ARBA Application Development on Azure

Cost Effective Development

Faster development cycles than on premise development, which costs more for our clients. Set up for local on premise infrastructure is not needed.

Agile and Iterative Development

Developer friendly Azure environments helps speed up learning cycles. Development can happen from anywhere, and modules can be linked and immediately tested. Fosters a developer friendly employee attrition opportunity for ARBA.

State of the Art Development Tools

Advanced tools like Visual Studio and Team Foundation Services are baked into the cloud development environment, which helps build quality into every stage of development .

Unified Delivery Pipeline on the Azure Cloud

Tools for source control, unit testing, integration testing, delivery, and go live tools help speed up the iterative development and testing cycles. This helps to demonstrate proof of concepts (POCs), pilots and limited/phased production for clients.

On Demand Adjustments to Workloads

Adjustment to seasonal changes in demand, turning on/off users on demand, and adjusting schedules saves subscription costs to the clients, which is based on usage.

Key Web Services Building Blocks on Microsoft Azure

Data Store – This is Azure SQL server database. It has Users and Roles information and POS application information – Inventory, Customers, Employees.

Data Access Layer – This is implemented using Entity Framework. This Layer provides Entities using which Read / Write operations are performed.

Web API Service Layer – Since the data needs to be exposed to the web and to various clients, we need open standards for data communication. This is possible using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

UI Layer – This layer is implemented using AngularJS for Data Display and user interaction. AngularJS is a powerful JavaScript framework used for building Model-View-Controller (MVC) based applications.  AngularJS is used creating View Model on the client side.

Summary

Development, deployment and support in Azure provides speed, agility, integrated development environment, end to end delivery platform, superior disaster recovery, flexible expenditure based on usage, enterprise security, and the powerful Azure stack.