BizTalk Server 2004 in Service Oriented World

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Microsoft PAKISTAN DEVELOPER CONFERENCE
June 13-15, 2005
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BizTalk Server 2004in a Service-Oriented World

• Arvindra Sehmi
• Head of Enterprise Architecture
• Developer Platform Group
• Microsoft EMEA HQ
• asehmi_at_microsoft.com
• www.thearchitectexchange.com/asehmi

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Application Evolution
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Enterprises Today
ERP Application
.NET Application
Packaged Application X
Unix Application
J2EE Application
AS/400 Application
Packaged Application Y
CICS Application
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Service-Oriented Enterprises An Idealized Picture
ERP Application
.NET Application
Packaged Application X
Unix Application
J2EE Application
AS/400 Application
Packaged Application Y
CICS Application
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Service-Oriented EnterprisesThe Reality
ERP Application
.NET Application
Packaged Application X
Unix Application
J2EE Application
AS/400 Application
Packaged Application Y
CICS Application
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A Business Process Platform
Communication with other applications
Business process implementation
Scalability support
Modifiable business rules
Process monitoring
Tools for working with trading partners
Cross-application authentication
Human interaction with business processes
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Illustrating BTS 2004
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The BTS 2004 Engine
Orchestrations
Send Adapter
Send Pipeline
Receive Adapter
Receive Pipeline
Subscriptions
MessageBox
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Communication BTS 2004 Adapters

• Standard adapters from Microsoft include
• Web Services adapter
• MQSeries adapter
• SAP adapter
• More
• Many third-party adapters are available,
  including
• EDI adapter
• PeopleSoft adapter
• Lots more

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Communication Tools

• For building adapters
• Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Framework namespace
• Within Visual Studio.NET
• Pipeline Designer
• Used to create custom pipelines
• BizTalk Editor
• Used to create XSD message schemas
• BizTalk Mapper
• Used to define mappings and XSLT transformations
  between message schemas

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Communication An Example Map
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Process Implementation Orchestrations

• Define the operations in a business process using
  shapes
• Compile into standard .NET assemblies
• Example shapes
• Decide an if-then-else statement
• Loop performs an action repeatedly
• Send sends a message
• Receive receives a message
• Parallel Actions performs multiple operations
  in parallel

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Process Implementation Tools

• Within Visual Studio.NET
• Orchestration Designer
• Used to organize shapes that define a business
  process
• Within Visio
• Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts
• Orchestrations can be imported and exported
  between this and the Orchestration Designer

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Process Implementation Orchestration Designer
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Process Implementation OD for Business Analysts
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Process ImplementationState

• Construct Message allows declaring message
  variables, then setting their values
• An orchestrations state is automatically stored
  and reloaded as needed

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Process Implementation Scopes

• Scope supports transactions
• Atomic recovery via rollback
• Long-running recovery via compensation

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Process Implementation Correlation

• Routes messages to an orchestration instance
  based on their contents
• Doesnt require the orchestration to block
  waiting for a response message

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Process Implementation The Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL)
Web Services
BizTalk Server 2004
Other Integration Platform
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Process Implementation Aggregating Services
Unix Application
J2EE Application
AS/400 Application
Packaged Application
CICS Application
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Scalability Support Host Instances

• Requests are automatically load balanced across
  orchestrations and MessageBoxes

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Modifiable Business Rules The Business Rules
Engine

• For processes with stable rules
• For processes with volatile rules

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Modifiable Business RulesTools

• The Business Rule Composer allows a processs
  rules to be expressed in a more natural way
• Example
• Business process terms
• Quantity Requested (from an order message)
• Maximum Allowed Order Quantity (set to 100)
• Business process rule
• if Quantity Requested is greater than Maximum
  Allowed Order Quantity, then send Order Rejected
  message

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Process Monitoring Health and Activity Tracking

• Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) provides
  graphical access to information about
  orchestrations and messages, such as
• When an orchestration starts and ends
• When each shape within it is executed
• When each of its messages is sent and received
• Whats in each message
• Much more
• Tool Health and Activity Tracking tool

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Process Monitoring A HAT Tool Example
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Process Monitoring Business Activity Monitoring

• Allows information workers to monitor business
  processes

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Process Monitoring Tools

• For information workers
• BAM Excel Add-in
• Allows creating views of activities with specific
  milestones and business data
• For developers
• Tracking Profile Editor (TPE)
• Allows specifying what events and messages should
  be monitored

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Process Monitoring An Example BAM View
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The Goal Business Process Management
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Conclusions

• A service-oriented world is inevitable, but it
  implies
• Connections to non-SOAP services
• Services for building business processes
• BizTalk Server 2004 is a foundation for building,
  managing, and monitoring business processes
• In the world today
• In the service-oriented world to come

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