BizTalk Education Solutions

Integrate, Automate, and Simplify the Academic Processes

The evolving demands of the global economy make education vital to social and economic success. Microsoft believes that education is a fundamental human right and is the single most important investment in the future of individuals, communities, the nation, and the world. Learn More about Microsoft’s education offerings.

BizTalk helps realize Microsoft's education vision by offering technologies that connect schools, students, and administrators. Learn how BizTalk is enabling K-12 schools and higher learning institutions below.

K-12 Education
Higher Education

IT faces unique challenges in educational systems. Departments often operate on disconnected systems and platforms, and sharing data between districts or states seems impossible.

BizTalk offers simple solutions to help solve these real-world challenges. Additionally, by enabling real-time data collection, transformation, and redistribution to or from any other education system, BizTalk can help prevent students from dropping out and help support programs like No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

You can accomplish many critical tasks using BizTalk, including:

Connecting Students: BizTalk tools and technologies make it easy for students to connect with their teachers and peers and get more engaged in their classes. BizTalk and SharePoint together help simplify collaboration and information sharing with parents. Seamless backend integration also facilitates anytime, anywhere learning for students with a secure ID. This ID connects students to instructional resources and other students, creating a virtual campus environment.
Connecting Faculty: BizTalk facilitates the integration of disparate systems and workflow automation, making it possible to share best practices and innovative instructional resources amongst teachers.
Connecting Administrators: BizTalk integrates and aggregates information from different institutions' systems and uses Business Activity Monitoring to help teachers and administrators make informed decisions.
Connecting Facilities: Students can manage their cafeteria, library, and copier cards from any computer with Internet access. BizTalk also helps with event coordination, bus scheduling, alerting and counseling referral services.
Connecting School/State Requirements: BizTalk simplifies, automates, and streamlines Grant Management, Alumni funding, NCLB, and SIF compliance.

School District Improves Education by Linking Teachers, Students, Parents Online

"Teachers and administrators are more productive and effective; parents are participating more actively; and students are more empowered to help manage, influence, and direct their own education."

"These capabilities have a strong, positive impact on student achievement."

"It’s a way of engaging the class in more critical and creative thinking. We’re empowering students to teach each other."

Deborah Karcher, Chief Information Officer at the Office of Information Technology for Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Use BizTalk to create a common gateway that integrates data and services from both on-premises systems and from the cloud. Integrating real-time data will help aggregate data for IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System). This data can then be used by students, faculty, and departments to effectively share information and work together on projects.

BizTalk can help address key challenges, including:

Connecting Students: Increase student, professor, and administration collaboration with BizTalk Server. BizTalk provides students easy ways to connect with their professors and their peers to get them engaged in their classes and working on projects.
Connecting Faculty: By integrating disparate systems and automating repeatable workflow-based processes, BizTalk helps facilitate the sharing of best practices among faculty members across universities.
Connecting Administrators: Use BizTalk adapters to ease SWIFT compliance and Host Integration Server (HIS) to seamlessly integrate data from legacy systems.
Connecting Facilities: BizTalk provides a secure sign-in solution for disparate backend systems with built-in adapters for SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. BizTalk adapters and accelerators also quicken the student loan process and the alumni donation process.
Connecting School/State Requirements: BizTalk accelerators ensure HIPAA/HL7 compliance for Health Centers for students, which is a mandatory state requirement. BizTalk helps maintain real-time student/patient electronic health records that are integrated with several health information networks. BizTalk also simplifies the creation of IPEDS reports, and the automation of Grants Management and alumni funding.

College Eases Process Development, Creates a “Culture Shift” in Process Improvement

"We’ve used BizTalk Server to quickly develop processes that affect everyone in the college. That’s leading to a cultural change in how people think about technology, helping them to do their work."

"We can use the tools in BizTalk Server to model our processes, tie together subprocesses and Web services, and generate a system very easily. That gives us more flexibility in assigning staff to business process projects because they don’t need as much training as they do to work with other environments.”

Dr. Rob Rennie, Chief Information Officer and Vice President, Technology, Florida State College at Jacksonville

Integrate, Automate, and Simplify the Academic Processes

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