BizTalk Orchestration is technology for creating and managing complex business processes that span multiple applications, platforms, services, and organizations behind the firewall and over the Internet. This solution helps users take advantage of new business opportunities and coordinate relationships with trading partners over the Web. BizTalk Server 2000, due summer 2000, will include BizTalk Orchestration.

BizTalk Orchestration benefits processes such as: corporate procurement, supply-chain integration, and B2B marketplaces. Take a closer look at how BizTalk Orchestration can help facilitate corporate procurement. This type of solution helps integrate the employee facing procurement application, the company accounting system, and supplier order management and shipping systems. BizTalk Orchestration offers a means for business analysts defining policies and developers writing code to implement solutions. Each group can change processes without having to rearchitect the solution.

BizTalk Orchestration software includes:

• Visual design tools -- Based on Visio, this environment lets you graphically define and modify interactions between applications at the business-process level.
• Orchestration engine -- Helps execute, monitor, and debug business processes.
• Binding architecture -- An open mechanism helps connect processes with any application or component running on any platform.