Our consultants are experts who can assist in all areas of your BizTalk Server requests. With experience comes expertise, increased troubleshooting accuracy and confidence in solving complex technical problems.

BizTalk Server helps customers efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners through manageable business processes enabling them to automate and orchestrate interactions in a highly flexible and highly automated manner.  Greenridge staff have expertise in the following BizTalk tools:

BizTalk Editor: creation of various specifications (file layouts) for incoming and outgoing files.  Some of the file types that we are creating include XML files, delimited, and "positional" files.  This tool is extremely flexible and using different settings, any file layout could be specified.

BizTalk Mapper: allows two different specifications to be mapped to each other.  This is a very useful tool, as many different specifications can be mapped to one specification, which should reduce the code required to bring the data into (or out of) systems.  For example, there may be 300 different vendors sending invoices in 50 different layouts.  All 50 can be mapped to one spec - then code only has to accommodate one specification. In addition, while being mapped values can be formatted to different specifications.

BizTalk Messaging Manager: allows the creation of ports and channels.  This is the part of BizTalk that basically controls what happens to a file when it is "received".  At TruServ Canada Corp., Greenridge is also using "open ports and channels", this basically means that the document is populated with certain information at the source, and the document basically becomes self-routing.

BizTalk Server Administration Tool: we define our receive functions in this tool.  Once defined, BizTalk constantly polls "receive folders" to see if a file has been dropped into a defined folder.  If a file is found, it is validated against a defined specification (BizTalk editor), mapped (if applicable), and sent into the system (using the Commerce Gateway), or sent to an external application.  Once everything is set up properly, this all happens behind-the-scenes and pretty instantaneously.

Application Integration Components: Greenridge has created AICs for various different processing needs.  This is basically Visual Basic code that is registered and called from a channel.  For the most part, Greenridge has parsed out data from an XML file and inserting it into external databases, performing further validation, and/or writing out to a flat file when the Mapper tool was insufficient.

If you require experienced BizTalk consultants, give us a call at 1-877-435-7473 or email us at info@greenridge.ca.