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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786465573

Length 696 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Azure

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Cloud Computing

Authors (6):

Abhishek Kumar

Martin Abbott

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

James Corbould

Mahindra Morar

Ashish Bhambhani

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud

2. What Is an Azure App Service? FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Started with API Apps

4. What is Azure API Management?

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

Why and when to use

Many enterprises now use a multitude of cloud-based SaaS services, and being able to integrate these services and resources can become complex. This is where the native capability of Logic Apps can help by providing connectors for most enterprise and social services and to orchestrate the business process flows graphically.

If your resources are all based in the cloud, then Logic Apps is a definite candidate to use as an integration engine.

When you have resources scattered in the cloud and on premise, then you may want to consider BizTalk as a choice for this type of hybrid integration along with Logic Apps. BizTalk 2016 include an adapter for Logic Apps. This Logic App adapter will be used to integrate Logic Apps and BizTalk sitting on premise. Using the BizTalk 2016 Logic App adapter on-premise, resources can directly talk to a multitude of SaaS platforms available on cloud. We will explain this in more details in the following chapters.

You can think of Logic Apps as...