Organizations are moving towards exchanging business data over the internet. This improves the efficiency and flexibility in business data interchange. It also reduces the business cost and at the same time redundancy. EDI has become a prevalent means of exchanging business data over the internet. EDI consists of message syntax, message protocols, and transports. The most commonly used way of implementing EDI is AS2. This is a specification that allows implementation of EDI solutions in a simple and easy manner. It uses HTTP Post method to send EDI and XML based business data. AS2 is not only used to send EDI data but also used for handling and unpacking the message. The message transmitted using this specification returns acknowledgement through a notification. In case a message is not transmitted properly, a message disposition notification is returned. This notification is sent either through HTTP response type or by new HTTP POST method to the original sender. Biztalk server provides architecture supported with various network protocols and adapters that allows easy and secure transmission of business documents. While exchanging business documents over the internet, if requires confidential transport. BizTalk Messaging is the best way to implement a secure data exchange environment.
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