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Everybody's my friend: contract manufacturer Flextronics finds single BizTalk server makes many customers happier.

Publication: MSI
Publication Date: 01-OCT-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Flextronies, the Singapore-based electronics manufacturing services provider with $12.1 billion in annual revenues and 70,000 employees worldwide, is using Microsoft BizTalk Server to receive trading partner documents in a wide variety of formats and process them into its own enterprise systems through a single integration hub.

The company worked with Microsoft Consulting Services to configure the solution, and, based on its initial success, has gone on to take further advantage of BizTalk Server for routing messages to its warehouse management system and exchanging bill of material data with its engineering systems.

"The beauty of BizTalk is that it gives us so many integration possibilities," claims James Simpson, Flextronics' senior director of IT.

As an electronics manufacturing services provider--what more often is referred to as a contract manufacturer--Flextronics delivers "operational services to technology companies," and has...



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