Welcome to the second installment of our quarterly blog series featuring the latest updates and highlights from Azure Integration Services. Over the past few months, we’ve witnessed several exciting developments, from new product releases to insightful customer stories, all showcasing the continued innovation and impact of Azure Integration Services in driving digital transformation.

In this edition, we’ll revisit the key milestones and achievements that have shaped the integration landscape, empowering organizations to seamlessly connect their systems, data, and processes. 

Product Announcements 

Now in general availability, Azure API Center is a centralized solution that offers a unified API inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location. Looking to learn more about Azure API Center? Our introductory learning module provides a comprehensive overview, exploring the core functionalities of API Center.

With the rise in Gen AI app usage, there’s an urgent need for enterprise-wide, federated access to manage and secure endpoints. At Build, we announced the GenAI Gateway capabilities in Azure API Management to tackle these challenges for Azure OpenAI Services endpoints. As a first step, we’ve simplified the onboarding process so you can now import all Azure OpenAI endpoints into the Azure API Management platform with a single click. These endpoints will be protected by Azure API Management’s built-in managed identity authentication. For scaled workloads, we provide load balancing, rate limiting, and out-of-box observability support.   

By simplifying and automating how you connect and integrate various applications, services, and data sources in the cloud, Azure Logic Apps users can create and run automated workflows with little to no code. Recent updates to the platform include new features that enhance seamless management of integration flows, simplify legacy integration, and enable efficient B2B integration.  We’ve added support for zero downtime deployment scenarios in the portal (public preview for Logic Apps Standard), EDI (X12/EDIFACT) processing with built in actions (general availability), Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Logic Apps Standard (general availability), and more. Click here for more technical details. 

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker that ensures secure and efficient delivery of data messages between different parts of your system, even when they’re disconnected or processing tasks at different speeds. Currently in preview, batch delete feature empowers customers to delete messages on the service side from an entity or the dead letter queue in batches of up to 4,000 messages. 

Like an event dispatcher for your cloud, Azure Event Grid triggers actions across your applications and services in near real-time whenever something significant happens. New features are generally available that are tailored to customers who are looking for a pub-sub message broker that can enable Internet of Things (IoT) solutions using MQTT protocol and can help build event-driven applications. For more technical details on these announcements, click here.   

Customer Stories: Real-world Impact, Real-world Solutions  

Over the past few months, we’ve showcased inspiring customer stories highlighting the real-world impact of Azure Integration Services. These testimonials not only celebrate our users’ successes but also offer valuable insights to help you envision how our solutions can address your specific needs and deliver tangible benefits for your organization. 

Kantar, a global data and consulting company, faced the challenge of a fragmented IT landscape due to multiple divisions operating independently with diverse legacy systems. This resulted in operational inefficiencies and hindered innovation. By adopting Azure Integration Services, Kantar was able to unify its IT operations, streamlining processes and data flows across divisions. This modernization effort led to increased business agility, faster time-to-market, and a more cohesive technology ecosystem. 

Össur, a global leader in non-invasive orthopedic technology, aimed to consolidate its manufacturing operations onto a unified platform to improve efficiency and scalability. By leveraging Azure Integration Services, Össur successfully migrated its legacy systems to the cloud, enabling seamless data integration and automation across its manufacturing processes. This transformation resulted in a more agile and cost-effective production environment, empowering Össur to respond faster to market demands and deliver innovative products to its customers. 

Events 

We recently hosted a 90-minute webinar on how Azure Integration Services can empower organizations in the rapidly changing tech landscape, highlighting the essential role of seamless integration in driving innovation and growth across industries. It delved into Azure API Management’s robust security measures to protect against cyber threats while ensuring compliance. We also explored the transformative power of AI-driven integration and how Azure Integration Services can harness AI capabilities to automate tasks, unlock new opportunities, and drive innovation. 

Microsoft’s Build 2024 conference, held in Seattle and online in May, showcased the GenAI Gateway Capabilities in Azure API Management. Demos showcased how API Management can be configured for authentication and authorization for OpenAI endpoint, enforcing rate limits based on OpenAI tokens used, load balancing across multiple OpenAI endpoints and more.    

Shortly after Build, at the Integrate 2024 conference the Microsoft Azure Integration Services team highlighted advancements in generative AI, API management, and developer productivity.

Take Action 

Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) is being retired on August 31, 2024. To ensure uninterrupted service, migrate your ISE instances to Azure Logic Apps Standard as soon as possible. Check this blog for resources to help with the transition.  

August 31st is also the deadline to upgrade your Azure API Management to stv2!  For a detailed guide on the migration process, you can refer to our official documentation. 

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