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Case Study · Retail × Linkroad

Migrating a legacy BizTalk estate to MuleSoft.

A global leader in cork-based products needed to modernize its legacy integration landscape, built on BizTalk and SSIS, which no longer supported the company’s growing operational and digital transformation needs.

Linkroad supported the migration of these integrations to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, adopting an API-led connectivity approach to scale integrations, simplify governance, and accelerate delivery of new services.

20+

APIs delivered

12

months to complete the migration

2

legacy platforms retired: BizTalk and SSIS

0

interruptions to business continuity

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Challenge

A legacy integration estate the business had outgrown.

Integrations across systems and business units ran on BizTalk and SSIS, platforms that no longer supported the company’s growing operational and digital transformation needs.

Every new connection meant point-to-point work on ageing technology, with no shared governance model and no way to reuse what had already been built.

Modernizing the platform was the starting point. Reusable APIs were the goal.

The case

The objective was never the migration. It was the delivery speed it unlocks.

Modernize the legacy BizTalk and SSIS integration landscape through an API-led connectivity approach, enabling scalability, stronger governance, and faster delivery of new services.

Migration without interruption

Legacy BizTalk and SSIS integrations moved to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform over 12 months, sequenced so that business operations continued throughout.

From point-to-point to API-led

A modern API-led approach replaced bespoke connections, streamlining integrations across systems and business units and making each interface reusable by the next project.

20+ APIs turn integration from a project cost into shared infrastructure.

On that base, a scalable governance foundation was established for integration delivery and future digital initiatives.

About the client

A global leader in cork-based products

20+

APIs supporting faster, more consistent integration delivery.

An industrial group operating across systems and business units at international scale. Client name withheld under confidentiality.

Impact

What the programme delivered

01

20+ APIs delivered

Faster integration delivery across the business, with each API available for reuse.

02

Completed in 12 months

The full migration ran to plan, ensuring business continuity throughout.

03

A modern operating model

A scalable foundation laid for future digital initiatives.

Migrated, not just replatformed.

04

Integration governance

A scalable foundation for integration governance and the initiatives that follow it.

Solution · API-led connectivity with MuleSoft

One integration layer, migrated, API-led and governed.

Four workstreams took the estate from legacy middleware to a managed API platform: platform migration, API-led connectivity, API delivery, and a governance foundation for what comes next.

Migration, connectivity, delivery, governance.

01

Platform Migration

Legacy BizTalk and SSIS integrations moved to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.

02

API-Led Connectivity

A modern approach to streamline integrations across systems and business units.

03

API Delivery

20+ APIs built, supporting faster and more consistent integration delivery.

04

Governance

A scalable foundation for integration governance and future initiatives.

Technology and approach

Platform: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.

Migrated from: BizTalk, SSIS.

Approach: API-led connectivity.

Scope: enterprise-wide integration modernization across systems and business units.

Still integrating on legacy middleware? Start with the APIs.

We can walk through how a migration to MuleSoft, an API-led connectivity model and a governance foundation would work across your own integration landscape.