BIE 6.0.4

The Business Integration Engine (BIE) is offered under a dual licensing approach and is the industrys first open source offering. BIE is designed to help organizations exchange data created in different applications on various platforms with partners, suppliers, and customers in order to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

BIE is a cost-effective, lightweight integration solution that provides many advantages over existing integration approaches and is evolving into a Service-Oriented Integration tool.

Created originally for manufacturers with diverse back-end systems and large, fragmented distribution networks, BIE provides integration capabilities in environments where other solutions would be cost-prohibitive or inefficient due to antiquated trading partner systems, lack of industry standards, and/or extensive requirements.

Because BIE is platform-independent, many legacy systems can be leveraged "as is." BIE is flexible, extendible and scalable, making it possible to integrate a wide variety of applications - even other integration utilities - quickly and cost-effectively.

It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft BizTalk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.