Microsoft's Xbox 360 game system is one of the most popular console gaming systems in the world. Distribution of those systems to satisfy hungry customers is a challenge. The video below illustrates some other Microsoft technologies that the MS Xbox manufacturing team used to enable efficient distribution of the game systems. Biztalk is a Microsoft variant of XML. It differs somewhat from public Rosetta.net XML standards. However MS is free to use whatever protocol it wants to in a closed loop environment. The key message is that MS used an XML based visibility system to enable their manufacturing and distribution of the Xbox 360 game system. In this case MS used MS BizTalk Server applications to integrate a variety of data streams from vendors and 3PL's using XML.
Microsoft's problems in seeing their supply chains are not unique. MS just has a number of proprietary ways to attack problems including internal solutions development. Even more unique is that MS markets its solutions to solving its own problems.
I am convinced the bald guy in this video is
a Borg alien from Star Trek.
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