What is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010?

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 seventh full version, BizTalk Server 2010 puts real-time, end-to-end business process management within reach of every customer, spanning systems, people, and processes, both within and across organizational boundaries.

BizTalk Server 2010 empowers customers to make informed business decisions with real-time data from geographically dispersed, yet integrated systems. All this coupled with the confidence of an enterprise-class infrastructure.

List 4 Key Actions I can take with BizTalk Server 2010?

1) EXTEND: Optimize connections with your customers, suppliers, and partners

2) CONNECT: Build services oriented architecture and interoperability

3) DELIVER: Enterprise-Proven solutions on a unified platform

4) UNDERSTAND: Instrument solutions with Business Activity Monitoring and turn the raw data into actionable information, with Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Stack


Why should an organization consider BizTalk Server 2010?

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


What are BizTalk Server 2010’s Top New Features?

1) 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

2) 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 and 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

3) 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

4) 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


What is in the BizTalk Server Product Family?

BizTalk server also represents a broader product family, encompassing other capabilities for enterprise integration, business-to-business, and SOA, that Microsoft ships and supports in conjunction with the core BizTalk Server product.

These capabilities are:

• Microsoft Line-of-Business Adapter Pack 2010 – enabling Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SQL Server Information Services, and .NET custom code to connect to enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Database, and SQLServer

• Universal Description and Discover Interface 3.0 – enabling enterprise service registry capability

• Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit 2.1 – enabling the dynamic SOA behaviors associated with ESB products

• Managed Services Engine 7.5 – enabling endpoint virtualization

• Windows Server AppFabric Connect – enabling BizTalk Server adapters and maps to be called from Workflow Foundation Workflows

• Windows Azure AppFabric Connect – enabling BizTalk Server to seamlessly integrate with Microsoft’s Cloud Computing environment, Windows Azure

• Complex Event Processing (Part of SQL Server)

• Master Data Services Management (Part of SQL Server)


How Can I Use BizTalk Server to Deliver SOA (Services Oriented Architecture)?

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 are 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)


How are 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


What are the 4 versions of BizTalk Server 2010?

1) BRANCH EDITION (New):
This edition enables a true “hub and spoke” scenario when paired with the Enterprise Edition; Branch Edition will help organizations make new intra-organizational and departmental connections for intelligent data and process sharing.

2) STANDARD EDITION:
This edition is a comprehensive BPM and SOA solution for midsize businesses or departmental solutions. It also includes BizTalk adapters and accelerators, HIS, RFID and EDI in the box.

3) ENTERPRISE EDITION: This edition is ideal for enterprise customers and large organizations looking for an advanced BPM and SOA platform with unlimited scalability. It now includes BizTalk adapters and accelerators, Host Integration Server (HIS), RFID and EDI in the box.

4) DEVELOPER EDITION: Limited to designing, developing and testing solutions, Developer Edition is the ideal solution for application development in pre-production environments.


What is included in BizTalk Server 2010 Enterprise edition?

• Complete EAI, B2B, and Business Process Management functionality

• All vertical industry accelerators (RosettaNet, HL7, and SWIFT)

• All current and new application and technology adapters

• Host Integration Server (Mainframe connectivity)

• RFID

• Unlimited Applications

• Unlimited Number of physical processors

• Unlimited Number of virtual processors


List 7 Reasons to Combine BizTalk Enterprise Edition with SQL Server Enterprise Edition?

1) Transparent Data Encryption:
Encrypts the BizTalk message box, to protect access to sensitive information (ie, BizTalk data at rest)

2) BAM Real-Time Aggregation / Cubing:
Uses real-time Business Activity Monitoring to provide their business users of an accurate view of how data are being processed in real time

3) 16-Node Clustering:
Customers can use massive scale for BizTalk message boxes or for reporting

4) Virtualization Licensing:
Customers can use virtualization for BizTalk and SQL cost-effectively

5) Backup Compression:
Customers can save expensive SAN space for their backups

6) Master Data Services:
Lets customers do MDM on the Microsoft stack and it works well with BizTalk

7) Complex Event Processing:
Streaminsight provides massively scalable real-time eventing, which can hand business events off to BizTalk to process