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Summary

BizTalk, Microsoft's strategic e-Commerce initiative, enables companies and industries to develop and evolve sophisticated e-marketplaces far more easily than ever before. In this authoritative book, renowned e-business consultant James Kobielus walks you through every issue associated with BizTalk deployment -- business and technical. He introduces the fundamentals of BizTalk: what it is, who supports and oversees it, the value it adds to B2B e-Commerce, and the current status of BizTalk-compliant products and services. Next, he reviews anticipated BizTalk applications in B2B e-Commerce to be based on Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000. BizTalk: Implementing Business-to-Business E-Commerce outlines three common BizTalk scenarios: hubbed marketplace integration that integrates your internal business processes indirectly, via external trading hubs and exchanges; extranet supply-chain integration that your internal business processes directly, with trading partners; and enterprise application integration: integrating internal "back end" business applications with your e-Commerce site. The book reviews commercial BizTalk-enabled products and services, and Microsoft's strategy for rolling out BizTalk-enabled offerings both as server-based software and as portal-based services. It introduces Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000 product roadmap; shows how BizTalk Server integrates with Windows 2000, Active Directory and COM+; and demonstrates how it utilizes XML technologies, including XSLT, XML schemas, and namespaces.

I. BIZTALK FUNDAMENTALS.

1. What Is BizTalk?

BizTalk, EDI, and Workflow. Microsoft as BizTalk Evangelist. BizTalk as Microsoft Strategic E-Commerce Initiative. BizTalk as E-Commerce Interoperability Standards. BizTalk as E-Commerce Industry Coalition, Schema Repository, and Developer Community. BizTalk as B2B E-Commerce Products and Services.

2. How Does BizTalk Differ From Other E-Commerce Frameworks?

B2B Functional Reference Model. BizTalk and the B2B Reference Model. Ariba's Commerce XML (cXML). Open Buying on the Internet. Open Trading Protocol. XML Electronic Data Interchange (XML/EDI) Group. Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. Common Business Library. Vertical-Market E-Commerce Frameworks. Synergies Between BizTalk and Other B2B Frameworks.

3. What Are the Fundamental Technologies Behind BizTalk?

Electronic Data Interchange. Workflow. Where EDI and Workflow Converge.

4. Who's Supporting and Implementing BizTalk?

Who's on the BizTalk Steering Committee? Who's Announced General Support for the BizTalk Initiative? Who's Posting Schemas to BizTalk.org? Who's Announced BizTalk-Compliant Solutions? Which Users Are Candidates for Migration to BizTalk Server?

5. Five How Open Is the BizTalk Framework?

Microsoft's Familiar Approach to Implementing Open Standards. What Does “Open” Mean Anyway? How Does the BizTalk Initiative Measure Against These Criteria of “Openness” ? In Summary.

II. BIZTALK APPLICATIONS.

6. Hubbed Marketplace Integration.

Potential BizTalk Role in Hubbed E-Marketplaces. E-Marketecture Reference Model. Hosting Model. Membership Model. Aggregation Model. Transaction Model. Pricing Model. Payment Model. Facilitation Model.

7. Extranet Supply-Chain Integration.

Potential BizTalk Role in Extranet Supply Chain. Extranets and the E-Marketecture Reference Model. Extranet Hosting Model. Extranet Membership Model. Extranet Aggregation Model. Extranet Transaction Model. Extranet Pricing Model. Extranet Payment Model. Extranet Facilitation Model.

8. Enterprise Application Integration.

Potential BizTalk Role in Enterprise Application Integration. EAI and the E-Marketecture Reference Model. Markup Languages. Development Interfaces. Object Technologies. Connector Technologies. Transaction Technologies.

III. BIZTALK PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.

9. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000.

BizTalk Server's Role in Microsoft's Application Server Family. Application Integration. Content Processing. Service Management. Summary.

10. Microsoft Commerce Server 2000.

Commerce Server 2000's Role in Microsoft's Application Server Family. User Management. Campaign Management. Catalog Management. Order Management. Operational Data Analysis. Summary.

11. Other Microsoft Commerce-Related Products and Services.

SQL Server 2000. Host Integration Server 2000. Application Center 2000. MSN E-Marketplace Services. Summary.

IV. BIZTALK TECHNOLOGIES.

12. Microsoft E-Commerce Operating Environment.

Windows Distributed interNetworking Architecture. Windows 2000. Core Windows 2000 System Services. Summary.

13. Microsoft E-Commerce Markup Technologies.

What's XML? What is XML's Role in Microsoft's Products? Summary.

14. Microsoft E-Commerce Application Development and Middleware Technologies.

Development Tools. Object Computing Framework. Object Brokering Framework. Message Brokering Framework. XML-Based Remote Procedure Calls. Data Access Components, Providers, and Drivers. Middleware, BizTalk-Hubbed E-Marketectures, and the Future of E-Commerce. Afterword: BizTalk and the Buzz of the Modern Economy.

Glossary.
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