Azure Logic Apps vs. BizTalk: A comparison between old and new integration platforms
Steef Jan-Wiggers recently shared Microsoft’s product road map for 2016. It will deliver Microsoft’s iPaaS offering on-premises through Logic Apps on Azure Stack in preview around Q3 2016 and GA around the end of the year.connecting systems, devices and applications together is going to change, or may I say that it already has changed.
Connecting systems, devices and applications together is going to change, or may I say that it already has changed.
The emerging iPaaS (integration platform-as-a-Service) space is naturally of interest to us who have been doing BizTalk since last 15 years. Here’s a feature-to-feature comparison between Azure Logic Apps and Microsoft BizTalk, though, this comparison will remain a work-in-progress until the Logic Apps platform matures.
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| Customer Weigtage | Logic Apps | Microsoft BizTalk | |||||
| Product offering | Details | Examples | Availability | Weighted Score | Availability | Weighted Score | |
| Standards Support | |||||||
| EDI | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Rosettanet (Multiple versions) | No | 0 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| SWIFT | No | 0 | Yes | 7.5 | |||
| ebXML | No | 0 | |||||
| EDIFACT | Yes | 7 | Yes | 8 | |||
| X12 | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| File | Yes | 8.5 | Yes | 7 | |||
| HTTP(S) | Yes | 9 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| FTP | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| FTPS | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| SFTP | Yes | 7 | Yes | 8 | |||
| SOAP/WS | Yes | 5 | Yes | 8 | |||
| RNIF | No | 0 | Yes | 7 | |||
| SMTP/POP | Yes | 5 | Yes | 7.5 | |||
| Web Services | Yes | 9 | Yes | 8 | |||
| SOA Compliance | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| XSLT | Yes | 8.5 | Yes | 8.5 | |||
| XPATH | Yes | 8.5 | Yes | 8 | |||
| XML | Yes | 7 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Flat Files | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | |||
| (S)MIME | Yes | 7.5 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Process Designer | |||||||
| BPML Compliance | No | 0 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Extensibility | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Comprehensiveness | No | 0 | Yes | 9 | |||
| Support for human interaction | Higher | 9 | Lower | 6 | |||
| BPEL Compliance | Yes | 8 | Yes | 6 | |||
| State Based workflows | Yes | 7.5 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Configurability per partner (code lists) | Higher | 8 | Lower | 6 | |||
| Data Transformation | |||||||
| Performance | How efficiently is the visual map converted to executable code | Very High | 9 | Lower | 7 | ||
| Ease of development | The ease with which transformations can be applied | Higher | 8.5 | Lower | 6.5 | ||
| Data manipulation functions | Data manipulation, augmentation, lookups. | Limited | 5 | Vast | 8 | ||
| Data representation diversity | Ability to support multiple rep standards (flat file,EDI,XML.. ) | Less Powerful | 6 | More Powerful | 9 | ||
| Standards Support | versions of EDI, Rosettanet | Yes | 6.5 | Yes | 7.5 | ||
| Support for Lookups | Ease with which database lookups can be performed | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | ||
| XSLT Support | Standard support | Yes | 6 | Yes | 8 | ||
| Speed of development | Hierarchy normalization etc.. | Very High | 9 | Lower | 5 | ||
| Trading Partner Management | |||||||
| Code lists | No | 4 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Metadata | Yes | 7 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Business Rules and Policy Management | |||||||
| Business rules of biztalk are applicable | Yes | 7 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Adapter | |||||||
| SQL | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Messaging Layer | |||||||
| Publish subscribe | Publishing API apps in marketplace | Higher | 9 | Lower | 5 | ||
| ESB | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Other | |||||||
| – Sourcecode K2.net product which is based upon windows presentation foundation and enables defining and executing human workflows through web applications and it uses BizTalk for System workflows | No | 0 | yes | 7 | |||
| BizTalk can communicate with any application, with little or no change at all to source application | Yes | 8 | Yes | 8 | |||
| Through BizTalk business process work flows can be exposed as web service which can consume by any SOAP compliant client. | Yes | 6 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Performance | |||||||
| Long running transactions | Inefficient | 3 | Effective | 8 | |||
| Scalability | |||||||
| Scale Up (processor limits, memory limits…) | BizTalk Enterprise Edition can be scaled up to unlimited number processors and memory | Yes | 9 | Yes | 8.5 | ||
| Availability /Reliability | |||||||
| Availability of rapid development tools | BizTalk seamlessly integrates with visual studio 2005 which is outstanding rapid development IDE |
Yes | 9 | Yes | 8 | ||
| Deployability | |||||||
| Quality of documentation | There is a huge collection of Documentation, tutorials and samples available for BizTalk on Web |
Lower | 5 | Higher | 9 | ||
| Security | |||||||
| Non repudiation | Yes | 8 | Yes | 7 | |||
| Availability of SDKs | BizTalk Server comes with SDK with rich object model to extend existing functionality | Yes | 7 | Yes | 8.5 | ||
| Key Financial Metrics | |||||||
| ROI | Higher | 5 | Lower (Short-run) | 7 | |||
| Payback Period | Short | 9 | Long | 6 | |||
| Strategy | |||||||
| Product Strategy | Growth | 9 | Mature/Decline | 6 | |||
| Cost of upgrades | Higher | 6.5 | Lower | 8 | |||
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Aboorvaraja
March 9, 2016Nice Post 🙂