Talking is most important for everyone. Ideally every living thing communicates with each other. It helps you stay healthy and stops your problems from getting on top of you. It helps you grow with others - together!
Similarly in software systems, integration and communication between many different systems for certain common business objective - is highly important. Here the role of BizTalk server comes in picture!
The benefits that BizTalk Server brings to an organization center around the interoperability the product provides. The ability to combine disparate systems by using a single Enterprise level tool such as BizTalk opens the horizons for both the IT decision maker, as well as the business side of the operation.
Integration blends applications and data, via communication, to enable sharing of information between applications within a company and between businesses. Integrated applications are also flexible enough to adapt to changing business needs because they are often loosely coupled (don't directly rely on each other). The phrase "connected systems" describes integrated applications that communicate using standardised, broadly available and broadly used methods and formats.
Connected systems drive business process automation because business processes represent the beginning and end-points of infra and inter-business (or application) communications. An example of business process automation is linking an organization's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system with it's Order system: the order system supports transactions and handles the life cycle of an order, while the CRM system manages customer relationships by maintaining, for example, the details about historical contact (date of last order, support tickets, emails, etc).
A Better Approach
The rudimentary approach to adopting integrated, connected systems clearly focuses on short-term needs. A better approach integrate other software throughout the business, both within and between organizations based on broadly available frameworks, platforms, communications methods, and data formats. The benefits of this approach include:
Better agility -
automated business processes are easier to maintain since they don't require a specialized IT skill set - resulting in faster time-to-market; broadly available technologies advance with current market needs like compliance, reliability and performance.
Better alignment with Customer and Trading Partners' needs -
as a result of faster time-to-market your organization can efficiently deliver solutions that meet your customers and trading partners' needs without significant lead times.
Lower IT costs -
using broadly available frameworks, platforms, and communications methods makes it possible to use readily available hardware, software, and - possibly more importantly - hire/use readily available, skilled developers and consultants
Organizations that efficiently adapt to changing conditions through better agility and better alignment with their customers' and trading partners' needs remain profitable and competitive. Business models drive profitability and competitiveness.
Connected Systems Simplified
Simplification and consistency are at the centre of realising efficiency and agility. Taking an abstract view, connected systems have three main functions.
In short, I am trying to explain 10 key benefits of BizTalk a below.
Adapter-based communications.
Strong support for transformations.
Support for effectively unlimited types of data through transformations and pipelines.
Durable messaging using the proven publish-subscribe model.
Highly scalable and customizable performance model.
Flexible and direct support for deployment.
A Business Rules Engine that supports versioning, in-flight change, and is very scalable.
Business Activity Monitoring that surfaces business information at run-time (for example, number of new orders per hour).
Integration with a broad range of security architectures.
Broad industry support through a strong, focused developer community, subject matter experts, consulting houses, and independent consultants.
The coming BizTalk Server "2016" product will get commercially released in Q4 2016, following beta release in Q3. Its release will follow the "general availability" (GA) releases of "Windows Server 2016, SQL Server 2016, and Visual Studio 2015," according to the white paper. The new BizTalk Server product will align with those 2016 products, the white paper added. For instance, SQL Server 2016's AlwaysOn high-availability feature will be supported by BizTalk Server.
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