BizTalk360 Reviews & Product Details

Easy to use, and lot's of good features - such as auto recovery, posting of alarms to Microsoft Teams etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issue I have is that when a message becomes suspended, and an alarm has been triggered for this, if more messages become suspended later on before the first alarm has been reset/handled - there really is no good way to be notified about the new suspended message. This might be partly because we use BizTalk with many ports for many different systems - with quite few messages per system/day. It would probably not have been such an issue if we hade fewer systems with bigger volumes of messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BizTalk360 gives us a complete dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup is rather time consuming, but absolutely worth the effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monitoring features of this product are very nice. BizTalk360 can monitor everything in a BizTalk environment. I'm alerted on each environment health check notification and the auto-correction feature is also great to prevent longer service/port/receive location crushes. I like also the monitoring of Azure Service Bus Queues for hybrid environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd like to monitor also some Azure service bus entities like Topics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great consideration taken to lay out the UI for all functional use cases, from development to troubleshooting, and administrative activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Alarm mapping has always seemed more challenging than necessary, but with time and increased familiarity it's become easy enough to master and leverage the capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a solo BizTalk admin, BizTalk360 was a big help in a few areas

- Eliminate the need for daily multi-server remote sessions, since the BizTalk360 portal is able to give me just about everything I need to know about my BizTalk environments as well as server health (SQL Servers too)

- Monitoring of applications and host instances

- Gave my devs and analysts read-only access to production configuration/settings for BizTalk

- Gave management a dashboard so they can check for analytics and outages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not so much dislike, but it does a lot which also means there is a lot to learn. I had to give training sessions to my users who had zero familiarity with the stock admin console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Providing our ServiceTeams with operator abilities so they don't have to use BizTalk Administrator console is one of the biggest benefits. The second is the monitoring function so teams get alerts on specified events. Support from Kovai is very friendly and has the customer in mind, which is good. We are looking into the possibility of integrating our automated deployment of BizTalk applications (using BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF)) with using the API, so for example SendPorts and receive locations can be added to Alarms automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The BT360 web GUI does not completely replace the BizTalk Admin console when it comes to drilling down to messages. Also there is a considerable learning curve regarding the concept of Alarm Groups and mapping those. Analytics could be improved, e.g. a max of 10 metrics for a custom alert is somewhat limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The monitoring capabilities of BizTalk360 provide tremendous value to us. We had tried utilizing SCOM and the BizTalk management pack, but it proved to be too tedious to configure it, and using the default settings was not acceptable due to the excessive alerting it would generate. The ability for BizTalk360 to take the current state of a system and auto-configure itself to recognize that as the healthy state of your artifacts is a tremendous time saver. The fact that you can also configure BizTalk360 to alert when a condition has cleared is great for momentary events.

Another benefit that BizTalk360 provides that SCOM does not is the ability to correct problems automatically when they occur. We had written several custom PowerShell scripts to address such items as restarting host instances or receive locations, but BizTalk360 can handle that natively with just a couple of settings.

Our administrators like the ability it gives them to perform their tasks (such as resuming suspended messages) without having to use the BizTalk console or logging into the servers. The granularity of access control in BizTalk360 is far greater than what the Operator role is capable of providing via the BizTalk console, enabling new team members to familiarize themselves with our environment while they are learning without the concern that they may accidentally change the state of something. The improved security this access control provides is another great benefit.

Finally, the attention that the BizTalk360 team gives to their product and their customers is refreshing. The product is constantly improving with new versions being provided on a regular cycle and with fixes being provided in a very prompt manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because there is so much functionality in the product, it can be a bit overwhelming for a new user to absorb it all. Further expansion of the available training materials would be helpful.

In order to separate critical systems and different load profiles, we have a number of BizTalk production instances. Being able to compare the BizTalk360 configurations across them would be helpful for confirming consistency and identify variances in our monitoring rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We already have a number of systems for logging and monitoring our BizTalk estate including PowerShell, BizTalk Health Monitor, BAM and custom logging components. BizTalk 360 has allowed us to bring this tools together under one roof whilst also presenting it in a easy to read manner. We have over 50 applications and being able to provide tailored monitoring to each of the relevant teams is useful. Knowledgebase feature is particularly helpful in recording notes against errors should reoccurences happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The alarms and mappings can be a little tricky to get right the first time which is where you create the notifications to alert people and match those with artifacts to monitor. Some of the BizTalk tools cannot be replaced such as the admin console and the rule composer as they aren't as full featured but as time goes on I'm sure these will be improved.

A useful feature to have would be some sort of integration with TFS for build and releasing as well as some of the tools of BTDF. We use BTDF SSO heavily for securiely storing configuration to reduce the amount of deployments. Having this in the console would enable us to provide business users with the ability to update configuration without the intervention of an administrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The BizTalk 360 product team and their commitment to great service closes the governance and monitoring gap in BizTalk server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface can be unresponsive at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Various monitoring features, alarms, dashboards, message handling, easy report part etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such but I think some more features can be provided related to may be report part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.