Gijsbert’s BizTalk Notes

With the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 later this year, Microsoft will be providing improved native facilities for EDI and AS2. As a result, many customers, prospects and people within Microsoft and our world-wide partner network have asked us for a document describing our value add on top of R2. In cooperation with Microsoft that document has been written now and can be downloaded here:

• http://www.covast.com/file/Covast-Our_value_add_on_BizTalk_Server_2006_R2.pdf.

As you can clearly see, Covast will continue to be a valued Microsoft partner in the B2B integration space. For feedback, please use the facilities provided by this blog. Cheers, Gijsbert.

As you might have noticed in the press, my employer has launched a new product called BBot. I’m very excited about this, since I’ve been working on this project from its conception mid last year. After prototyping and demoing capabilities to Microsoft and potential customers, we finally got to the stage where we can actually start selling these things! Have a look at www.BBot.com. BBot combines our extensive knowledge in the B2B space, the Microsoft platform (Windows, BizTalk, Sharepoint, ISA) and our own B2B Suite software together with a very smart way of automatically configuring, updating and monitoring the Appliance without human intervention. Especially the latter was the most important part of BBot that I’ve payed most attention to. We’ve come up with a web service architecture that solves the sharing of configurations and other metadata (such as certificates) in a very elegant and efficient way. Wanna know more? Ping me! I’ll be doing loads of webcasts in the next couple of weeks/months on this topic.