Efficient business process automation is a key technical advantage. The BizTalk Server 2004 visual environment for defining, deploying, and managing internal and external business processes can enable organizations to react far more quickly.
Interoperability of Microsoft Visio and Visual Studio .NET enables information workers and business analysts to define business processes, while developers make those processes actionable. InfoPath, with its native support of XML, easily integrates with BizTalk Server 2004, allowing human interaction at appropriate stages throughout a running business process.
The BizTalk Server 2004 visual environment for defining, deploying, and managing internal and external business processes can enable organizations to react far more quickly to changing market conditions, government regulations, customer desires and competitor behaviour.
Detailed Technical Advantages
- Internal Application Integration Services
Services that support the integration of off-the-shelf and custom applications into business processes
- Trading Partner Deployment and Management Services
Services that support the creation of trading partner relationships and automate the testing and deployment of those relationships through wizards
- Vertical Solutions and Industry Accelerators
Additional components to support HIPAA, HL7, RosettaNet, and SWIFT
- Business Activity Monitoring
Powerful tools for information workers to monitor transactions and processes in real time
- Comprehensive Rules Engine
Core functionality for defining, managing, and deploying complex business rules used for one or many business processes across the organization
- Document Transport and Routing Services
Services that support evaluating where documents should be routed, and the underlying transport services to perform document delivery
- Data Transformation Services
Services that enable data to be transformed between the dramatically varying formats used by different business applications and trading communities, such as XML, EDI, RosettaNet, and many others
- Process Automation and Management Services
Services that support the integration of applications and data sources into streamlined business processes within and between organizations
- Data Analysis Services
Services for combining, accessing, and analysing operational data through graphical tool and automated data mining utilities to discover patterns and spot trends
- Configuration and Management Services
Services that support automated monitoring, management, and administration of the production integration solution
- Security Integration Services
Services that support seamless configuration of security credentials across heterogeneous enterprise domains