Application Integration Futures – The Road Map and what's next on Windows Azure

This presentation has hosted by Bala Sriram and Rajesh Ramamirtham

Note: This blog post is a work and progress and will be updated as time permits

Key takeaway: We are innovating in BizTalk

General Update

• BizTalk Server “R2” release will be available around 6 months after Windows 8
• CTP expect this summer
• Commitment to releasing server for years to come. Publicly indicating there will be at least another release beyond “R2”
• 12k+ BizTalk customers
• 81% of Fortune Global 100 use BizTalk
• 79% of customers are using BizTalk 2010
• CU delivered every quarter with product enhancements
• Best NSAT in the industry
• 6 of 8 largest US Pharmaceutical Companies use BizTalk
• Continue to bet on BizTalk – We will take your investments forward
• Enabling new Azure based BizTalk scenarios for EAI & EDI

• Bringing together BizTalk on-premises and in Azure

What customers are telling us?

• Keep me current with platform, standards and LOB changes
• Reduce time and cost of developing of Integration solutions
• Let me focus on business challenges, not technology infrastructure
• Cloud advantages
• Cost-effective, scalable infrastructure for easy deployment
• Some scenarios like b2b are amenable to cloud
• Cloud Challenges

• Data privacy, isolation , control more integration
• LOB assets will continue to be on-premis

• Phased cloud adoption on my terms

• One size does not fit all

How BizTalk will meet these requirements?

• Upgrade to latest MS platform
• Improved reach for B2B customers
• Better performance and manageability
• BizTalk on Azure IaaS

• Eliminate HW procurement lead times
• Reduce time and cost to setup and maintain BizTalk environments

• BizTalk on Azure PaaS for EAI and EDI

• Reduce partner onboarding and management cost
• Leverage existing BizTalk artifacts
• Rapid configuration-driven development for common integration patterns

• All of these working together seamlessly as one BizTalk

• Trying to work under “one umbrella” but no naming can be implied at this time

BizTalk Server On-Premise Update

• Platform Update
• Support for:
• VS 2012,
• Window 8 Server
• SQL Server 2012
• Office 15
• System Center 2012

• B2B enhancements:

• EDI
• HL7 2.5.1, 2.6
• SWIFT 2012 Message Pack

• Better Performance

• In order delivery process

• Serialization created delays

• Improved dynamic send ports and ESB via host handler association of Send ports

• Can configure a dynamic send port host handler in Admin Console

• MLLP adapter performance
• HIS DB2 client transaction load balancing, client bulk insert (15 times faster)

• Better manageability

• Visualize BizTalk artifact dependencies in BizTalk admin console
• ESB toolkit as core part of BizTalk setup and product
• HIS Administration using Config files with application metadata stored in XML

• Improved connectivity

• Consume REST Services directly in BizTalk
• Simplified SharePoint integration experience

• No more adapter web service installs on SharePoint

• Improvements to existing adapters (HIS, SMTP)

• improved macros

• Easy connectivity to Service Bus Relay, Queues and Topics
• CICS http client connectivity to Windows

BizTalk running in Azure (IaaS)

• Use case :
• First step in the cloud adoption
• Eliminate hardware procurement lead times
• Reduce time and cost to setup and maintain BizTalk environments
• Move applications from on premise and back
• Create a virtual network in Azure and enable connectivity to on-premise network
• User logs into Azure Portal
• User creates a new VM and selects BizTalk stock image
• User specifics BizTalk environment topology and adds them to existing virtual network
• New VMs are provisioned for user in Azure IaaS
• User logs into the provisioned VM which has BizTalk installed and configured and starts using it.

• Targeting same Windows 8 timeframe
• Microsoft will provide guidance on performance
• MSDTC support in Azure?

• It is supported now in IaaS and was brought in to support BizTalk

• All features that work on premise will work in IaaS