Microsoft - Azure Blockchain Workbench

Introduction

• Azure Blockchain Workbench is a collection of Azure services and capabilities designed to help you create and deploy blockchain application services.
• It makes it easier to create blockchain applications by integrating several services of Azure cloud and capabilities to help automate common development tasks.
• It also provides the infrastructure for building blockchain applications enabling developers to focus on creating smart contracts & business logic. 

Benefits

• Running quickly- Configuration and deployment of a consortium network with just a few clicks into the Azure blockchain and pre-built blockchain command greatly reduce infrastructure development time.

• Build applications in days not months- Reduce development time and cost with pre-built integrations to the cloud services needed for application development. 

• Blockchain connects with business- You can easily integrate blockchain workflows with existing systems & applications leveraging Microsoft Flow.

Features

• Create blockchain applications- With the help of Blockchain Workbench, you can define blockchain applications using configuration and writing smart codes. 
• Manage applications and users- Blockchain provides a web application and REST APIs for managing blockchain applications and users. 
• Integrate blockchain with applications- It can also help to use the Blockchain Workbench REST APIs and message-based APIs to integrate with existing systems. 
• Deploy a blockchain network- It simplifies the consortium blockchain network setup as a preconfigured solution with an Azure Resource Manager solution template. 
• Use Active Directory- With the existing blockchain protocols, blockchain identities are represented as an address on the network. It abstracts away the blockchain identity by associating it with an Active Directory identity, making it simpler to build enterprise applications with Active Directory identities.

Blockchain Workbench offers the perfect infrastructure for building blockchain applications for developers, therefore it leads us to enable and create business logic with smart contracts. It is deployed using the solution template in the Azure marketplace and once it’s been deployed, the blockchain workbench provides access to client apps for creating and managing user applications.