Understanding Azure Integration Services

Microsoft provides Azure Integration Services for enterprises to build iPaaS solutions on the Azure cloud. The following has been said regarding Microsoft's place in Gartner's Magic Quadrant:

Microsoft is placed in the leader quadrant for the enterprise integration platform as a service space.

The amount of services and their range of configuration and connector options makes Azure Integration Services a rich offering that differentiates Microsoft from other competitors in the market. Azure provides four core things to form the critical features required to accomplish enterprise integrations:

• The ability to publish API endpoints for discovery and use
• The ability to create and run integration logic business workflows (orchestration)
• The ability to design and implement loosely coupled integrations by using a messaging stack
• The ability to handle communication via events to trigger processing pipelines:
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