Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop Microsoft Commerce Server

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Grenoble Ecole de ManagementMEDFORIST Workshop
Microsoft Commerce Server

• Asuman Dogac
• Middle East Technical University
• Ankara Turkey
• asuman_at_srdc.metu.edu.tr

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Microsoft Commerce Server

• Commerce Server (http//www.microsoft.com/commerce
  server/) is a platform that facilitates the
  development of Web-based commerce sites
• A trial version can be downloaded from
  http//www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/
• evaluation/trial/evalDL.asp

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Microsoft Commerce Server

• Commerce Server delivers a set of components
  including
• Site Builder Wizard
• Site Manager Pages
• Order Processing Pipeline
• The Microsoft Wallet

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Microsoft Commerce Server

• The roles
• The customers
• The Site Operator
• The Server Administrator

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Commerce Server vs. Biztalk

• Commerce Server is mainly for B2C ecommerce
• Another Microsoft product BizTalk is for B2B
  commerce

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BizTalk Framework

• BizTalk provides an XML based application
  integration framework
• Application integration is achieved through a
  message passing mechanism
• For applications that do not have native XML
  support, BizTalk framework provides facilities
  that transform native data types to XML and then
  performs the XML document routing
• The BizTalk framework contains a technical
  specification,
• a set of XML documents,
• the http//www.biztalk.org/BizTalk/default.asp
  Web portal and
• BizTalk 2000 Server

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BizTalk Framework

• The biztalk.org Web portal contain the XML
  schemas suggested by the businesses, that is, a
  globally accessible document library
• These schemas are validated, versioned,
  registered and stored in a repository at the Web
  portal Web site
• In other words, BizTalk does not enforce a common
  dictionary rather the businesses make their
  dictionary and the document structures publicly
  available at the BizTalk portal and expect other
  businesses to conform to them for conducting
  business

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BizTalk Framework

• The Microsoft product BizTalk 2000 Server has two
  services
• Orchestration service and
• Messaging service
• BizTalk 2000 Server Orchestration service allows
  to model, deploy and maintain distributed
  business processes within and between
  organization
• It provides a GUI tool based on Visio, to
  graphically build business processes
• It is possible to integrate previously defined
  distributed, heterogeneous applications to the
  process

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BizTalk Framework

• From the visual description of the process, a
  process definition is generated in XLANG which is
  a textual process definition language in XML
• XLANG provides the classical workflow definition
  features like
• sequencing,
• branching,
• parallel execution as well as
• transactional support,
• persistence and
• monitoring
• XLANG is a message based system, that is, the
  activity invocation is through passing messages

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Visio
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BizTalk Framework

• The message reliability is provided by the
  message queue product of Microsoft, MSMQ
• BizTalk 2000 Server Messaging service support
  XML, X12, EDIFACT formats
• BizTalk mapper helps to map one document format
  to the other and can apply transformations to
  data
• For example BizTalk mapper facilitates
  transforming EDI documents to SAP iDOC documents
  by utilizing XSL technology to do so
• BizTalk Management Desk administers agreements
  between trading partners and applications