Art2link ESB carries your BizTalk message flows, maps, and routing patterns forward into Azure-native runtime - without rewriting them. The Windows fleet, Visual Studio toolchain, and per-message licensing don’t come with you.
Hover any row on the left to see its paired equivalent on the right. The five shifts below are not theoretical - they show up in every BizTalk-to-Art2link migration we run.
Two decades of BizTalk work does not need to be thrown away. The intent and the patterns translate. What changes is the runtime they execute on.
BizTalk maps translate to Art2link XSLT 3.0 transforms. Functoid logic is preserved; complex maps run through a guided conversion path. Test data exercised against both engines during pilot.
Receive-validate-transform-route-deliver pipelines map directly to Art2link itineraries. Send port groups, exception flows, retry policies, and dead-letter handling all have first-class equivalents.
SAP, Oracle, mainframe, HL7, EDI, and AS2 all have Art2link equivalents. Partner agreements, trading relationships, and adapter configurations transfer through a structured import path.
The migration follows a wave model. BizTalk keeps running production traffic until each integration has been validated on Art2link, parallel-run for a defined window, and signed off by your team. No big-bang cutover. No outage windows. No betting the company.
Total elapsed time depends on scope - faster for narrow scope, longer for heavily customized BizTalk estates. The Discover phase produces the exact estimate before the rest of the work begins.
Ranges below reflect the shape of mid-complexity BizTalk estates we have moved to Art2link - not a single engagement. The Discover phase produces specific numbers for your environment.
Regulated environments typically retire 10–20 BizTalk Server hosts and 50–100 orchestrations over a 6–9 month migration window - with zero production outages and a 2–4 week parallel-run validation before each wave cuts over.
Trading-partner-heavy estates typically replace 4–8 BizTalk hosts with a single multi-region Art2link deployment - infrastructure spend drops 50–70% in year one while EDI throughput headroom roughly doubles.
Move the sliders to match your BizTalk estate. The model uses the same coefficients we apply during a real Discover phase. The result is directional - the written assessment replaces it with engineered numbers.
Directional model. Coefficients drawn from our migration practice; your written assessment produces engineered values for cost, time, and risk.
An Art2link senior architect reviews your BizTalk inventory and returns a written assessment: complexity score per integration, recommended migration wave order, indicative timeline, and infrastructure-cost comparison. No sales call required to receive the document.
Art2link ESB gives you the governance, end-to-end transaction tracking, exception-routing, and operational rigor that ESB workloads demand - on the same Azure foundation as Logic Apps. Logic Apps is excellent for new cloud-first workflows, but it was never designed to absorb that discipline. Neither path is “outside Microsoft” - the difference is whether the platform you adopt matches the workload you’re moving, and whether your BizTalk maps, flows, and patterns carry forward instead of being rewritten.
Most of it. Custom adapters and pipeline components are inventoried during the Discover phase. The majority translate to Art2link custom function packages (deployable as .NET assemblies); a small minority require re-implementation. The Build phase produces an exact list of which components fall into which category before any work starts.
Yes - parallel run is built into the methodology. From Phase 03 onward, Art2link receives production traffic alongside BizTalk for a defined window per integration (typically 2–4 weeks). Both produce output, both are observed, and cutover happens only after your team signs off. BizTalk continues running until its last integration moves.
About an hour. A new Art2link ESB environment provisions into your Azure subscription from Azure Marketplace as a managed, Azure-native runtime - no Windows servers to build, no cumulative-update projects. Migrating your existing BizTalk integrations onto it is a separate, scoped effort that follows the four-phase approach above; the Discover phase produces a concrete estimate before that work is committed to.
Yes. Art2link ESB deploys across multiple Azure regions for high availability and data residency. A single multi-region deployment can consolidate several regional BizTalk hosts, with routing and failover handled at the Azure-native layer - the resources still run entirely inside your subscription.
Nothing. The Migration Assessment is free, no obligation, and the written deliverable is yours to keep regardless of whether you proceed with Art2link. We have found that the assessment itself often surfaces value the integration team can act on independently - gaps in trading-partner agreements, redundant orchestrations, audit-coverage holes.
Continuously. Art2link ESB ships security patches and feature enhancements on a regular release cadence, delivered as managed updates to your Azure-native runtime - no Windows fleet to patch, no cumulative-update projects to schedule. Security fixes are prioritized and applied without downtime. Because the platform runs inside your subscription, your data and IP never leave your tenant.
Install the free Starter Plan from Azure Marketplace - free license - and run a non-production integration through it before scoping the real migration. No sales call required.
Note: Azure consumption still applies - minimum infrastructure cost about $100/month.