BizTalk: Implementing Business-to-Business E-commerce

Summary

• The complete business and technical guide to BizTalk implementation
• How BizTalk builds on XML to deliver breakthrough B2B opportunities
• Using BizTalk to integrate supply chains, enterprise applications, and internal business processes
• Microsoft BizTalk Server: new products, services, and roadmaps
• Foreword by John Gallant, Editorial Director, Network World magazine

Start leveraging BizTalk for competitive advantage—right now!

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, realistic book, leading e-business consultant James Kobielus walks you through every issue associated with BizTalk deployment-business and technical. You'll find specific, up-to-the-minute answers to the questions every decision-maker is asking about BizTalk:

• How does BizTalk work, and how can it add value to B2B e-commerce?
• How open is BizTalk-really?
• How does BizTalk build on XML technologies, including schemas and namespaces?
• How does BizTalk integrate with Windows 2000?
• What will Microsoft's BizTalk-compliant offerings deliver-and when?
• What are my best potential BizTalk applications?
• How can I start planning for BizTalk right now?

Kobielus reviews each key BizTalk scenario in detail: hubbed marketplace integration, extranet supply-chain integration, and enterprise application integration. He introduces the latest commercial BizTalk-enabled products and services, and evaluates Microsoft's strategies for rolling out BizTalk offerings as server-based software and as portal-based services. Now's the time to understand BizTalk-and this is your business-focused, start-to-finish briefing.

"This is part textbook, part roadmap and part crystal ball-all mixed skillfully, thanks to Kobielus' eye for detail and his clear, direct prose"
—John Gallant, Editorial Director, Network World magazine

摘要
完整的商業和技術指南，介紹了BizTalk的實施方式
BizTalk如何建立在XML的基礎上，提供突破性的B2B機會
使用BizTalk整合供應鏈、企業應用和內部業務流程
Microsoft BizTalk Server：新產品、服務和路線圖
由《Network World》雜誌總編輯John Gallant撰寫的前言

立即利用BizTalk獲得競爭優勢！
BizTalk是微軟的戰略電子商務計劃，使公司和行業能夠比以往更容易地開發和發展複雜的電子市場。在這本權威、實用的書中，領先的電子商務顧問James Kobielus將帶領您了解與BizTalk部署相關的每個問題-無論是商業還是技術問題。您將找到對於每個決策者對BizTalk提出的問題的具體、最新的答案，包括：

BizTalk是如何工作的，它如何為B2B電子商務增加價值？
BizTalk有多開放？
BizTalk如何建立在XML技術上，包括模式和命名空間？
BizTalk如何與Windows 2000集成？
Microsoft的BizTalk兼容產品將提供什麼，以及何時提供？
我最好的BizTalk應用潛力是什麼？
我如何立即開始規劃BizTalk？

Kobielus詳細介紹了每個關鍵的BizTalk場景：集中市場整合、外部供應鏈整合和企業應用整合。他介紹了最新的商業BizTalk-enabled產品和服務，並評估了微軟推出基於服務器軟件和基於門戶的BizTalk產品的策略。現在是了解BizTalk的時候了，這本書將為您提供從商業角度的全面指南。

“這本書既是教科書，又是路線圖，又是水晶球-多虧了Kobielus對細節的敏銳觸覺和清晰直接的文字。”-《Network World》雜誌總編輯John Gallant