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BizTalk Server 2009 provides a suite of powerful technologies that empower developers, IT professionals and business users to cope with complex integration and process automation challenges.  With the right capabilities and tools, BizTalk helps customers to minimize costs and create value faster. The following BizTalk technologies contribute to the quality and agility of integration solutions ranging from application connectivity to business process automation and operational optimization and visibility.

View the BizTalk 2009 Capabilities Poster

 

Technology

Description

Messaging

Key Capabilities:

  • Efficient processing of incoming and outgoing messages

  • Connectivity to disparate systems with more than 25 included adapters

  • Support for a variety of file formats and transport protocols

  • Advance message transformations and routing options

  • Durable messaging including publish/subscribe engine

  • Enforcement of message-level security

Key Benefits:

  • Leverage existing applications as reusable services

  • Simplifies interoperability

  • Shields effects of endpoint changes

  • Reduce risk from application dependencies

  • Provides high quality of service for reliable, traceable, and secure messaging

BizTalk Adapter Pack

Key Capabilities:

  • Provide service enablement for Line of Business (LOB) applications on top of the .NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology

  • Supports popular packaged applications and databases:

  • SAP

  • Siebel eBusiness Applications

  • Oracle eBusiness Suite

  • Oracle Database

  • SQL Server Databas

  • Provides an intuitive and flexible design-time user interface

  • Allows to browse, search and select application metadata

  • Supports Open Interfaces and APIs

  • Provides rich data type support

  • Supports event notifications and polling for data events

  • Caters for multiple consumers: SharePoint Server, SQL Server Integration Services, BizTalk Server, custom ASP.NET and .NET solutions

  • Available as a separate SKU and also included in most BizTalk Server editions

Key Benefits:

  • Delivers a consistent and simplified approach to interoperability

  • Lowers total cost of ownership of application interfaces

  • Reduces training requirements

Host Integration Server

Key Capabilities:

  • Provide service enablement for Line of Business (LOB) applications on top of the .NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology

  • Integrates mission-critical IBM host applications, data sources and security systems with new solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform

  • Connects Microsoft technologies to the latest supported IBM mainframe and midrange systems:

  • Works with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

  • Supports Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V

  • Supports business intelligence tools within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  • Supports data integration for SQL Server 2008

  • Available as standalone server or as Adapters for BizTalk Server

Key Benefits:

  • Allows enterprises to consolidate their network infrastructure while supporting the same level of SNA-compatible applications and services

  • Provides easy and affordable host connectivity with rapid, flexible deployment, and lower cost of ownership

  • Allows IT administrators to securely connect new systems more efficiently

  • Enables enterprise developers to deliver new applications faster through improved productivity

  • Empowers knowledge workers and decision-makers to analyze and report vital information from host data sources faster

Orchestration

Key Capabilities:

  • Centrally managed business processes

  • Transactional and non-transactional message processing

  • Intuitive visual designer

  • Fault tolerant runtime execution

Key Benefits:

  • Automates complex messaging patterns and system workflows

  • Increases manageability and maintainability of process logic

  • Promotes agile development

  • Reduces change impact through separation of concerns

Business Rules Framework

Key Capabilities:

  • Central repository for managing of business rules

  • Abstraction of external data sources through vocabulary

  • Seamless integration with orchestrations and .NET applications

  • Efficient forward chaining rule inference engine

Key Benefits:

  • Increases decision makers productivity through automation

  • Allows rapid adjustment to business changes

  • Provides consistent rules and behavior across systems

  • Enables provisioning by non-developers

Business-to-Business Integration

Key Capabilities:

  • Enables automated electronic transactions with trading partners

  • Support for well-established protocols such as Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) data (X12, EDIFACT, and HIPAA) and Availability Statement 2 (AS2)

  • Support for specific industry protocols such as SWIFT, HL7, and RosettaNet

Key Benefits:

  • Reduces time to onboard new partners

  • Adapts to specific partner requirements

  • Preserves investments in legacy protocols

  • Caters to end-to-end Supply Chain Management solutions

  • Provides out-of-the-box compliance with industry standards and regulations

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Key Capabilities:

  • Observation model to reflect business metrics and key performance indicators

  • Event instrumentation through interceptors and APIs

  • Tools to design, map, and deploy your BAM solution

  • Built-in reporting and alerting portal

  • Integration with Office Business Intelligence tools, SharePoint and SQL Server Reporting Services

Key Benefits:

  • Increases visibility of business metrics across shared processes

  • Reduces costs through early problems detection and alerting

  • Enhances process execution performance

BizTalk RFID

Key Capabilities:

  • Provides .NET based application platform to build RFID Enabled applications

  • Provides rich enterprise manageability capabilities which include:

  • "Plug & Play” device support

  • Real-time failover

  • Native integration with System center Operations manager to manage device infrastructure

  • Provides ability to define RFID business processes at edge of the enterprise

  • Provides ability .NET based Devices service provider interface to extend device support

  • Runs on platforms like Windows XP, Vista, Windows Mobile and Windows CE

  • Leverages Business Rules Engine to define business rules at edge of the enterprise

  • Supports backup and restore of configurations

Key Benefits:

  • Provides real-time visibility into physical world assets

  • Abstracts device access and management

  • Provides powerful and flexible processing and deployment options

  • Reduces deployment time for RFID deployments

  • Enables Mobile workers to make real-time decisions

  • Improves business efficiencies with automation of processes through technology

 

For more information on BizTalk technologies please refer to the Capabilities Poster or the BizTalk Product Documentation on MSDN

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