BizTalk Server 2009 builds on the functionality of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to facilitate business processes that span systems, and people, within and across organizational boundaries. Through process automation and broad support for industry standards, BizTalk Server 2009 reduces the cost and complexity of supply chain management and other business-to-business solutions.
Unifying Business-to-Business Platforms
BizTalk allows you to automate business processes with your trading partners all the way from your systems to theirs.
Support for EDI(X12, HIPAA, EDIFACT, EANCOM variants) standards over different transport and application protocols (including FTP, HTTP, AS2 protocols), as well as modern XML-based Web Services standards.
Solution accelerators for HL7, SWIFT, and RosettaNet.
Line-of-Business Adapters with the new BizTalk Adapter Pack.
Highlights
The Open Application Group Inc. OAGi is a non-profit organization with the goal of developing and promoting business process interoperability for both application-to-application and business-to-business processes. The primary standard produced by OAGi is the Open Application Group Integration Specification (OAGIS®), which is a royalty-free, extensible, and technology-neutral XML standard. This document demonstrates how to implement a simple purchase order processing solution using Open Application Group Integration Specification (OAGIS®) within a BizTalk Server 2006 solution.
Gartner (June 3, 2008) Service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, international e-commerce, proliferating business-to-business projects and changing user requirements are driving vendor innovation and consolidation in the B2B gateway software market. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers.
- Optimize and simplify B2B integration with BizTalk Server and the power of the GXS Trading Grid
The GXS Trading Grid, the recommended B2B Network for Microsoft BizTalk Server, provides real-time access to 35,000 companies worldwide, lowering costs and increasing performance.
- B2B Integration Appliance helps customers improve supply chain visibility and productivity with the flip of a switch
BBot from Covast is a pre-configured supply chain appliance that automatically integrates large hubs with their smaller suppliers, customers, and distributors. Using only a LAN with Internet connection, BBot enables immediate integration across the supply chain.
