Couple weeks back I participated BizTalk Server 2009 launch event in Vienna. There was quite a nice number of participiants at the event - I think bit under 100. Also in the same conference we showed first time in public our new monitoring tool FRENDS Helium for BizTalk Server.

Focus for FRENDS Helium is in easy installation and configuration to any existing BizTalk Server environment. And the benefits of the tool come out from the time savings on normal day to day operations with BizTalk - just use any browser to check BizTalk system status without remote connection to server. And there's a capabilities to drill into message flows, contents and orchestrations executions. Helium is currently in late base phase and our R&D is working hard to get RC out this month.

If you're interested about the beta version just drop me an email - or try the online version on our demo site.