The Information Integration Platform Based On BizTalk

Today many information systems are deployed by the enterprises along with the information technology improvement and reformation. But these successfully deployed systems have formed many information islands since they focused on solving special problems in their own domains. These systems can not efficiently manage the scattered information spread all over the enterprise. And they can not cooperate, make use of the enterprise information, efficiently organize information resource and serve for e-Business. So an enterprise information solution should connect every isolated system, flexibly and rapidly reflect the change of the world. As the most important part of this solution, information integration has got more and more attention from IT industry. Its goal is to destroy the information-isolated islands and provide content management, content integration, data integration, application integration and workflow integration. It can make uses of legacy systems to improve the information and e-Business capability by leveraging the information integration.This paper discusses how to make study and development on information integration platform. It consists of the following parts:(1) Analyses the status of enterprise information systems, indicates that information integration is the key means to improve the capability of information and e-Business.(2) Introduces the basic theory of information integration, the problems be solved, the concept of BizTalk and web service.(3) Provides the architecture of information integration platform, analyses the functions of those modules. In terms of the integration difficulty, and change on the existent application, it gives many kinds of integration method for many scenarios.(4) Implements an information integration platform based onBizTalk with the above theories and experiences in developing information exchange platform. By using this platform, the government or enterprise can seamlessly integrate all exist systems, and preserve the legacy systems. It is rapid-integration, server component reused and flexible compose of business process service in low cost and work effort.(5) At the end, this paper puts forward the extensive foreground of the information integration platform based on BizTalk, and explains that there are still some questions need to be resolved.