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Although targeted to medium to large enterprises, BizTalk has also proven popular among smaller companies. In a common scenario, BizTalk enables companies to integrate and manage business processes by exchanging business documents such as purchase orders and invoices between disparate applications, within or across organizational boundaries.

Development for BizTalk Server is done through Visual Studio .NET .


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FEATURES

The following is an incomplete list of some of the technical features in the BizTalk Server:

  • The use of adapters to simplify integration to Line of Business Applications (eg. Siebel, SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle), Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) and other Technologies (Tibco, J2EE, etc)

  • An engine for modelling Business Rules in a pseudo-English format. This is a forward chaining rule engine.

  • Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), which allows a dashboard, graphical view on how the modelled Business Processes are doing.

  • A unified Administration Dashboard for monitoring deployments of solutions, etc on BizTalk servers in your environment.

  • Accelerators which offer support for standards like RosettaNet, EDI, SWIFT, etc.

  • Ability to do graphical modelling of business processes in visual studio, graphically mapping (with the assistance of Functoid s) between different message formats, and building pipelines to decrypt, verify, parse messages as they enter the system via adapters.

  • BizTalk integrates with products like Office, Infopath and Sharepoint for interacting with humans during a Workflow.

  • Extensive support for Webservices (consuming and exposing)

  • RFID support in the newest version (BizTalk 2006 R2)



ARCHITECTURE


The BizTalk Server runtime is built on a publish/subscribe architecture, sometimes called "content-based publish/subscribe". Messages are published into the system, and then received yyyyyy by one or more active subscribers. Runtime architecture (MSDN)


ADAPTERS


Biztalk uses adapters for communications with different protocols, and specific software products such as Sharepoint . Some of the adapters that were included in Server 2006 product included the Base EDI (Covast), File, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, SOAP, SQL, MSMQT, Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0, and the Windows SharePoint Service (WSS) adapters. Some are available through third parties.


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