Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals) [Hardcover]

Mark Beckner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599357 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599358 | Publication Date: November 28, 2007 | Edition: 1

EDI is going to be big, and is already seeing a lot of adoption. Comments from Burley Kawasaki, Director of Project Management - Connected Systems Division at Microsoft (heads where the future of BizTalk is going).

“Contrary to popular belief, EDI transactions are growing - and on a very large base. Not because customers are using EDI for new applications, but because they are putting more and more suppliers into their existing EDI feeds and doing more electronic business. With this much electronic business being done over EDI, companies are looking for ways to bring down TCO on general operations (hence the interest in swapping out expensive legacy systems with newer MS platforms) and also reducing the per transaction cost (hence the interest in moving away from VANs and migrating to AS2 over the Internet).

I can't share w/ you our estimates for our market opportunity w/ BizTalk R2, but suffice it to say we wouldn't have built EDI into our core engine if we didn't think it was a pretty mainstream opportunity for us to go after. MS doesn't tend to pursue niche opportunities.”

In summary: solid book, solid topic where we have proven success, new angle where lots of money is being spent and there exists very little documentation, electronic or print.

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About the Author

Mark Beckner has been doing Business & Technical Consulting for a number of years with large and small corporations in the western US. His primary focus has been implementing EAI systems & infrastructure using Microsoft BizTalk Server and helping clients to understand their technology and infrastructure options. 

 

Among other credentials, Mark has co-authored "BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach" (Apress, 2006), spoken across the country to audiences during Microsoft's "Microsoft’s BizTalk 2004 in a Service-Oriented World" Conference, and in 2005/06 helped to architect and develop the "Solution of the Year for Technology Innovation in Business Process and Integration", awarded to EMC Microsoft Practice.  Additional certifications include:

 

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (2006)
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET (2003)
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET (2003)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599357
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599358
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,287,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for understanding 2006 R2 (EDI Processing), August 18, 2008

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Tom Shwayer "Tom" (Boston, M.A U.S.A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Hardcover)

For understanding EDI processing in 2006 R2 this is a great material. It has all forms for processing like EDI, AS2 etc. The Book gives a brief description about all these Architectures and then comes the good part, the samples created and Tested which you can test at your machine.

The samples are so easy to deploy with minimum pre-requisites and test them thoroughly along with a book to understand what we have done. We can download the samples from a web page directed in the Book.

Even if you are newly introduced to EDI processing through Biztalk, there is no worry. All you need is a little hands on how Biztalk translates the EDI data. From there the book has all the techniques involved in resolving the data, retrieving and mapping the information and Orchestrate the message for processing as you wish.

The Book also briefs about the deployment and production support considerations and reporting updates with the new Server. In a nutshell this is the perfect material for understanding EDI processing in 2006 R2 environment.

1.0 out of 5 stars Author clearly lacks in-depth BizTalk knowledge, November 7, 2008

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Rob - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Hardcover)

This book failed to provide deep level explainations for how BizTalk Server processes EDI formatted data. Many topics are glossed over and in some cases he simply states that a topic is beyond the scope of the book. At less than 200 pages this book serves as a primer for EDI message processing using BizTalk Server. I found the product documentation much more helpful than most of the rubish found in this book.

Also, a fair number of the "Examples" failed to work. In the case of the AS2 configuration (one of the highest priority topics for me), the book shows properties that don't even exist.

Apress let me down again. :(

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book overall., October 27, 2008

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ARK (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Hardcover)

There is not much material out there on the subject of EDI and BizTalk. Considering that, this is a very useful book. It has several useful exercises. It is definitely helpful if you have a working knowledge of BizTalk Server to get the most benefit from this book.

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