Session presented at the European SharePoint Conference 2011, about integrating SharePoint 2010 with Azure Services using Business Connectivity Services.

1. SharePoint + Azure = Better Together
AndréVala
andre.vala@create.pt
RaúlRibeiro
raul.ribeiro@create.pt

2. Agenda
• SharePoint2010
• WindowsAzurePlatform
• Integration Scenarios
• CompletingthePuzzle
• DEMO

3. SHAREPOINT2010

4. SharePoint2010
• Microsoft’smulti-purposewebapplicationplatform
• Cansupportintranetportals,extranetsandpublic
Internetsites
• Includesfeaturesforcollaboration,socialnetworking,
documentmanagement,enterprisesearch,business
intelligenceandprocessintegration
• StrongOfficeclientintegration

5. SharePoint2010
RelevantComponents
• ListsandDocumentLibrariescanstoredocuments
orotherrelevantinformation
• WebPartsareusedtopresentinformation, either
storedinSharePointorelsewhere
• BusinessConnectivityServicesallowsSharePoint
andOfficeapplicationstoexposedatastoredin
externalsystems

6. WINDOWSAZUREPLATFORM

7. WindowsAzurePlatform
• Highavailability platform forthecloud
• Geographically distributed MicrosoftDataCenters
• Usage-basedcostmodel
• Enterprise-levelServiceLevelAgreement(SLA)

8. WindowsAzurePlatform
RelevantComponents

9. WindowsAzurePlatform
RelevantComponents
WindowsAzureCompute
Geographicallydistributedapplicationhostingenvironment.
WebRolesarefront-endserverssupportedbyIIS7,whichcanhostASP.NET
applicationsaswellasWCFServices.
WorkerRolesareapplicationserversdesignedforbackgroundprocessing
using.NETapplications.

10. WindowsAzurePlatform
RelevantComponents
AzureStorage
Persistentstorageserviceinthecloud.Itcomesinfourflavors:
• BlobServicetostoretextorbinarydata
• TableServicetostorelargeamountsofdatathatrequiresomebasic
structure
• QueueServiceforreliablepersistentmessagingbetweenweband
workerroles
• WindowsAzureDrivemountsaVHDandallowsapplicationstoaccessit

11. WindowsAzurePlatform
RelevantComponents
SQLAzure
HighlyavailableandscalableclouddatabaseservicebuiltonSQLServer
technology.

12. INTEGRATIONSCENARIOS
SharePoint+Azure

13. IntegrationScenarios
HostingWCFServicesinAzure
On Premise
Cloud
Web Part
Web Role Storage

14. IntegrationScenarios
UseBusinessConnectivityServices
On Premise
Cloud
Web Part
SQL Azure
BCS

15. IntegrationScenarios
UsingAzureBlobStorage
On Premise
Cloud
Storage
Web Part

16. COMPLETINGTHEPUZZLE

17. CompletingthePuzzle
BizTalk2010
• Microsoft’sintegrationandconnectivityserversolution
• Includes over25multi-platformadaptersandarobustmessaging
infrastructure
• DesignedforB2BandA2Ascenarios
• Horizontalproductwithacceleratorsforverticalareas
– Health,Finance,Manufacturing
• MarketLeader–mostusedintegrationproductintheworld(over
10.500clients)
• StrongintegrationwithotherMicrosoftserverproducts

18. CompletingthePuzzle
MicrosoftPivot
• Softwareapplication thatallowsuserstovisually
interactwithandsearchlargeamountsofdata
• BasedonSeaDragon(DeepZoom)technology
• CanbeusedwithaSilverlightPlayer

19. DEMO

20. Scenario
Invoices Suppliers
On Premise
Cloud
Aggregation
Data
Processing
And Storage
Viewer

21. Architecture
SuppliersInvoices
On Premise
Cloud
Aggregation
Viewer
Web Role Storage Worker Role
Archive

22. Resources
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com
Microsoft BizTalk Server
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk
Microsoft Windows Azure
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/windowsazure
Windows Azure Portal
http://windows.azure.com
Microsoft Pivot
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/pivotviewer/
Steve Marx’s Blog
http://blog.smarx.com/

23. Thank you!
AndréVala
andre.vala@create.pt
RaúlRibeiro
raul.ribeiro@create.pt