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B2B in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Covast Incremental Value Proposition

Clarifying R2 Native Functionality

And Covast’s Value-add

Maureen Hughes – Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft

Tony Bernard – Sr. Program Manager, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Interop, Microsoft

Gijsbert in „t Veld – CTO, BizTalk Server MVP, Covast

Covast value add on BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Summary

Trading Partner Management

B2B Operations Monitor

Trading Partner A

Trading Partner B

Trading Partner C

Advanced B2B functionality

Trading Grid Connectivity

B2B Appliance (BBot)

AutomotiveLogistics & Distribution

EnergyManufacturing

HealthcareRetail

Finance

High Tech

Manufacturing

The platform - BizTalk Server 2006 R2

BizTalk R2 provides a rich platform which now

includes EDI functionality

This presentation highlights the EDI capabilities

native to BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and itemizes the

value added capabilities available in Covast’s R2

add-on solutions

B2B Standards supported natively by BizTalk Server 2006 R2

8000+ schemas out-of-the-box:

– X12 2040, 3010-3070, 4010-4050, 5010-5030

– EDIFACT D93A, D94A/B – D04A/B (including D01A/B/C), D05A

– HIPAA 4010A1

– EANCOM 94, 97, 02 (Syntax v3), 02 (Syntax v4)

Basic schema customization using the power of Visual Studio

Custom EDI-friendly view in Visual Studio displaying:

– Segment and elements names

– Element reference numbers

– Hierarchy and looping information

– Min/max length and occurs

– Cardinality rule participation

Schema validation and ability to generate test data from schema

Validate test instances from trading partners

B2B Transports supported natively by BizTalk Server 2006 R2

The following B2B transport protocols come in the box:

– AS/2 (Drummond Certified)

– File

– FTP

– HTTP/S

– WCF (HTTP, TCP, Named Pipe, MSMQ)

– MQ Series

– MSMQ

– SMTP/POP3

– SQL

– SOAP

Out-of-the-box B2B Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides single mechanism

to track and view A2A and B2B message flows

Out-of-the-box EDI reports provide:

– Functional ack, technical ack and MDN correlation and tracking

– KPI-level interchange and transaction set aggregation

– Message drill-down

– Batch monitoring

BizTalk Administration Console provides single, familiar

interface to monitoring B2B and A2A applications

Out-of-the-box EDI Party Management in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

MMC-based TPM solution based on Party artifact

Bulk import of trading partner data using either API or XML file

Single tool for managing EDI, AS2 and other BizTalk party data

Relaxed validation at partner and/or agreement level

Envelope customization by version and transaction set

Party-specific batching and batch release criteria

The Covast value add – Advanced B2B

Mature, 6th generation

B2B technology

Targeted to the EDI Pro

Additional standards and

communication protocols

supported


Covast value add – Advanced B2B Formats and Standards

8000+ schemas supported in R2, out-of-the-box:•X12 2040, 3010-3070, 4010-4050, 5010-5030

•EDIFACT D93A, D94A/B – D04A/B (including D01A/B/C), D05A

•HIPAA 4010A1

•EANCOM 94, 97, 02 (Syntax v3), 02 (Syntax v4)

Additional Formats supported by Covast:

•VICS (General merchandise retail)

•WINS (Warehousing retail)

•UCS (Grocery retail)

•EDIFACT 2.901, 2.911, 2.912, 2.921 (Old EDIFACT)

•EDIG@S (Energy & Utility)

•EDINE (Energy & Utility)

•ODETTE V1-V4 (Automotive)

•ODETTE EDIFACT (Automotive)

•VDA (Automotive)

•TCIF (Telecom)

•TRADACOMS (UK)

•CARGO-IMP (Airfreight)

Covast value add – Advanced B2B Meta Data Management

R2 out-of-the-box:Basic schema customization

using the power of Visual Studio

Covast add-on solution:

•SQL Server repository based meta data manager•Fully integrated in Visual Studio (“EDI Explorer”)

•Complete user interface to manage and tweak transaction sets from an EDI perspective

•Contains all metadata on EDI transaction sets, including:

•Full element and segment names

•Complete hierarchy information

•Code sets on element and/or transaction set/element level

•Import and Export facilities

•Facilities to “relax” validation per transaction set / party

•Reporting capabilities: Print EDI Implementation Guides

•Generates the XML/EDI schemas

•The XSDs contain everything needed for the EDI pipelines to execute

•They are added to your current BizTalk solution automatically

•EDI Pipelines can handle multi-interchange files (super-interchanges)

EDI Explorer & Editor in Visual Studio – Repository Management

EDI Explorer & Editor in Visual Studio – Document Management

EDI Explorer & Editor in Visual Studio – Generated schemas

Covast value add – Advanced B2B Transports

R2 B2B transport protocols in the box:•AS/2 (Drummond Certified)

•File

•FTP

•HTTP/S

•WCF (HTTP, TCP, Named Pipe, MSMQ)

•MQ Series

•MSMQ

•SMTP/POP3

•SQL

•SOAP

Covast added transport functionality:•File Adapter with folder and file locking features

•HTTP(/s) Adapter with features to send and receive messages URL

encoded and as single-part or multi-part bodies

•FTP Adapter with file locking and flexible filename mask capabilities

•POP3/SMTP Adapter with in & outbound email attachment capabilities

Covast added transports:•OFTP (Odette FTP) Adapter for ISDN, X.25 & TCP/IP

•Generic Scriptable Transport Adapter

•Customized VAN Adapters for:•Sterling Commerce

•ICC

•GXS EDI*Express, GXS TradaNet and GXS (IBM) IE

•Kleinschmidt

•Inovis

•X.400 P7 Adapter (SITA, Atlas400, BusinessMail, 400Net)

Automated on-boarding

Real-time network

Complete Supply Chain

Visibility

Covast value add – GXS Trading Grid connectivity


GXS Trading Grid Connectivity

Covast value add – GXS Trading Grid connectivity

GXS Trading Grid connectivity

– TPM GUI with web services interface to GXS Trading Grid:

Lookup Trading Partner profiles

Setup Trading Partner relationships

Mass import of already configured Trading Partners and relationships

on the Grid

Deploy Trading Partners and Relationships in test and production

environments automatically

– Real-time AS2+ connection with pro-active status update handling

for delivery and receipt notifications

– Meta data sharing capabilities for Implementation Guides

Turn-key solution to integrate with GXS Trading Grid:

– Reach into > 40,000 companies world-wide

– Provide full supply chain visibility

Covast value add – BBot (The B2B Appliance)

Trading Partner A

Trading Partner B

Trading Partner C

Plug-n-Play

Automatic download of

configuration

Integrates with Microsoft

Office Outlook and Excel




Launching a completely new B2B concept

An exciting new B2B solution!

BBot gets lots of initial attention already from both analysts and large

companies, including completely new prospects

It provides an opportunity to enter an extra market segment with a low

threshold solution:

– Sell it into the trading partner community via your large BizTalk customers

– It helps your large customers (the Hubs) to onboard all of their trading

partners (the Spokes) automatically

– It does not cannabalize other BizTalk sales

– Huge sales opportunities around new and existing customers

Provides a good new supply chain message for Microsoft

It is our most important new go-to-market strategy with R2

Covast value add – BBot (The B2B Appliance)

Pre-configured B2B Integration solution for connecting spokes

(trading partners) to 1 Hub

Configures itself from the BBot Registry

– Hub owner uses BBot Developer (running on BizTalk Developer

Edition) to create and test solutions

– Solution configuration (MSI) published on the BBot Registry

– BBots in the field configure themselves via the BBot Registry

– Also handles certificate renewal for HTTP/s, AS2 and S/MIME

Talks EDI, XML, RosettaNet and other B2B standards with the

Hub using any of the available transports like HTTP/s and AS2

Integrates with the trading partners‟ Microsoft Office environment,

using Outlook , SharePoint, Excel and Infopath technologies

Only Internet Explorer needed to monitor

High level architecture overview

Hub

1. Create and publish configuration

Registry3. Start trading

2. Get configurationSpoke

•B2B

•EDI

•XML

•AS2

•HTTP/s

•etc.

•XLS

•XML

•FF

•Outlook

•SharePoint

•Excel

•Infopath

Covast value add – BBot

BBot is pro-actively monitored and sends alerts

Stays up-to-date with the latest (validated) patches and QFE‟s

It has built-in backup and restore facilities

Leased to large amounts (100s or 1000s) of small to medium

trading partners of larger hubs (Manufacturers, Retailers, etc.)

All inclusive monthly fee: maintenance, monitoring and support

Does not require Covast B2B Suite on the Hub

Contains the following stack of Microsoft software:

– Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL Server 2005 STD, SharePoint Services

3.0, BizTalk Server 2006 (R2) and optionally: BizTalk Accelerators for

RosettaNet, HIPAA, HL7 and SWIFT

Per BBot this amounts to about $2,000 - $2,500 worth of

Microsoft software

Win3 – Advantages for Hub, Spoke and… Microsoft

Hub

– Fully leverage existing BizTalk

infrastructure

– True supply chain visibility by

reaching into all trading partners

– Fixed monthly fee, no

transaction based fees

– Validation, transformation,

exception handling and alerting

done at spoke level

– Easy supplier and regulatory

compliance

– Decreased time-to-market

– Lower IT costs

Spoke

– True black-box; no integration

knowledge needed and no way to

change system settings

– Offline access; BBot stages everything

and assures delivery

– Local tracking & tracing and BAM

facilities for the masses

– Integrated with Microsoft Office

– Local archive of messages

– Fixed monthly fee, no transaction fees

– Automatically stays up-to-date with

latest configuration and patches

– Pro-actively monitored

Microsoft

– Higher BizTalk market penetration and more license $$

Covast value add – B2B Operations Monitor


Single view of B2B

environments

Role based viewing

Message monitoring &

management

Browser based

Trading Partner A

Trading Partner B

Trading Partner C




Covast value add – B2B Operations Monitor

R2 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides single mechanism to

track and view A2A and B2B message flows.Out-of-the-box EDI reports provide:

•Functional ack, technical ack and MDN correlation and tracking

•KPI-level interchange and transaction set aggregation

•Message drill-down

•Batch monitoring

BizTalk Administration Console provides single, familiar interface to monitoring

B2B and A2A applications.

Covast provides a single, merged view of both A2A and B2B message flows:•Can drill down into all the B2B/EDI details from BizTalk standard views

•Covast transport adapters tracking information also included in these views

•Role-based viewing•Not everyone can see and do everything

•Cannot see messages and contents from other departments

•Visualizing validation errors in B2B messages

•Full end-to-end tracking in one total view, including MDN, FA (functional ack) and TA (technical ack)

•Extensive tracing facilities for EDI pipelines and transport adapters

•Automatic archiving (for legal purposes) and restore features

B2B Operations Monitor – Reporting and Visualizing Errors

B2B Operations Monitor – Transports Monitoring with Retry History

B2B Operations Monitor – Tracing & Archiving Features

The Covast value add – Trading Partner Management

Browser based

Rapid partner on-boarding

Bulk import/export

trading partner data

Single Trading Partner

Management interface

Shared partner data across

applications

Partner self-provisioning &

self-testing

Management of large

number of trading partners



Trading Partner A

Trading Partner B

Trading Partner C




Covast value add – Trading Partner Management

R2 MMC-based EDI Party Management •Solution based on Party artifact

•Bulk import of trading partner data using either API or XML file

•Single tool for managing EDI, AS2 and other BizTalk party data

•Relaxed validation at partner and/or agreement level

•Envelope customization by version and transaction set

•Party-specific batching and batch release criteria

Covast provides a browser based TPM solution:•Extensible: 3rd party adapters and accelerators can be integrated without coding using XML

descriptor files

•Fully leverages the BizTalk Adapter Framework

•Bulk import of trading partner data using either API or XML file

•Single tool for managing all trading partners integrated with BizTalk Server R2 and 3rd party

adapters and accelerators

•Enables partner self-provisioning and self-testing

•Manages large numbers of trading partners through an easy to use and unified user interface

•Can be used for SLA (Service Level Agreement) performance monitoring & reporting

•Does not need Covast B2B Suite as a platform – it can run on “vanilla” R2


Contacts Security AS2 CARGO-IMP HTTP/s RosettaNet X12General

United States of America

12345

Northwind Traders, Inc.

1, Bel Red Road

92084

Redmond

X.400

NORTHWIND

Washington

Trading partner ID:

Search key:

Name:

Address:

ZIP or Postal code:

City:

Country:

State:

Aliases

Status: Test

SLASchemas General

NorthwindAS2ID123

168.1.1.25

http://www.northwindtraders.com/as2

8085

AS2 Identifier:

URL:

Proxy IP address:

MDN method:

Encryption method:

Proxy port:

Asynchronous signed

Triple DES

Signing method: SHA-1

Compression:

Contacts SecurityAliases CARGO-IMP HTTP/s RosettaNet X12 X.400SLA AS2Schemas X12 X.400

General

15Max. time to delivery ack.:

Max. % validation errors:

Contacts SecurityAliases CARGO-IMP HTTP/s RosettaNetAS2SLA

Minutes

2 %

Schemas

Max. time to functional ack.: 60 Minutes

Max. % send retries: 20 %

Max. % send failures: 2 %

Northwind Traders, Inc.Trading partner name:

From / Through timestamp: 2006-05-13 12:00:00 AM 2006-05-14 12:00:00 AM

Report

Statistics SLA Report

6Avg. time to delivery ack.:

Validation errors:

Minutes

1.15 %

0Max. time exceeded: Times

17Avg. time to functional ack.: Minutes

2Max. time exceeded: Times

Send retries: 4 %

Send failures: 4 %

Northwind Traders, Inc.Trading partner name:

Schema Sent or Received Total Average size (bytes)

X12_4010_850_DEFAULT_X (Purchase Order) Received 312 32,516

Schema: X12_4010_850_DEFAULT_X (Purchase Order)

From / Through timestamp: 2006-05-13 12:00:00 AM 2006-05-14 12:00:00 AM

Report

Statistics SLA Report

Covast value add – Vertical Solutions



Trading Partner A

Trading Partner B

Trading Partner C




Industry specific B2B

expertise


formats


protocols

Proven tested solutions


EnergyManufacturing

HealthcareRetail

Finance

High Tech

Manufacturing

Vertical Solutions

Microsoft has packaged specific vertical expertise and s/w into vertical solutions –

available separately.•Verticals:

•Healthcare

•Financial Services

•High Tech Manufacturing

•Each solution contains:

•Message formats, such as HL7 v2.1 – v2.5 for Healthcare

•Industry standard transports, such as MLLP for Healthcare and FileAct/InterAct for Financial Services

•Industry standard certifications, such as SWIFT Gold Certifcation for Financial Services

Covast has packaged specific vertical expertise and s/w and

metadata assets into vertical solutions.Verticals:

•Automotive

•Energy & Utility

•Retail

•Manufacturing

•Logistics & Distribution

Each solution contains:•All the right formats, such as ODETTE for Automotive

•All the right transports, such as X.400 for Logistics

•Everything in-the-box, tested and documented

Covast value add – The Company and People

Covast Company added value to

BizTalk Server 2006 R2

• B2B pre-sales and implementation

expertise – including R2 only

• Complex EDI software & support

• Vertical B2B specific knowledge

• Joint solution delivered with GXS

• 35% of top 100 BizTalk Server users

• 10% of total BizTalk Server install base

Covast value add on BizTalk Server 2006 R2 – The whole picture



Trading Partner A

Trading Partner B

Trading Partner C





EnergyManufacturing

HealthcareRetail

Finance

High Tech

Manufacturing

Contact information & next steps

Microsoft contacts:

– Technical: [email protected]

– Marketing: [email protected]

Covast contacts:

– Technical: [email protected]

– Sales: [email protected]

Next steps:

– In your customer base and current pipeline, identify:

opportunities

Opportunities where R2-only will not suffice for B2B

mailto:[email protected]




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