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Contents
AN OVERVIEW OF BIZTALK SERVER 2006 R2 ................................................................................. 3
THE CHALLENGE: IMPROVING BUSINESS PROCESSES.................................................................................................. 3
ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGE: WHAT BIZTALK SERVER 2006 R2 PROVIDES ................................................................ 3
Application Integration in a Service-Oriented World .......................................................................................... 4
Business-to-Business Integration ..................................................................................................................... 6
Business Process Management ....................................................................................................................... 7
BIZTALK SERVER 2006 R2 FUNDAMENTALS ................................................................................... 8
CONNECTING SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................... 9
Sending and Receiving Messages: Adapters ................................................................................................... 9
Processing Messages: Pipelines .................................................................................................................... 10
Translating Messages: Data Mapping ............................................................................................................ 10
DEFINING BUSINESS PROCESSES ........................................................................................................................... 12
Using Orchestrations ...................................................................................................................................... 12
Using the Business Rule Engine .................................................................................................................... 14
CREATING SCALABLE CONFIGURATIONS .................................................................................................................. 16
MANAGING BIZTALK APPLICATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 17
Creating and Monitoring Applications ............................................................................................................. 17
Examining Application History ........................................................................................................................ 18
ADDITIONAL BIZTALK SERVER 2006 R2 TECHNOLOGIES ........................................................... 19
BUSINESS ACTIVITY MONITORING............................................................................................................................ 19
USING EDI ........................................................................................................................................................... 21
WORKING WITH RFID ............................................................................................................................................ 22
ENTERPRISE SINGLE SIGN-ON ............................................................................................................................... 24
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................... 26
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ......................................................................................................................... 26