Existing business software applications integrate to provide seamless information sharing and process automation
Software applications are instrumental for most businesses today to operate and grow no matter if they’re large or small. Chances are, those applications were developed at different times using diverse platforms and technologies and present a big challenge to maintaining and building efficiency within the organization.
A central integration platform addresses this challenge -interconnecting different programs to allow information sharing and business processes automation requires the particular server technology to be able to do several things, including:
- Utilize various approaches like web, file sharing and message queuing to connect diverse software applications
- Support execution of automated processes by implementing centralized logic among all software applications
- Enable file and information sharing with trading partners by supporting standardized cross-organizational interactions
- Provide a central place for IT staff to monitor business processes
The BizTalk Microsoft server is designed to handle these tasks. However, it’s useful to divide the problem of sharing information and automating processes into three general areas: enterprise application integration, business-to-business integration and business process management.
Enterprise application integration is the process of connecting software applications in a single organization, which is becoming more service oriented as more organizations adopt service oriented architecture (SOA) practices.
Connecting software applications across different organizations, known as business-to-business integration (B2B), is the second general area BizTalk addresses. And the third, BizTalk Microsoft supports a holistic approach to business process automation, or what’s known as business process management.
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