Chapter 8: API-Centric Enterprise Integrations
Enterprises and their technology uses have been evolving constantly since the launch of cloud technologies. This has resulted in the need to develop integration interfaces to support interoperability across various systems and applications. The adoption of API-led architectures is vital to the success of these Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios. API solutions can revolve around business entities or domain models, thereby enabling standardization across all the integrating parties.
The purpose of this chapter is to take a deeper look into some real-world enterprise integration scenarios and explore how the Azure Integration Services offering can be utilized to build modern API-based integration platforms. Most of the popular players in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) space, such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, and TIBCO, are adopting industry-standard protocols and patterns for their interfaces as well. Hence...