No re-keying of information and the inherent mistakes this may incur. This is the sort of thing that EDI has being doing for a number or years. Now XML is generally accepted as a more powerful, flexible way of structuring business data. BizTalk consists of two main components BizTalk Messaging and BizTalk Orchestration. BizTalk Orchestration is concerned with choreographing the flow of documents between parties.
Business transactions can take from seconds to maybe several days to complete.
BizTalk Orchestration makes it easier for developers to manage complex, long-running interactions such as these. BizTalk Tools Also included with a BizTalk Server are a number of tools that make developing XML-based applications easier. A document specification is a set of information that describes a document's format and structure. This can then be used by BizTalk Server to extract the data from an incoming document. Conversely it can be used by BizTalk as a guide to what format to put data in before it is transmitted to a trading partner.