Overview
A Business Application is a logical container in Turbo360 that groups Azure resources belonging to a single line-of-business solution. It is the foundational unit of the Business Applications module; everything in the module is organised around this concept.
Enterprises build integration solutions using Azure services like Service Bus, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Event Hubs, and Event Grid. As these solutions grow across multiple subscriptions and resource groups, tracking which resources belong to which solution becomes difficult. A Business Application groups those resources under one name, regardless of which subscriptions or resource groups they belong to.
Business value
Business Applications replaces per-resource Azure portal navigation with solution-level visibility. Operations teams get a single point of management and monitoring for each line-of-business solution, regardless of how the underlying resources are distributed.
How it works
The logical container model
A Business Application is not an Azure resource; it exists only in Turbo360. It acts as a named container that you populate with Azure resources from one or more subscriptions. Once resources are associated, all Turbo360 features operate on the Business Application as a unit rather than on individual resources.
Business Application groups
Business Applications can be organized into groups. A group is a higher-level container for managing and monitoring a set of related Business Applications together. This is useful when a large solution is made up of multiple distinct applications that share a common operational context.
Key characteristics
- Cross-subscription scope: Resources from any Azure subscription, region, or resource group can belong to the same Business Application.
- Solution-level visibility: You view and manage the full solution in one place. Health status, alerts, and activity are aggregated at the Business Application level, not per resource.
- Independent of Azure resource groups: A Business Application does not map to an Azure resource group. It is a Turbo360 concept only, and resources in the same Business Application may come from entirely different Azure resource groups.
- Shared resources: A single Azure resource can belong to more than one Business Application.
Relationship to other concepts
| Concept | Relationship to a Business Application |
|---|---|
| Resource groups | Azure-native concept. A Business Application draws resources from multiple Azure resource groups and presents them as one unit. |
| Monitoring profiles | Reusable sets of monitoring rules that are mapped to a Business Application to apply rules across all associated resources at once. |
| Escalation policies | Notification escalation rules applied when a monitoring alert goes unacknowledged. Mapped at the Business Application or monitoring profile level. |
| Automated tasks | Scheduled or event-driven operations that run against resources in a Business Application. |
| Service map | A visual diagram of the resources and their relationships within a Business Application. |