by community-syndication | Oct 4, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Recently Microsoft and BizTalk360 have announced the continuation of the Global BizTalk Summit that is held annually in the greater Seattle area. This year the event moves from downtown Seattle to Redmond and has been branded Integrate 2014. The event will take place December 3rd – 5th, 2014 on the Microsoft campus. If you are interested in Microsoft Integration technologies, this is a must attend event.
Based upon the current Session Schedule you will be exposed to:
- New BizTalk Adapter Framework for BizTalk Services
- New Workflow designer in BizTalk Services
- New BizTalk Rules Engine in BizTalk Services
- B2B Improvements in BizTalk Services
- Internet of Things (Service Bus)
- Hybrid Connectivity
- Azure API Management
- Customer Success Stories
- Ask the Experts (MVP) interactions
As you can see there is a lot of unique and progressive content on display at this event. I will be attending the event as will many other familiar faces from the Microsoft Integration community.
Registration is now open and there are some early bird tickets available until November 15th, 2014.
See you there!!!
by community-syndication | Oct 4, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I recently read the Getting Started with BizTalk Services book and decided to blog about my experience with it. I have test drove earlier versions of BizTalk Services (blog, blog, and blog) and decided that I wanted to catch up on some of the more recent developments in this space. Reading this book was a great way to get this type of information from one source.
Let’s first start off with the authors; Jon Fancey and Karthik Bharathy. Both Jon and Karthik are BizTalk veterans and are both very well respected in the community. I knew picking up the book that the quality would not be a concern.
The book does not require a reader to possess extensive BizTalk Server experience. It does help when drawing comparisons between features in Server vs Services. Even without a lot of Microsoft Integration experience, a reader can be very productive working through the examples in this book.
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Within the book, you will discover 8 chapters covering 156 pages. Each chapter contains some contextual background information followed by easy to follow examples that include:
- Introduction to BizTalk Services
- Messages and Transforms
- Bridges
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Business to business Integration
- Management APIs
- Tracking and Troubleshooting
- Moving to BizTalk Services
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Even though I have some experience with the BizTalk Services beta and its predecessors I did learn some things from this book. Probably most valuable chapter for me was Chapter 2 – Messages and Transforms. While I have used the new “mapper” in BizTalk Services, there were certainly some operations that I haven’t used before including:
- List Operations
- Get Context Properties inside a map
- If then else operation
- Transform Exception Settings.
Another useful chapter for me was Chapter 5 – Business to business Integration. Even though the BizTalk Services platform is rather young, the BizTalk Services’ EDI capabilities are known to be one of the strengths of the platform. Since I have not done much in the EDI space, this chapter acted as an EDI Primer and then was able to relate these EDI concepts to the BizTalk Services solution.
Lastly, the Management API chapter was interesting as well. I have seen Steef-Jan present on the topic, but it was nice to be able to read through some examples on how you can manage your BizTalk Services application.
Conclusion
In the final chapter; Chapter 8 – Moving BizTalk Services discusses some of the current gaps between BizTalk Server and BizTalk Services. The authors drop some subtle hints around what features are coming that will close the feature parity gap that currently exists. Based upon the agenda for the upcoming Integrate 2014 event, I suspect this gap will be closed rather quickly. Which means, the timing to pick up this book, to ensure you understand the fundamentals of the BizTalk Services, before some of these other features are announced provides a great opportunity to ensure you can hit the ground running.
The book can be sourced from both Amazon and PacktPub in both e-book and traditional paperback format. The Kindle version of the book is a mere $8.96 USD which is a incredible bargain.
by community-syndication | Oct 1, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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by community-syndication | Sep 29, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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Blog Post by: Dan Field
by community-syndication | Sep 29, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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by community-syndication | Sep 28, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I public announced for the first time that I was working in an eBook about BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices, and that it would be published for free, this March during BizTalk Summit 2014 London Well folks, it’s that time to announce that “BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices” book – a 400-page recipe […]
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by community-syndication | Sep 26, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Recently I was asked to assist an organization using BizTalk that was experiencing problems on their BizTalk 2010 production environment. They were losing incoming messages and were unable to figure out what was causing the issue.
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
by community-syndication | Sep 25, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
We have just finished a fairly large effort in moving the QuickLearn TrainingTeam blog over to http://www.quicklearn.com/blog, as a result we had a mix-up with the link for our last post. This post has moved here: Aligning Microsoft Azure BizTalk … Continue reading →
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Blog Post by: Nick Hauenstein
by community-syndication | Sep 25, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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Blog Post by: Kevin Morillo
by community-syndication | Sep 25, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Before my recent trip to Europe to discuss technology trends that impact application integration, I hunted down a bunch of smart integration folks to find out what integration looks like today. What technologies are used? Is JSON climbing in popularity?… Read More ›
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