BizTalk™ Unleashed

Introduction

Integrating a company's internal applications has traditionally been difficult. Integrating them with external customers, suppliers, or other applications has been even more difficult. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 helps alleviate many of these integration challenges in both the enterprise and Internet environments. BizTalk Server 2002 unites enterprise application integration (EAI) and business-to-business (B2B) integration and helps orchestrate business processes for internal applications as well as cross-company business processes.

If you are reading this book, you are probably involved in process integration at some level. Maybe you are responsible for integrating an internal system with other internal applications. Perhaps you ...