MINICASE STUDY CloudBased Application Integration Solution Offers the

MINI-CASE STUDY Cloud-Based Application Integration Solution Offers the Flexibility of Geography and Scale “Microsoft Azure enabled us to bring our offering to the location of choice for our developer community and enterprise customers while allowing us to control the degree of Paa. S scale and spend per territory. ” – Daniel Chilcott, CEO and Co-Founder, Flowgear § SITUATION MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Flowgear WEB SITE: www. flowgear. net LOCATION: Johannesburg, South Africa ORG SIZE: 6 MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Flowgear is a cloud integration platform that removes the friction in enterprise application integration, and was designed to meet hybrid environment challenges. With support for cloud/Saa. S and on-premises solutions and the ability to connect to APIs, software coding is eliminated, drastically compressing time to delivery. Read about other Microsoft Azure ISVs As a relatively early entrant to the cloud-based integration market, Flowgear needed a way to offset concerns around data security and ensure that integration requests could be serviced at low latencies. Additionally, it was important to pick a platform-as-a-service (Paa. S) vendor that would simplify the process of managing builds targeting both Paa. S and Infrastructure as a Service (Iaa. S). § SOLUTION Flowgear chose the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, enabling users and their respective assets to be hosted in a region of choice, selected at signup. US and EU customer accounts are provisioned and serviced from Microsoft Azure. Flowgear makes use of many of the benefits of Microsoft Azure, including: Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Blob storage, Redis Cache, and Service Bus. § BENEFITS Adoption of components in the Microsoft Azure Paa. S stack was frictionless and offered a fast time to value for Flowgear, given its existing investment in the Microsoft. NET stack. Microsoft Azure’s Autoscale feature provided significant cost savings during low -use periods.