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BizTalk - Introduction

AboorvaRaja RamarBizTalk Tutor

CONTENTS

Introduction to BizTalk

Why BizTalk?

History of BizTalk Server

BizTalk Server Scenario’s

BizTalk Server Architecture

BizTalk Server Tools

BizTalk Server- Used Terms

BizTalk Server Artifacts

BizTalk Server- Databases

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INTRODUCTION TO BIZTALK

BizTalk Server is

An application integration platform

A Business Process Manager

BizTalk enables applications to pass messages to each other

BizTalk enables long running transactions for business processes

BizTalk Server connects diverse applications, then if needed, graphically allows you to define the logic that controls the business process

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INTRODUCTION TO BIZTALK(CONT..)

• BizTalk is the Integration Tool and it is the number-one integration solution developed by Microsoft

• BizTalk Server provides the integration features as part of the middle tier in Microsoft’s Application Platform.

• With more than 12,000 enterprise customers world-wide and more than 80% of the Fortune Global 100 companies using it we can safely conclude that it is a very successful product.

• Microsoft BizTalk Server provides a development and execution environment that orchestrates business processes, both within and between businesses.

• BizTalk Server can handle business transactions that run as long as weeks or months.

• BizTalk Server 2013 is the latest version of Microsoft’s popular integration server.

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WHY BIZTALK?

• The Solution is build based on the commonly accepted protocol and document format

• To Enable integration with the widest variety of business partners and applications, will work securely over the Internet, and will scale as your business needs grow

• Customers are more sophisticated and want to stay informed in real time

• Need to support multiple application on a variety of platforms and to integrate with business partners using internet, extranet,B2B and other resource

• All messages inside BizTalk are XML data. Since XML can be interpreted in any system, BizTalk helps in connectivity

• BizTalk uses standard Internet protocols like Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to deliver these documents to their destinations, enabling you to interoperate with various applications running in any environment as long as those applications support Internet standards.

• Customer can send documents to BizTalk Server as Extensible Markup Language (XML), EDI, or flat files.

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HISTORY OF BIZTALK SERVER

• 2000 – Microsoft Released the first Version of BizTalk

Editor – Writing XML Data

Mapper – Translate data from source format to destination format

Management Desk – Tracking data

Protocols supported – EDI, HTTP, HTTPS, MSMQ, SMTP, FTP

• 2002 – Next version. Not much change

• 2004 – Added Human Workflow Services (HWS) and Business Activity Services

• Supported by .Net framework 1.0

• Integrated VS 2003 support for editor and mapper

• 2006 – Business Activity Monitor (BAM) was added. Also Health and Activity Tracking component for tracking the server status was added.

• .Net framework 2.0 support

• Integrated VS 2005 support

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HISTORY OF BIZTALK SERVER(CONT.)

• 2007 – Also called as 2006 R2 (Release 2).

• Rich UI administration was incorporated.

• .Net Framework 3.0 (WCF, WF) support

• 2009 – First version to work with Visual Studio 2008

• RFID support

• Separate RFID Server

• 2010 - First version to work with Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET 4.0

• 2013 - First version to work with Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft .NET 4.5

• 2013 R2 - First version to work with Visual Studio 2013 and Microsoft .NET 4.5.1

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BIZTALK SERVER SCENARIO

The use of middleware to integrate the application programs, databases, and legacy systems involved in an organization's critical business processes

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Manufacturing Finance

ERP

Integrates internal systems and applications

Provides a foundation for B2B and BPM

Delivers timely business information to information workers

Provides end-to-end transaction visibility

E-BUSINESS CONCEPTS

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E-BUSINESS CONCEPTS(CONT..)

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Integration goals:

Connectivity

Integration

Monitoring

Management

Enterprise Application Integration

Business Process ManagementBusiness to Business

EAI BENEFITS

Better maintainability of applications

Lesser complexity in application integration and process

Avoid redundancy in data

Better reusability of application features

Better Automation resulting in reduced Human errors increased speed in business

Better scalability and availability of the applications

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Reduced IT costs

Reduced administrative costs

Reduced operational costs

Higher customer satisfaction and loyalty

Better and faster business decisions

• Increased Profits

• Faster Business growth

LEVEL OF INTEGRATION

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BIZTALK SERVER ARCHITECTURE

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BIZTALK SERVER TOOLS

Business Process(Orchestrations)

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Health Activity Tracking (HAT)

Business Rule Engine/Composer (BRE)

BizTalk Administrative Console

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BIZTALK SERVER –USED TERMS

• Message: Data file in any format like Flat File or xml

• Messaging: Flow of message from receive port or send port thru pipeline and adapter

• Orchestration: Business Interaction(similar to workflow) captured thru shapes

• Translation: Changing format of the instance message (via pipeline)

• Transformation: Creating a correspondence between source and target schema(via Maps)

• Publish/Subscribe: All communication based on publish and subscribe pattern

• Message Correlation: Capturing and passing data values between asynchronous messages.

• Routing: Moving Messages to subscribers thru subscription/filtering

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BIZTALK SERVER –USED TERMS(CONT..)

• Content Based Routing: Route based on the envelop or receive port configuration properties

• Routing Failure: No subscription exists for a published message

• Message Box: SQL Server Database storage for message and other details related to publish- subscribe

• Message Agent: Com Component that provide interfaces for Publishing/subscribing /retrieving msg from DB

• Message Context: Set of promoted properties available for routing or distinguished fields in orchestration.

• Pipelines: Sequence of message processing steps like encoding/decoding/assembling/disassembling, decrypting/encrypting, parsing or validation. There are receive and send pipeline used in Biztalk

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BIZTALK SERVER –USED TERMS(CONT..)

• Functoids: Additional out of box and custom mechanism to transform data in mapping thru Extending xslt

• FlatFiles: Data/message in csv format or separated by positions

• Adapter: Act as the edge connector for BizTalk server to communicate with other systems

• Grid preview: used to locate maps, links or functoids on the grid area of orchestration

• EndPoint manager: The service responsible for managing send and receive ports and acts as intermediary between the ports and the message box

• BRE(Business Rule Engine) : A reusable and easily maintainable way to write and impose business rules.it can be executed from orchestration or thru code

• BPI (Business Process Integration): BizTalk provide a very sophisticated way to manage multiple interactions and feature such as scalable state management, message correlation , long running transactions

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BIZTALK SERVER –USED TERMS(CONT..)

• BPM(Business Process Management): Managing work flow of different activities. It is achieved thru orchestration in BizTalk

• BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) : It provide visibility into automated processes, offering useful real-time information to the people who rely on those processes

• HAT(Health Activity Tracking) : A web based user interface that can be accessed over HTTP to see tracking data and monitor the progress of business process

• SSO( Single Sign-On) : Managing multiple credential for automated processes with systems in various environments. Enterprise single sign on stores an encrypted mapping between a user’s Windows user ID and his credentials for one or more affiliate applications in an SSO database

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BIZTALK SERVER ARTIFACTS

• Adapters

• Ports

• Send Port

• Receive Port

• Pipeline

• Send Pipeline

• Receive Pipeline

• Schema

• Map

• Orchestration

• Business Rule

• Policy

• Vocabulary

• Business Components (Custom Component c# code)

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BIZTALK SERVER- DATABASES

• BizTalkMgmtDb: This database is the central meta-information store for all instances of BizTalk Server.

• BizTalkMsgBoxDb: This database is used by the BizTalk Server engine for routing, queuing, instance management, and a variety of other tasks.

• BizTalkDTADb: This database stores health monitoring data tracked by the BizTalk Server tracking engine.

• BizTalkRuleEngineDb: This database is a repository for Policies, which are sets of related rules. Vocabularies, which are collections of user-friendly, domain-specific names for data references in rules.

• SSODB: This Enterprise Single Sign-On database securely stores the configuration information for receive locations.

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BIZTALK SERVER- BAM DATABASES

• BAMAnalysis: This database contains Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) OLAP cubes for both online and offline analysis.

• BAMArchive: This database archives old business activity data. Create a BAM Archive database to minimize the accumulation of business activity data in the BAM Primary Import database.

• BAMStarSchema: This database contains the staging table, and the measure and dimension tables.

• BAMPrimaryImport: This is the database where BAM collects raw tracking data.

• BAMAlertsNSMain: This database contains instance information specifying how the notification services connect to the system that BAM is monitoring.

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