Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Unleased

Scott Woodgate, Stephen Mohr, Brian Loesgen9780672325984, 0672325985

Scott Woodgate and Stephen Mohr teach you how to use Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2004 as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, especially for rapid deployment B2B and B2C e-commerce applications. They also cover the potentially messy integration of legacy code with newly developed applications. By reading this book, you’ll learn to exploit the key strengths of BizTalk Server: information flow design, integration interface tracking and performance management. This book covers the why and how of system integration, a technology roadmap for the future, system architecture, how to develop and monitor messages within a BizTalk application, using BizTalk Server Studio in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET to orchestrate business processes and create integrated business systems, as well as BizTalk Server management, monitoring and deployment. The authors dedicate an entire section of book to real-world case studies of businesses using BizTalk server on a daily basis revealing dramatic success and the possible bumps along the way to full integration.