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Enterprise Integration.
Proven in Production.

The same BizTalk expertise that transformed Grupo Antolin, Gulf Coast Seal, Visy Industries, and Unum now powers Art2Link ESB — our next-generation cloud-native integration platform. Your legacy investment doesn’t have to end.

Updated April 2026

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Manufacturing

EDI unification across global supply chains.

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Industrial / O&G

AS2 invoicing with full delivery confirmation.

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Packaging & Retail

300+ partners on a single e-commerce platform.

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Insurance / SOA

$700M revenue enabled via service-oriented architecture.

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These are real production deployments from the Cerebrum City team’s BizTalk era — the same engineers now build Art2Link ESB. Each pattern described here is reproducible on Art2Link today. Request a free architecture review →

Case Studies

Four industries. One integration platform.

🏭 Manufacturing — Spain

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Grupo Antolin — Global EDI Supply Chain Integration

Grupo Antolin, a market leader in automotive interior components operating across 23 countries, ran EDI transactions in all major formats (ANSI, EDIFACT, Odette, VDA) through a fragmented process that took two weeks per new customer integration. Cerebrum City’s team deployed BizTalk Server 2006 R2 as a unified ESB layer — normalizing all formats through a single SAP ERP interface and enabling non-technical business staff to monitor transactions in real time via a custom EDI web portal.

“BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has proven to be impressive, open, and flexible. We now have a single, advanced solution for the entire company that integrates with all applications.” — Roberto Santamaria, Project Manager, Grupo Antolin

2 weeks → 2 days New customer onboarding

10,000+ Employees across 23 countries

1 FTE saved IT overhead reduction

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⚙️ Industrial — Oil & Gas, USA

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Gulf Coast Seal — AS2 Electronic Invoicing with Full Delivery Confirmation

Houston-based Gulf Coast Seal — a high-performance sealing product manufacturer for the oil and gas sector — was processing 25,000+ invoices per year through AS2 with no delivery confirmation. A third-party AS2 adapter left hundreds of invoices silently undelivered due to certificate issues, threatening cash flow on 90-day payment terms. Cerebrum City’s team upgraded the company to BizTalk Server 2006 R2, replacing the costly bolt-on with native AS2 protocol support that provided MDN non-repudiation on every invoice sent and received.

“I sleep a lot better at night knowing that I have records I can get to very easily to confirm that an invoice went out and was received, and show how the recipient replied.” — Jeff Lynch, IT Manager, Gulf Coast Seal

25,000+ Invoices / year over AS2

$1,500 / yr Adapter licensing saved

Weekend Zero-downtime upgrade

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📦 Packaging — Australia / USA / NZ

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Visy Industries — Eliminating the E-Commerce Logjam Across 300+ Partners

Visy Industries — the world’s largest privately owned packaging and recycling company with 8,000 employees across three countries — was managing a fragmented e-commerce environment built from multiple legacy applications. With 60% of all orders placed electronically, there was no unified monitoring, no standardized partner onboarding, and bespoke development was required for each new customer. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 consolidated every partner transaction — EDI, HTTP, FTP, SOAP, AS2, and more — onto a single platform, cutting new customer integration time by 50%.

“We are now increasing the proportion of business that Visy transacts via e-commerce. This generates savings, because we process a lot more transactions in a lot less time with a lot fewer resources.” — Jeffrey Rochman, E-business Manager, Visy Industries

300+ Partners integrated year one

3 wks → 1 wk New customer onboarding

Real-time BAM transaction monitoring

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🏛 Insurance — Financial Services, USA

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Unum — $700M Revenue Enabled Through Service-Oriented Architecture

Unum, one of the world’s leading employee benefits providers with 25 million+ policyholders, operated 2,000+ insurance products across 60 completely disconnected legacy systems. Small business customers faced separate contracts, separate service reps, and separate billing for each product line. Contract creation took 3–6 weeks manually. Cerebrum City’s team architected “Simply Unum” — a BizTalk Server 2006-powered SOA orchestrating all data and business logic across the existing legacy stack without replacement. The result was a unified self-service portal that reduced contract creation to 72 hours and drove voluntary benefit integration rates from under 5% to 40%.

“Simply Unum has been heralded as the largest, most complex, and most collaborative project success story in the company’s history. It has become a model for everything we do.” — Cissy Grebowski, VP Simply Unum Program, Unum

$700M+ Incremental premium revenue

3–6 wks → 72 hrs Contract creation time

5% → 40% Voluntary benefit integration rate

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Platform Architecture

From BizTalk patterns to Art2Link ESB

Art2Link ESB — Reference Architecture

Every pattern from the case studies above is natively supported in Art2Link ESB today

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