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Nir Z.

Software Engineer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/22/2014

"Windows Azure is very seamless for .NET projects"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

The ease of deployment of .NET projects to Azure is incredible. The system truly was built with the .NET ecosystem in mind. Integration with Visual Studio is wonderful, and managing the deployment lifecycle through Microsoft's ecosystem is often very seamless. In particular, the ability to configure and monitor auto-scaling options to allow for cost savings and confidence in production systems is a huge benefit over other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Windows Azure's reliability can go in waves. After a year and a half of using Cloud Services, we have seen periods of downtime that were often inexplicable. Typically, services would come back up as inexplicably as they went down. Nonetheless, these issues are few and far between, and Azure's customer support team has always been very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Logic Apps:

Read the documentation before writing any code. It's often confusing, but building things right the first time around can be a huge time-saver later on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Logic Apps solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our original decision to use Azure was its seamless integration into the .NET ecosystem. We have several Windows Servers deployed through Cloud Services, and they all access a common back-end built on Azure Tables, Queues, and Caches. Because the SDK is easy to work with, linking all of those backend components together is easy. It's simple and straightforward to get up to speed, and everything is managed through one portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vinod S.

Integration Development Manager

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/9/2014

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"following this product and performing POC's"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

Microsoft is investing heavily on this product to evolve as good IPASS platform. I like the EDI features that are supported in Azure Biztalk Services. Migration tools are readily available to convert on premise EDI interfaces as cloud based solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

It would be great if connectors are also supported to connect to few SAAS apps like Salesforce or Marketo etc. Currently connections are supported via Web services or Service Bus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Viral P.

Principal Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/4/2014

"Nice product"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

Windows Azure BizTalk Services provides nice integration capabilities for the Windows Azure Platform to extend on-premises applications to the cloud, provides very good messaging endpoints on the cloud to process and transform the messages, enables business-to-business messaging, and helps organizations integrate with disparate applications, both on cloud and on-premises. BizTalk Services provides common integration capabilities (e.g. bridges, transforms, B2B messaging) on Windows Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Cost is the big problem. Need range of products. Need to add more platform and tools for app model.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Logic Apps:

It is definitely very good technology if you want to transform to app model and want to reduce scalability and performance costs.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Logic Apps solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trying to reduce scalability , performance, hardware and maintenance cost . It is really great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Samar R.

National Solutions Director

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/4/2014

"National Solutions Director at Neudesic LLC based in chicago"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

I love the edi and eai capabilities. Love the fact that it integrates well with the local services that may be available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Needs to become feature rich. Does not seem fully baked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Logic Apps:

This is not a replacement for BizTalk on premise by any means. It is an offering that was missing from BizTalk on premise. A lot of times WABS can hold its own grounds very well. A lot of times it succeeds with BizTalk on premise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Logic Apps solving and how is that benefiting you?

Edi integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Amad R.

BizTalk Consultant

Food & Beverages

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/14/2014

"Great Idea"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

Best thing is worry free application support after deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Control could be less and dependent on Microsoft's response to any hardware level failures if any appeared down the road. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fabio H.

SharePoint Development Manager

Automotive

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/20/2014

"Very good platform"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

The platform is extremely powerful, and flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Interruptions and a lot of recent features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Logic Apps solving and how is that benefiting you?

It used to take a long time for the infrastructure team to provision servers for my web application and the stability of the environment was not very good as well as limited hardware resources. I can get whatever resources i need immediately, i can grow and make the application as well as the infrastructure exactly as i need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mark D.

Founder & President

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/19/2014

"Full-featured environment, without the on-site demands"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

New features that match corporate/enterprise needs and environments are continuously added, and pricing for commonly-used features are regularly lowered. Plus table storage is the best thing since sliced bread. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

There have been several service interruptions, like when an un-renewed SSL certificate brought Azure down worldwide. But things have improved greatly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Logic Apps:

For .NET developers and architects, absolutely consider Windows Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Logic Apps solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used Windows Azure for several projects, but the bottom line is developing solutions for startups or projects where on-site solutions are cost-prohibitive. This includes hosting servers, websites and services, and "big data" storage solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/8/2014

"Great tool for reduce performance costs and better availability."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

Hit the ground with less ramp up time.Pay as you use functionality will allow us to only pay for the time we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Time to configure for large scale applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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George W.

Partner

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/7/2014

"Great product for middle market integration needs. "

3/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

BizTalk Server is a great middle market tool for application integration needs that are relatively low in complexity or in environments that do not have traditional ESB style integration platforms. The adapters available give mid market companies a great jump start on common integration concerns such as EDI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

Expensive for the customers who can benefit the most from it. Concerned about future of product long term. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Siva A.

Lead BizTalk/.NET Engineer

Management Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/7/2014

"Best out there"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Logic Apps?

Easy to develop and great support from Microsoft. You can write your own adapters to LoB applications and extend capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Logic Apps?

There are short coming like message size, use of business rule engine but I hope they'll go away soon. I'm aware of only these as so far we haven't had any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.