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Your time to move away from BizTalk is running out...

April 29, 2024

Available since the year 2000, BizTalk Server is an on-premises, stable, middleware platform that connects various systems; working as a broker between businesses, systems, and applications.

But there comes a time when any software reaches its End of Life (EOL), and with BizTalk quite often being the centre of an organisation’s mission critical infrastructure, this reliance could be a critical problem going forward.

If you are using BizTalk Server 2013 or BizTalk 2013 R2, they are both now officially out of extended support as of July 11, 2023, and as BizTalk 2020 is the last version of BizTalk with extended Mainstream Support, it’s time to think about what is beyond this this stop-gap measure.

Plan now for a route out of reliance on BizTalk, rather than risk stumbling into a last-minute crisis situation.

Remember - there are less and less BizTalk experts to help do the migration, you will also find that most organisations are losing domain knowledge in this area day by day.

But it’s not just reacting to EOL software in your estate - it’s worth highlighting that modernising your integration estate will bring significant benefits to your organisation too: improving business agility, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency and the key way to do this is with Azure Integration Services (AIS).

We have found time and time again that AIS can run faster, cheaper, and be more scalable than relying on legacy architecture, and unsurprisingly BizTalk concepts map very well on to Azure Integration Services.

Join Black Marble as we share our knowledge and learnings in our webinar, “Modernising your Integration Services”.

And help is at hand! Talk to our team of Integration experts to help plan your migration and make the move from BizTalk to Azure Integration Services.