Integration today No application is an island. To get the most from the software you build or buy, you need to connect it to other software. This means that effective application integration is essential for just about every organization. Sometimes, all you need to do is connect one application directly to another. More often, though, application integration means connecting multiple independent systems, often in complex ways. This is why organizations commonly rely on specialized integration platforms that provide the services needed to do this. Like so much else today, those platforms have moved from on-premises datacenters into the public cloud. Rather than use traditional integration technologies such as BizTalk Server, more and more organizations are using integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions, i.e., cloud-based integration platforms To meet this need, Microsoft provides Azure Integration Services. This iPaaS solution is a set of cloud services for mission critical enterprise integration. To achieve this goal, these services provide the four core technologies required for cloud-based integration