The fundamental value that Microsoft brings to enterprise software is not necessarily innovation in terms of new invention. Rather, Microsoft is all about innovation in terms of making existing concepts more accessible.

In a Leveraging SharePoint Portal Server and BizTalk Server webinar, Microsoft makes its definition of innovation abundantly clear by showing attendees how the two server environments can be tightly integrated.

There’s nothing al that earth-shattering about the overall presentation. What gets delivered is a straight-forward discussion of Microsoft’s approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the form of BizTalk followed by an overview of some of the applications that can be developed when SharePoint is used as a front end to BizTalk.

There’s no comparisons made between Microsoft’s approach to developing enterprise applications and any particular rival, but if you’re committed to Microsoft then you need to know how to make the sum of this whole greater than the parts.

Rating: A classic product demo of two of Microsoft’s most interesting enterprise products – TWM1.