Integration in the Cloud: First Look at Windows Azure BizTalk ServicesBill ChesnutPrincipal Consultant, MexiaMS Integration MVP, VTSP

Melbourne Azure Meetup Group – August 2013

Who Am I …Started in the IT industry over 30 years agoAfter starting University as a Photojournalism major10 year as IBM mainframe system programmerOwned a copy of Windows 2.0Started Integration work using C++ 2.0 and SQL 6.0

From Kentucky, moved to Australia in 1988 and 20003 things Kentucky Famous for?

What it isHistoryFeatures & PricingProvisioningScenariosBuilding SolutionDeploying & Testing SolutionNext Steps

Agenda

PaaS version of BizTalkNot Full BizTalk in PaaS, yetEAI & EDI (X12 only in Preview)Tracking and Archiving (Azure SQL and Storage)Key component of Hybrid SolutionBizTalk Adapters

What is Windows Azure BizTalk Services

Windows Azure BizTalk ServicesDedicated ServiceDedicated service hosted & managed by Microsoft in its subscriptionProvides isolation for compute and storagePredictable performanceSecure sandboxed environment for each customer/tenant

Infrastructure managed by Microsoft, App by user99.9% uptime SLA from MicrosoftService Health monitoring integrated with Azure PortalBizTalk applications monitoring through BizTalk PortalRaw tracking and monitoring information available in user store

Windows Azure BizTalk ServicesEAI ServiceDrag and drop integration solution developmentOut of the box support for common integration patternsConnectivity to on-premises LOB systems out of the box

B2B ServiceTrading partner management and supplier on-boardingSupport for X12 and AS2Enterprise capabilities such as Archiving, ACK correlation and NRR

Extensible PlatformRich message processingCustomization with code for transforms and pipeline stagesTrading Partner Management API for custom experiences

BizTalk Services.NET ServicesAppFabricAzure EAI & EDIBizTalk Services

History

Preview Available now in following Regions:East USWest USNorth EuropeWest Europe

4 EditionsDeveloperBasicStandardPremium

Features and Pricing

Pricing (preview pricing 50% discount to GA) 

DEVELOPER BASIC  STANDARD PREMIUM

 Price (Preview)

 

$0.065 /hour(~$48/month)

 

$0.335 /hour 

(~$249/month)$2.015 /hour per unit

(~$1,499/month)

 

$4.03 /hour per unit(~$2,998/month)

Production Use Not available for use in production Yes Yes Yes

Scale Out N/A N/A Up to 4 units Up to 8 units

EAI Bridges per unit 30 50 125 250

Number of connections using BizTalk Adapter Service

1 0 5 25

EDI Agreements per unit 10 0 0 1000

Availability SLA No Yes for GA, No for Preview

Yes for GA, No for Preview

Yes for GA, No for Preview

Pre-requisitesACS NamespaceCertificate (valid less than 5 years,

trusted)Azure SQL DatabaseStorage Account

Provisioning

Demo

BizTalk Service Provisioning

Hybrid Connectivity

Cloud Application

Bridge

FTP/SFTP

HTTP

WCF

Blob

Service Bus

Database ERP

BizTalk Adapter Service

Server Explorer(Visual Studio)

PowerShell CmdLets

Management Service REST API

Lob Relay (Service

Host)Lob TargetLob Target

Bridges in BizTalk Services

Basic building block for building your integration platform

A Bridge is a single message processing unit with 3 parts: Sources: From where the messages originatePipeline: Which processes the messages [Flat file, XML, Pass-through]Destinations: Where the messages are sent to

PropertyAny interesting data in your message• Defined in the Enrich stage of a

pipeline• Can be tracked as part of message

processing

Property source could be from:• Transport headers/properties• A part of the message (specified using

XPath)• An external data lookup• System properties

Use in Filter Rules/Actions for routing or in Maps

Supported destinations auto-convert properties into meta data

Transformation

Graphical UI tool to define your map

OOB Support for more than 35 operationsSupports custom XSLT and inline C# scripts

Test the map locally and validate the output as well

Routing

Rule based routingMessage delivered to first matching destination

Rules use the same SQL92 syntax used in Service Bus Topic/Subscription Rules

Route Actions may be used to write destination specific headers

Demo

Developing

• Visual Studio• Sample utilities to send and receive• Tracking and Tracing

Deploying & Testing Solution

BridgesB2B Service

BizTalk Services Deployment

Visual

Studio

PowerShell

Portal

Artifacts

Transforms

Schemas

Assemblies

Partnerships

Profiles

Agreements

Partners Certificates

Xml One-Way

EDI X12

Pass-Through

Monitoring Store

Config Store

Tracking Store

Xml Request

Demo

Deploying & Testing

• Find the applications that fit the WABS model

• Do a POC• Use your MSDN Azure Benifites

Next Steps

• SDK, schemas and tools downloads http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39087 • BizTalk Service Forums http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/azurebiztalksvcs • Samples MSDN Code Gallery http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ • BizTalk Portal https://portal.biztalk.windows.net • MSDN documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864.aspx• BizTalk Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog

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