Organizations that have made IT investments in ERPs and services on premises may not transition all of their IT assets to the cloud. There is a need to connect to those services and resources using hybrid connectivity from the cloud.
The BizTalk Adapter Service (BAS) is a service which enables an application running on-premises to receive data from the cloud. The on-premises applications such as ERPs and BizTalk Server can be exposed outside of the corporate network using Service Bus relays for hybrid connectivity. The Service Bus Relay service on Azure acts as an intermediary where a client and an on-premises service can connect with each other. The client in this case is the BizTalk Services' bridge and the service running on-premises is the BizTalk Adapter Service talking to an ERP. Once the BizTalk Adapter Service and the bridge authenticate with the Service Bus Relay service, all messages from the bridge are forwarded to the BizTalk Adapter...