by Integration Expert | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Research, Technical
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 XMLSQL and uses updategrams to select, insert...
by Integration Expert | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Research, Technical
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 we can find Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Process...
by Integration Expert | Dec 17, 2014 | Blog, Research
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...
by Integration Expert | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, General, Technical
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 posts over the next weeks and...
by Integration Expert | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Technical
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 an XSLT mapping to clean the document up for you. This involves...
by Karmel Moosavi | Nov 27, 2014 | Blog, Technical
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 that everyone running BizTalk...
