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Microsoft: Mission to ‘Jupiter’ Rolls Ahead

The first phase of Microsoft’s ‘Jupiter’ e-business Web services suite went to beta Monday bearing the new designation BizTalk Server 2004. Described by Microsoft as the first major milestone in “delivering an integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business solution that enables companies to connect information, systems, people and processes,” BizTalk Server 2004 represents the […]

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Jun 2, 2003
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The first phase of Microsoft’s ‘Jupiter’ e-business Web services suite went
to beta Monday bearing the new designation BizTalk Server 2004.

Described by Microsoft as the first major milestone in “delivering an
integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business
solution that enables companies to connect information, systems, people and
processes,” BizTalk Server 2004 represents the first phase of the ‘Jupiter’
code project, which until now has been known as ‘Voyager.’

New features in the beta include:

  • Business Activity Monitoring, which gives information workers a
    real-time view of running business processes with the Microsoft Office
    tools they already know, such as Microsoft Excel
  • Real-time Tracking, which allows users to follow the real-time progress
    of documents and processes in BizTalk Server applications
  • The Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Development Environment
  • Microsoft Office InfoPath integration, providing a familiar front-end
    (Office) to BizTalk Server 2004 for entering XML and consuming Web services
  • Single Sign-on, providing unified authentication between heterogeneous
    systems and applications (Windows and non-Windows)
  • Human-based Workflow, allowing the integration of people and processes
    with a single orchestration engine
  • Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), currently undergoing the
    standards process through the OASIS standards consortium, BPEL is intended
    to simplify cross-platform interoperability for process orchestration
  • XML Web Services, providing ground-up support for XML Web services
    standards such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and Universal
    Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)
  • Business Rules, for dynamically change business processes as the
    organization evolves
  • Enhanced Scalability through a scale-out architecture designed for
    “massively scalable” messaging and orchestration-based applications.

Despite reports that BizTalk Server 2004 may not be ready by the end of the
year, Microsoft Monday reiterated its target of making the product
available at the end of 2003, though it has not yet determined pricing and
licensing.

Phase II of the Jupiter project, currently known as ‘Discovery,’ will build
on phase I with Web site analytics, customer personalization options,
e-commerce services and content management tools. Discovery is planned for
release in 2004.

Microsoft first unveiled the Jupiter project in October 2002, with the intention of addressing the
problems created by legacy and proprietary e-business applications.

“The challenge with today’s legacy e-business software is that much of it
can be characterized as proprietary, disconnected and overly complex,”
Microsoft’s David Kiker, general manager of E-Business Servers, said at the
time. “The ‘Jupiter’ project is focused squarely on addressing these
issues. In unifying our best-of-breed applications, we are both simplifying
the complexity of our customers’ infrastructure and providing them with a
comprehensive standards-based solution to connect, analyze and react to the
information, people and processes that make up the extended enterprise.”

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Thor Olavsrud is a journalist covering data analytics, security, infrastructure, and networking for CIO.com. He's especially interested in companies that use data to transform their business to tackle problems in innovative ways. As a senior writer, his articles focus on practical insights, analysis, and business use cases that can help CIOs and other IT leaders navigate the shifting IT landscape.

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