, with its own keynote.
If you are a Microsoft Integration professional, even if you attend part of the conference here and there, you’ll still see significant value educating and preparing yourself for the future. Please go ahead and register now.
The post Integrate 2020 Remote Session Spoiler – Building Event-Driven Integration Architectures appeared first on BizTalk360.
by stephen-w-thomas | May 18, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Messaging and eventing activities are at the core of most integration solutions. Although conceptually those two architectures differ on how they deal with the information they need to deliver to end systems, they share a number of patterns – and mastering those patterns, knowing when to apply them and having easy “recipes” for implementation can accelerate lots of integration projects.
Azure Integration Services (AIS) provides all the components required to create robust integration solutions, including not only messaging and eventing components – Azure Service Bus and Event Grid Topics – but also components to support orchestration and API mediation – Azure Logic Apps and API Management. Usually, clients understand the components, but sometimes struggle to translate the knowledge from years of using an integrated service, like BizTalk Server, into more streamlined components.
In this talk, I will be selecting 3 of the most widely used messaging and show how to implement those patterns using AIS components. And, since some of those patterns can also be implementing on an event-based solution, how can you implement the same pattern using those components.
I am looking forward to sharing this session with you and have some good conversation of how you solve those problems in your organization.
So, come and join me on Integrate 2020 Remote in June!
Why I should attend INTEGRATE 2020 Remote?
With INTEGRATE 2020 Remote, we are consolidating all Microsoft Integration focused content in a single place covering on-premise (BizTalk Server), cloud (Azure Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Power Platform), and Hybrid in an intense 3 days conference, with its own keynote.
If you are a Microsoft Integration professional, even if you attend part of the conference here and there, you’ll still see significant value educating and preparing yourself for the future. Please go ahead and register now.
The post Integrate 2020 Remote Session Spoiler – Messaging Patterns with Azure AIS appeared first on BizTalk360.
by stephen-w-thomas | May 14, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Data is the new gold! A phrase you might have heard in some discussion or presentation you have attended. Our economies are indeed more data-driven, and decisions are made on data. Data that in many cases, originate from observations, i.e. monitoring. For instance, tollgates monitor passing cars, websites can monitor traffic, and the camera’s in machines monitor assembly of products.
In the talk, I like to explain what Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Integration, and Monitoring is from an Azure perspective.
Furthermore, AI/ML is trending, and integration and monitoring are standard for integrators what will it mean for them once they onboard on a project with an AI/ML component – I like to provide my vision on that!
Lastly, I will share my experience with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Integration, and Monitoring by going through some real-world use-cases. While I am not a data-scientist as an integrator I have a role and responsibility in ML/AI related projects that require data from different places.
The general message from the talk: There is a relation between the monitoring, ingestion of data, and use for machine learning or artificial intelligence purposes.
Why I should attend INTEGRATE 2020 Remote?
With INTEGRATE 2020 Remote, we are consolidating all Microsoft Integration focused content in a single place covering on-premise (BizTalk Server), cloud (Azure Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Power Platform), and Hybrid in an intense 3 days conference, with its own keynote.
If you are a Microsoft Integration professional, even if you attend part of the conference here and there, you’ll still see significant value educating and preparing yourself for the future. Please go ahead and register now.
The post Integrate 2020 Remote Session Spoiler – AI/ML, Integration and Monitoring appeared first on BizTalk360.
by stephen-w-thomas | May 12, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Exposing APIs is all about making it easy for consumers to consume and understand your APIs. But there is a lot more to consider to create a robust, maintainable, and long-living API. One of those is security and this will be discussed during my session at Integrate 2020. When mixing security and usability we often end up in a situation where there are one or more operations in the API that needs more security than others. This also gets mixed with the fact that multiple consumers need access and that access need’s to be given in an easy manner. And all of this ends up in a situation where built-in security options in Azure API Management are not granular enough and we end up with adding specific code to solve this that in combination with different workarounds like groups etc. Soon we get a really complex setup that is hard to understand. So let’s look at how to solve this with an IDP instead, moving all that out of API Management and let the API focus on being a great API.
In this session, we will use Auth0 as an IDP and let API Management use OAuth validation to make sure the token provided is coming from Auth0.
We will then go thru how the trust setup is done to connect the API Management instance to my Auth0 instance. And then how to work with RBAC and permissions during these. We will, in the end, up in a solution where permission and access are managed at the IDP (Auth0) and where restrictions are enforced based on the permissions inside the operation in API Management.
Come and join me to see how this is achieved!
Ask tons of questions and bring in your thoughts so we can discuss and share experience and knowledge!
Hope to see you there!
Why I should attend INTEGRATE 2020 Remote?
With INTEGRATE 2020 Remote, we are consolidating all Microsoft Integration focused content in a single place covering on-premise (BizTalk Server), cloud (Azure Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Power Platform), and Hybrid in an intense 3 days conference, with its own keynote.
If you are a Microsoft Integration professional, even if you attend part of the conference here and there, you’ll still see significant value educating and preparing yourself for the future. Please go ahead and register now.
The post Integrate 2020 Remote Session Spoiler – Improve your API’s with RBAC security appeared first on BizTalk360.
by Surya V | May 12, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Today, it’s more common with BizTalk Server environments located in Azure. With the release of BizTalk Server 2020, this is increasing. Generally, production environments require a highly available solution. When setting up a Highly Available BizTalk environment in Azure you have some additional considerations to take into account compared with doing it in your own environment. This session shows you the alternatives for clustering SQL Server, BizTalk Server, and MSDTC. As some of the clustering features require shared storage, we look at Storage Spaces Direct and Premium File Storage.
To successfully configure the failover clustering you need to configure networking in the right way, setting up a Load Balancer to route the traffic to the right server.
As time is limited, we concentrate on BizTalk Server 2020 and the concepts needed apart from a normal setup. If you’re not considering setting up an environment in Azure, you will still get interesting insights on how networking works in Azure and technologies you can use in your own datacenter.
Why I should attend INTEGRATE 2020 Remote?
With INTEGRATE 2020 Remote, we are consolidating all Microsoft Integration focused content in a single place covering on-premise (BizTalk Server), cloud (Azure Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Power Platform), and Hybrid in an intense 3 days conference, with its own keynote.
If you are a Microsoft Integration professional, even if you attend part of the conference here and there, you’ll still see significant value educating and preparing yourself for the future. Please go ahead and register now.
The post Integrate 2020 Remote Session Spoiler – Setting up a highly available BizTalk Server in Azure appeared first on BizTalk360.
by Saravana Kumar | Feb 13, 2020 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Are you an Integration expert? Want to get up to speed on the Microsoft Integration technologies and stay updated on their vision and road map? Then, INTEGRATE 2020 is the answer to all these questions. The 3-day event, with speakers from the Microsoft Product Group and from the Global Integration Community, to listen to the leading Integration Specialists and learn what is coming next in integration and to network with your peers.
Any Microsoft events like the Ignite, Inspire, Build, etc will have sessions covering a wide range of technologies, which is overwhelming to some extent, whereas INTEGRATE 2020 focuses on a niche category of people interested in Microsoft Integration space.
Last year INTEGRATE edition was by far the most successful one which means the conference is only getting better year after year. This is undoubtedly the premier event focusing on the Microsoft integration space. Therefore, it is key for everyone in the integration space to attend this event to know the interesting things that are happening and learn what’s coming next from the Microsoft Product Group.
Here I wish to express why attending Integrate 2020 in-person is so important:
What’s Microsoft Integration Roadmap?
Here is a list of important announcements made at INTEGRATE by the Microsoft Product team. It would be more valuable for you to connect with the product team over networking to discuss more on the benefits, challenges, and considerations to be followed for these important announcements.
INTEGRATE 2019 – Paul Larsen, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft made the big announcement “BizTalk Server 2020” and he also announced it will be released at the end of 2019. BizTalk Server 2020 is not just a simple software update it’s a game-changer and beginning of a new era. BizTalk Server 2020 is Microsoft’s commitment to existing customers who invested in BizTalk Server. The new BizTalk Server version will be supported until 2030
Also, the Logic Apps team announced the public preview for Rosetta Net and a few real use cases of Rosetta Net.
INTEGRATE 2018 – Jon Fancey, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft in his Keynote mentioned the need to embrace change towards cloud adoption. The whole of the conference in 2018 was about what’s the future with hybrid and cloud integrations. There were a lot of announcements from Microsoft on introduction towards Azure Integration Services, Logic Apps, Function, etc.
Paul Larsen announced BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Update (CU) 5. He also showed the traditional BizTalk Server life cycle diagram that showed that just a month is left ahead for support to end for BizTalk Server 2013 and BizTalk Server 2013 R2.
Clemens Vasters – Principal Architect announced Event Hubs for the Kafka Ecosystem.
INTEGRATE 2017 – Jim Harrer, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft Pro Integration team emphasized how Microsoft brings intelligence to its Hybrid Integration Platform. Jim showed the Pro Integration team’s year in review showing how they have progressed as a team in the 4 main departments – Logic Apps, BizTalk, Host Integration Server, and API Management.
INTEGRATE 2016 – Jim Harrer, Program Manager of the Pro-Integration group at Microsoft announced Microsoft’s integration vision and road map to provide a unified integration experience across on-premises and cloud.
Now, are you excited about the important Microsoft updates at INTEGRATE 2020? We are excited as much as you are!
Network and Explore an Opportunity for Partnerships
INTEGRATE is the biggest and best opportunity to build a strong network and explore the opportunities to build a strong business. You certainly not want to miss out on the best possible opportunity to grow your company and network with the community.
Pricing
We already opened registrations for INTEGRATE 2020. The early bird registrations for tickets closes on March 31st. Also, given the Public Holiday on June 1st in parts of Europe and our wish to accommodate attendees enjoying a long weekend, all the Microsoft Speaker sessions will take place on Day 2 and Day 3. We have now made available a 2 Day Pass Option for June 2nd and June 3rd only.
If you are planning to attend INTEGRATE 2020, then go ahead and register as this will be the best ticket sale of the year. Be quick as when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Sponsorship
We are also opening sponsorship opportunities for this event. There are sponsorship packages available at different levels. If you are interested to sponsor this event, please contact us at contact@biztalk360.com.
Join with other leading consulting and ISV companies as sponsors:
Are you still not convinced? 
Don’t miss out, register today and take the early bird offer.
Don’t miss out on the conference which is highly focused on Microsoft Integration space. We look forward to planning your trip to London and joining the community in June.
The post Why you should attend INTEGRATE 2020? appeared first on BizTalk360.
