From PC World: With a new integrated set of Azure-based services, Microsoft wants to help ease the process of developing applications that run in the cloud.
“We’re hearing that developers want more simplicity. They’re challenged with having to build apps that target a variety of platforms and devices,” said Omar Khan, Microsoft partner director of program management. The new offering “brings together several services into a single experience.”
The new Azure App Service could help organizations build Web applications or mobile applications that connect to a variety of data sources that reside in the cloud or in internal IT systems. The service features four different components that can be used by themselves or in tandem: Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Logic Apps and API Apps.
“All in all this is a strong step forward for Azure in terms of supporting developers,” Al Hilwa, an IDC software development analyst, wrote in an email. Azure’s mobile services have been significantly advanced with this offering, and the API services “are an important and trendy new capability that developers and enterprises are clamoring for these days.”
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