Hi, Has anyone used Microsoft Azure for NetSuite Integrations? any preference over middleware - Dell Booomi, Jitterbit, Celigo, Azure?

Don't use middleware ... one more failure point!

@darrenhillconsulting @Josh_SatoriReporting what are reasons not to use middleware, and what's your recommended alternative?

Every software solution (worth its salt) exposes a public api. Connecting/communicating directly with that API reduces complexity, provides real-time communication and eliminates the need of a middleware expert

agreed! Middleware is another point of failure and security concern. Tactical Connect, our suiteapp, will send saved searches directly to Microsoft Azure from NetSuite. Let me know if you want to see a demo. Also feel free to check out our website which has a demo video: www.tacticalconnect.com

@darrenhillconsulting Yes, APIs are commonplace, but for every rare occasion that middleware is a “failure point”, there are countless other cases where it saves the day, such as: • respecting API governance rules • queuing data when a source can produce info faster than a destination can absorb it • maintenance of integrations as APIs or business needs evolve • democratizing of integration (many cases covered without requiring coding), • normalizing the approach to integration across a range of apps (not just NetSuite) • retrying failed transactions • monitoring and reporting, etc. Yes, I am biased (disclaimer: I’m with www.celigo.com) but I want to be sure that @Meg and @Jon Ostap have a bit of balance.

@matt.graney, all valid points for sure. I lived the life of a BOOMI/Celigo/Infromatica integration specialist. Never again. Cost/Maintenance/HeadCount, etc ... doesn't make sense.

@darrenhillconsulting there’s a large and growing market that thinks otherwise. 😉 There is certainly room for both approaches.

I like Google Cloud Functions for middleware integrations. Scalable, reliable, cost effective and quick to develop. Pairs well with Google Datastore to have a fully serverless middleware.