BizTalk is an industry initiative started by Microsoft and supported by a wide range of organizations, from technology vendors like SAP and CommerceOne to technology users like Boeing and BP/Amoco. The full BizTalk initiative comprises two separate areas: The first is the open, platform and protocol independent BizTalk Framework. This framework is basically a set of recommendations on how to use XML in an open way, which makes it easier to exchange business documents. The BizTalk Framework is supported by the web site http://www.biztalk.org/, where companies can find or submit XML schemas. The second part of the BizTalk initiative is the development of tools and servers to support the exchange of XML messages in a loosely coupled way. For instance, Microsoft is developing tools for building XML applications, including the Microsoft BizTalk Server that provides reliable message transfer. PerfectXML.com BizTalk Resources Page
A Microsoft Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema. See XML.
A Microsoft sponsored set of guidelines for how to publish schemas in XML and how to use XML messages to easily integrate software programs together in order to build rich new solutions.
Standards, protocols, tools and a program of Microsoft Corporation to facilitate the exchange of information between companies and their business processes. (See BPEL4WS.) ( www.microsoft.com/biztalk)
A Microsoft-sponsored set of guidelines for publishing XML schemas and using XML messaging to integrate enterprise software programs. BizTalk is part of that company's current thrust around dot-Net technologies.
XML framework for exchanging data between applications and commercial entities. Registered on the site BizTalk.org.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 provides EAI, B2B integration, and advanced BizTalk Orchestration technology. Together, these can build dynamic business processes that span applications, platforms, and organizations over the Internet.
An industry initiative headed by Microsoft to promote XML as the common data exchange language for e-commerce and application integration on the Internet. The BizTalk Framework provides guidelines on how to publish schemas (standard data structures) in XML and how to use XML messages to integrate software programs. Microsoft has also announced a product called the BizTalk Server.
A scheme for using XML for Business to Business transactions, spearheaded by Microsoft. A modern, object-oriented language that enables programmers to quickly build a wide range of applications for the new Microsoft .NET platform.
BizTalk is Microsoft's initiative to promote the usage of XML as the basis of a framework for business-to-business e-commerce interoperability. As part of this initiative, Microsoft has defined XDR, an XML schema aiming to to be a subset of the formal recommendation from the W3C.