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Azure OpenAI to InterSystems IRIS integration — real-time data sync

Keep Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS

Sync the records in InterSystems IRIS into Azure OpenAI and land its embeddings, classifications, and generated fields back on the same rows, in real time and without a pipeline to maintain.

Azure OpenAI is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into InterSystems IRIS, so InterSystems IRIS always reflects the current state of Azure OpenAI — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

AI systems do not hold customers or invoices the way business apps do. What they hold is derived from your data: the vectors and metadata in a vector store, or the classifications, extracted fields, and generated text a model produces over records it was given. InterSystems IRIS is where those source records actually live. The bridge between the two is the row itself, since an item in Azure OpenAI and the record in InterSystems IRIS it describes are two halves of the same thing, and they drift the moment one is updated without the other.

Stacksync syncs Views, Schemas, Persistent Classes, Globals in InterSystems IRIS with Deployments, Models, Fine-tuning jobs, Files in Azure OpenAI in real time. Rows created or changed in InterSystems IRIS flow into Azure OpenAI so inference and embedding run on current data, and the scores, labels, and generated fields Azure OpenAI produces flow back onto the matching rows in InterSystems IRIS, mapped field by field. A change on either side appears on the other within seconds, with no extraction job or webhook plumbing to keep alive.

Because matching is by a stable identifier, every row in InterSystems IRIS stays tied to its AI-side counterpart in Azure OpenAI. Retrieval, enrichment, and generated content always resolve back to the record they came from, so there are no orphaned vectors and no labels describing a version of a row that no longer exists.

Common use cases

  • 01 Pull per-deployment TPM/RPM usage into a warehouse for FinOps chargeback and quota-exhaustion alerting.
  • 02 Mirror Assistants and Vector stores configuration into a database as an auditable inventory of retrieval assets and their linked files.
  • 03 Replicate IRIS tables to Postgres so application teams can build against a familiar database
  • 04 Sync operational tables in IRIS bi-directionally with a CRM so business teams work on IRIS-backed data without SQL access

Common sync patterns

Write results back onto the record

Scores, labels, extracted fields, or generated text produced in Azure OpenAI land on the matching row in InterSystems IRIS, next to the source data your applications already query.

Keep derived data fresh as sources change

When a row in InterSystems IRIS is updated or removed, its counterpart in Azure OpenAI is updated or removed too, so nothing in Azure OpenAI describes a record that has since changed or gone.

Backfill once, then stay in step

Load your existing rows from InterSystems IRIS into Azure OpenAI to build the index or enrichment set, then let ongoing changes sync automatically instead of re-running the whole job.

What you can sync between Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Azure OpenAI objects InterSystems IRIS objects How this pairing syncs
Files Uploaded training, validation, and batch-input files plus generated output files; listed and read by ID, not written back in sync. Globals The underlying multidimensional storage; typically accessed indirectly via SQL or objects in syncs. Files is specific to Azure OpenAI and Globals to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Batch jobs Asynchronous bulk-inference jobs; status and output-file IDs are polled to completion to drive downstream pipeline triggers. Namespaces Namespaces partition databases and determine the connection context for integrations. Batch jobs is specific to Azure OpenAI and Namespaces to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Usage and quota Per-deployment TPM/RPM consumption and remaining quota, read from usage endpoints and Azure Monitor for cost and throttling reporting. Stored Procedures Server-side logic callable over SQL supports controlled writes and transformations. Usage and quota is specific to Azure OpenAI and Stored Procedures to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Assistants Persistent assistants (preview) with instructions, tools, and linked files; read as configuration inventory, not authored via sync. Tables Relational projections of stored data are the primary read/write surface for SQL-based syncs. Assistants is specific to Azure OpenAI and Tables to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Vector stores File collections (preview) backing file-search retrieval; read as metadata such as name, file counts, and status. Views SQL views expose curated slices of data for outbound replication. Vector stores is specific to Azure OpenAI and Views to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Deployments Named model deployments (model, version, SKU, assigned TPM capacity) read as a control-plane inventory via Azure Resource Manager; read-only in sync. Schemas Schema organization scopes which tables a sync connection can see. Deployments is specific to Azure OpenAI and Schemas to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Azure OpenAI InterSystems IRIS Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Azure OpenAI for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling: list endpoints plus GET on job IDs for status.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to InterSystems IRIS as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

InterSystems IRIS Azure OpenAI Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls InterSystems IRIS for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling (timestamp or query-based).

DeliveryAzure OpenAI does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Azure OpenAI's output flows back as field updates on the originating InterSystems IRIS records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Azure OpenAI: Per-deployment TPM and RPM limits (about 6 RPM per 1000 TPM), scoped by region and subscription; control-plane ARM calls throttle separately.
  • InterSystems IRIS: Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits.
What ships with Azure OpenAI ⇄ InterSystems IRIS

Connect Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure OpenAI–InterSystems IRIS connection.

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in Azure OpenAI or InterSystems IRIS instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure OpenAI or InterSystems IRIS data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Azure OpenAI or InterSystems IRIS record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure OpenAI ⇄ InterSystems IRIS sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS.

How the Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS connectors work

Azure OpenAI

Integration surface
REST data-plane (inference + authoring) and Azure Resource Manager control-plane
Authentication
API key in the api-key header, or a Microsoft Entra ID bearer token / managed identity
Change detection
Polling: list endpoints plus GET on job IDs for status; no webhooks or change feed. Fine-tuning and batch jobs expose queued/running/succeeded states.
Capabilities
read
Rate limits
Per-deployment TPM and RPM limits (about 6 RPM per 1000 TPM), scoped by region and subscription; control-plane ARM calls throttle separately.

InterSystems IRIS

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC, plus object and REST access layers
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Polling (timestamp or query-based); no standard webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Azure OpenAI to InterSystems IRIS — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Azure OpenAI connected
    InterSystems IRIS connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure OpenAI and InterSystems IRIS objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Azure OpenAI ⇄ InterSystems IRIS
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Azure OpenAI InterSystems IRIS
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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Alerts

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