BizTalk : implementing business-to-business electronic commerce

Title:

Personal Author:

Kobielus, James G.

Publication Information:

Upper Saddler River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2001

ISBN:

9780130891594

Subject Term:

Microsoft BizTalk

Electronic commerce -- Case studies

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The key feature of this book will be its focus on planning, design, implementation, and deployment of applications that involve Microsoft's Biztalk Server e-commerce product, MSN BizTalk e-marketplac services, and BizTalk.org schema repository.

Author Notes

JAMES G. KOBIELUS is an analyst for The Burton Group focusing on e-business and collaboration technologies. A recognized authority on strategic telecommunications and IT topics, he has been a contributing editor with Network World since 1987, writing its popular "Above the Cloud" column. He is author of Workflow Strategies .

Preface: What Makes an Electronic Marketplace Tick?	p. xv
Foreword	p. xix
About the Author	p. xxi
Part 1 Biztalk Fundamentals	p. 1
1 What Is BizTalk?	p. 3
1.1 BizTalk, EDI, and Workflow	p. 3
1.2 Microsoft as BizTalk Evangelist	p. 6
1.3 BizTalk as Microsoft Strategic E-Commerce Initiative	p. 6
1.3.1 BizTalk the Brand: Microsoft as Usual	p. 7
1.3.2 BizTalk the Philosophy: A New Microsoft?	p. 8
1.4 BizTalk as E-Commerce Interoperability Standards	p. 12
1.4.1 BizTalk Application Model	p. 13
1.4.2 BizTalk Schemas	p. 19
1.4.3 BizTalk Documents	p. 22
1.4.4 BizTalk Messages	p. 27
1.4.5 BizTalk Workflows	p. 28
1.4.6 BizTalk Event Model	p. 29
1.5 BizTalk as E-Commerce Industry Coalition, Schema Repository, and Developer Community	p. 29
1.5.1 BizTalk Steering Committee	p. 30
1.5.2 Online Schema Repository	p. 32
1.5.3 Developer Community	p. 34
1.6 BizTalk as B2B E-Commerce Products and Services	p. 35
2 How Does BizTalk Differ From Other E-Commerce Frameworks?	p. 39
2.1 B2B Functional Reference Model	p. 41
2.2 BizTalk and the B2B Reference Model	p. 42
2.3 Ariba's Commerce XML (cXML)	p. 44
2.4 Open Buying on the Internet	p. 46
2.5 Open Trading Protocol	p. 49
2.6 XML Electronic Data Interchange (XML/EDI) Group	p. 49
2.7 Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards	p. 52
2.8 Common Business Library	p. 52
2.9 Vertical-Market E-Commerce Frameworks	p. 53
2.9.1 Information and Content Exchange	p. 54
2.9.2 RosettaNet	p. 55
2.9.3 Open Applications Group Integration Specification	p. 57
2.10 Synergies Between BizTalk and Other B2B Frameworks	p. 59
3 What Are the Fundamental Technologies Behind BizTalk?	p. 63
3.1 Electronic Data Interchange	p. 64
3.1.1 Transaction Sets	p. 67
3.1.2 Transmission, Storage, and Forwarding	p. 69
3.1.3 Message Addressing	p. 69
3.1.4 Mapping and Translation	p. 70
3.1.5 Security	p. 70
3.1.6 Directory	p. 70
3.1.7 Archiving	p. 70
3.1.8 Auditing	p. 70
3.1.9 EDI and the B2B Reference Model	p. 71
3.2 Workflow	p. 72
3.2.1 Process Definition Tools	p. 77
3.2.2 Workflow Enactment Services	p. 82
3.2.3 Workflow Client Applications	p. 84
3.2.4 Invoked Applications	p. 86
3.2.5 Administration and Monitoring Tools	p. 86
3.2.6 Workflow and the B2B Reference Model	p. 87
3.3 Where EDI and Workflow Converge	p. 88
4 Who's Supporting and Implementing BizTalk?	p. 91
4.1 Who's on the BizTalk Steering Committee?	p. 93
4.2 Who's Announced General Support for the BizTalk Initiative?	p. 93
4.3 Who's Posting Schemas to BizTalk.org?	p. 94
4.4 Who's Announced BizTalk-Compliant Solutions?	p. 95
4.5 Which Users Are Candidates for Migration to BizTalk Server?	p. 99
5 How Open Is the BizTalk Framework?	p. 101
5.1 Microsoft's Familiar Approach to Implementing Open Standards	p. 101
5.2 What Does "Open" Mean Anyway?	p. 103
5.3 How Does the BizTalk Initiative Measure Against These Criteria of "Openness"?	p. 104
5.3.1 Is It Described Fully in Publicly Available Documents?	p. 105
5.3.2 Is It Flexible and Extensible?	p. 105
5.3.3 Is It Independent of Any One Operating Environment, Network Protocol, Database, or Programming Language?	p. 105
5.3.4 Is It Available as Open-Source Royalty-Free Distributions to All Interested Parties?	p. 107
5.3.5 Is It Dominated or Unduly Influenced by One Vendor?	p. 107
5.3.6 Is It Managed by an Industry Group that Does Not Impose Unreasonable or Unfair Restrictions on Membership?	p. 107
5.3.7 Is It Managed by a Group that Does Not Conduct Business or Develop Specifications in Closed Working Environments?	p. 107
5.3.8 Is It Managed by a Group that Publishes Full, Regular Updates on Their Activities?	p. 107
5.4 Summary	p. 107
Part 2 Biztalk Applications	p. 109
6 Hubbed Marketplace Integration	p. 111
6.1 Potential BizTalk Role in Hubbed E-Marketplaces	p. 114
6.2 E-Marketecture Reference Model	p. 116
6.3 Hosting Model	p. 120
6.3.1 Broker-Hosted E-Marketplaces	p. 124
6.3.2 Seller-Hosted E-Marketplaces	p. 127
6.3.3 Buyer-Hosted E-Marketplaces	p. 128
6.3.4 Industry-Hosted E-Marketplaces	p. 132
6.4 Membership Model	p. 134
6.4.1 Private Marketplaces	p. 135
6.4.2 Vertical Marketplaces	p. 137
6.4.3 Horizontal Marketplaces	p. 138
6.5 Aggregation Model	p. 139
6.5.1 Content-Aggregation Paradigms	p. 139
6.5.2 Content-Disaggregation Paradigms	p. 143
6.6 Transaction Model	p. 147
6.6.1 Commercial Contracts	p. 148
6.6.2 Bargaining Mechanisms	p. 150
6.6.3 Transactional Workflows	p. 154
6.7 Pricing Model	p. 155
6.7.1 Forward Auctions	p. 157
6.7.2 Reverse Auctions	p. 161
6.7.3 Double Auctions	p. 162
6.8 Payment Model	p. 163
6.8.1 Internet-Based Account-Consolidation Services	p. 164
6.8.2 Internet-Based Payment-Processing Services	p. 165
6.8.3 Internet-Based Financial Institutions	p. 169
6.8.4 Internet-Based Proxy Currencies	p. 170
6.9 Facilitation Model	p. 172
7 Extranet Supply-Chain Integration	p. 177
7.1 Potential BizTalk Role in Extranet Supply Chain	p. 179
7.2 Extranets and the E-Marketecture Reference Model	p. 180
7.3 Extranet Hosting Model	p. 182
7.4 Extranet Membership Model	p. 185
7.4.1 Authentication	p. 188
7.4.2 Authorization	p. 190
7.4.3 Content Confidentiality	p. 191
7.4.4 Content Integrity	p. 192
7.4.5 Nonrepudiation	p. 193
7.5 Extranet Aggregation Model	p. 194
7.6 Extranet Transaction Model	p. 195
7.6.1 Commercial Contracts	p. 196
7.6.2 Bargaining Mechanisms	p. 196
7.6.3 Transactional Workflows	p. 196
7.7 Extranet Pricing Model	p. 199
7.8 Extranet Payment Model	p. 199
7.9 Extranet Facilitation Model	p. 200
8 Enterprise Application Integration	p. 201
8.1 Potential BizTalk Role in Enterprise Application Integration	p. 202
8.2 EAI and the E-Marketecture Reference Model	p. 204
8.3 Markup Languages	p. 206
8.4 Development Interfaces	p. 209
8.4.1 Partitioning	p. 210
8.4.2 Jazzing	p. 211
8.4.3 Componentizing	p. 212
8.5 Object Technologies	p. 214
8.5.1 CORBA	p. 214
8.5.2 COM/DCOM	p. 215
8.6 Connector Technologies	p. 215
8.7 Transaction Technologies	p. 217
8.7.1 Distibuted Transaction Processing Monitors	p. 218
8.7.2 Message Brokers	p. 218
Part 3 BizTalk Products and Services	p. 221
9 Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000	p. 223
9.1 BizTalk Server's Role in Microsoft's Application Server Family	p. 224
9.2 Application Integration	p. 229
9.2.1 Remote Application Interfaces	p. 230
9.2.2 Schema Editing and Mapping	p. 235
9.2.3 Business Process Policy Definition and Management	p. 241
9.3 Content Processing	p. 253
9.3.1 Content-Processing Components	p. 253
9.3.2 Content-Processing Steps	p. 255
9.3.3 Routing Options	p. 257
9.4 Service Management	p. 260
9.4.1 Single-Site Single-Server Deployment	p. 261
9.4.2 Single-Site Multi-Server Deployment	p. 266
9.4.3 Multi-Site Multi-Server Deployment	p. 270
9.5 Summary	p. 275
10 Microsoft Commerce Server 2000	p. 277
10.1 Commerce Server 2000's Role in Microsoft's Application Server Family	p. 277
10.2 User Management	p. 283
10.3 Campaign Management	p. 288
10.4 Catalog Management	p. 292
10.5 Order Management	p. 294
10.6 Operational Data Analysis	p. 296
10.7 Summary	p. 297
11 Other Microsoft Commerce-Related Products and Services	p. 299
11.1 SQL Server 2000	p. 300
11.2 Host Integration Server 2000	p. 303
11.2.1 Network Integration Services	p. 307
11.2.2 Security Integration Services	p. 308
11.2.3 Data Integration Services	p. 308
11.2.4 Transaction Integration Services	p. 311
11.3 Application Center 2000	p. 314
11.4 MSN E-Marketplace Services	p. 316
11.5 Summary	p. 317
Part 4 BizTalk Technologies	p. 319
12 Microsoft E-Commerce Operating Environment	p. 321
12.1 Windows Distributed interNetworking Architecture	p. 322
12.1.1 Presentation Tier	p. 323
12.1.2 Business Logic Tier	p. 327
12.1.3 Data Tier	p. 329
12.2 Windows 2000	p. 331
12.3 Core Windows 2000 System Services	p. 331
12.3.1 Windows 2000 File Services	p. 334
12.3.2 Windows 2000 Directory Services	p. 338
12.3.3 Windows 2000 Security Services	p. 342
12.3.4 Windows 2000 Management Services	p. 350
12.4 Summary	p. 357
13 Microsoft E-Commerce Markup Technologies	p. 359
13.1 What's XML?	p. 360
13.1.1 Core Standard: XML 1.0	p. 366
13.1.2 XML Supplementary Core Standards and Specifications	p. 375
13.2 What is XML's Role in Microsoft's Products?	p. 381
13.2.1 Windows 2000	p. 382
13.2.2 Windows DNA 2000 Application Servers	p. 382
13.2.3 Application Development Tools and Sites	p. 385
13.2.4 Middleware Technologies	p. 386
13.2.5 Client Applications	p. 386
13.3 Summary	p. 389
14 Microsoft E-Commerce Application Development and Middleware Technologies	p. 391
14.1 Development Tools	p. 392
14.2 Object Computing Framework	p. 395
14.3 Object Brokering Framework	p. 399
14.4 Message Brokering Framework	p. 402
14.5 XML-Based Remote Procedure Calls	p. 403
14.6 Data Access Components, Providers, and Drivers	p. 410
14.7 Middleware, BizTalk-Hubbed E-Marketectures, and the Future of E-Commerce	p. 412
Afterword: BizTalk and the Buzz of the Modern Economy	p. 417
Glossary	p. 419
Index	p. 433

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