Optimise for today, plan for tomorrow
Expert BizTalk consultancy that brings clarity to your integration estate and a practical roadmap for what comes next.
If BizTalk Server sits at the heart of your integration landscape, the challenge isn’t simply keeping it running. It’s ensuring the platform continues to support the business while you make informed decisions about what comes next.
Our team includes engineers who were part of the original Microsoft BizTalk Server development group, bringing deep platform knowledge and decades of experience supporting complex enterprise environments. That insight allows us to quickly understand how your BizTalk estate is structured, where risks or inefficiencies may exist and how it can be improved.
We help organisations stabilise and standardise their existing environments while providing clear guidance on longer-term integration strategy. For some organisations, that means extending the life of BizTalk through improved architecture and governance. For others, it means preparing for hybrid integration or planning a phased transition to Azure.
When migration becomes the right step, proven approaches such as our Migration Factory™ can help accelerate the process by partially automating the conversion of BizTalk assets into Azure services like Logic Apps – reducing manual recoding, cost and project risk.
Consultancy Services
BizTalk environments rarely stay simple. Over time, they grow into complex integration landscapes that connect critical systems across finance, operations, logistics and customer platforms.
Our consultancy engagements follow a structured, three-phase approach designed to provide clarity, reduce risk and support confident decision-making.
Phase 1: Discovery
The first step is developing a clear picture of your current integration landscape.
Through stakeholder workshops, technical reviews and structured questionnaires, we map your BizTalk estate and the systems it connects. We also explore business objectives, operational constraints and any plans for hybrid or cloud integration.
This phase establishes a shared understanding of where you are today and what success looks like for the future.
Phase 2: Analysis
With the landscape mapped, we carry out a deeper technical and operational assessment.
This includes reviewing BizTalk applications, infrastructure, deployment models and operational processes to identify architectural risks, performance issues and opportunities for improvement.
Where Azure is being considered, we also assess migration complexity and reuse potential, identifying where tools such as Migration Factory™ can automatically convert BizTalk artefacts into Azure services, helping accelerate the transition.
Phase 3: Solution Design
The final phase turns insight into clear, practical options.
Depending on your objectives, this may include improving and standardising the current BizTalk estate, introducing hybrid integration patterns, or defining a phased roadmap towards Azure.
We provide high-level target architectures, governance approaches and deployment patterns, alongside a realistic implementation plan. This identifies where automated migration can accelerate progress and where targeted redevelopment may be required.
The result is a clear, prioritised path forward – not simply a list of findings.
What Better looks like
We’re proud to deliver complete Microsoft integration services to some of the most prestigious UK and global enterprises. From planning, design and migration, through to training and 24-7 support, we’re dedicated to helping our clients make the most out of their BizTalk and Azure estates, whether they are on-premises, in the cloud or a hybrid environment.
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Frequently asked questions
Microsoft BizTalk Server is an enterprise integration platform used to connect applications, automate business processes and manage the flow of data between systems. It supports message routing, data transformation, B2B communications and orchestration across complex application landscapes.
Many organisations continue to rely on BizTalk because it sits at the centre of established integration estates and supports critical business processes. Our consultants help organisations review architecture, improve stability and ensure their BizTalk environments continue to deliver value as part of a wider integration strategy.
Yes. BizTalk Server 2020 is the final major release of the platform and remains supported with mainstream support until 2028 and extended support through to 2030.
This provides organisations with a clear timeframe to maintain existing environments while planning their longer-term integration strategy. We help organisations manage that lifecycle by maintaining stable BizTalk environments, strengthening governance and planning future architecture decisions at the right pace.
There is no single answer. Some organisations continue running BizTalk successfully on-premises, while others move towards hybrid integration or cloud-native services such as Azure Integration Services.
The right decision depends on factors such as integration complexity, operational risk, cost and future business requirements. Our consultancy helps organisations assess these factors and develop a realistic roadmap, whether that means optimising the current platform, introducing hybrid integration, or planning a phased migration to Azure when it makes strategic sense.
Over time, BizTalk environments can become complex, with many schemas, adapters, orchestrations, pipelines and partner connections supporting different systems and business processes.
A structured architectural approach helps reduce this complexity. Our consultants help organisations review integration patterns, standardise design approaches, improve monitoring and introduce stronger governance so that integration platforms remain stable, understandable and easier to maintain.
Yes. BizTalk remains widely used for high-volume enterprise messaging and B2B integrations, including EDI standards such as AS2.
Many organisations rely on BizTalk to support trading partner communications and supply chain processes. Maintaining reliability, monitoring and performance across these integrations is essential, particularly when they support critical operational systems.
Enterprise integration platforms must be designed for reliability, performance and growth.
This typically includes high-availability configurations, disaster recovery planning, performance tuning and strong operational governance. Our consultants work with organisations to review their current setup and ensure their integration platform is resilient, scalable and capable of supporting future business demands.
Many organisations hesitate to move integration workloads to the cloud because of uncertainty around complexity, risk or potential disruption.
Our experts provide structured consultancy to guide organisations through the transition. This includes discovery of existing integrations, prioritisation of workloads, planning for hybrid coexistence and, where appropriate, a phased transition to Azure Integration Services aligned with your wider business strategy.
The result is a controlled, lower-risk migration process that helps teams adopt new integration models with confidence.
BizTalk environments can become complex over time, particularly where many systems, integrations and business processes depend on the platform. Not every organisation has deep in-house experience of managing and evolving these environments.
A specialist consultancy brings practical experience from working across many BizTalk estates and integration scenarios. Our consultants help organisations strengthen architecture, improve delivery practices and reduce operational risk, while ensuring internal teams remain equipped to manage and develop their integration platforms in the long term.