Azure Integration Services Quarterly Highlights and Insights: 2024’Q3

As we close out Q3 2024, we’re excited to share some exciting updates to Azure Integrated Services! This is a landmark quarter as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Azure API Management while introducing groundbreaking capabilities to help customers innovate faster, secure their digital ecosystems, and simplify complex integrations.

Celebrating 10 years of Azure API Management

September was an important milestone. Azure API Management turns 10! Since its launch in 2014, it has transformed the way businesses connect, scale, and secure their digital environments. Today, over 35,000 customers use Azure API Management to manage nearly 2 million APIs and process over 2 trillion API requests each month.

Latest articles from InfoWorld It captures the essence of our journey over the past 10 years, demonstrating how customer-centric innovation has been at the heart of everything we do. From offering greater policy flexibility and competitive pricing plans to embracing hybrid environments and advancing security, we’ve continually evolved to meet the needs of modern businesses. Now, with game-changing features like GenAI Gateway, we’re just getting started! As we celebrate 10 years of Azure API Management, we look forward to shaping the future of API innovation. Learn about our story and what’s next here.

Product Announcement

Azure Logic Apps continues to enhance its integration capabilities with a series of exciting updates. From enabling efficient data collection for generative AI applications to providing powerful templates for faster workflow creation, these new features make it easy for developers to build, manage, and scale solutions. Integration with Semantic Kernel improves natural language processing, and a new monitoring dashboard provides improved oversight and performance insights. Whether automating workflows, managing complex integrations, or leveraging AI, the latest releases are designed to accelerate innovation and simplify operations for developers and enterprises alike.

Gather documents for Gen AI applications using Logic Apps

As generative AI gains momentum, efficient data collection becomes essential for building intelligent applications. Azure Logic Apps, with over 1,000 enterprise connectors, accelerates this process. Now in public preview, new built-in operations for document parsing and chunking simplify the process of ingesting structured and unstructured data into Azure AI Search, allowing developers to focus on innovation rather than repetitive tasks. It allows you to do so. These out-of-the-box capabilities streamline the workflow of AI applications using the Search Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern to integrate documents and files into AI solutions faster and more efficiently. Learn more Document collection function.

Integrating Semantic Kernels and Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps now Integration with Semantic KernelImprove your natural language processing (NLP) capabilities and seamlessly automate complex workflows across multiple systems. Access to more than 1,000 connectors allows developers to easily trigger actions and interact with cloud services, on-premises systems, and hybrid environments. This integration expands the potential to build intelligent applications that leverage advanced AI models, helping developers scale their workflows efficiently and innovate faster.

Template support in Azure Logic Apps Standard

Template support in Azure Logic Apps Standard Now available, it provides developers with a powerful way to simplify and accelerate the creation of enterprise integration solutions. These pre-built templates provide ready-to-use workflows for a wide range of scenarios, from simple data transfers to complex automation and event-driven processes. By providing a powerful starting point, templates save developers time and effort by eliminating the need to build workflows from scratch. Now in public preview, this feature lets you jumpstart your Logic Apps projects with quick access to a growing library of templates, allowing you to deploy both simple and complex integrations faster and manage them more efficiently.

Logic Apps Standard Monitoring Dashboard

We’ve also introduced improved monitoring capabilities for Azure Logic Apps Standard. these new dashboardis built using Azure Workbooks and provides curated visualizations to help developers, IT operations teams, and product owners effectively monitor and manage their workflows. Customize visualizations to meet your unique needs and gain critical insights to optimize performance and increase oversight of your integration scenarios.

General availability of workspaces in Azure API Management

We also workspace In Azure API Management! These key improvements enable organizations to manage their APIs more productively, securely, and reliably by adopting a federated approach. Workspaces provide greater autonomy to API teams, allowing them to independently create, manage, and publish APIs within the same API Management service. This independence promotes faster development through isolated management access and a dedicated API runtime. At the same time, the API platform team maintains centralized oversight, ensuring seamless monitoring, policy enforcement, compliance, and integrated publishing through a single developer portal.

GenAI gateway functionality expansion

Our efforts to improve Azure API Management continue with the release of new policies that extend support for a variety of large-scale language models through the Azure AI Model Inference API. These updates address token resource management, ensuring efficient and cost-effective utilization of models critical to intelligent applications. Learn about this New GenAI gateway features.

Customer Success Stories

This quarter we heard inspiring stories from customers leveraging Azure integrated services to solve complex challenges and drive innovation to improve operational efficiency and customer experiences across a variety of industries.

• Dubai Commercial Bank (CBD): By modernizing application infrastructure using Microsoft Azure CBD Our customer base has quadrupled in the last four years. Customers can open an account and start banking in about two minutes through our award-winning mobile platform thanks to Azure API Management and Logic Apps.

• Olympia IT: this Colombian technology company By moving from on-premises infrastructure to Azure, we accelerated product development while minimizing coding and maintenance efforts. Through services such as Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions, Olimpia IT has created innovative solutions such as “My Signature” for rapid contract execution, impacting more than 18 million Colombians.

• simple: Simplex Co., Ltd. Strengthen your cybersecurity operations with the integration of Azure Logic Apps and Copilot for Security. This synergy automates incident summaries for messaging apps, improving initial response speed and helping Simplex maintain strong security measures in the rapidly changing financial sector.

upcoming events

There are endless opportunities to participate in the Azure Integration Services community in the future.

• Ignite Conference: Join us for the Ignite conference where we will unveil exciting new features and provide insight into the future of Azure Integration Services. Stay tuned for more details!

• October 31 Webinar: Mark your calendar for an upcoming webinar that will dive into the latest innovations and best practices for leveraging Azure Integration Services in your organization.

• Community Events: Don’t miss out on community-focused events, including live webinars and sessions where you can learn directly from experts and hear success stories from partners and customers.

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