Software Technologies

Comprehensive Device Management

You now have comprehensive device management and solution deployment that spans mobile and fixed readers. With BizTalk Server RFID management capabilities you can manage multiple providers and devices end emulate devices. In addition, you are able to monitor and troubleshoot deployments using System Center Operations Manager.

Capture Business Relevant Data

Create, deploy and change business rules and event filtering to expose business relevant data and take the appropriate action based on incoming events. Through BizTalk’s Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) you can obtain end to end process visibility and analytics of RFID event flow during business process execution.

Support for Industry Standards

BizTalk Server RFID provides support for EPC Global standards like EPCIS, Tag Data Translator (TDT) and Low Level Reader Protocol.

Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile is an extension of the Microsoft BizTalk Server RFID platform to mobile devices. BizTalk RFID Mobile is an extensible platform for development, deployment and management of RFID, barcode and other sensor applications on mobile devices.

Faster Time to Market

Write applications once on Windows Mobile and Windows CE and run on multiple devices. By developing RFID applications on BizTalk’s RFID platform there is now a consistent application development experience across fixed and mobile readers. You will most likely want to integrate your data with existing business processes.

Empower Workers to Do More

With BizTalk RFID Mobile in the palm of their hands mobile workers will have access to information when and where they need it so that they can make decisions in real-time. Even if they don’t have network access, mobile workers will be able to perform critical operations and forward data to the server once there is a connection.

Enhanced Business Intelligence

New scenarios are now possible. You will now be able to capture more business relevant data and integrate that data with existing processes through BizTalk Server or replicate data to a SQL Server database. Bridge the gap between your core enterprise processes and your physical operations and assets.

Microsoft BizTalk RFID is an innovative device management and event processing platform at the edge of the enterprise. It is designed to provide a scalable, extensible platform for development, deployment, and management of rich RFID and sensor solutions.

Plug-and-play hardware eco-system with uniform device abstraction and management

Robust, scalable, secure server platform for RFID solutions

Extensive partner eco-system (ISVs/SI) for vertical solutions with low TCO, high ROI

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Introduction
With the November 2006 release of .NET Framework 3.0, the wait is finally over for software professionals. The core components of this managed code programming model – Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) – has revolutionized the way software is programmed.

This article focuses on the different options available for communication between WCF and BTS06. While much of the discussion will also be applicable to BTS04, any discrepancies in implementation for BTS04 will be highlighted.

There is a WCF Adapter for BTS06 is available on the CodePlex Web site. An out-of-the-box adapter will be shipped with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 which may be released by the end of September 2007. An overview of the R2 WCF Adapter's capabilities is available at the following blog post. To try out the R2 WCF Adapter, download the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta from the Microsoft Connect site.

However, you may need to integrate existing BizTalk-based applications with WCF to do the same. In this article we present various options to achieve interoperability in cases where upgrading to BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is not possible. The article merely outlines the approaches and does not deal with them in an exhaustive manner. Nor does it provide a benchmark to compare the approaches. You need to evaluate and choose one among the suggested techniques after taking into account the needs of your application.

Note: If you are upgrading to BizTalk 2006 R2, then working with WCF Adapter will be ideal due to the ease of use, deployment and management it offers.