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BizTalk Fundamentals
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Microsoft BizTalk Server
Fundamentals
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Ranked as one of the top
technology solution providers
in America by CRN Magazine
for the past 4 years.
July 2010
Named Microsoft Partner of
the Year Finalist in 2 separate
categories
June 2010
CRN Magazine's list of the
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What is BizTalk?
• BizTalk Server commonly known as BizTalk
• A premier messaging based integration tool used to integrate
heterogeneous environments
• Most trusted ESB engine in the world
• Microsoft's central platform for EAI and BPM
• Embodies the integration and automation capabilities of XML and Web
Services technologies.
• Allows: Connecting diverse software, Graphically creating and
modifying process logic monitoring processes.
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What is BizTalk?
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BizTalk - Tools
Consists of several tools like:
Business Processes (Orchestrations)
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
HAT (Health and Activity Tracking)
MS Business Rules Engine and Rule composure
BizTalk Server Administrative Console
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Understanding BizTalk
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Understanding BizTalk
Two main parts:
Messaging: provides ability to communicate thru
adapters with other software/applications.
Orchestration: Ability to create and run graphically-
defined processes. It implements logic to drive all or a
part of business process.
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Why BizTalk?
A Common Business Problems:
Connecting diverse systems created at different times, using
dissimilar platform and technologies.
How to make legacy systems talk to newer or other legacy
systems as they communicate using different protocols?
Achieving efficient EAI and B2B integrations among
organizations.
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Why BizTalk?
BizTalk is the apt and very powerful tool to solve business integration problems:
To connect diversified systems. Several inbuilt adapters like for WCF, SQL, MSMQ,
SMTP, File, SOAP, Azure, SAP, JD Edwards, ODBC, TIBCO, IBM, FTP, Oracle, SharePoint.
BizTalk Accelerators: A readymade customized business solution for specific
industries such as health care, financial services, or supply-chain management.
Faster development at lower cost: Several capabilities out-of-box such as
persistence, recovery, complex mappings, long-running transactions, monitoring and
visibility of the process.
Allows developers to focus on implementation of business flow and its integration.
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When to use BizTalk?
To simplify and automate interoperability in order to reduce cost and errors
To gain essential insight into business processes and performance
To guard processes from the effects of changes and stimulate flexibility and
manageability
To integrate in order to eliminate redundancy
To automate business interactions with your partners
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BizTalk – User base
More than 12,000 customers worldwide
81 percent of the Fortune Global 100
6 of the 8 largest US pharmaceutical companies
4 of the 5 largest electronic parts manufacturers
9 of the 10 largest US telecommunications companies
9 of the 10 largest US aerospace and defense companies
5 of the 8 largest US chemical companies
4 of the 5 largest US railroads
9 of the 10 largest insurance companies in the world
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BizTalk evolution
2000 - BizTalk Server 2000
2002 - BizTalk Server 2002
2004 - BizTalk Server 2004 (First version to run on Microsoft .NET 1.0)
2006 - BizTalk Server 2006 (First version to run on Microsoft .NET 2.0)
2007 - BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (First version to utilize the new Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) via native adapter - (Release date October 2, 2007))
2009 - BizTalk Server 2009 (First version to work with Visual Studio 2008)
2010 - BizTalk Server 2010 (First version to work with Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft
.NET 4.0)
2013 - BizTalk 2013 (First version to work with Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft .NET 4.5)
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BizTalk - Architecture
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BizTalk – Commonly used terms
Message: Data file in any format like Flat file or XML
Messaging: Flow of message from receive port to send port thru pipelines and adapters.
Orchestration: Business interaction (similar to workflow) captured thru shapes.
Translation: Changing format of the instance message (via pipelines).
Transformation: Creating a correspondence between source and target schema (via Maps)
Publish/Subscribe: All communication based on publish and subscribe pattern.
Message Correlation: Capturing and passing data values between asynchronous messages.
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BizTalk – Commonly used terms
Routing: Moving messages to subscribers thru subscription/filtering.
Content based routing: Route message based on envelop or receive port configuration
properties.
Routing Failure: No subscription exists for a published message.
Message Box: SQL Server Database storage for message and other details related to
publish-subscribe.
Message Agent: COM component that provides interfaces for
publishing/subscribing/retrieving msg from MB.
Message context: Set of promoted properties available for routing or distinguished
fields in Orchestration.
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BizTalk – Commonly used terms
Pipelines: Sequence of message processing steps like encoding/decoding,
assembling/disassembling, decrypting/encrypting, parsing or validation. There are receive and
send pipelines used in Biztalk.
Functoids: Additional out-of-box and custom mechanism to transform data in mapping thru
Extending XSLT.
Flat files: Data/message in CSV format or separated by positions.
Adapter: Act as the edge-connector for BizTalk Server to communicate with other systems.
Grid Preview: Used to locate maps, links or functoids on the grid area of Orchestration.
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BizTalk – Commonly used terms
End point manager: The service responsible for managing send and receive ports and acts
as the intermediary between the ports and the Message Box.
BRE (Microsoft’s Business rule engine): A reusable, and easily maintainable way to write
and impose business rules. It can be executed from Orchestration or thru code.
BPI (Business Process Integration): Biztalk provides a very sophisticated way to manage
multiple interactions and features such as scalable state management, message correlation, long
running transactions.
BPM (Business Process Management): Managing workflow of different activities. It is
achieved thru Orchestration in BizTalk.
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BizTalk – Commonly used terms
BAM (Business Activity Monitoring): It provides visibility into automated processes,
offering useful real-time information to the people who rely on those processes.
HAT (Health and Activity Tracking): A web-based user interface that can be accessed
over HTTP to see tracking data and monitor the progress of business process.
SSO (Single Sign-On): Managing multiple credential for automated processes with
systems in various environments. Enterprise Single Sign-On stores an encrypted mapping
between a user’s Windows user ID and his credentials for one or more affiliate applications
in an SSO database.
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BizTalk – Development and Tools
BizTalk Server (Developer edition)
BizTalk Server Administration Console
BizTalk Server Configuration
Rule Composure and Deployment wizard
BizTalk WCF and Web services publishing wizard
Tracking profile editor
Visual Studio 2010 or above
SQL Server 2008 R2 or above
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BizTalk – Installation and Setup
BizTalk Server Installation requirements:
– http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=24433
Setup Instructions:
– Extract “BT2010DEV_EN.exe”
– Run Setup.exe under BT Server folder
– Select features like BRE and others
– Configure user and database by running “BizTalk Server Configuration”
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BizTalk Server - DEMO
BTS Configuration
BTS Administration
BTS Databases
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BizTalk competitions?
Cons of using Biztalk:
– Steep learning curve
– High cost
Competitors:
– .Net WWF
– IBM Websphare
– TIBCO
– Open source like nServiceBus, OpenMQ, Apache Mule, Open ESB (Oracle)
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Thank You
Manoj Kumar
manoj.kumar@neudesic.com