New Features in BizTalk 2009

Details about the upcoming release of BizTalk 2009 are emerging. The new version was initially to be called BizTalk 2006 R3 but the development team felt that it was a significant enough step forward to warrant an change of the product name.

Among the highlights of the new release are:

• Support for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and also the .NET Framework 3.5
• Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V which is a much higher performance platform for creating virtual machines
• BizTalk 2009 takes advantage of Windows Server 2008 clustering so you can now deploy BizTalk Server so cluster nodes could reside on separate IP subnets and avoid complicated VLANs
• BizTalk Server 2009 includes a UDDI 3.0 registry which provides support for registry affiliation, extended discovery services, digital certificates and extensibility for a subscription API
• New Line of Business Adapters are introduced for Oracle E-Business Suites and SQL Server
• Additional performance improvements have been made to the existing set of adapters
• Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring- By expanding the out of the box BAM functionality with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services, BizTalk Server 2009 provides support for UDM cubes and scalable real-time aggregations which enhances support for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007
• ESB Guidance 2.0 delivers updated prescriptive guidance for applying ESB usage patterns
• Enhanced Support for EDI and AS2 Protocols
• BizTalk Server 2009 updates all message schemas and business rules for compliance with SWIFTReady Financial EAI Gold certification
• New Mobile RFID Platform and device management
• New RFID industry standards support for LLRP, TDT, TDS, WS Discovery and partial EPCIS support
• BizTalk Server 2009 improves recoverable interchange processing of validation failures by providing support for recoverable interchange processing
• The WCF Adapter has been enhanced to provide support for configurable transactions and the ability to choose the transaction isolation level in the WCF-Custom Send Adapter.