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A Valentine’s Day Gift for .NET Integrators


Stone Bond’s alternative to BizTalk supports C#, .NET 2.0

By Edward J. Correia
February 1, 2006 — 
Claiming to offer a faster and more capable alternative to Microsoft’s BizTalk server, Stone Bond Technologies on Feb. 14 is scheduled to release Enterprise Enabler Server 2006, an update to its integration server for .NET that the Houston-based workflow solutions developer says now supports C# code and the .NET 2.0 framework, and is less complicated to install and use than its Redmond counterpart.

“I don’t know that there are that many .NET-based EAI and ETL tools out there,” said Pamela Szabo, co-founder and CIO of Stone Bond. “BizTalk is the only other one that we know of that’s of any significance.”

According to Nikhil Roy, program manager for Enterprise Enabler (EE) Server, the platform takes a fundamentally different approach to integration than Microsoft’s. “BizTalk works by processing messages, which have to be in XML format,” he said. “If you’re pulling data from SQL Server into a flat file [for instance], you’re forced to turn it to XML and then to a flat file.”

Microsoft would not comment on Stone Bond’s claims directly, but Pearson Cummings, Microsoft’s communications manager for application platform and development marketing, said BizTalk has “been met with broad adoption of large and medium-sized enterprises” and is currently being used to connect disparate “business applications, mainframes and databases.” Since the introduction of BizTalk Server 2000 in December of that year, Microsoft has updated the product three times, Cummings said.

A significant enhancement in EE Server for version 2006, Roy said, is the ability to expose processes as Web services. “This allows a process to be triggered by an external SOAP call, thereby abstracting the logic and flow of the process of the caller,” and effectively act as a wrapper around legacy applications.

Nikhil claimed that Enterprise Enabler 2006 is built completely with managed code. “There’s no legacy code in there. That lets developers build applications using Visual Basic or C#,” the latter of which is new to version 2006.

Enterprise Enabler 2006 includes a runtime engine for Windows servers and a GUI-based designer for building processes and workflows. Messaging support includes JMS, MSMQ, TIBCO and WebSphere MQ. The standard edition costs US$5,999 per server processor and includes several integration connectors and can handle 10 workflows; an enterprise edition costs $18,999 per processor and includes additional prebuilt connectors, can process unlimited workflows, and offers an optional change management module.


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