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Review the latest news, analyst reports, and press releases related to BizTalk Server.
InfoWorld (Apr. 27, 2009) Microsoft will ship on Monday BizTalk Server 2009, an upgrade to its system integration software featuring virtualization and backing for recent software packages like Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
The Register (Apr. 27, 2009) Microsoft on Monday turned the dial that releases BizTalk Server 2009 into the wild. The sixth incarnation of Redmond's connectivity and integration software is now available for Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) customers and May 1 for everyone else. BizTalk Server 2009 hooks into the latest wave of Microsoft apps like Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008, and the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. There's also native support for Microsoft's Hyper-V and improved fail-over clustering.
InformationWeek (Apr. 29, 2009) Microsoft made BizTalk Server 2009 generally available this week with enhanced capability to obtain RFID data from mobile devices and greater support for Windows Server 2008. BizTalk is Microsoft's integration server software or middleware used to link diverse applications and systems together and allow them to exchange data. It can provide connections into SAP applications or those from Oracle's E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, J. D. Edwards, and Siebel Systems. The Server has a total of 25 application adapters.
SD Times (June 5, 2008) Microsoft is preparing a major release of BizTalk Server that will take advantage of functionality added to the company’s application platform stack since BizTalk Server 2003 R2 shipped.
(Apr. 27, 2009) Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009, the company’s enterprise integration and connectivity server solution. In its sixth release, BizTalk Server is already being used by 90 percent of Global 100 customers to integrate systems and automate processes. BizTalk Server 2009 delivers new capabilities to help customers more effectively integrate disparate systems, enhance end-to-end enterprise connectivity and more quickly exchange data across multiple platforms, resulting in increased efficiency and lower costs.
The first public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available for download. Some of the major themes of this version are enhanced developer productivity and a significantly improved developer team experience through the integration with Microsoft’s application life-cycle management (ALM) solution: Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server.
Learn more about the plans for BizTalk Server 2009 and beyond in this Q&A with Oliver Sharp, General Manager of BizTalk Server.
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Gartner Research (April 16, 2009) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint (WSS) Services 3.0 are two of the many Microsoft products that support its marketing tagline of "people-ready processes," a concept also supported by BizTalk Server, Visio and InfoPath. Yet enterprise developers and business professionals have found that delivering "processes ready for people" requires more effort than they expected and additional technology to build even simple workflow solutions (let alone BPM scenarios), leveraging existing investments in their .NET architecture.
Gartner Research (December 19, 2008) Gartner positions Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects. Gartner states that the “New development of service-oriented business applications requires a complex collection of capabilities in runtime-enabling technologies and development tools and examines the ability of leading application infrastructure vendors to provide complete end-to-end support for such projects.”
Gartner Research (December 19, 2008) Gartner positions Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects. Gartner states that “Back-end application integration technology providers continue to consolidate as users expand and increase the complexity and sophistication of their service-oriented-architecture driven and software-as-a-service-driven integration requirements.”
Gartner Research (December 19, 2008) Gartner positions Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects. This report aims at helping organizations select comprehensive end-to-end application infrastructure to support composite application projects in the context of SOA and other initiatives.
Gartner Research (June 3, 2008) Service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, international e-commerce, proliferating business-to-business projects and changing user requirements are driving vendor innovation and consolidation in the B2B gateway software market. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers.
(Gartner, April 24, 2008) Foundational EAS technology is evolving to meet the challenges of constant innovation in business software. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers.
