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Microsoft BizTalk Server helps you connect systems inside and across organizations.

BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and connectivity server solution.

A mature product on its seventh release, BizTalk Server 2010 provides a solution that allows organizations to more easily connect disparate systems.

Including 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 strong durable messaging, a rules engine, EDI connectivity, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), RFID capabilities and IBM Host/Mainframe connectivity

Combining different systems into effective business processes is a challenging problem. Accordingly, BizTalk Server includes a range of technologies.

A messaging component that provides the ability to communicate with a range of other software. By relying on adapters for different kinds of communication, the engine can support a variety of protocols and data formats, including Web services and many others.

Support for creating and running graphically-defined processes called orchestrations. Built on top of the engine’s messaging components, orchestrations implement the logic that drives all or part of a business process.

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 helps organizations meet the challenges of integrating diverse systems. Most organizations have a multitude of systems and technologies that are required for their daily operations. By bringing together these technologies in agile and scalable way, BizTalk can help unleash the potential of your existing infrastructure. BizTalk Server 2010 lets organizations:

Simplify and automate interoperability to reduce costs and errorsGain critical insights on business processes and performanceShield processes from change impactsPromote agility and manageabilityIntegrate to eliminate redundancyAutomate your business interactions with partners

The great majority of modern business processes depend at least in part on software. While some of these processes are supported by a single application, many others rely on diverse software systems. In many cases, this software has been created at different times, on different platforms, and using different technologies. Automating those business processes requires connecting diverse systems.

Addressing this challenge goes by various names: business process automation (BPA), business process management (BPM), and others. Regardless of the name, two scenarios are most important for application integration. One is connecting applications within a single organization, commonly referred to as enterprise application integration (EAI).The other, called business-to-business (B2B) integration,

connects applications in different organizations.

IBM Mainframe – IA

Unix system – ERP

.NET Windows - FA

Over 10,000 BizTalk customers worldwide81% of the Fortune Global 100 use BizTalk6 of the 8 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies4 of the 5 largest electronics parts manufacturers9 of the10 largest U.S. telecommunications companies9 of the 10 largest U.S. Aerospace and Defense Companies5 of the 8 largest U.S. chemical companies4 of the 5 largest railroads in the U.S.9 of the 10 largest insurance companies in the world

Updated Platform SupportSupport for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2Hyper-V support

Easier Integration of Enterprise ApplicationsEasy to use BizTalk Data Map and Line-of-Business Connectivity Workflow Foundation (WF) Activities for .NET developersSeamless ability to leverage BizTalk capabilities from SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Service to Line-of-Business systemsNew intuitive & intelligent Data Map and Transformation toolsImproved Visual Studio project and wizard driven tools to build integration solutions with IBM Mainframe and Midrange SystemsBuilt-in components for rapid development of RFID solutions

Simpler Solution Manageability

Single, comprehensive parameter settings dashboard for efficient performance tuning and streamlining deployments across environments

New System Center Management Pack to provide enhanced visual monitoring and diagnostics

Streamlined setup and live update

Support for SQL Server backup compression

Support for transparent data encryption

Enhanced Enterprise InteroperabilityEfficient B2B integration with scalable Trading Partner Management and advanced capabilities for complex data mappingSecure FTP with new FTPS Adapter and an improved FTP AdapterAdapter support for the latest application versions: SAP7, Oracle eBS 12.1, J.D. Edwards 9.0, SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010Updated industry protocol adaptersEnhancements to the IBM Hosts Systems adapters

BizTalk Server 2010 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 minimize 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 to high level integration with line of business applications such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel and Oracle you choose how you want to connect applications, platforms and people—we provide the tools to do it.

Line of business application adaptersWS-* based standards and UDDI.NET Framework (WCF, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics)Mainframe and midrange systemsXML and Web Services protocols (for example, SOAP)Business to business integration (EDI, AS2)Devices (RFID)

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 chainStreamline 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