Exceedra + Azure Mark Rendle Principal Software Architect Dot Net Solutions Ltd. @MarkRendle http://bit.ly/rendle mark@dotnetsolutions.co.uk

Overview The Application Exceedra Procast Sales Planner Analytics over historical sales data Sales promotion planning Comprehensive reporting solution Fast, intuitive UX

Overview Application Architecture The Procast application is built across multiple Microsoft technologies: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services WCF web services WPF Smart Client (XBAP)

Original Architecture On-premise server Web site & services, static files, database, reporting services…

Migration path SQL Server → SQL Azure Mostly a direct copy, except for: Use XQuery instead of OPEN XML Explicit creation of Temp Tables Performance tuning/tracing tooling SQL Azure doesn’t support OPEN XML – better performance on XQuery anyway No support for SELECT INTO

Migration path On-premise → Azure The WCF service application was running in IIS on Windows Server 2008. Moving it into Azure was a simple matter of adding the project as a Web Role in a Cloud project in Visual Studio 2010.

Migration path On-premise → Azure The easy job. Just check: Session handling Application state Now investigating Azure AppFabric Cache for performance boost

Migration path SQL Server Reporting Services → SQL Azure Reporting Upload .rdl files to Azure Portal. Tweak authorisation code in WPF client.

Migration path Static file hosting Hosting the WPF XBAP files in Blob Storage reduces load on the Web Roles and cuts costs.

Azure Architecture Windows Azure Compute Web application & WCF Services Windows Azure Compute Exceedra IP in Stored Procedures SQL Azure Complex analytics and planning reports SQL Azure Reporting Static file serving – XBAP, images… Windows Azure Storage

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