9. BizTalk Services Deployment
Visual Studio
PowerShell
Portal
Transforms
Schemas
Assemblies
Partnerships
Profiles
Agreements
Partners Certificates
Xml One-Way
EDI X12
Pass-Through
Xml Request
10. BizTalk Services Deployment Dependencies
Azure Subscription
Azure SQL Database
Azure Storage / BLOB
Access control Service (for various persona’s)
Visual Studio (with Azure SDK)
Biztalk Services Portal
11. Windows Azure Biztalk Services - Editions
DEVELOPER BASIC STANDARD PREMIUM
Production Use Not available for use in
production Yes Yes Yes
Scale Out N/A Up to8 units Up to 8 units Up to 8 units
EAI Bridges per unit 25 25 125 500
Number of connections
using BizTalk Adapter
Service
1 2 5 25
EDI Agreements per unit 10 50 250 1000
Availability SLA No Yes Yes Yes
Hybrid Connections per
unit 5 10 50 100
High Availability N/A Included Included Included
Web Services
-- Great b/c standardised non-proprietary format for exchange messages between different technologies
-- Complexity because of so many dependencies
Hub & Spoke
-- Decreased dependencies, less complexity
-- Overhead
-- Not hugely scalable
ESB
-- Highly scalable
-- Simplicity
-- Minimal overhead
Cloud has introduced a whole new paradigm
-- Huge scale
-- Social networks
-- Big Data
-- Access from Everywhere
Think “global”