Features
The following is an incomplete list of the technical features in the BizTalk Server:
- The use of adapters to simplify integration to Line of Business Applications (e.g. Siebel, SAP, IFS Applications, JD Edwards, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), Databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) and other Technologies (Tibco, Java EE, etc.)
- Accelerators offer support for enterprise standards like RosettaNet, HL7, HIPAA, SWIFT, etc.
- Business Rule Engine (BRE). This is a Rete algorithm rule engine.
- Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), which allows a dashboard, aggregated (PivotTable) view on how the Business Processes are doing and how messages are processed.
- A unified Administration Console for deployment, monitoring and operations of solutions, etc. on BizTalk servers in environment.
- Built-in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) functionality supporting X12 and EDIFACT, as of BizTalk 2006 R2.
- Ability to do graphical modelling of business processes in Visual Studio, model documents with XML schemas, graphically mapping (with the assistance of functoids) between different schemas, and building pipelines to decrypt, verify, parse messages as they enter or exit the system via adapters.
- Users can automate business management processes via Orchestrations.
- BizTalk integrates with other Microsoft products like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SQL Server, and SharePoint to allow interaction with a user participating in a workflow process.
- Extensive support for Webservices (consuming and exposing)
- RFID support, as of BizTalk 2006 R2.
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