Microsoft BizTalk

Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 R2 makes it easier and more cost-effective to connect systems, applications and processes. Imagine these business scenarios: Your customer wants to pull data from a customer relationship management (CRM) system like Siebel or an

enterprise resource planning (ERP) system like SAP and display those on a desktop PC in Microsoft SharePoint® Server; your customer needs to connect to trading partners or suppliers electronically (using electronic data interchange (EDI)) to meet a compliance mandate or to streamline a supply chain; or your customer is working on a broad Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. Your customer uses Microsoft Dynamics™ line-of-business (LOB) management solutions to automate and streamline financial, supply chain, or customer relationship processes. These are all core scenarios for BizTalk Server.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior releases to help organisations extend core process management technologies even further with new capabilities like native support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), AS2 and RFID, and close alignment with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista, including key .NET Framework technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

Extend—Supply Chains to the Edge BizTalk Server 2006 R2 helps organisations cost effectively manage their supply chain from the factory to the storefront. An end to end integrated supply chain allows organisations to drive maximum efficiency through visibility into critical business processes, and tighter collaboration with trading partners. With new capabilities such as native support for EDI and RFID, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides the ability to gather data from the edge of the enterprise, enabling real time visibility across business processes and trading partners.

Connect—SOA and Interop on a Unified Platform BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides the infrastructure to connect existing applications (regardless of the platform) and to compose, expose, and consume new services. This allows you to get more out of the investments that you have already made and minimise the cost of integrating the new pieces of technology that you have acquired. Because BizTalk Server includes tools to connect both proprietary and standards based systems and pre-integrates with the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server is a central part of any SOA strategy.

Additionally, a broad array of technology and application adapters is available for BizTalk Server. With out-of-the-box support for everything from transport protocols such as FTP, SOAP, and MQSeries, to high level integration with line of business applications such as PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel, you choose how you want to connect applications, platforms and people—we provide the tools to do it.

Line of business application adapters
WS-* based standards
.NET Framework (WCF, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics)
Mainframe and midrange systems
XML and Web Services protocols (for example, SOAP)
Devices (RFID)

Deliver—Enterprise Proven Solutions
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 helps organisations cost effectively manage their supply chain from the factory to the storefront. An end-to-end integrated supply chain allows organisations to drive maximum efficiency through visibility into critical business processes, and tighter collaboration with trading partners. With new capabilities such as native support for EDI and RFID, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides the ability to gather data from the edge of the enterprise, enabling real-time visibility across business processes and trading partners.

Quick Facts
Over 7,000 customers worldwide
90% of the Fortune Global 100 use BizTalk Server
Leader in the 2007 Gartner Application Infrastructure and Back-End Application Integration Magic Quadrants
Leader in the 2007 Application Server Platforms: Conventional Web, Conventional SOA and Independent SOA Forrester Waves
12 of the 15 largest retailers in the world run BizTalk Server.

BizTalk Benefits

Simplify SOA. With SOA, IT can simplify application and system integration, recombine and reuse applications and organise development work into a unified and consistent design framework. This helps to lower IT costs and helps the organisation identify and respond to workflow problems more efficiently.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides messaging, orchestration, design tools, and more.

Connect to partners. All businesses need to connect with customers and partners. We help to do this faster and more cost effectively with support for EDI and other business-to-business (B2B) protocols.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 can be used to connect applications in different organisations.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 can be used to automate a business process that spans multiple applications
on different platforms.

Deliver the right data to the right person at the right time. Whether it is business intelligence (BI) or a simple customer portal, the data that a person needs frequently lives in different systems or applications. Whether it is customer data (CRM/Siebel), production data (ERP/SAP), or location data (radio frequency identification (RFID), BizTalk Server can deliver the right information at the right time so that people or systems can make the right decision.

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 includes a BRE and support for BAM.

Working with RFID

Radio frequency identification (RFID) offers plenty of potential. An RFID tag is a small device that can be attached to pretty much anything: pallets in a warehouse, individual items in a store, livestock on a farm, passports, and more. This tag contains information that can be read by a nearby RFID reader, and then used by applications in any number of ways.

The BizTalk RFID server provides a common platform for RFID applications to interact with diverse
RFID devices such as readers and printers.

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