Microsoft and Commerce One Collaborate to Enhance BizTalk Framework and Promote Interoperability Between Businesses

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Microsoft Corp. and Commerce One Inc. have announced a broad collaboration to accelerate business-to-business electronic commerce by enabling greater interoperability between trading partners. The collaboration aims to integrate Commerce One's Common Business Library (CBL) and MarketSite XML documents into the BizTalk Framework, a public collection of XML document building blocks developed by Commerce One. This integration will allow businesses to easily exchange business documents and integrate diverse e-commerce applications, making it easier for greater numbers of buying and selling organizations to participate in the Commerce One MarketSite.

Key Takeaways:

  • The collaboration aims to integrate Commerce One's Common Business Library (CBL) and MarketSite XML documents into the BizTalk Framework, making it easier for businesses to exchange business documents and integrate diverse e-commerce applications.
  • The integration of CBL and MarketSite into the BizTalk Framework will support any business document included in the BizTalk.Org repository, enabling seamless interoperability between Commerce One's MarketSite and other BizTalk-enabled applications.
  • Commerce One is a charter member of the BizTalk steering committee, a group of organizations that guides the development and direction of the BizTalk Framework and manages BizTalk.Org.
  • Paul Maritz, group vice president of Microsoft's Developer Group, stated that "Leveraging Commerce One's XML expertise and its Common Business Library will greatly accelerate adoption of electronic commerce by providing essential XML building blocks that can be used by all BizTalk supporters to create and translate their business documents."
  • Commerce One's president and CEO, Randy Whiting, stated that "We strongly believe that a common business language is critical to e-commerce interoperability," and that CommerceNet selected Commerce One CBL as the foundation for their XML interoperability framework due to its broad horizontal scope and careful analysis of numerous existing commerce standards.

Statistics:

  • The Commerce Chain Solution, a leading electronic procurement solution, supports the BizTalk Framework and will continue to support it as a result of the collaboration.
  • The Common Business Library (CBL) has been deployed in several pilots, including a major catalog interoperability pilot sponsored by the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA).
  • BizTalk Framework makes it easy for businesses to exchange information between software applications and conduct business over the Internet with trading partners and customers.
  • The BizTalk steering committee, of which Commerce One is a member, guides the development and direction of the BizTalk Framework and manages BizTalk.Org.

Sources:

  • [PRNewswire, May 24, "Microsoft and Commerce One Collaborate to Enhance BizTalk Framework"]
  • [Microsoft Corporation, "Microsoft and Commerce One Collaborate to Enhance BizTalk Framework"]
  • [Commerce One, "Commerce One and Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance BizTalk Framework"]
  • [BizTalk.Org, "BizTalk Steering Committee"]
  • [CommerceNet, "CommerceNet Selects Commerce One CBL as Foundation for XML Interoperability Framework"]