Azure Application Development
Ballard Chalmers develops, re-engineers, deploys and manages enterprise applications in the Azure cloud.
This suite of comprehensive services enables speed to market, scalability and future-proofing for business-critical applications.
We provide expert help in:
- App Services – fully managed, scalable development platform.
- Functions – for serverless event-driven applications.
- Logic Apps – integrate applications, define workflows, automate business processes.
- Service Bus – the communication backbone between applications best practice.
Azure Serverless Computing
Serverless Computing allows applications to be developed and deployed with no reference to actual servers.
The days when a physical computer needed to be commissioned with Windows installed and configured were followed by Virtual Machines (VMs). VMs were great innovation, but these were still servers that needed to be patched, backed up and managed.
Serverless computing goes a step beyond, and code is now deployed to Azure Functions, Logic Apps, App Services, and the like – all of which are fully managed by Microsoft, reducing ongoing maintenance costs and flexible scaling to meet demand.
Our experts can help you with:
- Azure Functions – creating atomic and scalable code to provide business logic for applications or as part of a micro-service, connecting between other Azure services or with existing services and applications.
- Azure App Services – developing scalable web applications to give the end user access to the back-end data and logic.
- Logic Apps – automating connections between key business services through visual business process workflows whether on-premises or in the cloud, internally developed or offered by a third party.
- Azure Storage – replace on-premises file-shares with scalable and cheap storage in the cloud, opening access to APIs and end-users as needed.
- Azure Cosmos DB – providing seamless scaling and global replication for your data.
- Azure Active Directory and Azure B2C – authorising access to your applications and services in the cloud and with Microsoft’s best practices in security.
Azure Containers
Azure also supports Containers, such as Docker, which are the latest form of virtualisation; lightweight virtual machines that contain parts of larger applications and can be rapidly deployed and managed independently to deliver microservices architecture. Containerised applications can be developed and managed faster with Azure. Ballard Chalmers uses containers to isolate software from its surroundings and provide non-conflicting environments across teams.
Our Azure team can help you with:
- Container Registry – store and manage containers images in a central registry.
- Container Service (AKS) – quickly provision clusters of containers across environments.
- Docker – leading container platform that is truly independent between apps and infrastructure.
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Azure Databases
Ballard Chalmers’ extensive database expertise means that unlocking the potential of your data regardless of location is pre-built into our DNA.
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database provides a fully-managed relational cloud database service. Built-in intelligence learns your app patterns and optimises to maximise the performance and security of applications while reducing the costs of running and managing databases. Dynamic scaling makes it possible for the database to respond to rapidly changing resource requirements, so you only pay for what you use when you use it.
Azure Cosmos Database
The intelligent, relational cloud database built to accelerate application development and improved productivity with SQL tools. Fully integrated graph T-SQL language extensions help users find patterns and identify relationships, while also allowing MongoDB, Cassandra and Gremlin support.
For global distribution and horizontal scale, Ballard Chalmers can deliver:
- Mission-critical globally distributed applications.
- IoT – instant and elastic scale.
- Real-time personalisation and recommendation.
Azure Storage Solutions
Azure offers a range of versatile and highly scalable storage options for structured and unstructured data. Ballard Chalmers matches application needs to the right storage solution and delivers you a flexible pay-as-you-use solution.
We provide expert help in:
- File – simple and inexpensive, lift and shift distributed cross-platform file system.
- Disk – enterprise-grade, low latency high throughput storage with automatic triple replication.
- Blob – cost effective for massive volumes of unstructured data.
- Queues – asynchronous message queuing for large-volume cloud services.
[Infographic] Move your data to the cloud with Azure and Ballard Chalmers
Azure Analytics
Ballard Chalmers can assist you in implementing this suite of end-to-end services, which you can use to turn all types of data into intelligent insights quickly and cost effectively.
- Azure Data Factory – a hybrid data integration service that lets you create, schedule, and orchestrate your data integration workflows at scale wherever your data lives.
- SQL Data Warehouse – provides a highly elastic, enterprise-class cloud data warehouse which can be set up in minutes and scaled in seconds.
- Power BI & Power BI Report Server – when it is time to bring all this data to life, these help to easily create interactive and intuitive data visualisations.
Azure Identity Management
In a world of global collaboration and sharing, Ballard Chalmers can support your users’ identity and access management needs via Azure Active Directory.
Azure Active Directory
- Protect and manage employees’ identity.
- Single sign-on Protect sensitive data.
- Enable employee self-service.
Azure Active Directory B2C
- Protect and manage customers’ identity.
- Create login experiences in minutes.
- Protect each customer’s identity.
- Create an identity experience across mobile and web.
- Scale to hundreds of millions of customers and billions of authentications per day.
- Easily utilise existing accounts from Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Ballard Chalmers is committed to building next-generation applications.
Through the Microsoft Azure Platform we can deliver an enterprise-grade AI infrastructure and services to support your reasoning, understanding and interaction insights today and tomorrow.
Our expert team can help you with:
- Machine Learning – learn from data and experiences and take action based on the newly learned behaviour.
- Cognitive Services – bring advanced intelligence into your applications and websites, utilising the vast data Microsoft holds on images and text to provide easy to develop insights.
