BizTalk

BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and connectivity server solution. A great product on its sixth release, BizTalkServer 2009 provides a solution that allows organizations to more easily connect disparate systems.Comprising of over 25 multi-platform adapters and a robust messaging infrastructure, BizTalk Server provides connectivity between core systems both inside and outside your organization. In addition to integration functionality, BizTalk also provides durable messaging, a rules engine, EDI connectivity, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), RFID capabilities and IBM Host/Mainframe connectivity.

Why BizTalk:

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 assists organizations to meet the challenges of integrating diverses ystems. Most organizations have a combination of systems and technologies that are required for their daily operations. By bringing together these technologies in an agile and scalable manner, BizTalk can help unleash the true potential of your existing infrastructure.

BizTalk Server 2009 allows organizations to:

Simplify and automate interoperability to reduce costs and errors
Gain critical insights on business processes and performance
Shield processes from change impacts
Promote agility and manageability
Integrate to eliminate redundancy
Automate your business interactions with partners

Some important facts

90% of the Fortune Global 100 use BizTalk
12 of the 15 largest retailers in the world
5 of 10 largest hotel chains in the world
6 of the 8 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies
4 of the 5 largest U.S. electronics parts manufacturers
9 of the10 largest U.S. telecommunications companies, Aerospace and Defense Companies use BizTalk.
5 of the 8 largest U.S. chemical companies
9 of the 10 largest insurance companies in the world
23 of 27 EU member governments
Over 8,500BizTalk customers worldwide

Core BizTalk Features:

PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENGINE The messaging engine moves messages from adapters to the MessageBox database and from the Message Box database to subscribers. When messages enter BizTalk they can be routed to multiple subscribers because the messaging engine supports the publish-subscribe pattern.

ADAPTERS Adapters are the BizTalk components that communicate with applications and systems. There are two broad categories of adapters:

application and protocol.
Application adapters communicate with applications such as SQL Server, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, etc. Protocol adapters support communication over various protocols such as HTTP, SOAP, FTP, etc. These adapters eliminate the time associated with building proxy components. Custom adapters can also be built using the BizTalk Adapter Framework
ORCHESTRATION ENGINE
The orchestration engine manages the instantiation and processing of orchestrations. This engine provides several runtime features:

Short-Term and Long-Term State Management - This is the ability to manage short- and long-running business processes and their state (variables, messages, context, etc).This feature also includes facilities for managing state when exceptions occur.
Interception - This is the ability to send data points to other BizTalk components.
Feature Integration - This is the integration with other BizTalk features including the Business Rules Engine and Business Activity Services.
Correlation - This is the ability to route messages back to an existing orchestration instance instead of instantiating a new orchestration instance.
Convoy Support - Convoys provide support for getting messages in a sequence in a single orchestration instance. An example of a simple convoy form is an order processing orchestration that gets a purchase order and then an invoice.

BUSINESS RULES ENGINE

The Business Rules Engine (BRE) provides facilities for encapsulating business rules in a manner that doesn't require them to be embedded in source code. Business rules are grouped in Policies that are usually stored in BizTalk's BizTalkRuleEngineDb database. The BRE can be used directly from standard .NET applications, although it's normally used from orchestrations.

Conclusion

Thousands of customers use Microsoft BizTalk Server daily as their trusted platform for solutions such as payment processing, supply chain visibility, multi-channel interactions and near real-time decision-support/reporting.

Microsoft BizTalk Server gives you the ability to:

Streamline and automate payment processing in a highly-dynamic environment by delivering real-time visibility at the transaction level of interconnected business processes across hybrid systems environments
Be extremely adaptable and gain comprehensive visibility of information and transactions across the multitude of disparate systems, devices (e.g. RFID) and complex processes of your supply chain
Streamline and automate complex business processes that are surfaced to constituents across multiple channels (e.g. web, call center)
Flexibly execute critical business processes, aid decision-making and appropriate reporting (e.g. SOX compliance) by delivering real-time visibility at the transaction level into complex business processes across multiple systems

Learn how you can use BizTalk Server in different scenarios and how other organizations are using it to effectively integrate their business processes and connect their systems and people

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