BizTalk Server 2010 Ships, Supports Windows Server AppFabric

The seventh major release of BizTalk has been released to manufacturing and becomes available to customers October 1. BizTalk Server 2010 includes new support for Windows Server AppFabric to provide pre-integrated support for developing new composite applications.

Customers maximize the value of existing Line of Business (LOB) systems by integrating and automating their business processes, and putting real-time, end-to-end enterprise integration within reach of every customer.

The new BizTalk Server 2010 release enables businesses to:

• Maximize existing investments by using pre-integrated BizTalk Server 2010 support with both Windows Server AppFabric and SharePoint Server 2010 to enable new composite application scenarios;

• Further reduce total cost of ownership and enhance performance for large and mission-critical deployments through a new pre-defined dashboard that enables efficient performance tuning and streamlining deployments across environments, along with pre-integration with System Center;

• Efficient B2B integration with highly-scalable Trading Partner Management and advanced capabilities for complex data mapping.

BizTalk Server 2010 also delivers updated platform support for Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

For more information, see the release announcement at the team’s blog post Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 RTM and General Availability date.

About BizTalk Server 2010

BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and connectivity server solution. A mature product on its seventh release, BizTalk Server 2010 provides a solution that allows organizations to more easily connect disparate systems. Including over 25 multi-platform adapters and a robust messaging infrastructure, BizTalk Server provides connectivity between core systems both inside and outside your organization. In addition to integration functionality, BizTalk also provides strong durable messaging, a rules engine, EDI connectivity, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), RFID capabilities and IBM Host/Mainframe connectivity.

BizTalk Server 2010 makes it easier for customers to build composite applications that span both on-premises LOB systems and new applications deployed onto the public cloud.

Get an introduction to the latest version of BizTalk Server with this whitepaper: Understanding BizTalk Server 2010

To learn more regarding the BizTalk Server 2010 release and download our new free developer edition, see BizTalk Server website.

Bruce D. KyleISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation