Books

For those who’ve read the description of this book, it’s no surprise, this book is broken into two distinct parts. The first part it is a general introduction to the important parts of BizTalk Server 2010: understanding what is BizTalk, when to use it and its capabilities, appropriate topologies for different scenarios (architecture, scalability, availability) and an introduction to the fundaments parts of the platform like BAM, Business Rules and BizTalk artifacts (orchestrations, pipelines, maps, schemas). This part is mainly theory with lot of core patterns.

The second part is written in a form of history, love this part, telling how he began to implement BizTalk integrations on a particular customer, starting for the basic (Pass thru) to more robust and complex scenarios. This second part shifts from theory to practice presenting real world integration patterns explained step-by-step (BAM and Unit Tests, messaging solutions, error handling, BRE, orchestration patterns like convoys …)

it is a great book and highly recommended. Congratulations to the author: Dan Rosanova (two time MVP BizTalk Server).

Beautiful book from By Jeff Sanders , Geoff Snowman. Currently i am reading it. From the Amzon page.

 

Business activity monitoring, or BAM, provides real-time business intelligence by capturing data as it flows through a business system. By using BAM, you can monitor a business process in real time and generate alerts when the process needs human intervention. Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009 focuses on Microsoft’s BAM tools, which provide a flexible infrastructure that captures data from Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, .NET applications, and BizTalk Server.

This book shows why BAM is an important component of any business intelligence strategy because it bridges the gap between business intelligence and business process management.

• Part One of the book covers the basics of BAM. It teaches you how to install BAM, and then it leads you through a complete but simple project to capture data from a WCF service
• Part Two of the book describes the BAM tool set. It shows you how to define the data that is captured by BAM, wire up a BizTalk application for BAM, and view BAM data using the BAM Portal
• Part Three of the book focuses on monitoring applications written in WCF or WF. It also shows you how to use the BAM API
• Part Four of the book covers advanced topics in BAM. These topics include integrating BAM with Microsoft’s BI stack, creating relationships between BAM activities, managing BAM servers, and monitoring BizTalk applications using BAM

This book contains numerous exercises to help you learn BAM. Source code for the samples is available from Apress.com.

For many CIOs, business intelligence is at the top of their priority lists. Learn why with Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009.

What you’ll learn

• Show users what your application is doing and how their business
• Implement a BAM solution without writing any code
• Monitor applications written in WCF, WF, and BizTalk Server
• Create an observation model to define the data that BAM will collect from your application
• Use the BAM API to implement custom BAM solutions
• Manage a BAM solution
• Integrate BAM with your BI strategy and Microsoft’s BI tools

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to know what’s happening in their organization, right now!

Developers building WCF, WF, or BizTalk applications will learn how to monitor those applications without writing extra code. Architects will learn how to bridge service-oriented architecture, business process management, and BI. Decision makers will learn how to see what’s happening inside business processes. BI specialists will learn how BAM provides real-time capabilities that supplement any BI strategy. Business users and analysts will learn how BAM allows them to understand what’s happening in the business every minute of every day.

Authors

Kent Weare, Carl Darski, Thiago Almeida, Sergei Moukhnitski and Richard Seroter

Book Description

Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration will be a tutorial that focuses on integrating BizTalk with Line of Business systems using practical scenarios. Each chapter will take a Line of Business Adapter, introduce some pre-requisite knowledge and demonstrate how you can integrate BizTalk with that Line of Business Adapter, and then provide guidance based upon real world experience, taking your BizTalk knowledge further. The book will take “perceived” daunting scenarios, like integrating with SAP, and provide readers with a clear tutorial that walks them through integrating Line of Business systems. This book focuses on Microsoft BizTalk 2010; however, most of the concepts and explanations will apply to BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2009. 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.

 

What you will learn from this book

Deliver integrated Line of Business solutions more efficiently with BizTalk Server 2010 using this book and ebook.
Obtain pre-requisite ERP and CRM knowledge that will make your integration project successful.
Examine ways to integrate with leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.
Study techniques used to integrate with leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems like SalesForce.com and Dynamics CRM 2011.
Expand your integration capabilities into the cloud by exploring the AppFabric Service Bus. Send and receive messages via the Microsoft Cloud securely.
Learn from distinguished authors with hands on experience. Utilize their step by step solutions to reduce the amount of time it takes to integrate Line of Business systems using BizTalk Server 2010