FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server
A complete solution for seamlessly integrating Microsoft Excel documents
Spread for BizTalk Server provides a complete solution for integrating Microsoft Excel documents seamlessly into your BizTalk applications.
Spread for BizTalk Server includes:
- Spreadsheet Pipeline Disassembler - Parse data in your Microsoft Excel® (XLS and Excel 2007 XML, CSV, TXT) documents into XML-data for easy processing through BizTalk Server receive pipelines.
- Spreadsheet Pipeline Assembler - Assemble the data in your BizTalk applications into Excel (XLS or Excel 2007 XML), or PDF documents for transport through BizTalk Server send pipelines.
 This is one of the single most important
and long awaited innovations to the business process integration (BPI) market
I've ever seen.
I rarely make a "pitch" for non-MSFT development products, but if you're a
BizTalk developer like me this is one tool that you really need in your
"integration arsenal". 
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- Jeff Lynch
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A Codeless Solution
Spread for BizTalk includes Visual Studio-integrated design time tools to assist BizTalk Developers and shorten the time-to-release for BizTalk Applications. These design time tools are the Spreadsheet Schema Wizard and the Spreadsheet Format Designer. The Spreadsheet Schema Wizard enables the developer to codelessly create custom schemas for use in the disassembler and assembler.
Schemas created by the Spreadsheet Schema Wizard are used by the pipeline disassembler to define the structure of the resulting XML data as it is parsed from incoming Excel streams. This same wizard is used to define the schemas that represent XML data streams to be assembled into Excel or PDF documents through the pipeline assembler. The Spreadsheet Format Designer is used by the developer to design the appearance of the resulting Excel or PDF documents to be created by the pipeline assembler.
A Simple Solution
The power of Spread is in its functionality, not in its complexity. Spread is a simple and elegant solution to a real business problem – the integration and use of spreadsheet data in your business applications.
Spread for BizTalk provides:
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a codeless solution for the integration of Microsoft Excel data into your BizTalk applications
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a Visual Studio integrated design-time that includes the Spreadsheet Schema Wizard, and the Spreadsheet Format Designer
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automated parsing of Excel message streams (XLS, Excel 2007 XML, CSV, TXT) into XML message stream
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automated document creation by assembling XML data in BizTalk applications into Excel (XLS, Excel 2007 XML), or PDF documents
Watch the Video
Watch the Training Video
This video is as close as you will get to a live demo without scheduling a Live Meeting with us. Our Product Manager takes you through a real business scenario using the disassembler and assembler and illustrates the power of Spread for BizTalk Server and why it should be added to your Microsoft BizTalk arsenal. We highly recommend viewing this video prior to beginning your evaluation of the 60-day trial.
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Requirements
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
OR
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 or 2006 R2
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
