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ashoku0954
April 22, 2025
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Integration with Azure blob storage

  • April 22, 2025
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Hi All,

Anyone who used Azure blob storage for storing unstructured data, could you provide some insights on its ease of integrations, maintainability and performance. Also, are there any other alternatives (apart from sharepoint and Appian document repository) for storing unstructured data?

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stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
April 22, 2025

This is such a broad question! Close to the meaning of life.

  • Integration: Easy
  • Maintainability: Easy
  • Performance: More money -> faster
  • Alternatives: Hundreds

Can you describe in more detail what you are looking for?

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ashoku0954Author
April 22, 2025

We are planning to build an app that requires to store and use lots of unstructured data (Docs, photos, videos etc). We do have sharepoint, but we already have used considerable amount of its storage for other purposes and not keen to use it for this app. So, we are looking for alternate options.

stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
April 22, 2025

I did some integrations to Azure Blob in the past, and the only issue is, than with normal Appian integrations, you can only upload a limited file size. Blob storage supports uploading in chunks, which Appian cannot. Some sort of plugin would be necessary to make this happen. This also might, or might not, apply to other services.

    mathieud0001
    mathieud0001
    April 22, 2025

    Many alternatives but the main one is Amazon S3.

    Here is something that might help: learn.microsoft.com/.../storage

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