Succeed With BizTalk

What Is BizTalk Server?

BizTalk is Microsoft's premiere enterprise messaging platform with thousands of established customers worldwide. If you have data that you need to move around your organisation in a secure and reliable way, then BizTalk is the platform to do it.

BizTalk provides layers of services around its core messaging infrastructure; this includes "adapters" to get the messages in to and out of BizTalk, a process engine to "orchestrate" the various steps of message flow and a mapper to translate messages from one type to another.

Thinkscape have been working with BizTalk since 2004, helping our customers to get the most from their BizTalk implementations and answer key questions such as "What impact will the Windows Workflow server have on us?". We have helped organisations from the public sector to finance to FTSE 100 listed. Our breadth of technical expertise, from on-premises to the cloud, and our extensive business knowledge and practical approach has been central to delivering success.

What Does It Take To Succeed With BizTalk?

BizTalk is a big product and not to be taken on lightly. You'll require a trained in-house BizTalk team that knows how to develop and administer BizTalk solutions. They should understand the process of developing BizTalk solutions, not just the technology; for example, how do you estimate developer effort or take a business requirement in to code?

You’ll need an operational environment around BizTalk that makes it easy to see what is going on at a glance. You will need to be alerted when your service levels are threatened, or better still, before an issue even becomes a problem. You should collect data about your business processes to help you analyse trends.

To ensure you make the right architectural decisions you will need to have a detailed appreciation of the other technologies in the BizTalk stack; not every problem has a BizTalk shaped solution. In fact, much of BizTalk's strength is from it's technical peers which includes Reporting Services, Integration Services, Windows Workflow and SharePoint. You need to understand when is the right time to use these complementary technologies particularly as there is overlap.

Ensuring success with BizTalk is tough to do on your own. That is why Thinkscape, as a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, offer a range of BizTalk consulting services to help your organisation succeed. In a nutshell, we are there as a backup plan when you need us.

How Can Thinkscape Help Me Succeed?

• If you are considering using BizTalk, we help you understand if its right for your organisation through consultations and proof of concepts.
• Our experienced BizTalk consultants are available on-site to help you when you need it most such as troubleshooting performance or technical issues.
• There is always room for improvement; our bespoke BizTalk mentoring packages even help established development teams squeeze more productivity from their working practices.

• We provide official developer and administrator training for BizTalk to provide your organisation with self-sufficiency.
• When our customers don't have resource available internally, they handover the development of their BizTalk projects to us. Our experience ensures we always do a good job.
• Learn how to ensure your BizTalk solutions run smoothly in production through our operational platform that warns of issues before they become problems.

About Thinkscape

Over the last 11 years we have been specialising in Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, .Net and Microsoft’s Online Services. We are recognised as one of Microsoft’s top UK partners for Online Services and our excellence in these products has been acknowledged with our Microsoft Gold Certified Partner accreditation.

Our company comprises expert onshore consultants working to exacting processes & standards that ensure you the highest levels of quality. Our UK managed offshore development centres afford our customers the best software solutions for their needs.

We are based in the Southampton Science Park, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.