Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010

Integrate disparate government IT systems within and across agencies.

As they move to modernize their processes and improve service delivery, many government organizations struggle with legacy technologies that don’t work together efficiently. Combining disparate systems and making them function smoothly can be a complex and expensive challenge. BizTalk Server 2010 helps you extend your agency’s investments in infrastructure, people, and applications by connecting and integrating heterogeneous systems—both inside and across organizations.

With more than 25 multi-platform adapters and a robust messaging infrastructure, BizTalk Server 2010 provides tremendous out-of-the-box connectivity capabilities for exchanging data and orchestrating business processes. Broad interoperability built into BizTalk Server 2010 can help maximize your agency’s productivity and transparency by improving visibility into critical business processes, facilitating tighter collaboration with partners, and supporting online delivery of constituent services.

Take advantage of the latest platforms

BizTalk Server 2010 supports the latest Microsoft technologies already in your infrastructure, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2, and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. The platform updates also enable Hyper-V virtualization and advances in the latest developer tools, including easy-to-use BizTalk Data Map and Line-of-Business Connectivity Workflow Foundation (WF) Activities for .NET developers and components for rapid development of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions.

Build on investments

BizTalk Server 2010 delivers a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that can enhance host systems integration, enhance business activity monitoring (BAM), and improve Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) guidance. You can also take advantage of a new web services registry and a line of business adapters that support IBM Hosts Systems and the latest application versions of SAP7 and Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1, among others. BizTalk Server 2010 also helps you to automate complex business processes across multiple channels, including citizen call centers and highly secure around-the-clock web portals, which can result in lower costs for constituent interactions and service delivery.

Enable simpler solution manageability

Unlike many traditional middleware solutions, BizTalk Server 2010 gives you ready-to-use tools and capabilities that can save you the time, trouble, and expense of custom development or add-on components. Ease of use starts with simplified setup and live updates to optimize performance, and BizTalk Server 2010 readily scales up as your agency’s needs grow.

This newest generation of business process integration server from Microsoft includes powerful management tools that give administrators and developers greater insight and control: The Server Administration console is the primary management tool for BizTalk Server, providing a graphical user interface for performing all of the deployment and management operations for BizTalk applications. The new System Center Operations Manager can improve the manageability of Microsoft products through centralized availability and health monitoring, and the BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager provides comprehensive discovery and monitoring of BizTalk Server components and applications.

Other enhancements include support for transparent data encryption to help satisfy your agency’s security and privacy requirements, along with improved data integration from legacy systems, providing a single view of data for shared situational awareness, better business insight, and smarter decision-making.