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Article Excerpt
No single issue frustrates corporate, operations, and IT managers in manufacturing and supply chain as much as intractable challenges related to business information integration.
In a June 2002 study of software developers across all sectors conducted by Bear Stearns, 64 percent rated application integration at the top of their issues agenda.
Whether recognized as such or not, failure to address the need for application interoperability and an integrated business process leads to failed communications, duplication of efforts, lessened throughput, late deliveries, and in general, an inability to attain the productivity benefits information technology has to offer.
Singapore-based electronics manufacturer Flextronics, for example, until recently was constrained by two separate applications handling B2B communications. Microsoft BizTalk Server, because it supports both EDI, a traditional means for inter-enterprise communications, and RosettaNet, an Open standard for XML-based communications, helped the company resolve this major B2B process bottleneck.
"This allowed us to have a single process and one integration point to communicate with our suppliers and customers," says James Simpson, senior director, IT. (For more on Flextronics, see story at right.)
Leading research analyst firm Gartner Group recently positioned Microsoft BizTalk Server as a leader in its application integration broker suites "magic quadrant," only two years...
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