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Archived news and press content related to BizTalk Server. See BizTalk Server News and Reviews for current stories.
SD Times (June 1, 2007) Microsoft’s BizTalk Services offering has gotten more concrete for its foundation.
Forbes (May 23, 2007) Tracking Sushi: How do you improve a [sushi] restaurant? With ambience, a good menu, smart prices—and better RFID technology.
NetworkWorld.com (May 1, 2007) BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2 is Microsoft’s first public beta of the software and is its biggest splash ever into the RFID market, according to company officials.
eWeek.com (April 24, 2007) Microsoft has delivered a set of new services based on its BizTalk Server technology to help developers build new SOA-oriented applications. Microsoft BizTalk Services, announced on April 24, include BizTalk Identity Services, which provide authentication, access control and federated identity based on the WS-Trust specification. The new BizTalk Relay Services facilitate the traversal and bridging of physical networks, enabling high-fidelity interconnection between cooperating systems for cross-organizational messaging behind firewalls.
AMR Research (Dec. 18, 2007) In this market roundup, AMR defines the structure of the SOA market, identifies the most influential players, and makes some predictions about the future. "The mega-vendors, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Oracle, are exploiting their deep pockets to build broad product suites. They also use their powerful relationships with customers to actively direct the market."
Directions on Microsoft (Oct. 30, 2007) "Oslo supports principles – service-oriented architecture and composite applications – that Microsoft believes will drive future business application development."
AMR Research (September 14, 2007) A long time in the coming, Microsoft has finally launched its RFID BizTalk Server. The ramifications of its introduction will reverberate throughout the world of RFID, making this a watershed moment in the ongoing effort to create mass adoption of the technology.
IDC Research (August 2007) This IDC Research report, sponsored by Microsoft, is based on the results of a usage/adoption study of mission-critical application platform software within large organizations. The study was conducted by IDC according to their strict research standards, and Microsoft had no influence over the selection of survey respondents, who were randomly selected based on IDC’s research methodology.
Forrester Research (July 11, 2007) "Microsoft has a very comprehensive application server platform. Its platform is very well integrated and provides both the widely used features of today's Web applications and many of the advanced features that will drive the next generation of SOA."
Forrester Research (July 11, 2007) "Microsoft is a Leader in Forrester's evaluation of application server platforms, due to the strong and mature development, deployment, management, and interoperability features of its Windows Server platform, which is based on .NET."
(June 7, 2007) Microsoft releases the first public beta of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and a CTP of BizTalk Services, supporting the Microsoft "real-world" approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the company’s vision of enabling customers to build more dynamic applications. Microsoft will deliver BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in the third quarter of 2007; it will provide radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure, native support for electronic data interchange (EDI), and new technologies for integrating the .NET Framework 3.0, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Windows Vista. Beta 2 of the product is available now.
(February 7, 2007) Microsoft Corp. announced the formation of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance (BPA), which extends the benefits of business process management (BPM) to an array of companies and offers enhanced functionality to existing Microsoft customers. The Business Process Alliance is a group of 10 industry-leading software vendors focused on making BPM solutions more broadly accessible and helping companies take advantage of BPM tools based on the Microsoft platform. Through this alliance, a broad range of customers will benefit from a powerful set of end-to-end tools for automating and optimizing business processes. The initial members of the BPA are AmberPoint, Ascentn, IDS Scheer, Fair Isaac, Global360, InRule, Metastorm, PNMsoft, RuleBurst and SourceCode Technology Holdings Inc.
