Deployment, Monitoring, Administration Strategy for BizTalk Projects

1     Introduction 1.1   Key Definitions for Acronyms 1.2   Target audience Target audiences for this document are: Teams involved in defining and developing BizTalk Server based solution Teams involved in implementing the BizTalk based Integration Architecture. Teams involved in maintaining the BizTalk Server based solution 2     Solution Deployment Best Practices In order to deploy […]

Allied ESB Framework

1.       Scope & purpose This document intends to provide an overview of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). It also identifies high-level requirements and then goes on to propose a typical architecture for such an Enterprise Bus. 2.       Introduction Last few years has seen a tremendous growth in business integration. Companies have focused on achieving this integration […]

BizTalk: thoughts on Roles, Business Rules, SSO

Biz rule composer allows to create a domain specific vocabularies for defining business rules. SSO allows credentials to be mapped or passed between two target applications. Biztalk internally uses SSO to encrypt sensitive info, such URI of target apps. Role link defines a business interaction between two partners. Typically interaction involves one partner providing a […]

Application Integration – food for thought

Here are a few basic tips some of the team came up with that helped BizTalk beginners comprehend the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) domain, especially in a Microsoft BizTalk context. Integration projects don’t follow ‘water fall model’. Most basic need of integration is; ‘ messages generated from one application must be sent to another application […]