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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:03:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    In an attempt to play a more direct role in supply chain and business-to-business e-commerce processes, Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it will upgrade its popular BizTalk Server integration middleware product, allowing it to integrate more easily with radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic data interchange (EDI) technologies. The enhancements will be part of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 release, due for general availability in the first half of 2007. The release will be the fifth major upgrade to the BizTalk product since it was introduced in 2000. The new 2006 R2 features will allow manufacturers to more easily use the BizTalk server to directly integrate RFID data and EDI transactions with existing enterprise applications such as ERP systems, said Burley Kawasaki, Microsoft's BizTalk Server group product manager. Microsoft plans to achieve RFID integration, Kawasaki said, by developing an application programming interface (API) that works with a variety of third-party RFID devices such as readers and printers. BizTalk Server will be able to filter RFID data using an existing rules engine and either present RFID data through dashboards or send it to ERP applications using existing integration adapters. [Click to continue] |
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