Other BizTalk-Specific Features

Integration with other BizTalk Servers

If your trading partner also uses BizTalk, you can make use of the Trading Partner Management feature, a component included in Business Activity Services (BAS). Note that this does not use BPEL. Business Activity Services are a set of services used for managing and collaborating with Trading Partners through SharePoint Services and MS Office tools such as InfoPath. You can create and deploy things like agreements for each trading partner (for example, if PurchaseOrder > $1000, accept the order etc.).

You can configure the following:

• The communication protocol that will be used

• The message format

• The business process that defines the relationship

Information workers can make use of the Business Activity Services interface to create agreements between the trading partners who use BizTalk Server 2004. An agreement describes the relationship between the two parties and contains the business process to be followed, along with...