Chapter 1. Motivation and Uses for BizTalk Server
by Rand Morimoto
In This Chapter
As the opening chapter of this book, instead of stepping you through the basic features and functions of the BizTalk Server product, this chapter shares ways that organizations around the world have implemented BizTalk to improve their internal and external business processes. Unlike traditional case studies that tell you about great solutions implemented by various companies but then fall short of telling you how to actually implement the solutions yourself, this chapter introduces you to creative business-improving scenarios and then refers you to parts and chapters later in this book that actually step you through the implementation of these technologies and solutions in your own environment.
From this chapter, you will gain a significantly broader perspective of what BizTalk Server can do to fulfill the business requirements of virtually any organization that needs to exchange data between multiple systems. BizTalk Server is a powerful tool that can help an organization overcome its traditional challenges of business-to-business, application-to-application, and enterprise application integration needs.