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BizTalk Overview
The 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 Framework includes a design framework for implementing an XML schema and a set of XML tags used in messages sent between applications. Microsoft, other software companies and industry-standards bodies will use the BizTalk Framework to produce XML schemas in a consistent manner to enable integration across industries and between business systems, regardless of platform, operating system or underlying technology.
A library for BizTalk-compatible schemas is now live on the BizTalk.org Web site 
, with more than 100 freely available schemas submitted by 30 organizations.
BizTalk Server, a new XML-based business-to-business commerce solution, provides business process integration within the enterprise and with trading partners across the Internet through the exchange of XML-formatted business documents.
The BizTalk JumpStart Kit makes it easier for developers to use XML schemas and the BizTalk Framework in current development projects and existing applications and to realize the benefits of industry-standard XML for electronic-commerce and application integration within and across organizations.
The technical articles provide an overview of the BizTalk Framework and the BizTalk Server, as well as how to use the BizTalk JumpStart Kit.