I had the luck this year to attend the BizTalk Integration Summit in Seattle, Washington.
This blog post is about how this went for me and what I will remember from it, based on the notes I took.
First of all we were about 300 people
attending. We had Partners, Customers and off-course Microsofties. Somebody
told me that we were 1/3 partners, 1/3 customers and 1/3 Microsoft.
From Belgium we only had a CodIt delegation and myself representing i8c. Our Dutch colleagues had more people
present and I had the pleasure to get to know better the Motion10 people.
Also all the Microsoft Integration
MVP’s were present, so I had the chance to meet some in person.
These
are my notes from day 1:
BizTalk Integration Summit 2013 Agenda
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Time
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Session
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Speaker
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Thursday, November 21 (Day 1)
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8:50am - 9:00am
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Welcome to BizTalk Summit 2013
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Mark Mortimore, Microsoft
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9:00am - 10:30am
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Delivering Modern Enterprise Applications
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Scott Guthrie, Microsoft
Vivek Dalvi, Microsoft
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11:00am - 12:30pm
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Using Windows Azure BizTalk Services
to Accelerate Application Integrations
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Karthik Bharathy &
Sameer Chabungbam, Microsoft
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1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Business Process Management
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Alok Jain, Microsoft
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2:30pm - 4:00pm
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What's New in BizTalk Server 2013?
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Jorge Gomez
Basanta,
Paul Larsen, &
Mark Mortimore, Microsoft
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4:30pm - 5:15pm
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Best Practices for Enterprise
Clinical Integration
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Alan Scott, HCA
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Delivering
Modern Enterprise Applications
The trend today is: Mobility, Apps, Big
data and cloud.The challenge is how to connect and collaborate.
The Microsoft Could OS is the common platform to get this to work. It enables the creation of modern applications.
API Mgmt is new to the Cloud OS so we definitively have to look into that.
Mimeo.com (are live with the Windows Azure BizTalk Services preview)
We have Cloud EAI: in order to bridge the on-premise LOB’s and to integrate with SaaS solutions.
We also have Cloud EDI to extend the EAI with B2B functionality.
I think Cloud EAI will always be used in conjunction with Cloud EDI.
At the summit they announced that Windows Azure BizTalk Services is now general available.
Customers should now no longer hesitate to start using it.
The road ahead will focus on on-premise (BizTalk Server) updates and cloud integration with quarterly updates. Microsoft stays committed to BizTalk Server.
The Key trends that were mentioned are:
- Experience is important since integration = complex. At Microsoft they have the experience J
- SaaS is getting more and more important for Cloud integration
- Hybrid applications are a reality.
Still, everything will be extensible. 1st party experience for 3rd party ==> They expect a marketplace to be put in place, which will be a great opportunity for partners.
They announced that BPM will become part of WABS next to EAI en B2B.
A common management tooling infrastructure will be put in place.
Release:
- BizTalk server every 2 years
- R2 minor release (platform, key features) every 2 years
- CU every quarter
- WABS refresh every 3 months (at least)
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 will be released in the first half of 2014. It will allow the product to align itself with:
- VS 2013
- SQL 2014
- WS 2012 R2
One thing I learned from this summit is that Healthcare is a big thing for BizTalk (certainly in the US).
The WABS - GA also contains isolation and predictable performance. We now can have an isolated environment per subscription.
EDI is now available is all WABS editions!
WABS what is next:
- AAD
- Scheduled backup and restore capability
- EAI
- Adapter extensibility (this is the main focus)
- Light weight BizTalk adapter service
- Pull from queue and topics
- B2B
- EDIFACT
- Custom code in EDI bridge
- BPM
- Workflow on Azure
- Rules engine designer
- Process designer
- BAM
- Partner directory
- Self service partner on-boarding
- Managed file transfer
Using Windows Azure BizTalk Services to Accelerate Application Integrations
GA: It also includes some extra performance counters
TPM migration tool to migrate BizTalk Server parties.
EDI in all editions, no longer limited to the Premium version!!
They also made it possible to have more than one user deploying WABS solutions per subscription. It is even so that per e-mail one now can manage several subscriptions.
Backup/restore tool.
Next:
- Edifact
- Pull service bus
- Edi bridge agreement association
- Scheduled backup/restore
- Workflow
Business Process Management
This is new in the WABS. They only started developing it, so it will take another year before we see anything of this.
Model & Execute & Monitor business processes.
Those can be document, people or system (integration) centric.
Model:
- Process modeller
- Standard notation. They are thinking of using BPMN notation. I say they should use the BPMN notation!
- Automated business processes
- Define check-points and kpi's
- Repeatable and flexible
- BPMN notation
- Unified tooling
- Process, Rules, BAM
- EAI, B2B, BP
- Rich set of out-of-the-box activities
- Extensible, third party extensions
- .net workflow
- Support for custom code
- Declarative
- Logic in Rules, process in workflow
- Key capabilities
- BizTalk BRE goes to the cloud
- Vocabulary and versioning included
Monitor:
- BAM
- KPI's and alerts
- Track messages and status
- Identify bottleneck in Real-time
- Message tracking for troubleshooting
- BAM Portal
Deploy to an artefact store.
A marketplace for the activities will become available. Third party activities will also be possible.
Management portal for deploy/config/start/stop of the business processes.
A BAM Portal for tracking business processes.
A TAP program will become available next year around the time of the summit I presume.
Well, BPM is coming to WABS, so we will no longer be restricted to WF or SharePoint for workflow solutions. WABS will include BPM built on top of WF.
What's New in BizTalk Server 2013?
Coming:
- SFTP: proxy support, SSO
- REST: JSON, Empty message support exposing REST
- Service Bus: more authentication options
- ESB toolkit: BRI revolver, SSO configuration
- Healthcare: MLLP 64 bit, dynamic adapter, better troubleshooting experience, HL7 2.6, freetext data type
Best Practices for Enterprise Clinical Integration
HCA presented their impressive BizTalk
implementation.
As with any BizTalk installation they
also learned from their mistakes J
I found the first day the most interesting
part of the summit. A lot of new stuff announced and we know where they are heading
with BizTalk and WABS.
For those of us investing in BizTalk and
WABS the future looks bright.
These
are my notes from day 2:
BizTalk Integration Summit 2013 Agenda
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Time
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Session
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Speaker
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Friday, November 22 (Day 2)
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9:00am - 10:00am
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One Microsoft Integration – Focus on
Solutions
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Mark Mortimore &
Hector Rodriguez, Microsoft
Eric Stott, Stott Creations
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10:30am - 12:30pm
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Deep dive on EAI
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Sameer Chabungbam, Microsoft
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10:30am - 11:00am
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Applying Cloud Integration Patterns
in the real world
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Sam Vanhoutte, Impack
Alliance
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11:00am - 11:30am
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Going live on Windows Azure BizTalk
Services Preview - Tales from the bleeding edge
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Kent Brown, Nimbo
Dwight Goins, Nimbo
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11:30am - 12:00pm
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Management and Monitoring of your
BizTalk Environments using BizTalk360
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Saravana Kumar, BizTalk 360
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12:00pm - 12:30pm
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Running at Microsoft scale on Biztalk
technologies
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Eric Watson, Microsoft
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1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Learn about Service Bus
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Ziv Rafalovich, Microsoft
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1:30pm - 2:00pm
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Exposing Enterprise Data Using APIs,
BizTalk, and Windows Azure Service Bus to the Mobile World
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Simon Barere, SOA
Software
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2:00pm - 2:30pm
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BizTalk Server 2013 Performance
Optimization and Lessons from the field
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Ashish Bhambhani,
Sandeep Kesiraju, &
Todd Rivers, Microsoft
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2:30pm - 3:00pm
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SOA Governance for BizTalk Server -
Concepts and Practice
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Andrew Slivker, Nevatech
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2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Deep dive on EDI / B2B
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Karthik Bharathy, Microsoft
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3:00pm - 3:30pm
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Healthcare Integration with BizTalk
Server and Corolar from Dapasoft
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Ramraj Rajkumar, Dapasoft
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One Microsoft Integration – Focus on
Solutions
On-premise revenue counts as azure
revenue. Interesting fact.
We need to connect to a business unit manager
(list will become available), in order for us and them to do more business JOne integration stack: mobile, BizTalk, API, services bus, workflow.
Again focus on Healthcare industry.
"why" integration reduces
friction
"opportunity" reduce waste,
less defects, new customer, .."cloud" ROI 1.7x compared to on-perm, 40% less consulting J
Move to hybrid cloud: trend for 2015
One consistent hybrid platform: private, cloud
Experience = app + devices + data + security.
ESB helps Healthcare solutions to consolidate workflow and make them more generic.
Deep dive on EAI
Overview of the WABS EAI capabilities
- Validation
- Enrichment
- Transform: xslt based but in the future it will also support JSON and .NET data
- Routing is the first match gets the message: that is why we have a sequence number in the routing list
- For PUB/SUB routing we need to use service bus topics
- BizTalk Service Explorer VS plugin
It allows to debug a bridge via the plug-in. Wauw J
- Extension is possible via message inspectors, scripting functoids and custom wcf bindings
Custom WCF Binding
- In order to deploy custom assembly we need to set copy local to true!
- They are working on a framework to provide our own source adapter framework
PowerShell: Management samples available.
Learn about Service Bus
Loosely coupled apps
Message
oriented middlewareHybrid solutions
Push/event model: OnMessageOptions (cliënt.OnMessage)
OnSession is coming
Replaces
the fact that we need to loop to receive messages.Shared Access Signature authentication (SAS)
QueueClient Peek allows us to peek for messages.
Retry on transient errors MessagingFactory RetryPolicy
TopicDescription, QueueDescription EnablePartitioning
Service Bus 1.1 (on-premise) compatible
with SDK 2.1
AMQP 1.0
Paolo's samples on hybrid solutions
Next:
- Reliability: SLA, dedicated resources
- Lazy writing (push to DB later) results in better throughput
- Device to cloud, the next big thing for Service Bus
- Smart mobility: 2018 30% smart cars
- Smart grid (power)
- Smart home
- Smart building
- Smart factory
- Smart logistics
- Intelligence Delivery via backing services
Q2 2014 Customer adoption program for Device to cloud
Deep dive on EDI / B2B
Dev max 10 agreements
Basic max 25 agreementsStandard max 250 agreements
Premium max 1000 agreements
TpmContext to create agreements @
runtime, all about using WCF Data Services
Windows Azure BizTalk Services Explained book coming…
Including the Xbox one supply chain
solution @ Microsoft:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn521038(v=bts.10).aspx
I found the second day less interesting,
still it made it even clearer that WABS is ready for the integration world and
that we also should take the device to the cloud thing, seriously.
Finally, the sessions have been
recorded and will become available as will be the presented slide decks, so
stay tuned.
Koen Van Oost
Business Integration Architect @ i8c
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