Title: RE: Has anybody had any experience with Microsoft BizTalk Server ?




Hello,

 

You can get a free demo CD for the EDI & XML translator from GXS.

Go to the www.gegxs.com web site and you will see the banner flip to the Free Application Integrator Demo CD.

I would suggest you take a look at it. The product is called Application Integrator. It is in the price range.

It can do EDI such as ANSI X12, EDIFACT, Tradacoms, EIAJ, HIPAA, VICS, UCS and a number of other EDI standards.

Plus it can do XML, such as RosettaNet, xCBL, CIDX and a number of others. You can import DTDs and XSD schemas into the mapping tool.

Plus it has full double byte support, which is useful not only for multi-byte character sets, but also useful for translating IBM EBCDIC character sets.

There is a bunch more features. Too many to list here. Get the free demo CD and take a look.

 

Thanks Jeff Eck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Logan, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:59 AM
To: 'Michael Kotoyan'; Logan, Lori; 'Cameron Wall'; 'Sreenivasulu Lagineni'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Has anybody had any experience with Microsoft BizTalk Server ?

 

what do suggest instead that's within this price range and has the other funcitonality of an SI engine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kotoyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:31 PM
To: 'Logan, Lori'; 'Cameron Wall'; 'Sreenivasulu Lagineni'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Has anybody had any experience with Microsoft BizTalk Server ?

If you are planning on implenting EDI x12 document exchanges...I would say forget about it.  You have to use the BizTalk Editor to configure different data types and from there you store everything into BizTalk Server and store it as XML content . Than you have to use BizTalk Orchestration to control the flow of between the applications and trading partners.  This thing than generates code called XLANG and stores info into SQL. Some of the stuff in BizTalk can be automated but a lot of manual programming is still required.

As much as I appreciate Microsoft and our data center is pretty much a microsoft shop with NT, Visual Studio and SQL Server 2000...we do not trust Microsoft's BizTalk Server or Great Plains software for our documents exchange.

Never has Microsoft been known as an EDI translator.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Logan, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:39 AM
To: 'Cameron Wall'; 'Sreenivasulu Lagineni'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Has anybody had any experience with Microsoft BizTalk
Server ?

 

I would disagree, we've looked at it somewhat extensively along with some
other tools out there from NEON, SeeBeyond, Healthcare.com and Optio -
although the others have a few more bells and whistles especially around
support mechanisms Biztalk has all the core concepts covered from process
flow and data mapping, to message management etc.. and for about less than
20% of the starting price tags on these other products.  The good news is
that it is all Microsoft based (XML/XSL, MSMQ, SQL Server) so there is no
proprietary messaging, database or file structures that can't be reused
elsewhere.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:56 PM
To: 'Sreenivasulu Lagineni'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Has anybody had any experience with Microsoft BizTalk
Server ?

 

All I can say is have a long hard look at your options before selecting that
path...

C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sreenivasulu Lagineni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2001 10:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Has anybody had any experience with Microsoft BizTalk Server?
Importance: High

 

        Hi,

        Company that I'm  working for is trying to evaluate a Micorsoft
BizTalk Server. It is a Microsoft SQL Server based XML/EDI solution for a
fairly small/medium size enterprise.  Has anyone had an experience with this
product and particularily with

*       Level of complexity involved with installation and setup
*       Level of complexity involved internal Programming
*       Periodic maintenance of the product (database/net
connectivity/periodic logs)
*       External support availability
*       Pros and cons

        I would really appreciate any answers from people who had anything
to do
       
with this product

     Thanks & Regards
     Lagineni Sreenivasulu
   
    Senior Engineer,
    CMC Limited,
    Gachibowli,
    Hyderabad - 29
    India.

 

------   XML/edi Group Discussion List   ------
Homepage =  http://www.XMLedi-Group.org

Unsubscribe =  send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leave the subject and body of the message blank

Questions/requests:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To receive only one message per day (digest format)
send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
(leave the subject line blank)

digest xmledi-group your-email-address

To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at:
http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm

 

------   XML/edi Group Discussion List   ------
Homepage =  http://www.XMLedi-Group.org

Unsubscribe =  send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leave the subject and body of the message blank

Questions/requests:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To receive only one message per day (digest format)
send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
(leave the subject line blank)

digest xmledi-group your-email-address

To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at:
http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm

 

------   XML/edi Group Discussion List   ------
Homepage =  http://www.XMLedi-Group.org

Unsubscribe =  send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leave the subject and body of the message blank

Questions/requests:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To receive only one message per day (digest format)
send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
(leave the subject line blank)

digest xmledi-group your-email-address

To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at:
http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm



------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------
Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org

Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leave the subject and body of the message blank

Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To receive only one message per day (digest format)
send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
(leave the subject line blank)

digest xmledi-group your-email-address

To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at:
http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm



------ XML/edi Group Discussion List ------
Homepage = http://www.XMLedi-Group.org

Unsubscribe = send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leave the subject and body of the message blank

Questions/requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To receive only one message per day (digest format)
send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
(leave the subject line blank)

digest xmledi-group your-email-address

To join the XML/edi Group complete the form located at:
http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/mail1.htm

Reply via email to