BizTalk Server

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Unite disparate systems

Maximize benefits for your company by uniting disparate business and technical systems. Using BizTalk Server, we bring together applications and make them accessible throughout your enterprise and beyond.

As business process management (BPM) continues to evolve, you face an increasing need to manage processes in a unified and centralized way. BizTalk Server connects your applications in a fast, secure, and reliable manner using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) design.

We generally use BizTalk Server for two purposes: to connect applications within your organization, commonly referred to as enterprise application integration (EAI), and to connect applications in different organizations, commonly referred to as business-to-business (B2B).

How we help you

  • We help you understand and leverage your existing technology investments.
    Using our "leave and layer" approach, we introduce BizTalk Server through incremental adoptions — slowly adding the new integration layers while using your existing interfaces wherever possible. We do this by bridging into your existing integration broker hubs and message brokers.
  • We help you understand your underlying business problems.
    After we expertly identify your existing business process problems, we decide on the best way to solve them.
  • We help you reduce your risks.
    Our smaller, safer projects build into your much larger integration network and business strategy.

Product features

Three components included in BizTalk Server 2006 allow information workers to interact with business processes: Business Activity Services (BAS), Human Workflow Services (HWS), and the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) framework.

Other unique product features include the following:

  • support for the integration of off-the-shelf and custom applications into your business processes
  • support for the creation of trading partner relationships
  • additional components to support HIPAA, HL7, RosettaNet, and SWIFT
  • powerful tools for your information workers to monitor transactions and processes in real time
  • core functionality for defining, managing, and deploying complex business rules used for one or many business processes across your organization
  • support for evaluating where documents should be routed, and the underlying transport services to perform document delivery
  • ability for data to be transformed between the dramatically varying formats used by different business applications and trading communities, such as XML, EDI, RosettaNet, and many others
  • support for the integration of applications and data sources into streamlined business processes within and between organizations
  • ability to combine, access, and analyze operational data through graphical tools and automated data mining utilities to discover patterns and spot trends
  • support for automated monitoring, management, and administration of the production integration solution
  • core platform services that support directory, data, security, and operating system interoperability scenarios for a heterogeneous enterprise infrastructure
  • support for scaling the integration solution up and out to address the volumes required by the largest enterprises
  • support for seamless configuration of security credentials across heterogeneous enterprise domains