Microsoft sparked a revolution in the integration industry with the introduction of BizTalk Server 2000
proving that integration and process automation technology didn’t have to be prohibitively expensive or hard
to use.
Today, over 7,000 organizations rely on BizTalk Server to integrate systems and automate processes across global
supply chains. 90% of the Fortune Global 100 and 12 of the 15 largest retailers have BizTalk Server in their enterprise.
With the introduction of the fifth full version, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process
Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior releases to help organizations extend core process management
technologies even further with new capabilities like native support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI),
AS2 and RFID, and close alignment with the upcoming releases of 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows
Vista, including key .NET Framework technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication
Foundation.
Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 R2 makes it easier and more cost-effective to connect systems, applications,
and processes. Imagine these business scenarios: Your customer wants to pull data from a customer relationship
management (CRM) system like Siebel or an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system like SAP and display those
on a desktop PC in Microsoft SharePoint® Server; your customer needs to connect to trading partners or suppliers
electronically (using electronic data interchange {EDI}) to meet a compliance mandate or to streamline a supply
chain; or your customer is working on a broad Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. These are all core
scenarios for BizTalk Server.
- Simplify SOA - With SOA, IT can simplify application and system integration, recombine and reuse applications,
and organize development work into a unified and consistent design framework. This helps to lower IT costs and helps
the organization to identify and respond to workflow problems more efficiently.
- Connect to partners - All businesses need to connect with customers and partners. We help to do this faster and
more cost-effectively with support for EDI and other business-to-business (B2B) protocols.
- Deliver the right data to the right person at the right time - Whether it is business intelligence (BI) or a
simple customer portal, the data that a person needs frequently live in different systems or applications. Whether
it is customer data (CRM/Siebel), production data (ERP/SAP), or location data (radio frequency identification
{RFID}), BizTalk Server can deliver the right information at the right time so that people or systems can make
the right decision.
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