This presentation is from the Integration Day event, a TechMeet360 Community Initiative, held on September 10, 2016 at Microsoft GSTC in Bangalore. In this slide, BizTalk360 Founder & CTO Saravana Kumar gives a brief introduction on "Evolution of Integration Space". This presentation covers the evolution of integration solutions due to changes in Business, Role and Technology over the Integration arena.

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TECHNOLOGY PARTNER
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Saravana Kumar
Integration MVP
Evolution of Integration Space

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• MVP – BizTalk, Integration, Azure (since 2007)
• Founder of BizTalk360
• http://blogs.biztalk360.com
• twitter: saravanamv
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Saravana Kumar

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• Integration Evolution
•Business Changes
•Role Changes
•Technology Changes
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Agenda

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Role of Integration is
evolving day-by-day

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Evolution of Integration solutions

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ESB Architecture
Invocation &
Orchestration
Transport
Protocol
Conversion
Data
Format
Transformation
Location &
Version
Transparency
Message
Interactions
Support
EnterpriseServiceBus
Error Handling
& Repair
Service
Consumer
Service
Consumer
Service
Consumer
Service
Provider
Service
Provider
Service
Provider

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• SOA was accepted
• EAI/ESB terms started to evolve
• EAI patterns started evolving
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Acceptance of Integration terms

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Integration evolution due to
changing Business needs

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• Digital transformation
• 2 speed IT
• Faster time to market
• Agility
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Industry is evolving

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Microsoft Tech Stack
Application
Performance
Management
IntegrationManagement &
Governance
Cortana Analytics Suite
App Service
Development
Application Platform
Azure Active Directory
Azure AD – B2C / B2B
Automation
Cognitive Services
Dev Test Labs
Application Insights
Operations Insights
Security Centre
Resource Groups
Backup Vaults
Data Catalog
Data Lake Storage
Machine Learning
Data Lake Analytics
Power BI
Stream Analytics
Visual Studio Team
Services
SQL Database
Storage
Container Service
Batch
Document DB
Redis Cache
Web Apps
Service Fabric
Function App
Dev Machine
Templates
Security

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The Evolving Architecture Paradox (today)
Start of Project End of Project

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Integration evolution
raises lot of questions

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• How do I integrate my back-end systems and services
with multi-tenant SaaS applications?
• How do I create composite services that are
orchestrated services provided by multiple SaaS
applications?
• Should I use integration middleware in the cloud (PaaS)
to integrate my on premise applications?
• What does hybrid integration architecture look like and
how to I manage such an environment?
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Role of Integration
Consultants is also evolving
day-by-day

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Integration Specialist Ad-Hoc Integrator Citizen Integrator
• Coaching
• Supporting
• Escalation
• Governing
• Defining Approaches
• Defining Standards
• Implementation on hard projects
• Pair programming
• Traditional developer who also does
some integration
• Doing bulk of implementation
• Working within Integration
Constraints
• Working on other non integration
features
• Business User who is tech savvy
• Integration Analysis
• Light weight integration
• Low risk integration
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Modern Integration Roles
Hard core Integration
Consultant
Traditional Developer Business Users

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Pre-2008 - Tech Savvy Business User
• Benefits
• Business got the job done
• Low cost
• Challenges
• 000’s of Access/Excel solutions
across Org
• Security and Data Vulnerabilities
• Solutions been around for decades
in some org
• Complex business logic lost in
macros
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I can solve that
problem with a
macro in excel

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Cloud/SaaS Era
• Benefits
• SaaS/Cloud enabled app platforms
• Market place add ons
• More complex solutions
• Scalable to more users
• Challenges
• Super Charged Stealth IT
• Silo applications limits
functionality
• Often identity challenges
• Integration often required
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API/IPaaS Era - Citizen Integrator
• Benefits
• API simplifies integration
• Business users can call API
• Integrated solutions
• Challenges
• Not every org asset is API
capable
• What technical debt is being
created under the radar?
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I can
connect the
API to
Salesforce

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Microsoft Integration story for citizen
integrators

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Flow Overview
• Automate my day
• Automate my team
• Online Designer
• Flow Templates
• Flow Mobile App
• Push Notifications
• Activity
• Develop from SharePoint
Online
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Power Apps Overview
• Connect to what you have
• SaaS Apps
• API’s
• Hybrid
• On-Premise Data Gateway
• No Code Applications
• Build in browser
• Build from data
• Build in Power Apps Studio
• Publish to Web and Mobile
• Windows Store
• Apple App Store
• Google Play
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Integration tools and
technologies are also
evolving

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Microsoft Integration Suite (2004)
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BizTalk Server SSIS MSMQ WCF (web services)

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Microsoft Integration Suite (today)
IoT
API ManagementAPI Apps
Service Bus
Relay
Service Bus
Messaging
Azure BizTalk
Logic Apps
Event Hubs
BizTalk Server
EAI/ETL
API Hybrid
Connectivity
BAM/Analytics Citizen Integrator
Messaging
BizTalk Server
Azure BizTalk
Orchestration
BizTalk Server
VPN Express Route
Event Hubs IoT Hubs
Power BI Stream Analytics Power Apps
Data Factory SSIS
Event Hubs
Flows

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Adoption of REST over SOAP
REST
over
HTTP
ServiceClient
GET
HEAD
PUT
POST
PATCH
DELETE
OPTIONS
HATEOAS
Hypermedia
URI
Resource
Metadata (optional)
Roy Fielding
“Supports software engineering
on the scale of decades”
SOAP
+
WDSL
ServiceClient
Response
Service URL
SOAP Action
SOAP Envelope
Payload
WSDL Metadata
Extensions (WS-
*)
Wraps messages in
standardized, extensible
envelope.
Provides strongly-typed
interfaces

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Accept: Things are moving fast

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The 2 Modes of IT
Marathon Runner – Mode 1
• Mission Critical Systems
• Conventional Approaches
• Stability
• Reliability
• Low Risk
• Slow & Safe
• Systems of Record
Sprinter – Mode 2
• Take Risks / Safe Enough
• Agility & embrace change
• Remove bureaucracy
• Deliver Value Fast
• Fail Fast
• Aggressive customer focus
• Systems of Engagement

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Delivery ‘vs’ Architecture
• Need to Deliver Business Value
• BUT
• Technology changes so rapidly
• Projects change so rapidly
• Flexibility is king
• The best way to solve a problem today might
be different tomorrow
• SO
• Think of architecture as a journey rather than a
destination
• Go into detail on transitional architectures
• Use common blueprints/patterns
• Just in time architecture
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” - Darwin
Architecture Delivery

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Monetization of Integration
Azure LogicApps