Microsoft BizTalk and Business Process Management

This book is about Business Process Management using Microsoft BizTalk Server and other Microsoft technologies. The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers workflow and enterprise application integration fields and discusses how BizTalk offer services for each one of them. Part II is the heart of the book. The reader is guided through a step-by-step process of automating the business processes of a publishing house. In the process of implementing this system the reader will learn how to model the business process, how to design process orchestrations, abstract the business rules, and how to integrate different applications and trading partners. Debugging, monitoring, and managing a deployed business process is also covered. Part III covers the future of BizTalk and its integration with other Microsoft technologies. TOC:Introduction.- Part I. Defining BizTalk and Business Process Management.- Workflow Systems.- Enterprise Application Integration.- Business Process Management System (BPMS).- SOA and BizTalk.- Part II. Putting BizTalk to Work.- Modeling the Business Process.- Orchestrating the Business Process.- Abstracting the Business Rules.- Implementing the Workflow.- Testing and Deploying the Solution.- Activity Monitoring.- Process Analysis.- Part III. Future of BizTalk.- BizTalk Eco-system.- BizTalk and Indigo.- Appendixes.- Introduction to BizTalk.- Developing BizTalk Pipelines.- Developing BizTalk Adapters.