Partners are the key stakeholders who participate in B2B (business-to-business) transactions by exchanging messages. Before creating partners within an Enterprise Integration Account, you and your partner need to identify the protocol and messaging format used to make communication through an agreement. To create the agreement, one organization needs to act as a host partner and other will act as a guest partner. To learn more about partners and the agreement, you can refer to Microsoft documentation for the Enterprise Integration pack at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-enterprise-integration-partners.

In the following section, we will walk through the process of creating the partner and agreement within the Enterprise Integration Account, which we have created in the preceding section.