A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop1 Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop Microsoft Commerce Server Asuman Dogac Middle East Technical University Ankara Turkey

A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 2/53 Microsoft Commerce Server Commerce Server ( is a platform that facilitates the development of Web-based commerce sites A trial version can be downloaded from evaluation/trial/evalDL.asp

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A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 4/53 Microsoft Commerce Server The roles:  The customers  The Site Operator  The Server Administrator

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A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 47/53 Commerce Server vs. Biztalk Commerce Server is mainly for B2C ecommerce Another Microsoft product BizTalk is for B2B commerce

A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 48/53 BizTalk Framework BizTalk provides an XML based application integration framework Application integration is achieved through a message passing mechanism For applications that do not have native XML support, BizTalk framework provides facilities that transform native data types to XML and then performs the XML document routing The BizTalk framework contains a technical specification,  a set of XML documents,  the Web portal and  BizTalk 2000 Server

A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 49/53 BizTalk Framework The biztalk.org Web portal contain the XML schemas suggested by the businesses, that is, a globally accessible document library These schemas are validated, versioned, registered and stored in a repository at the Web portal Web site In other words, BizTalk does not enforce a common dictionary; rather the businesses make their dictionary and the document structures publicly available at the BizTalk portal and expect other businesses to conform to them for conducting business

A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 50/53 BizTalk Framework The Microsoft product BizTalk 2000 Server has two services:  Orchestration service and  Messaging service  BizTalk 2000 Server Orchestration service allows to model, deploy and maintain distributed business processes within and between organization  It provides a GUI tool based on Visio, to graphically build business processes  It is possible to integrate previously defined distributed, heterogeneous applications to the process

A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 51/53 BizTalk Framework From the visual description of the process, a process definition is generated in XLANG which is a textual process definition language in XML XLANG provides the classical workflow definition features like  sequencing,  branching,  parallel execution as well as  transactional support,  persistence and  monitoring XLANG is a message based system, that is, the activity invocation is through passing messages

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A. Dogac Grenoble Ecole de Management MEDFORIST Workshop 53/53 BizTalk Framework The message reliability is provided by the message queue product of Microsoft, MSMQ BizTalk 2000 Server Messaging service support XML, X12, EDIFACT formats BizTalk mapper helps to map one document format to the other and can apply transformations to data For example BizTalk mapper facilitates transforming EDI documents to SAP iDOC documents by utilizing XSL technology to do so BizTalk Management Desk administers agreements between trading partners and applications