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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 their
Membership 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 Bus
Relay
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