How can you tell if your prospective Integration consultant knows what he’s doing? Or: “but the sales rep TOLD me that he would be great!” Look for, and evaluate, the following: Political Skills Projects that…
Post 2/5 How can you tell if your prospective Integration consultant knows what he’s doing? Or: “but the sales rep TOLD me that he would be great!” Look for, and evaluate, the following: Communication Skills…
BizTalk has always provided native methods to integrate SQL Server databases. Since the first version we are able to query the database using the BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server databases. This native adapter is based on…
BizTalk as ESB definition If we go to the strict definition of what BizTalk is, we find that it is put under the category of an Application Integration Server. In the list of capabilities it has…
Overall capabilities of cloud-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) offerings continue to expand. While this is occurring, the overall cost basis of provisioning those capabilities continues to drop. This is creating situations where the financial implications of…
We just returned from Redmond, and the INTEGRATE 2014 summit, and there are several important alterations to the overall direction of BizTalk and Integration in general in the Microsoft ecosystem. We will take several blog and whitepaper…
If you have ever had a map which begins to look unmanageable with tons of value mappings or extra functoids to simply manage empty nodes you don’t want in your output then you should consider using…
Microsoft will be releasing the 2014 Cumulative Update for BizTalk Server in mid-December 2014. These updates combine all of the patches and hotfixes released for 2014, as well as some additional patch content. It is strongly recommended…
Many physician practices are changing EMR systems. Doctors feel pressured by government regulations, peer groups, and incentive programs from Medicare and Medicaid to implement some kind of EMR system for their practice. So they’ve given in. They…
By default, BizTalk Server does not validate XML against a Schema. This is because the Validating Schemas function is assumed to be performed in the Receive Pipeline. However, sometimes new messages are created within an Orchestration and those…