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Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Getting Started with BizTalk Services

Getting Started with BizTalk Services: BizTalk Services offers great possibilities for bringing enterprises together in the cloud, and this book is the perfect introduction to it all. Packed with real-world scenarios, you will soon be designing your own tailor-made integration solutions.

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Getting Started with BizTalk Services

Chapter 1. Hello BizTalk Services

As companies build and extend their IT information assets, there is a need to integrate applications to exchange data. While a point-to-point application integration using custom code is possible, it does not address large-scale application integrations without duplication of data and the complexity of managing such an integration. BizTalk is a de facto choice for message-based integration for on-premises systems and for services on Azure for both applications and businesses.

In this book, we're going to introduce you to BizTalk Services, Microsoft's new integration middleware hosted on Windows Azure. This book assumes that you already understand the need for integration and the many benefits of using specialist integration software as opposed to building custom point-to-point integration solutions. We will look at why cloud-hosted integration services are so compelling and the scenarios in which these services make most sense. Prior knowledge of BizTalk Server is not expected, though it will help you to quickly understand certain topics within the book. We will assume you are a professional developer, an architect, or a solution designer familiar with the challenges of integrating heterogeneous systems and applications. The book also assumes familiarity of the Microsoft developer toolset, specifically .NET, Visual Studio, and SQL.

In this chapter, we will start to answer some fundamental questions around what BizTalk Services is and how it can help you to build integration solutions. Specifically, the following topics will be discussed:

  • The business and technical drivers for BizTalk Services on Azure

  • Concepts and architecture of BizTalk Services

  • Using BizTalk Services to realize a simple purchase order scenario

Background


First though, some background is necessary. At the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008, Microsoft unveiled Windows Azure—a new operating system designed for the cloud. Over the subsequent years, Windows Azure has become Microsoft's de facto cloud platform covering services, media, websites, mobile applications, and more. While BizTalk Server has been an established product for over ten years (and eight releases), cloud adoption has been driving connected systems across different services and Line-of-Business applications. To meet the growing demand for cloud-based integration, the Microsoft BizTalk team released the first version of BizTalk Services, named Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs Community Technology Preview (CTP) on December 17, 2011. The goal was for customers to be able to sign up in a shared environment and set up simple XML/EDI flows without worrying about installation and maintenance. The capabilities were rich enough to enable simple point-to-point integration scenarios; on April 9th of the following year, the CTP was refreshed, incorporating feedback from customers by providing additional capabilities.

The CTP environment was hosted on a publicly shared service, and therefore had restrictions on running users' custom code. Integration is rarely straightforward, and the ability for developers to write custom code and deploy it as part of their integration solutions was a key requirement. Customers had also needed guarantees around performance and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Hosting user assemblies as part of the cloud services became a reality by switching to per tenant deployment. Thus, the cloud offering known as BizTalk Services was born on June 3, 2013. Like many Azure services, BizTalk Services is expected to be updated at a regular cadence. The latest update as of this writing was on February 20, 2014. This technology is opening up new integration possibilities; with Microsoft's on-going investments, it will be on par with the capabilities of its on-premises cousin, BizTalk Server, in the near future.

Business drivers


There are many tangible benefits of building solutions on Azure today. A few of these include the ability to scale up/down the platform based on predictable or dynamic shifts in application load and throughput requirements without worrying about the hardware procurement time and setup, the ability to pay as you go with expense incurred as an Operational Expenditure (OpEx) instead of a Capital Expenditure (CapEx), and the increase in reach for certain integration scenarios.

Specific to integration on Azure, there are four factors that drive adoption:

  • Focus on business operations, not IT: There are business benefits in terms of reduced cost by leveraging platforms running under economy of scale, making it cheaper for customers to obtain them with higher quality of services. The need of the hour is to simplify IT deployment and management and focus on business services instead of configuring software or hardware.

  • Simplicity of managing externally facing services: Enterprises typically offer services across geographic and organizational boundaries. Many of these services require making changes to the corporate firewall to allow or deny the applications. This process is an IT nightmare for many organizations. With Azure integration services such as B2B, which inherently require external communication, all this could be moved to the cloud and the necessary access and control policies could then be centralized for all internal services. This also enables self-service configuration changes to the application, thereby dramatically improving responsiveness to business changes.

  • Greenfield cloud applications: The proliferation of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets as well as Point-of-Sale (POS) systems, has given rise to services that are inherently cloud based. Think of a POS that transmits daily transaction logs to its backend Line-of-Business systems or an RFID service that transmits information about each item in a shopping cart purchased in a retail store to an inventory application. As new services are being rolled out, organizations want to be able to develop and deploy these services with shorter time-to-market using Azure.

  • Another factor to consider for the cloud is to leverage existing on-premises investments. Businesses have invested in a variety of on-premises systems, including traditional ERP as well as legacy mainframes and other bespoke systems that literally run the business.

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  • Use the EAI and B2B features of BizTalk Services
  • Connect with LineOfBusiness systems in your datacenter onpremises
  • Create bridges and configure them to process and route messages
  • Design transforms and employ custom code
  • Address and diagnose problems
  • Migrate from BizTalk Server to BizTalk Services
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Hello BizTalk Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Messages and Transforms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Bridges Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enterprise Application Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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J.P.M. Smit Jun 24, 2014
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The title of the book is getting started and that is what the book is about: getting a kick start to BizTalk Services. But it is more than just an overview. It touches all aspects of BizTalk Services and dives deeper in some chapters. So after reading this book you're not only familiar with BizTalk Services, but because of the step by step examples you're also capable of building your first BizTalk Services integration.The book is clearly written, touches the surface where applicable and dives deeper when necessary. And example is the B2B integration with EDI. This is a common scenario which can be implemented using BizTalk Services. The book dedicates an entire chapter to this.Recommended read.
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Steef-Jan Apr 09, 2014
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Windows Azure BizTalk Services is a new service on the Windows Azure Platform. Released November 2013 and maturing fast through a three month release cadence to enhance and enrich its integration and B2B capabilities. Since the IT landscape is changing so rapidly over the last couple of years the integration needs have become more apparent. Connecting SaaS with on-premise is a common practice now and therefore having a more lightweight integration technology in the cloud makes sense. In case you are unfamiliar with this new paradigm, then this book will reveal this for you. It covers the Microsoft technology as is today and shows how to use the integration service to create solutions that run in a BizTalk Service. The book starts with what the service is and what the purpose of it is before it discusses the actual technology itself, explaining the concepts of bridges, EAI, B2B, messages, transforms, API, tracking, troubleshooting and migrating from BizTalk to its service counterpart. The latter is an interesting aspect as BizTalk and the BizTalk Service are not alike. Windows Azure BizTalk Service can be viewed as an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) or Cloud-based integration. This as a Service is fairly new and not a surprise with the increasing demand for integration. Cloud-based integration/iPaaS is characterized with a license model (pay as you go), deploy in the cloud, connectors, no code, and management/monitoring. And these characteristics will become visible with regards to the BizTalk Service if you read the book from cover to cover. It is an interesting technology and hopefully soon to be a key player in the iPaaS space with the current leaders like MuleSoft, Dell Boomi and others.
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Kevin Smith Apr 01, 2014
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“Getting Started with BizTalk Services” gives a unique perspective and understanding around BizTalk Services not only around the product but also how to leverage it in order to successfully deliver real world enterprise systems. The authors draw on their deep technical insights into BizTalk Services gained from building the product itself and from designing and implementing real world integration solutions using BizTalk Services.BizTalk Services represents the next evolution of the BizTalk Server platform, it’s a major shift from the previous on-premise architecture of BizTalk Server taking the platform to both cloud and hybrid models, as such there are some significant new concepts that engineers need to understand in order to be successful with the new platform. The authors do a great job of articulating this to the reader, the writing style makes the book approachable to both people new to the platform as well as seasoned BizTalk veterans wishing to up skill to the new platform. Jon and Karthik do a great job of guiding the reader through this exciting new technology. I was asked to review the book and found it an extremely useful resource in learning about BizTalk Services.
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Peter Chang Jun 23, 2014
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I'm so glad there is finally a book regarding WABS (Windows Azure BizTalk Services). Reading this book was so much easier and better way for me to get started on WABS. When it comes to learning a new technology, I often like to start with a sample/example, and this book starts with HelloWorld example. Then, it goes deep drive to each component and its concept. Since I've already worked with BizTalk Server, it was fairly quick for me to read the entire book, but this book was written in a way that even non-BizTalk people can easily understand. I would definitely recommend this book to others.
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Dipti Porwal Jun 20, 2014
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There are certain things one looks for while picking up a technical book. Firstly -content, second -approach and third- examples. "Getting started with BizTalk Services" book fares excellent in all the three criteria. It is a right fit to start with Integration on cloud using Microsoft technologies independent of one’s experience in Micrsoft BizTalk Server. An extremely comprehensive and pragmatic book that contains everything right from the Concepts, deployment basics, implementation, troubleshooting, WABS API to real world scenarios for both EAI and B2B. It even covers migrating to BizTalk Services from BizTalk Server. Tracking messages is an integral part of the messaging world and the same has been diligently explained in the chapter - "Tracking and Troubleshooting". I felt the authors have made themselves really accountable by writing this chapter as they have ensured that even the readers new to EAI can get pointers on troubleshooting the implemented scenarios and just not left them clueless in the maze of messaging components.Cloud is the order of the day and is gradually becoming integral part of today’s Enterprise. Even in the EAI space, it has become a mandate to understand and implement the integration scenarios on cloud. I would say, this is "The" book for getting started with BizTalk Services.
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