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Hi,
Does anyone know if Microsoft has a good solid plan for Biztalk after Biztalk 2006 R2 ? I'm trying to gauge the market for Biztalk as there are many similar applications out there doing the same as Biztalk. The reason I'm asking is I wanted to know if its worth investing to learn Biztalk. Also I would like to know the scale of Biztalk deployments around the world, are there many multinationals or government organisations using Biztalk at the moment and lastly what's the growth rate of Biztalk at the moment.
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Ash
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Microsoft definately does have some plans for Beyond R2. There have not been a lot of public remarks however. Based on some of the conferences that I have attended, the next version of BizTalk will be based upon Windows Workflow Foundation. One thing that I have noticed though is that Microsoft will provide you with the tools to provide integration inside or outside of BizTalk. Whether that is WCF, WF and with the BizTalk Line of BUsiness Adapters coming out next year that do not require people to use BIzTalk even though they are called the BIzTalk Adapter pack could provide for some interesting solutions. The value add for BizTalk is the built in plumbing(guarenteed delivery, message persisitance, message retry, security and scalablility to name a few. BizTalk has a good story around this.
In terms of market penetration, Microsoft has over 7000 BizTalk customers(I would imagine this is all versions combined) and 90% of the top Global 100 use it. So as you can see Microsoft has no incentive to let it die. In terms of what type of industries use it, I can tell you that BizTalk has a presence in these industries Oil and Gas, Financial, Health, Government, Manufacturing, Utilities and Entertainment.
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Thanks, that was really insightful into the current use of Biztalk. I'll keep reading up on Biztalk and its developments. I'm located in Asia and Biztalk isn't widely used over here due to its license cost and also because most companies here are small and medium sized enterprises.
Personally, I do find Biztalk has great potential if used to its features are used.
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Ash
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A lot of it depends upon the type of organization. Some companies would rather build custom solutions to integrate systems, other would like to buy a product that does a lot of the work for you. The later is the type of organization that I work for.
Microsoft, in North America anyways, often will win business based upon price as a lot of the other integration technologies are more expensive than BizTalk. I have also seen a lot of organizations that are trying to standardize their toolsets and this usually involves .Net which makes using BizTalk a natural decision.
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We decided to implement BizTalk rather than writing custom solutions in order to standardize code and make it easier/quicker to bring people into the development team without having to sift through tonnes of code in order to determine how certain processes work.
We also run a SharePoint Portal so we plan on integrating BizTalk into SharePoint in order to provide information about systems to non-IT staff who are stakeholders for a particular system.
Once you get past the learning curve of BizTalk I believe its often faster to develop/deploy a BizTalk application than a custom .NET application.
I think the improvements made between 2004 and 2006 and the "quick" release of 2006 R2 is an indication that MS is behind the product and will continue to support and enhance it.
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Thanks guys, all this information has been great in helping me decide on the future with Biztalk. Its such a good application but unfortunately it doesn't get the amount of media coverage that it deserves
Ash
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This past week at the BPM/SOA conference in Redmond they have been talking alot about the future of BizTalk. Here is the document that discusses "what is to come". It sounds exciting….
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