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How can BizTalk Server help customers in the current economy?

Cut Costs with BizTalk Server

  • Increase efficiency through automation of business processes

  • Improve time-to-market with the help of “out of the box” adapters to LOB applications

  • Extract Value from Existing IT Investments

  • Lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as a result of improved productivity and adaptability to changing business needs

Microsoft BizTalk Server - Integrate, Automate, Simplify

What is BizTalk Server?

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 helps organizations meet the challenges of creating automated business processes that connect diverse systems, empowering customers and employees while maximizing the value of existing investments.

  • Connects to diverse set of systems using a range of different approaches

  • Supports the execution of automated processes

  • Makes connecting with applications in other organizations as easy as possible

  • Allows real-time monitoring of business processes

Diagram of BTS Integration

Connected Enterprise
Connect and extend disparate systems across your organization
and beyond.

Who uses BizTalk Server?

  • Over 8,500 customers worldwide

  • 90% of the Fortune Global 100

  • 23 of 27 EU member governments

  • 9 of the 10 largest insurance companies in the world

  • 12 of the 15 largest retailers in the world

  • 9 of the10 largest U.S. telecommunications companies

  • 9 of the 10 largest U.S. Aerospace and Defense Companies

  • 4 of the 5 largest U.S. electronics parts manufacturers

  • 4 of the 5 largest railroads in the U.S.

  • 6 of the 8 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies

Increase Business Efficiency

  • Automate Business Processes to reduce cost

  • Eliminate Manual Processes

  • Leverage real-time visibility thru RFID to reduce losses

  • Measure Business process efficiency using BAM

    • You can't manage what you can't measure

Customer Evidence

“We would need as many as 20 additional employees to complete the same amount of work that this one automated system is performing.”
~ Chris Etzel, Manufacturing Engineer, Aidec

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Improve Time-to-Market

  • Deliver complex IT projects faster

    • Create faster composite Applications

    • Leverage Industry Accelerators like SWIFT, HIPPA, HL7 to reduce time to market

  • Quickly Integrate applications that don’t talk to one another today (i.e. Mergers and acquisitions)

  • Leverage existing IT skills in Microsoft Technologies

Customer Evidence

“As Microsoft continues to extend the integration capabilities of BizTalk Server to support new standards, we’ll be able to easily take advantage of those capabilities without having to learn any new technologies or tools.”
~ Matt Dewig, Manager of Web Applications, Accuride

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Extract More Value from Existing IT Investments

  • Avoid Rip and Replace

  • Drive value from existing Legacy systems

  • Eliminate high cost B2B/EDI infrastructure

  • Leverage Virtualization to reduce cost of infrastructure

Customer Evidence

“Microsoft tools and techniques also help us to integrate with non-Microsoft technologies, so we can use the software that best aligns with our business strategy.”
~ Jeremy Lock, Head of IT, British Energy

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Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

  • Lowest cost in industry

  • Deliver Innovation(release) every 2 years for real SA value to Customers

  • Breath of functionality from B2B, RFID, EDI, BAM, Accelerators, Adapters for 1 low price

  • For many customers cost of BizTalk would be less than annual maintenance cost of competing products

Customer Evidence

“To automate this process from scratch would have cost us millions. In other words, without BizTalk Server, we would not have been able to achieve this solution, because the costs would have been too prohibitive.”
~ Ralph Osburn, Technology Manager, Aidec

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Next Steps

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