Tough Economy!!! Will your EAI vendor be able to weather this storm?

Current economic situation is real tough. Many small and large companies are having tough times. The key question for you to ask yourself before making a long term commitment to EAI platform is “Will the vendor be around in next 10-15 years or in today’s economy will they be around after 6 months?”.

Let me tell you one thing, we will be standing besides our customers in 10-15 years from now. We will be launching BizTalk Server 2009 in next quarter. We have already started product planning for BizTalk V. Next(V7) and V.Next +1(V8). We are collecting information from our key customers to understand where they want us to take BizTalk. We are hearing following key requirements

1. Support additional integration paradigms like ESB(today we have ESB Guidance but customers want Out of Box Support)
2. Low Latency support.
3. We are also getting lot of inputs on support for newer Microsoft technologies like WF and WCF. We will surely be supporting all new Microsoft technologies at right time. We already support WCF as first class citizen in BizTalk. All new adapters are being built on WCF. We will do same with WF in future releases. :)

What capabilities do you want us to add in BizTalk Server?

Your investment in Microsoft technology will provide return on investment for years to come.