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.
EDI partner agreements, AS2 trading relationships, and adapter configurations transfer through a structured import path. SAP, Oracle, mainframe, and HL7 adapters all have Art2link equivalents.
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 on a typical mid-complexity environment lands in the 3–5 month range. 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.
Logic Apps is excellent for new cloud-first workflows, but it was not designed to absorb the governance, transaction tracking, exception-routing, and operational rigor that ESB workloads need. Art2link ESB was. It runs on the same Azure foundation as Logic Apps, so neither path is “outside Microsoft” — the difference is whether the platform you adopt matches the discipline of the workload you’re moving.
Custom adapters and pipeline components are inventoried during the Discover phase. Most translate to Art2link custom function packages (deployable as .NET assemblies). A small minority require re-implementation. The Map 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.
Most mid-complexity environments complete in 3–5 months elapsed. Narrow scope can finish in 8–10 weeks; heavily customized estates with hundreds of orchestrations take 6–9 months. The Discover phase produces a concrete estimate before the rest of the work is committed to.
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.
You do. Art2link ESB runs in your Azure subscription — we deploy and configure, but the resources, the storage, and the message data never leave your tenant. No data crosses into Cerebrum City’s environment. Standard NDAs cover any artifact we review during the assessment.
Install the free Starter Plan from Azure Marketplace and run a non-production integration through it before scoping the real migration. No sales call required.