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Updated site for BizTalk Server

DotNetInterop — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:47:00 GMT

We've updated the BizTalk Server web site, it looks pretty nice. I think the 3D warped spiderman web graphic thingy is going to sell a lot of enterprise software! ;)

Seriously, though, the content is quite good. I think it's remarkable that we have so many customers – you can read about 'em there on the site. It's nice to be able to tout the Gartner Magic Quadrant recognition. For those who don't know, Gartner's an industry analyst and a couple weeks ago they updated their view of Microsoft as a provider of Enterprise Application Server technology. We were pleased with their analysis. The linked content off the BizTalk site is good too. I clicked on the link to the SOA Solution Center and even though that stuff has been up for a while now, I am still impressed with it - especially the overview of the various products and how they fit into the idea of SOA.

mmkay, enough navel-gazing. Back to work!

BizTalkBlogs.com

DotNetInterop — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:29:00 GMT

Hey! There's a new aggregator for blogs related to BizTalk Server. Check it out.

BizTalkBlogs.com

BizTalk Adapter Pack - beta 2

DotNetInterop — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:58:00 GMT

Beta 2 release of the BizTalk Adapter Pack is out!

The BizTalk Adapter Pack Beta brings us closer to our vision of enabling a single connectivity model and a set of adapters for connecting to key LOB applications from the Microsoft platform. The adapters are built on Windows Communication Foundation, (actually implemented with the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, about which I wrote previously), and can be used by applications running in BizTalk Server 2006 R2, SQL Server Integration Services, MOSS as well as any .NET 3.0 application. For example, you could use Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) with the Adapter Pack to build an extension to Microsoft Outlook that enables connection directly to Siebel. Or, you could build an ASP.NET web page that connects directly to SAP. This release of the BizTalk Adapter Pack provides connectivity to SAP, Siebel or Oracle database.

The Beta 2 release is publicly available. It is being used in production by some early adopter customers, though it is still classified as "beta". The engineering team have worked very hard on stress & performance in the last few months - the release meets RTM stress criteria and meets/exceeds most performance criteria.