Microsoft BizTalk Server
What is BizTalk?
BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and connectivity server solution. A mature product on its sixth release, BizTalk Server 2009 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.Why BizTalk?
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 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 2009 lets organizations: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
Top New Features
Updated Platform Support
Support for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V support and SQL Server 2008
Developer & Team Productivity
New Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) experience - with Support for TFS - integrated source control, bug tracking, unit testing, MSBuild automation
Enhanced Developer Productivity with Visual Studio project system updates & Map Debugging
SOA and Web Services
ESB Guidance 2.0
New UDDI v3 Web Services Registry
New and enhanced LOB adapters (Oracle eBusiness Suite, SQL)
Enhanced host systems integration (WebSphere MQ, CICS, IMS)
Enhanced BAM support
Business to Business Integration
Mobile (Windows CE, Windows Mobile) RFID Platform
New RFID device management and industry standards support
Enhanced Support for EDI and AS2 Protocols and Drummond certification
Updated SWIFT Support and SWIFTReady Financial EAI Gold certification
BizTalk Server Delivers a Unified Platform for SOA and Interoperability
BizTalk Server 2009 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 adapters
WS-* based standards and UDDI
.NET Framework (WCF, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics)
Mainframe and midrange systems
XML and Web Services protocols (for example, SOAP)
Business to business integration (EDI, AS2)
Devices (RFID)
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