With Microsoft BizTalk server’s mainstream support ending in 2030, healthcare organizations are facing a critical decision—to modernize their integration infrastructure or risk running on outdated systems. For an industry where seamless data exchange is vital for patient outcomes and operational efficiency, the choice is clear. Migrating from BizTalk to the cloud offers an opportunity not just for modernization but for enhanced capabilities that align with the future of healthcare IT.
The transition, however, isn’t without challenges. It requires meticulous planning and execution to safeguard sensitive healthcare data and ensure critical systems remain operational.
Why Migrate from BizTalk to the Cloud?
Healthcare relies on robust, secure and scalable data integration to power everything from electronic health records (EHR) to telemedicine platforms. BizTalk, along with other on-premise solutions, has served as a reliable integration tool for many years but is increasingly unable to meet the demands of modern cloud-based infrastructures.
Here are key reasons why migration is essential:
- End-of-life for BizTalk
- With Microsoft’s timeline to sunset BizTalk, relying on it presents significant risks, from unsupported features to increased vulnerability. Transitioning ensures your systems remain compliant and secure.
- Enhanced scalability and performance
- Cloud solutions handle increasing data loads with ease, supporting growing healthcare networks and technologies such as IoT-enabled medical devices.
- Cost efficiency
- Cloud platforms eliminate the need for costly on-premise hardware and allow for a pay-as-you-go model that aligns costs with actual usage.
- Interoperability
- Modern cloud integration solutions ensure seamless data exchange, regardless of whether data originates from legacy systems, modern applications or external partners.
The Challenges of a Healthcare Cloud Migration
While the benefits are clear, migrating healthcare integrations to the cloud comes with its own set of challenges:
- Data sensitivity
- Healthcare organizations handle large volumes of sensitive patient data that must adhere to stringent privacy and regulatory requirements, like PHIPA in Canada and HIPAA in the U.S.
- Operational continuity
- Hospitals and clinics rely on continuous data transmission for critical functions such as patient care and diagnostics. Any downtime could severely impact operations.
- Hybrid infrastructure needs
- Many healthcare organizations aren’t in a position to entirely abandon legacy systems. Maintaining a balance between on-premise and cloud solutions is crucial during the transition.
- Cost management
- A wholesale migration often results in high, upfront costs and unexpected expenditures, making an incremental approach more viable.
To address these challenges, healthcare organizations need a solution that ensures both continuity and adaptability. This is where Calian® Corolar™ Cloud stands out.
Corolar Cloud—The Catalyst for Simple and Seamless Cloud Migration
Corolar Cloud is designed specifically for healthcare IT environments, offering a structured approach to integrating systems in a hybrid setup and bringing a repeatable, predictable easy-to-adopt integration lifecycle management approach.
Why Corolar Cloud?
When it comes to migrating BizTalk to the cloud, Corolar Cloud is the clear choice for those seeking a seamless and efficient solution. Designed with BizTalk parity, Corolar Cloud ensures an easy, straightforward and rapid transition to the Azure Cloud, minimizing disruptions to your operations.
Backed by a strong team of integration experts, Corolar Cloud delivers unparalleled product quality, customizable services and agile versatility to address your needs. Built on an architecture that perfectly aligns with the Microsoft tech stack, it offers a future-ready solution that ensures compatibility and performance. Corolar Cloud doesn’t just simplify migration—it empowers your organization to innovate, adapt and thrive in the cloud environment with confidence.
A Phased Approach to Reduce Risk
Rather than undertaking a disruptive, all-at-once migration, Corolar Cloud enables organizations to adopt a phased strategy:
- Isolate individual systems
- Instead of migrating entire workloads at once, you can isolate specific systems, such as EHR or imaging solutions, and move them to the cloud incrementally.
- Control and monitor each step
- With Corolar Cloud, each phase of the migration is carefully monitored, reducing the risk of unexpected downtime or data loss.
- Flexibility in scaling
- You can scale operations at your own pace. This approach not only lowers risk but allows IT teams to refine cloud configurations before proceeding with further migrations.
- Hybrid integration capabilities
- Corolar Cloud’s hybrid integration model empowers organizations to run both legacy and cloud systems simultaneously. Here’s why this is critical:
- Ensuring operational continuity: While cloud-based systems are activated, legacy systems can continue serving critical roles until the migration completes.
- Corolar Cloud’s hybrid integration model empowers organizations to run both legacy and cloud systems simultaneously. Here’s why this is critical:
- Bridging the gap
- Corolar Cloud acts as a bridge, enabling smooth data exchange between on-premise applications and cloud platforms without additional reconfigurations.
- Flexible workflows
- Hybrid integrations allow IT teams to maintain workflows across multiple environments seamlessly.
Cost-Effective Migration
A phased migration using Corolar Cloud allows healthcare organizations to better manage migration expenses:
- Optimize resource allocation
- Only the necessary resources—both financial and technical—are allocated to each stage of the migration.
- Avoid unnecessary investments
- By maintaining operational legacy systems during the transition, organizations avoid the need to replace functioning infrastructure prematurely.
- Pay-as-you-grow
- Corolar Cloud supports scalable cloud models, enabling organizations to manage costs without overcommitting to resources they may not yet need.
Launch Your Cloud Migration with Confidence
Migrating from BizTalk to the cloud isn’t just a response to Microsoft’s road map—it’s an opportunity to upgrade your healthcare IT infrastructure and align with the technologies improving patient care.
By choosing a solution like Corolar Cloud, healthcare organizations can minimize risk, optimize costs and ensure an uninterrupted transition to the cloud. Corolar Cloud’s hybrid approach empowers you to take control of your migration and ensures your critical systems continue to run without disruption, all while future-proofing your operations against evolving challenges.
