Stating the goals of BizTalk Server

BizTalk is Microsoft's premier messaging platform. It was designed with many specific scenarios in mind and has evolved to work with others as well. Whether you are involved in integration, service orientation, business process management, or enterprise service bus, BizTalk's purpose is to enable the following goals:

  • Increasing reliability
  • Decoupling systems
  • Providing reuse
  • Decreasing development time
  • Providing rich information to technical as well as business consumers
  • Improving administration
  • Providing a rich set of security options that can be controlled separately from the functionality of a solution

Used as presented in this text, it will deliver on all of these points. This is a lot to cover, so let's address ...

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