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.
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...