Thursday, November 13, 2008

Why BizTalk Utilities?

Fortunately, there is better way to achieve many of the commonly required extensions to the BizTalk environment. The BizTalk Utilities suite of products provides a array of specialized components, designed specifically to enhance and expand upon BizTalk. Have a look at just some of the ways in which BizTalk Utilities broadens the functional scope of BizTalk Server:
  • extend communication to incorporate POP3 e-mail servers
  • allow for read and write interaction with FTP servers
  • enable the receipt or transmission of documents via SMTP
  • provide notification of message arrivals in the BizTalk suspended queue
  • allow for the export and import of BizTalk Server and BizTalk Utilities configuration settings
  • extend the BizTalk Editor to support the import of XSD schemas
  • enable manual refresh of document definitions
  • allow for access to MS Exchange Web Storage System repositories, via the WebDAV protocol
  • add notification services for disabled receive functions
  • support for BizTalk documents to be transmitted to fax servers
  • adapter for two-way communication with IBM MQ Series
  • integrate Web services through SOAP support
  • enable two-way integration with Active JMS-compliant messaging servers
  • allow for the creation of reusable Functoid scripts through the introduction of “ScriptToids”
  • adapters for popular data access protocols, including ODBC and OLE DB
  • adapters for contemporary database platforms, including SQL Server and Oracle
  • direct integration with SQL Server Notification Services
  • support for SQLXML templates
  • comprehensive SAP integration support through a specialized connector

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