Microsoft introduced Azure Integration Environment, a new unified experience that allows users to organize their resources into logical groupings to manage their integration resources at Microsoft Ignite 2023. By using this platform, customers can leverage integration as a strategic advantage, unlocking new opportunities and streamlining operations.

The two core components of this unified experience are:

1. Azure Integration Environment (Public Preview): Integration environment allows organizations to assemble their resources into logical groupings. The model is flexible to allow organizations to use integration environments in a way that aligns with internal standards and principles. For some organizations this may mean grouping integration environments based upon traditional landscapes such as development, test, staging, user acceptance testing and production. For others, they may decide to group resources based upon business units or organizations such as Finance, Marketing, Operations, Corporate Services. Regardless of the organization’s structure, they should be able find the flexibility needed to address the organizations requirements.
2. Business Process Tracking (Public Preview): This capability allows organizations to set business context over the transactions being processed by Azure Logic Apps – a requirement businesses are looking for. With Business Process Tracking, organizations can provide business stakeholders insights into complex processes, such as order processing spanning multiple Logic Apps and workflows.

Through a business process designer within the Azure Portal, users can construct a series of business process stages, and within each stage, properties can be created that refer to key business data they would like to capture. As the target audience for the capability, the company sees a business analyst or a business subject matter expert as users.

A typical Azure integration solution involves resource types like API Management and Azure Functions, which is not currently supported by this version of Business process tracking. Thus, if your looking for a solution for advanced business process tracking with extended resource support, then check out Serverless360's BAM module: https://www.serverless360.com/business-activity-monitoring

This video by Michael Stephenson provides detailed steps for setting up Integration Environment and Business Process Tracking, including how it works.

He also offers his thoughts on the various aspects that come into play during the setup and operation of the integration.

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