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90% of the Fortune Global 100 use BizTalk
12 of the 15 largest retailers in the world
5 of 10 largest hotel chains in the world
6 of the 8 largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies
4 of the 5 largest U.S. 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
23 of 27 EU member governments
Over 8,500 BizTalk customers worldwide

What is BizTalk?

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

Why BizTalk?

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:

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

BizTalk Server Delivers a Unified Platform for SOA and Interoperability

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.

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.

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)

For a complete list of adapters and supported versions please visit BizTalk Server Adapters

How are our customers using BizTalk?

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
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

Learn how you can use BizTalk Server in different scenarios and how other organizations are using it to effectively integrate their business processes and connect their systems and people:

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