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About Microsoft BizTalk Server

Siebel Business Applications provide technology for data integration between Siebel applications and Microsoft BizTalk Server. This allows diverse external and internal applications to communicate with Siebel applications using proven transports, regardless of the original data format. This section discusses the Siebel BizTalk Server interface, presenting details on architecture and related components, including transports and message formats.

Microsoft BizTalk Server provides a translation gateway that can read and write XML, positional or delimited flat files, and both formats of Electronic Data Exchange (EDI): United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) and ANSI X12. BizTalk Server provides a resource for the secure and reliable delivery and transformation of business documents regardless of source, data format, or communication protocol in use.