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Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform

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Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building the BizTalk application


We will now proceed to see how a BizTalk application can be utilized in the business scenario. The use case given in the next section highlights the primary functionality of BizTalk—the interoperability of several subsystems within the enterprise.

The use case of a web hosting company

All Things Internet (ATI) is a domain registrar company that decided to start offering e-mail hosting (MS Exchange) and website hosting services to its customers. ATI had put a significant effort into building the infrastructure for the provisioning of these services. They have been built and tested by separate teams of subcontractors and are scheduled to be launched soon. Together with the existing systems, ATI will have the following business applications on board:

  • A Domain name registration (DNR) service

  • Customer subscription management

  • Customer billing

  • An MS Exchange server cluster and MS Exchange provisioning application

  • A web hosting server cluster and web hosting provisioning...