Roseburg Forest Products is a privately held company based in Dillard, Oregon. With 4,000 employees, 700,000 acres of sustainably managed timberlands, and offices, plants, sawmills, and export facilities throughout the northwestern and southeastern United States, Roseburg does more than $1 billion in sales annually. Its products include lumber, plywood, engineered wood products, decorative melamine, medium-density fiberboard, particleboard, and specialty panels. The company markets its goods to dealers, retailers, OEMs, home centers, and wholesale distributors.

In 2004, in an effort to better position itself for future growth, Roseburg migrated many of its business systems, including its Novell-based file sharing and email, to an environment based on the Windows operating system. The company decided it could create a more scalable, simplified IT environment and realize significant productivity benefits by adopting integrated Microsoft software. This migration included the deployment of the Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2 operating system, Exchange Server 2003, and the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 messaging and collaboration client. As part of this migration, Roseburg also transitioned its JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP software from an AS/400 to two clustered Dell PowerEdge 6950 servers that run Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition database software.

In late 2006, the company completed the transition of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to a Windows-based environment, but the electronic data interchange (EDI) component of the ERP system was still being processed on the AS/400. "We were supporting two platforms unnecessarily," says Dan Coyle, CIO at Roseburg Forest Products. "EDI was the only process left on the AS/400. We needed to consolidate to one, easy-to-manage platform."

In December 2006, Roseburg decided to implement Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 to accomplish the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne EDI integration and to incorporate the business processes of seven new facilities into its IT environment. "Over the last few years, we had really taken a direction toward Microsoft as our architecture," says Coyle. "BizTalk Server 2006 fit the skills of our group, fit our strategic direction, and delivered the capabilities we needed."

With the help of EMC Corporation, a leading developer and provider of IT infrastructure technology solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Roseburg migrated four key business processes to BizTalk Server 2006 R2. EMC helped Roseburg design a technical architecture to transition two different EDI transactions with trading partners to BizTalk Server 2006 R2, including EDI 810 for electronic invoicing and EDI 404 for transmitting electronic bills of lading from Roseburg to its freight carriers. It also helped Roseburg document project requirements and made sure that the switchover wouldn’t adversely affect transactions with the company’s trading partners. To read the complete case study, go to http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001537.