Eastridge Technology has been selected as a Microsoft GoTo partner for Microsoft's Enterprise Service Bus offerings.  Eastridge is a member of this exclusive group of partners due to our experience with Enterprise Application Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server and our close affiliation with the BizTalk Server product team.

What is an Enterprise Service Bus?

The term Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is widely used in the context of implementing the messaging capabilities of a service oriented infrastructure. An ESB is one of many building blocks that make up a comprehensive service oriented infrastructure.

Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its Application Platform including Windows Server 2003, the .NET Framework 3.0, and BizTalk Server 2006. The Application Platform provides an infrastructure that enables the flexible and secure reuse of infrastructure and business services and the ability to orchestrate existing services into new end-to-end business processes. At the core of this solution is BizTalk Server 2006 which provides a basis for common ESB capabilities including:

• Industry Leading Web Services Support • Intelligent Routing • Message Transformation • Itinerary Processing • Legacy and LOB Application Adaptation • Service Orchestration	• Metadata Lookup • Exception Management • Distributed Deployment • Centralized Management • Business Rule Engine • Business Activity Monitoring