2018-06-26 BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3 (Office 365 integration) 2020-01-15 BizTalk Server 2020 (First version to work with Visual Studio 2019 and Microsoft .NET 4.7) Features The following is an incomplete list of the technical features in the BizTalk Server: The use of adapters to simplify integration to line of business (LOB) applications (Siebel, SAP, IFS Applications, JD Edwards, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database and IBM Db2) and other Technologies (TIBCO and Java EE) Accelerators offer support for enterprise standards like RosettaNet, HL7, HIPAA and SWIFT. Business rules engine (BRE). This is a Rete algorithm rule engine. Business activity monitoring (BAM), which allows a dashboard, aggregated (PivotTable) view on how the Business Processes are doing and how messages are processed. A unified administration console for deployment, monitoring and operations of solutions on BizTalk servers in environment. Built-in electronic data interchange (EDI) functionality supporting X12 and EDIFACT, as of BizTalk 2006 R2. Ability to do graphical modelling of business processes in Visual Studio, model documents with XML schemas, graphically mapping (with the assistance of functoids) between different schemas, and building pipelines to decrypt, verify, parse messages as they enter or exit the system via adapters. Users can automate business management processes via Orchestrations. BizTalk integrates with other Microsoft products like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SQL Server, and SharePoint to allow interaction with a user participating in a workflow process. Extensive support for web services (consuming and exposing) RFID support, as of BizTalk 2006 R2. Deprecated in the 2016 release Support for Application Insight, as of BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 Automatic deployment through Visual Studio Team Service, as of BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 Exposed management REST APIs with full Swagger support, as of BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 Exposed operational data with Power BI support, as of BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 Human-centric processes cannot be implemented directly with BizTalk Server and need additional applications like Microsoft SharePoint server. Architecture The BizTalk Server runtime is built on a publish/subscribe architecture, sometimes called "content-based publish/subscribe". Messages are published into BizTalk, transformed to the desired format, and then routed to one or more subscribers. BizTalk makes processing safe by serialization (called "dehydration" in Biztalk's terminology) - placing messages into a database while waiting for external events, thus preventing data loss. This architecture binds BizTalk with Microsoft SQL Server. Processing flow can be