Microsoft BizTalk is an integration server solution that allows businesses to connect disparate systems. In today's business climate of mergers and acquisitions, more and more enterprises are forced to exchange data across Line of Business systems using integration brokers like BizTalk Server 2010. What is often overlooked when integrating these systems is the pre-requisite knowledge that ERP and CRM systems demand in order to effectively integrate them. No longer is this knowledge locked up in the heads of expensive consultants. Gain an edge within your organization by developing valuable skills in the area of Line of Business integration from this book.
This book will show you how to integrate BizTalk with Line of Business systems using practical scenarios. Each chapter will take a Line of Business system, introduce some pre-requisite knowledge and demonstrate how you can integrate BizTalk with that Line of Business system, and then provide guidance based upon real world experience, taking your BizTalk knowledge further.
This book will enable you to master how to integrate BizTalk with Line of Business systems. The book starts by highlighting the technical foundation of WCF-LOB adapters and the common steps and important properties pertaining to popular WCF-LOB adapters. You will then move on to an overview of how to integrate with Microsoft SQL Server using the WCF based SQL Server adapter. The book then dives into topics such as integrating with Dynamics CRM, building BizTalk/SAP integrated solutions using IDOCs, the differences between IDOCs and RFCs/BAPIs, and WCF Integration through the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus amongst others.
Chapter 1, Consuming ASDK-based Adapters: Explore some of the inner workings of the WCF LOB SDK and WCF Custom Adapter.
Chapter 2, WCF-SQL Adapter: Learn how to retrieve and manipulate data using popular operations exposed by the WCF-SQL Adapter including Polling, Notifications, and Composite Operations.
Chapter 3, Integrating BizTalk Server and Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Discover different ways to integrate with Dynamics CRM 2011 and BizTalk Server including calling native Web Services and Proxy solutions. Also learn how to call a BizTalk exposed WCF Service via a CRM registered plug-in.
Chapter 4, WCF-SAP Adapter Sending and Receiving IDOCs: Understand how to install the WCF-SAP adapter's pre-requisite DLLs. Learn about extended, custom and out of the box IDOCs and how to send and receive them.
Chapter 5, WCF SAP Adapter RFCs and BAPIs: Distinguish the difference between SAP IDOCs, BAPIs and RFCs and when to use them.
Chapter 6, BizTalk Integration with Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Discover Microsoft's AppFabric Service bus and learn how to build BizTalk solutions that complement Microsoft's Service bus in the Windows Azure Cloud.
Chapter 7, Integrating with SharePoint 2010: Build integrated SharePoint solutions using the Windows SharePoint Services Adapter and InfoPath.
Chapter 8, Integrating with SharePoint 2010 Web Services: Learn about manipulating SharePoint custom lists by consuming SharePoint's out of the box List Web Service.
Chapter 9, Microsoft Dynamics AX: Understand how to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 using the BizTalk adapter and .Net business connector.
Chapter 10, Integrating BizTalk Server and Salesforce.com: Discover how to establish bi-directional connectivity between SalesForce.com CRM and your on-premise services.
If you are an experienced BizTalk developer who wants to integrate BizTalk with Line of Business systems using practical scenarios, then this book is for you. A solid understanding of BizTalk at an intermediate level is required. This book assumes developers are comfortable creating schemas, maps, orchestrations, ports, and messages in Visual Studio and configuring applications in the BizTalk Administration Console. However, experience in integrating with Line of Business systems is not necessarily required.
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