I Just returned from TechEd 2012 and one of my favorite sessions was ‘Application Integration Futures – The Road Map and What’s Next in Windows Azure’. It was refreshing to see the first slide’s title “Key takeaways: we are innovating in BizTalk”.
Here is the abbreviated message from the slide deck:
- Continued investment in BizTalk – take your investment forward
- BizTalk Server: releasing 6 months after Windows 8
- Enabling new Azure based BizTalk scenarios in IaaS & PaaS
- Bringing together BizTalk on-premises and Azure
- Bet on BizTalk and continue to buy
- BizTalk on IaaS coming soon - reduce hardware procurement lead time; reduce time & cost setup and configuration (expect “base BizTalk images”; move apps to Azure and back easily
- BizTalk on PaaS – we are already seeing EAI & EDI on Service Bus using Bridges, Transforms, and trading partner management
Here is the timeline (taken from the presentation slide deck)
