Q. What business advantages can BizTalk Server offer midsize companies?

BizTalk Server provides a single solution for business process management, enabling companies to effectively communicate both within organizations and between trading partners. BizTalk Server not only connects legacy systems and applications together, it also lets you define your organizational business processes, connect the process to the people and systems, and manage the events and key performance indicators within each process in order to ensure that the business is running effectively and efficiently.

Q. What IT benefits can we realize from installing BizTalk Server?

Automating and managing your connections with trading partner applications and applications within your organization is a time consuming process, and BizTalk Server’s reusable integration services speeds deployment time, helping reduce IT administrative effort. Once these connections are made, BizTalk Server provides a single tool to create business processes and monitor them in real time, as well as to extract business intelligence, simplifying both IT workloads and reducing management overhead. And because BizTalk Server uses standards like XML and web services, IT administration is less complex.

Q. Why should we choose a Microsoft business process management solution?

Microsoft’s BizTalk Server offers great economics in business process management technologies, enabling midsize companies to install, configure and customize their BPM solution easily and affordably. Developers who are familiar with Microsoft tools will quickly become productive. And by using a common set of reusable services, organizations can reduce the costs and time to value of business process automation, while at the same time simplifying management and maintenance costs. In addition, by using BizTalk Server to provide BPM within your organization and between your trading partners, you also benefit from the long list of partners that have helped to make Microsoft’s solution one of the most versatile in the industry. Thousands of systems and devices are supported on the Microsoft platform, as well as over 2500 applications. Microsoft’s strong relationships with leading global and regional systems integrators have allowed us to deliver tailored solutions for every industry in geography.

Q. Does BizTalk Server provide easy-to-obtain and readily useable business intelligence for Business process Management Solutions that Key Business Personnel can readily use?

BizTalk Server makes it easy to bridge the gap between what business users need to know and the underlying technology that IT staff orchestrates to make the software give you what you need. BizTalk Server allows you to map out business processes in a graphical format, making it straightforward for business personnel to understand, analyze and adjust business processes throughout the organization. Behind the scenes, IT staff map the graphical representation of each business process into simple XML schemas that make the integration process work. Once the business processes are set up, users can readily monitor business activities to obtain real-time information about the status of any business process, as well as receive notifications about any event or milestones of interest. Such output can easily be integrated with SharePoint and Excel (using a wizard), to provide graphical data output as well.

Q. How does BizTalk Server find out the Solution of Managing Access to our Corporate Information’s?

Like the Windows Server operating system, BizTalk Server is more secure by design—a critical attribute, since the server acts as a gateway through which to send and receive documents within and between organizations. That said, the security requirements of your BizTalk Server deployment are highly dependent on factors unique to your organization, including your particular business needs, partners, company size, and so on. Every application for BizTalk Server is likely to have its own unique set of security requirements; and performance, availability, and cost considerations further influence these requirements. BizTalk Server 2006 provides robust support for securing data, such as encryption and digital signatures. Additionally, BizTalk Server 2006 offers single sign-on for users requiring authentication across multiple systems.