Andy Morrison is an enterprise consultant with Digineer, a technology and management consulting firm. Andy specializes in BizTalk Server, co-founded the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group, and is a frequent blogger on BizTalk topics. His blog can be found at http://geekswithblogs.net/andym.
BizTalk Server provides many features that enable organizations to
continuously improve their business processes, their level of customer
service and their bottom line; however, most .NET developers and architects
have never examined the product. This article will introduce the reader to
many of BizTalk's features and discuss their benefits.
BizTalk Artifacts
The first BizTalk feature discussed in this article is composed of four
artifacts that are used in almost all BizTalk applications: schemas, maps,
orchestrations, and pipelines. Each of these artifacts has a related Visual
Studio designer.
SCHEMAS
Schemas are simply XML Schemas. Schemas are templates for the messages that
BizTalk receives, processes, and sends. They are edited in Visual Studio
using the BizTalk Sch... (more)
BizTalk is a broad and inherently flexible product that can be used to build
a large variety of applications; however, it exists to solve very complicated
problems, it has a long ramp-up time associated with it, and many people
simply find it too daunting to consider. As a reaction to these hurdles, this
article will discuss different application styles that can be built with
BizTalk ins... (more)
Andy Morrison is an enterprise consultant with Digineer, a technology and management consulting firm. Andy specializes in BizTalk Server, co-founded the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group, and is a frequent blogger on BizTalk topics. His blog can be found at http://geekswithblogs.net/andym.
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