AWS Auto Scaling vs Microsoft BizTalk

Likelihood to Recommend

There are two elements to auto-scaling. The first, adding/removing servers when [the] load varies, is the easy part. This is what AWS Auto Scaling does. The second is orchestration. This making sure your read replica doesn't receive requests until it is operational or making sure that your new [webserver] has finished starting JBoss, updating its sources, and loading your application before it is registered with the load balancer[.]

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Seshu Giri

Senior Data Scientist

duTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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BizTalk is well suited as middleware. Where you wish to translate an input file into an output file and send it to some endpoint. In our case, we used it to convert and send files to SAP. In many ways, it very flexible, and you can do almost anything you want with it. In many ways, it's a better solution than your SAP XI or PI as middleware, since it's much less expensive, and allows you do interface with non-SAP systems.

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Professional in Information Technology

Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

Smart scaling decisions
Automatically maintain performance
Pay per use

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Manager in Information Technology

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

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It is very user friendly. Users can change rules during run time and change workflow.
Huge capacity for queueing messages. It supports all types of adapters like Oracle, Salesforce, SMTP, FTP, etc. Also users can built custom adaptors.
If users want to dynamically deploy their solution without any downtime, this is a perfect solution. BizTalk will be a good fit, especially for public-facing websites.
Well-proven in the market. I used it when developing a website for Virgin Trains, catering more than 800K user requests per day.
Helps in load balancing.

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Viral Patel

Senior Software Engineer

IntraLinksComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Auto scaling features are very easy to use it.
can decrease numbers steps to configure the auto scaling functionality
New GUI screen need to improve for auto scaling functionality

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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Microsoft BizTalk is over engineered for some situtations
Microsoft BizTalk can be frustrating to use as it forces you to use the GUI as opposed to code
Microsoft BizTalk is very resource intensive to create integrations

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Kyle Kochtan

Technical Lead

Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Microsoft BizTalk 5.0

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Microsoft BizTalk is not an intuitive product. It requires many hours of looking through the settings to achieve what you need. Using 3rd party DLLs is a nightmare as you are forced to register them in the GAC of the server and this process is quite cumbersome just to use a DLL.

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Kyle Kochtan

Technical Lead

Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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Microsoft BizTalk 9.3

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BizTalk Server has been supported for more than 15 years. It is well proven in the market. Microsoft has provided excellent support with technical issues.

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Viral Patel

Senior Software Engineer

IntraLinksComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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The hardware provided is decent and customizable. They have lots of different options for everything[.]

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Seshu Giri

Senior Data Scientist

duTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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BizTalk was selected here mainly because it is easy to integrate to a .NET application (most of them are Web Service, WCF SOAP, WCF REST and Web API) and many backend databases are Microsoft SQL Server. Another benefit is that the monitoring job is easy to set up and centralize with other .NET application monitoring jobs.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Pay per use, great ROI.
Saves cost across departments.
Workload and pc.

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Manager in Information Technology

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

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A positive impact has been the quicker turnaround time of a part request and that part showing up in SAP using Biztalk as middleware.
A somewhat negative impact has been the somewhat insufficient error logging/message capture settings that Biztalk provide. This has caused occasional delays when attempted to create parts for the business.
A somewhat negative impact has been the need to have a specialized developer who understands Biztalk to troubleshoot issues with the Biztalk and SAP interaction when creating parts, and when adding new fields to the parts.

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Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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AWS Auto Scaling vs Microsoft BizTalk

AWS Auto Scaling

Microsoft BizTalk

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AWS Auto Scaling

Microsoft BizTalk

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AWS Auto Scaling

Microsoft BizTalk

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AWS Auto Scaling

Microsoft BizTalk

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