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.
Author(s): Mark Beckner
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 208
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 9
About the Author......Page 10
About the Technical Reviewer......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
CHAPTER 1: EDI Schemas......Page 15
Schema Overview......Page 16
EDI Implementation Guide and Document Layout......Page 17
Schema Development and Deployment......Page 19
X12 and EDIFACT Schemas......Page 22
Batch Schemas......Page 26
Service Schema Extensions......Page 27
Promoting Fields......Page 28
Validation and Generation of EDI Documents......Page 30
Final Discussion......Page 34
CHAPTER 2: Trading Partner Configuration......Page 35
Configuration Overview......Page 36
Creating Trading Partners (BizTalk Parties)......Page 38
Configuring a Trading Partner As Sender......Page 40
Configuring Acknowledgments (Trading Partner As Sender)......Page 41
Configuring a Trading Partner As Receiver......Page 49
Configuring Acknowledgments (Trading Partner As Receiver)......Page 52
Configuring AS2 Properties......Page 54
Validating Trading Partner Settings......Page 56
Final Discussion......Page 61
Preparing the Solution Files......Page 62
Defining the Mapping Components......Page 63
Defining the Target Schema......Page 64
Defining the Source Data and Schema......Page 65
Retrieving the Source Data......Page 66
Creating the Stored Procedure......Page 68
Configuring the BizTalk SQL Receive Adapter......Page 70
Implementing Linked Servers......Page 72
Mapping the Document......Page 74
Testing the Map......Page 81
Final Discussion......Page 86
Preparing the Solution Files......Page 88
Routing Incoming EDI Documents (Filtering)......Page 90
Delivering Documents via Orchestrations......Page 95
Exception Handling......Page 98
Using XPath......Page 112
Using BizTalk Maps......Page 115
Final Discussion......Page 116
Preparing the Solution Files......Page 118
VAN Architecture......Page 120
Sending Documents to the VAN......Page 122
Receiving Files from the VAN......Page 128
AS2 Architecture......Page 131
Message Batching......Page 141
Final Discussion......Page 145
Basic Test Plans......Page 146
Validating EDI Content......Page 148
Standard Document Tracking......Page 153
EDI Reporting and the Group Hub Page......Page 156
Tracking Tools......Page 158
Working with Document Tracking......Page 162
Final Discussion......Page 170
CHAPTER 7: Deployment and Production Support......Page 172
Server Architecture Considerations......Page 173
MSI Deployments......Page 174
Manual Deployments......Page 180
Production Support......Page 181
Deploying Code Updates......Page 182
Code Updates and Interface Changes......Page 184
Resubmitting Documents......Page 187
SQL Administration......Page 189
Final Discussion......Page 190
B......Page 191
D......Page 192
E......Page 193
F......Page 194
P......Page 195
T......Page 196
Z......Page 197
