BizTalk Migration Assessment Questionnaire

Welcome to our BizTalk Migration Assessment Questionnaire. This questionnaire allows us to establish the key information we need about your company and your BizTalk Estate to complete a full Migration Assessment.

If you require any help with this questionnaire, please do not hesitate to get in touch by emailing contactus@affinus.com or calling +44 01392 712299

TELL US ABOUT YOU
First and Last Name
Company name
Your email
Your Telephone Number
Your Job Role/Title
TELL US ABOUT YOUR BIZTALK ESTATE
1. How long have you used BizTalk?
2. What version/edition of BizTalk?
3. What is the size of your BizTalk Estate?
a. Number of Schemas
b. Number of Maps
c. Number of Orchestrations
d. Number of Custom Pipelines
e. Number of Hosts/Host Instances
f. Number of SQL Server Instances
g. Is there a split message box?YesNo
4. Do you have low-latency scenarios i.e. has BizTalk been tuned to decrease latency (by decreasing the SQL polling interval or changing other system parameters)?
TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR BIZTALK SYSTEMS
5. Can we have a list of the systems that BizTalk is connected to?
a. Which BizTalk Adapters are used?
b. Are they COTS or in-house or SaaS systems, or something else?
c. What is the purpose of each connected system? (e.g. ERP, CRM, Finance, etc.)
d. What number of systems are hosted on-premises? At the vendor? In a public cloud?
6. Do you use EDI? If so, which schemas? How many Trading Partners?
7. Do you use any BizTalk Accelerators (e.g. SWIFT, HL7, etc.)? If so, which ones?
TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR MESSAGE THROUGHPUT
8. What is your average/daily or average/monthly throughput
9. Peak concurrent (i.e. high watermark - max number of concurrent messages at any point in the year)
10. Are there periods where loads are higher, how many of these per year?
TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR RECOVERY SET-UP
11. What High Availability/Disaster recovery setup do you have?
a. Do you have servers in multiple regions/Data Centres for availability?
b. Do you have servers in a separate location for DR? Are they always on? Or spun up when needed?
c. Do you have SLAs around RTO/RPO or MTBF/MTD/MTTR?
12. Do you use BizTalk Rules Engine (BRE)? If so, what is it used for?
13. Do you use BizTalk Activity Monitoring (BAM)? How is it used? Does it feed into a Data Analytics/Date Warehouse system?
14. What do you use to monitor BizTalk?
15. How do you handle deployment to BizTalk - manual, BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF), MSBuild etc. Do you have a CI/CD pipeline (i.e. DevOps process)?
16. Do you do your own development, or does a 3rd party do it?
17. Who maintains your BizTalk estate – code, infrastructure?
18. Do you have an existing Azure presence – if so, what services do you use, and what for? How many subscriptions?