Imagine you have a customer portal that needs to pull data from Siebel, SAP and a mainframe. Those systems do not naturally "talk" to each other, but with Biztalk Server, you can connect these systems and automate the associated business process.
Now imagine you need to track products or even patient records using radio frequency identification (RFID). BizTalk Server connects the data from the tag readers to the people or systems that need to make business decisions with that information.
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 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista, including key .NET Framework technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.
With the introduction of BizTalk Server in 2000, Microsoft sparked a revolution in the integration industry proving that integration and process automation technology didn’t have to be prohibitively expensive or hard to use. Now in its fifth full version, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 puts real-time, end-to-end supply chain management within reach of every customer, spanning systems, people, and processes, both within and across organizational boundaries. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 empowers customers to make informed business decisions with real-time data from geographically dispersed, yet integrated systems, putting you one step ahead of the competition. All this coupled with the confidence of an enterprise-class infrastructure, regardless of your company size.
Biztalk and SharePoint
Workflow is one of the key features of SharePoint, as are XML enabled forms (InfoPath forms services). By connecting a Form library that uses approval workflows to submit an XML document to a web-service-enabled accounts database, end users can log into the company portal, and use a familiar interface to enter data such as expense forms directly to the accounts system. SharePoint takes care of the security, interface and approval process, while Biztalk takes care of the business rules (such as expense limits and cost centres) and handles the inter-system messaging. All of this can be accomplished with minimal code, and repeated for other similar operational processes - call us today about extending your systems with SharePoint and Biztalk.