Summary

BizTalk Server provides organizations that need to exchange data, both externally with business partners as well as internally within the enterprise, a solution to transfer information. As organizations strive to lower costs and improve efficiencies, BizTalk Server provides the flexibility an organization needs to support existing data interchange standards such as EDI or HTTP while moving to standards that can lower costs and improve data interchange compatibility.

The scenarios highlighted in this chapter provide an overview of the various ways BizTalk Server can help an organization meet its goals of improving communications, and the balance of this book focuses on directly implementing the technologies introduced.