"Understanding BizTalk" Explains Complexities of Newest Microsoft Framework for Business-to-Business Transactions

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"Understanding BizTalk" Explains Complexities of Newest Microsoft Framework for Business-to-Business Transactions

Reviewed by the Microsoft BizTalk team, new title from Sams Publishing gives readers insight into what promises to be the likely framework for future e-commerce

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -- May 17, 2000 -- In response to the mounting integration hurdles faced by many of todays business organizations, Sams Publishing, an imprint of Macmillan USA, has released "Understanding BizTalk," which details Microsofts new cross-platform e-commerce framework. Microsoft has created BizTalk so that businesses can more easily integrate applications and conduct business with their trading partners and customers over the Internet. As the first and only book to cover Microsofts newest framework, Understanding BizTalk gives readers a look at the whole picture" of Microsoft BizTalk and its importance to the future of electronic commerce.

The BizTalk framework is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas and industry standards that enable integration across industries. Microsoft has announced plans to incorporate BizTalk into the Microsoft Commerce Platform and in future versions of Office, SQL Server and the Windows family of operating systems. Understanding BizTalk aims to help readers see the ways they can incorporate XML and BizTalk into their electronic commerce and application integration projects by identifying Microsofts collective investments in the BizTalk initiative, explaining why those investments are important, and putting all the information in the context of the changing business landscape.

"Understanding BizTalk" is written for developers and IS professionals who need to understand BizTalk in order to create integrated business applications across the Internet. In addition, IS Managers, CFOs and other technology professionals who want to integrate BizTalk into their business process will find the book appealing.

Specific chapters address topics such as XMLs role in the BizTalk Framework, BizTalk XML tags, BizTalk Schemas, the BizTalk Schema Repository, and BizTalk and the future of e-commerce. Readers
will learn key concepts including Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and how it can be used with

BizTalk, how to integrate commerce server solutions with BizTalk for e-business, how stylesheets can be used to transform data, how BizTalk can be used to create B2B portals, and how BizTalk handles document mapping and translation. The book is also supported by a Website, which includes errata and updates, as well as links to key BizTalk resources.

Written by BizTalk insiders and reviewed by the Microsoft BizTalk team, "Understanding BizTalk" gives readers an advance look at the tools and technologies businesses can leverage to make it fundamentally easier to integrate business processes within and between organizations.

 Author John Matranga is chief technology officer for Omicron Consulting in Philadelphia, where he oversees all aspects of development and network projects. Before joining Omicron, Matranga worked for IBM and for the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
 Author Stephen Tranchida is a systems architect for Omicron Consulting, with primary responsibility for building distributed systems using the Windows DNA framework. He has worked on application integration challenges for nearly 10 years.
 Author Bart Preecs is a marketing analyst in the Seattle office of Bowne Internet. Before the company was acquired by Bowne & Co., Bart worked as a project manager and Web content coordinator for the Sitewerks Web development firm. Previously, he was an electronic publishing specialist at Boeing Computer Services Richland.

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Product Information
"Understanding BizTalk"
John Matranga, Stephen Tranchida & Bart Preecs
$34.99 USA
ISBN: 0-672-31787-7
350 pp.

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