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Microsoft BizTalk Server helps customers efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners faster than ever before.

In today's global economy, companies need to integrate applications, systems, and technologies from a variety of sources. To make this easier, Microsoft delivers best-of-breed integration technology through Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and expands the offering with industry accelerators and adapters directly and through partners.

Technical Overview

BizTalk Server consists of receive and send adapters, receive and send pipelines, orchestrations, the BizTalk Server message box, and the business rules engine. For a detailed description of each function please read the Understanding BizTalk Server 2004 white paper. Specific information about developing BizTalk Server solutions is available in the Microsoft BizTalk White Papers section.

Business Benefits

Connecting trading partners and integrating systems is no longer the end goal of enterprise integration. Companies require highly automated business process management functionality, with the flexibility to incorporate a human touch at appropriate stages throughout the workflow, as provided by BizTalk Server 2004 orchestration services. Additionally, with the BizTalk Server 2004 rules engine, companies can implement flexible business rules and make them visible to the information worker. Review Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 Case Studies to learn about real-world solutions using BizTalk Server 2004.

Hosting Fees

Microsoft BizTalk Standard Edition hosting fees start from just $695.00 per month.

Pricing is based on a one-year service term contract. Shorter term contracts are available. Contact your EPI sales representative for details. One-time setup fees for this service are $1,650.00.

Included Features:

Pricing quoted above includes:

• Server Hardware

• 50GB Network Traffic per month

• Nightly Backup¹

• Free DNS Hosting

• Free Firewall Service Protection

• Conditioned Uninterruptible Power

• MS BizTalk 2004 Standard Edition Licensing (1PL)

• Operating System and SQL Server Licensing²

• 100% Uptime SLA

• Service Monitoring

• 24x7 Technical Support³

24x7 Technical Support

Your service includes FREE EPI Hosted Service Level 1 Technical Support. To put it very simply, contact us any time of the day or night. Whatever you need, we'll do it for you and help you in any way we can. You can use this available support for anything you need us to do to help you manage your hosted MS BizTalk Server solution.

Service Monitoring

Your service include EPI Service Monitoring. Monitoring checks your primary (Internet facing) servers and service connections every five minutes, 24 hours a day to verify that your servers are operational, triggering an immediate alert to EPI technicians in the event of a problem.

Be sure to ask us about the many BizTalk adapters and accelerators available from EPI to support your BizTalk implementation.

Want to know more? Contact EPI Internet Direct to discuss your requirements. For more information call EPI at (800) 689-9034 or click here to request that an EPI sales representative contact you.