Understanding BizTalk

Written by BizTalk insiders, with the assistance of the Microsoft BizTalk team, Understanding BizTalk demystifies the BizTalk Initiative, and provides an advance look at the tools and technologies businesses can leverage to make it fundamentally easier to integrate business processes within and between organizations.

• Learn to link legacy applications with BizTalk
  
• Understand the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and how it can be used with
• BizTalk
  
• Explore how BizTalk can be used to connect seamlessly with customers, regardless of platform
  
• Integrate Commerce Server solutions with BizTalk for e-business
  
• Create your own powerful XML-based BizTalk schemas
  
• Understand how BizTalk Server works
  
• Learn to use BizTalk Tools
  
• Explore how stylesheets can be used to transform your data
  
• Understand how BizTalk can be used with SQL Server
  
• Examine how BizTalk can be used to create 13213 portals
  
• Understand how BizTalk handles document mapping and translation

Table of contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: BizTalk Technology Overview

1: Distributed Applications

2: B2B E-Commerce Today

3: Introduction to XML

4: Introduction to the BizTalk Initiative

Part II: Tools and Technology of BizTalk

5: XML

6: BizTalk Framework

7: BizTalk Tools

8: BizTalk Server

Part III: Applying BizTalk

9: Planning a System Using BizTalk

10: Microsoft Commerce Server 2000

11: Integrating with Host Integration Server 2000 and SQL Server

12: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

13: Application Integration: A Case Study of ARAMARK's My Assistant Web Portal

Appendix BizTalk Framework 1.0a Independent Document Specification

Index