The Microsoft Application Platform is a set of integrated technologies and tools that enable your business to innovate and create strategic advantage. By enabling you to extend and unlock the value in your existing applications, and to rapidly develop new applications that differentiate you from your competition, you can make significant gains in time to value, productivity, and total cost of ownership.

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Microsoft Application Platform

The Microsoft Application Platform can help your systems talk business:

• User-Focused Experience: Provides a user-centric experience that helps increase your employees impact and can improve the customer experience.
• Flexible Integrated System: Increases business agility and strategic advantage by enabling IT to deliver in continuous alignment with business goals.
• Proven Platform: Helps develop and connect business-critical applications while providing internet-class scalability, security, and performance.

The Microsoft Application Platform is a set of integrated technologies and tools—spanning the user experience, collaboration and workflow, analytics and business intelligence, business process management, and service oriented architectures—that enable your business to innovate and to create strategic advantage.

Core Products

• Microsoft BizTalk Server2006 R2
  Microsoft BizTalk Server is used to connect systems both inside and across organizations. BizTalk Server has helped over 7,000 organizations worldwide to connect their people, partners, processes, and information.
• Microsoft Expression
  Microsoft Expression products help you take your creative potential to a new level. Professional design tools and innovative technologies give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality—whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop and Silverlight, or managing digital assets and content.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent enterprise data platform that helps enable you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  Microsoft Visual Studio helps you take on your toughest software development challenges, providing a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams. Find out how you can be more productive and obtain faster, higher-quality results.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008
  Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work more effectively together.

Related Products

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  Microsoft SQL Server 2005 next-generation database management and analysis solution delivers increased security, scalability, and availability to your enterprise data and analytical applications, while making them easier to build, deploy, and manage.
• Microsoft Commerce Server 2007
  Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 enables you to create full-featured Web business applications and extend your business across networks, while allowing you to integrate e-commerce solutions within your existing infrastructure.
• Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006
  Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 offers key enabling technologies that allow enterprise organizations to integrate their mission-critical host applications, data sources, and security systems with new solutions developed using the Microsoft Windows platform. Learn about solutions for your organization.

Related Solutions

The Microsoft Application Platform is a set of integrated technologies and tools—spanning the user experience, collaboration and workflow, analytics and business intelligence, business process management, and service oriented architectures—that enable your business to innovate and to create strategic advantage.

Microsoft business intelligence (BI) solutions offer a complete, fully integrated set of BI technologies that can help reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information, enable better business decisions, and improve your bottom line.

Microsoft SOA and Business Process solutions provide IT professionals, architects and developers with the guidance, technologies and tools for scoping, designing, building and maintaining SOA and Business Process solutions.

Related Technologies

The Microsoft .NET Framework is the Windows developer platform that connects information, people, systems and devices. Download the .NET Framework now.

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Install Silverlight now to see what you’re missing!

Internet Information Services 7.0 is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences and offers improved administration and diagnostic tools to help achieve lower infrastructure costs on a variety of popular development platforms.