This document discusses Microsoft's vision for integration across on-premises and cloud environments. It describes how a real estate company called Akelius uses APIs, Logic Apps, and other Azure services to integrate their various on-premises systems more flexibly and securely. By extracting data through system, process, and experience APIs and storing it in a staging database, Akelius is able to expose entities as APIs and build applications accessing integrated data from multiple devices and locations. This new approach improves requirements around reusability, access, uptime, standardization, data quality, and a microservices architecture.