BizTalk Server Overview

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BizTalk Server Overview

• For those familiar with SeeBeyond

Scott Cairney, Cactus Commerce
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Session Objectives

• Introduction and Overview of BizTalk Server
• Understand what BizTalk Server can do for you
• Understand the business value BizTalk server can
  bring to your organization
• Looking ahead

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Dimensions of Integration

• Style
• Data Synchronization
• Straight-Through Processing
• Composed Programs
• Mode
• Batch
• Near real-time
• Real-time

• Domain
• Within a business unit
• Within an organization
• Between organizations
• Endpoints
• People
• Applications
• Devices
• Databases

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SeeBeyond ICAN Suite
ePortal
eBAM
eView
eVision
Enterprise Designer
Enterprise Manager
eInsight
eXchange
eXpressway
eGate
eTL
Legacy Systems
Databases
Applications
Communication Protocols
Trading Partners
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BizTalk Server
Business Activity Services
Business Activity Monitoring
BAS
BAM
Win FX / Office
BizTalk Orchestration
Visual Studio
Microsoft Management Console
Accelerators for BizTalk Server
.Net Framework
Business Rules Engine
Adapters / SQL Integration
BizTalk Core Engine
Enterprise Single Sign-on
Databases
Applications
Communication Protocols
Trading Partners
Services
Legacy Systems
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Windows Server System
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BizTalk Server Capabilities
Integration
Pipeline
Adapter
Subscription Engine
Message Box
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Adapter

• Endpoints
• Application (API)
• Protocol or Devices (eg. HTTP, SOAP)
• Database
• People
• Mode
• Batch (Poll)
• Triggered request-response (real-time)
• Triggered (near real-time)
• Domain
• Fully abstracted
• Single Sign-on support within / across domain

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Enterprise Single-Sign On

• Maps user credentials from Windows to
  non-windows systems
• Authenticate once and securely access target
  systems
• Secret store contains user mappings encrypted
• E.g., domain\jonqp gt mySAPaccount/mypass
• Integrates with SPS to provide SSO for portal
• Web Services front-end for any client to any
  platform
• Configuration information stored in secure store
• Security is important reviewed 3 times by the
  windows security team and independent experts

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BizTalk Server Capabilities
Integration
Pipeline
Adapter
Subscription Engine
Message Box
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Pipeline

• Domain
• Party resolution
• Security
• Advanced parsing
• Message validation
• Transactional
• Customizable
• Configurable full tracking
• Support for message transformation
• Inbound
• outbound

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BizTalk Server Capabilities
Integration
Pipeline
Adapter
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Message Box / Subscription Engine

• Reliability
• Flexibility
• Integration models
• Bus
• Hub
• Point-point
• Routing
• Support for Business Process Management
• Persistence
• Enabling long running transactions
• Reliability

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Integration - Summary

• We now have
• Ability to connect to Endpoints
• Ability to enable Endpoints subscriptions
• Ability to transform data
• We can essentially perform ETL
• From any source to any destination
• Style
• Data Synchronization

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Dimensions of Integration

• Style
• Data Synchronization
• Straight-Through Processing
• Composed Programs
• Mode
• Batch
• Near real-time
• Real-time

• Domain
• Within a business unit
• Within an organization
• Between organizations
• Endpoints
• People
• Applications
• Devices
• Databases

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Straight-thru processing

• Requires 5 aspects of Business Process Management
• Model
• Runtime engine
• Management
• History tracking
• Flexibility

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BizTalk Server Capabilities
Business Process Management

• Robust framework supporting
• Separation of Definition and Implementation
• Concurrency and Synchronization
• Correlation
• ATOMIC and Long Running Transactions
• Compensation
• Dynamic ports
• Composibility
• The Key to the Composite Application
• Support for BEPL4WS
• Management and Monitoring

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Defining the ModelAnalyst View

• Less complex
• Simple Visio template
• Available for any Visio user to download
• Hand-off to developer
• Two way reportable

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Defining the ModelDeveloper View

• Define Transactions
• Flow
• Looping / Conditional
• Exception / Compensation
• Ports fully abstracted
• Drag/Drop to consume service
• Analyst defined Rule

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Orchestration Engine

• Creates orchestration instances
• Maintains state of orchestrations
• Performs resource optimizations
• Provides reliable shutdown and recovery

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BizTalk Server Capabilities
Orchestration Debugger
Management

• Operations
• Monitor service instances and messages
• Suspend, terminate, or resume processes
• Orchestration Debugger
• Configuration
• Select tracking level
• Customize views

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BizTalk Server CapabilitiesMonitoring
How many orders are currently processed in our
Order Mgmt system that are over 100,000?
What is the Order trend for product X over the
past couple of hours?
What is the average Cycle Time Duration per order?
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BizTalk Server CapabilitiesTracking - History
Orchestration Engine
Pipeline
Adapter
Subscription Engine
Tracking
Message Box
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BizTalk Server CapabilitiesTracking - History
Tracking
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BizTalk Server CapabilitiesFlexibility -
Business Rules Engine

• Lightweight .NET Engine
• Host-agnostic for in-process scenarios
• Integrated with BizTalk Server
• Powerful Framework Tools
• Supports Developers, IT Admin and IW
• Complete API for design execution
• Rich Modeling Capabilities
• Data Sources .NET Objects, XML, DB
• Logical expressions
• Enterprise-Ready
• Security, Performance, Versioning

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BizTalk CapabilitiesFlexibility - Business Rule
Engine
Business Analyst Composes Rule
Developer Links to Policy
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Straight-thru processing

• Require 5 aspects of BPM
• Model
• Runtime engine
• Management
• History tracking
• Flexibility

• Require 5 aspects of BPM
• Model
• Runtime engine
• Management
• History tracking
• Flexibility

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Dimensions of Integration

• Style
• Data Synchronization
• Straight-Through Processing
• Composed Programs
• Mode
• Batch
• Near real-time
• Real-time

• Domain
• Within a business unit
• Within an organization
• Between organizations
• Endpoints
• People
• Applications
• Devices
• Databases

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BizTalk Server CapabilitiesComposed Programs

• Orchestration capable of Leveraging Services
• Services may be
• SOAP
• HTTP
• Any other adapter (Included or custom)
• Even long running
• (Orchestration automatically correlates
  asynchronous responses)
• Any Orchestration may be exposed as a service
• Orchestration may be exposed as SOAP or any other
  adapter (included or custom)

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BizTalk Server Capabilities
Fault Tolerant Architecture

• All this functionality is great! - but this is
  core to my business and cannot fail!!

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Computer A
Computer B
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Roles and Tools Increase Productivity

• TCO depends greatly on the effectiveness of
  people
• BizTalk offers the right interface for the right
  role
• Developer (Visual Studio)
• Visual Studio is the core developer tool for all
  development activities
• Business Analyst / Information Worker
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Visio and Sharepoint)
• Administrator
• Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

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Training and Support

• Information is abundant!
• Partner model
• Blogs
• Community activity second to none!
• Public newsgroups
• Monitored Microsoft newsgroups
• Frequent MSDN live presentation
• MSDN Subscription and mdsn.microsoft.com
• Web presentations such as this one
• Product documentation updated quarterly
• Including SDK, samples, utilities

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Connected Systems / BizTalk and Indigo

• BizTalk is result of years of research and
  development
• Current migration plan for BizTalk is a simple as
  installing new version (pure upgrade)
• Future plans are to extend support for advanced
  ws- protocols, consume windows messaging
  platform / indigo

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Thank You
Scott Cairney, Cactus Scairney_at_cactuscommerce.com
Phone 1.888.CACTUS.0

• Best of Luck
• with your Migrations!