Microsoft BizTalk Server is a platform for integrating diverse systems both within and between organizations. It provides connectivity through over 25 adapters and a robust messaging infrastructure. BizTalk Server allows organizations to simplify integration, gain business insights, promote agility, and automate interactions with partners by connecting disparate systems in an agile and scalable way. It is used by over 10,000 customers worldwide across many industries.

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2. Microsoft BizTalk Server helps you connect
systems inside and across organizations.

3. BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and
connectivity server solution.
A mature product on its seventh release, BizTalk
Server 2010 provides a solution that allows
organizations to more easily connect disparate
systems.

4. Including over 25 multi-platform adapters and a
robust messaging infrastructure, BizTalk Server
provides connectivity between core systems both
inside and outside your organization.
In addition to integration functionality, BizTalk also
provides strong durable messaging, a rules engine,
EDI connectivity, Business Activity Monitoring
(BAM), RFID capabilities and IBM Host/Mainframe
connectivity

5. Combining different systems into effective
business processes is a challenging problem.
Accordingly, BizTalk Server includes a range of
technologies.

7. A messaging component that provides the ability to
communicate with a range of other software. By relying
on adapters for different kinds of communication, the
engine can support a variety of protocols and data
formats, including Web services and many others.
Support for creating and running graphically-defined
processes called orchestrations. Built on top of the
engine’s messaging components, orchestrations
implement the logic that drives all or part of a business
process.

8. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 helps
organizations meet the challenges of integrating
diverse systems.
Most organizations have a multitude of systems
and technologies that are required for their
daily operations. By bringing together these
technologies in agile and scalable way, BizTalk
can help unleash the potential of your existing
infrastructure. BizTalk Server 2010 lets
organizations:

9. Simplify and automate interoperability to
reduce costs and errors
Gain critical insights on business processes and
performance
Shield processes from change impacts
Promote agility and manageability
Integrate to eliminate redundancy
Automate your business interactions with
partners

10. The great majority of modern business processes
depend at least in part on software.
While some of these processes are supported by a
single application, many others rely on diverse
software systems. In many cases, this software has
been created at different times, on different
platforms, and using different technologies.
Automating those business processes requires
connecting diverse systems.

11. Addressing this challenge goes by various names:
business process automation (BPA), business process
management (BPM), and others.
Regardless of the name, two scenarios are most
important for application integration. One is connecting
applications within a single organization, commonly
referred to as enterprise application integration (EAI).
The other, called business-to-business (B2B) integration,
connects applications in different organizations.

12. IBM Mainframe – IA
Unix system – ERP
.NET Windows - FA

14. Over 10,000 BizTalk customers worldwide
81% of the Fortune Global 100 use BizTalk
6 of the 8 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies
4 of the 5 largest electronics parts manufacturers
9 of the10 largest U.S. telecommunications companies
9 of the 10 largest U.S. Aerospace and Defense
Companies
5 of the 8 largest U.S. chemical companies
4 of the 5 largest railroads in the U.S.
9 of the 10 largest insurance companies in the world

15. Updated Platform Support
Support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET
Framework 4
Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows
7
Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
R2
Hyper-V support

16. Easier Integration of Enterprise Applications
Easy to use BizTalk Data Map and Line-of-Business
Connectivity Workflow Foundation (WF) Activities for .NET
developers
Seamless ability to leverage BizTalk capabilities from
SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Service to Line-of-
Business systems
New intuitive & intelligent Data Map and Transformation
tools
Improved Visual Studio project and wizard driven tools to
build integration solutions with IBM Mainframe and Midrange
Systems
Built-in components for rapid development of RFID solutions

17. Simpler Solution Manageability
Single, comprehensive parameter settings
dashboard for efficient performance tuning and
streamlining deployments across environments
New System Center Management Pack to provide
enhanced visual monitoring and diagnostics
Streamlined setup and live update
Support for SQL Server backup compression
Support for transparent data encryption

18. Enhanced Enterprise Interoperability
Efficient B2B integration with scalable Trading
Partner Management and advanced capabilities for
complex data mapping
Secure FTP with new FTPS Adapter and an
improved FTP Adapter
Adapter support for the latest application versions:
SAP7, Oracle eBS 12.1, J.D. Edwards 9.0, SQL Server
2008 R2, SharePoint 2010
Updated industry protocol adapters
Enhancements to the IBM Hosts Systems adapters

19. BizTalk Server 2010 provides the infrastructure to
connect existing applications (regardless of the platform)
and to compose, expose, and consume new services. This
allows you to get more out of the investments that you
have already made and minimize the cost of integrating
the new pieces of technology that you have acquired.
Because BizTalk Server includes tools to connect both
proprietary and standards based systems and pre-
integrates with the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server is a
central part of any SOA strategy.

20. Additionally, a broad array of technology and
application adapters is available for BizTalk Server.
With out-of-the-box support for everything from
transport protocols to high level integration with
line of business applications such as PeopleSoft,
SAP, Siebel and Oracle you choose how you want to
connect applications, platforms and people—we
provide the tools to do it.

21. Line of business application adapters
WS-* based standards and UDDI
.NET Framework (WCF, Windows SharePoint
Services, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics)
Mainframe and midrange systems
XML and Web Services protocols (for
example, SOAP)
Business to business integration (EDI, AS2)
Devices (RFID)

22. Thousands of customers use Microsoft BizTalk Server
daily as their trusted platform for solutions such as
payment processing, supply chain visibility, multi-channel
interactions and near real-time decision-
support/reporting. Microsoft BizTalk Server gives you the
ability to:
Streamline and automate payment processing in a highly-
dynamic environment by delivering real-time visibility at
the transaction level of interconnected business
processes across hybrid systems environments

23. Be extremely adaptable and gain comprehensive
visibility of information and transactions across the
multitude of disparate systems, devices (e.g. RFID)
and complex processes of your supply chain
Streamline and automate complex business
processes that are surfaced to constituents across
multiple channels (e.g. web, call center)
Flexibly execute critical business processes, aid
decision-making and appropriate reporting (e.g.
SOX compliance) by delivering real-time visibility at
the transaction level into complex business
processes across multiple systems