Business Integration Services system (BIS)

Integration middleware

The main goal of the informational systems is to increase the effectiveness of the business-processes. A set of specialized software applications used for particular tasks is often more suitable and effective for the company than a global system covering all the business activities

What is the glue for software pieces producing partial result? The answer is - generic middleware.

Infopulse Ukraine offers Business Integration Services system (BIS), based on the Microsoft BizTalk platform. The solution has web-based user interface for administration and data exchange, initially supports such transport protocols as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, MSMQ etc. and such formats as XML (all notations), CSV and RTF.

Benefits:

• The data exchange inside a system is "document-client" based;
• The middleware supports wide range of document formats;
• The system supports different transport protocols for document delivery;
• Powerful data transformation tools are available to ensure efficient coordination of the system providing information and the system accepting it;
• To support offline clients the system is able to merge several documents into the document packages;
• The system is very flexible and could support different software products and participate in the informational exchange through different interfaces.

Summary of the project

Technologies used:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002
• ASP
• COM+
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• HTTP
• FTP
• SMTP
• MSMQ
• XML
• XSLT
• CSV
• RTF

Clients: The BIS is already integrated and used by one of the biggest network of banks in Netherlands - Rabobank.