Total Cost of Ownership for enterprise software is the sum of all direct and indirect costs incurred by the software and is a critical part of the ROI calculation. The reality of the cloud support process is that the user will end up paying more money depending upon the severity of the problem. For Instance, the support ticket resolved by 1st or 2nd line support teams would cost less than being resolved by the Architecture team.

I am Michael Stephenson, Azure MVP, and Integration Architect. I work as a Technology Consultant for leading enterprises worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are obviously very popular buzzwords these days. This is for good reason based upon the evolution of these capabilities even within the past few years as major cloud vendors package these powerful capabilities as APIs. A class of APIs that we will explore in this whitepaper is Cognitive Services APIs. By packaging these AI and ML capabilities as APIs, the barrier to entry has dramatically reduced.

This eBook will cover various concepts of Azure Functions, its development, deployment, management, and monitoring. Microsoft launched Azure Function early 2016 as a preview, and it became generally available mid-November of 2016.

Logic Apps helps you build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises by automating tasks and business processes as workflow. Logic Apps is a cloud service in Azure that simplifies how you design and create scalable solutions for app integration, enterprise application integration (EAI), and business-to-business (B2B) communication both in cloud and on-premise.

Logic Apps was released in July 2016 for the public and has since then evolved into a leader in the integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) space in two years. Moreover, Logic Apps succeeded Microsoft's first attempt at offering an iPaaS in the Cloud - BizTalk Services. It later received some updates and branded as Microsoft Azure BizTalk Service, MABS for short - a version 2 of BizTalk Services. However, MABS was deprecated, and both the VETER pipelines and the EDI/B2B functionality Microsoft moved to Logic Apps.