Industry standards and protocols

Various organizations define protocols for different industry verticals. Each protocol governs the set of messages exchanged, the acknowledgements transferred, and the error behavior between trading partners.

The following are some of the most common protocols and their standards organization supported in BizTalk today:

Standards body	Website	Protocol	Industries
ANSI ASC X12	http://www.x12.org/	X12	In the US: manufacturing, retail, government, and transportation
		HIPAA	Healthcare, insurance
UN/CEFACT	http://www.unece.org/cefact/edifact http://www.gefeg.com/jswg/	UN/ EDIFACT	In Europe: manufacturing, retail, government, and transportation
SWIFT	http://www.swift.com	SWIFT	Financial transactions for treasury, trade, and banking
RosettaNet	http://www.rosettanet.org/	RosettaNet	Supply chain
OAGi	http://www.oagi.org	CIDX	Horizontal framework for several verticals
PIDX	http://www.pidx.org/	PIDX	Oil and Natural Gas
HL7	http://www.hl7...