Case Study – Hybrid Integration in 1 Day

Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

Customer

• Location: Denmark• Sector: Healthcare• Size: Large

Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

Scenario• New customer website hosted at a third party• Existing on premise integration using Websphere• How do we bridge to allow the website to access

Websphere• Customer has no Azure experience

Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

Solution• Use Azure Service Bus Relay to bridge through

the cloud• Use WCF Routing Service to forward messages to

Websphere

Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

Benefits• Project up and running in 1 day• Customer website able to reuse services in

Websphere• Reuse of existing Websphere investment• Low cost light weight add on to existing

integration infrastructure

Context

User has a healthcare policy in customer system

User is able to self service theirMembership via the web portal

Containers

Website hosted at 3rd party data centre

Calls to back end systems go through

service bus relay

WCF Routing Service forwards calls to

existing Websphere setup

WCF Routing Service

Azure Service BusRelay

Web Portal

Websphere

Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

Technical Highlights• Customer had no Azure experience• ½ day on the whiteboard• ½ day paired development/deployment• End of day deployed to test environments and website able

to access on premise services• Customer continued on their own being fairly self sufficient• Low cost in terms of setup and running costs