Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions (Pro)

EDI is one of the next big waves in connected systems, as business becomes more dependent on working with partners, suppliers, and other organizations in a streamlined way. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 offers an efficient, integrated way to deploy EDI solutions, and with Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions, you?ll see how EDI can be used in your business and how best to get it set up with BizTalk. With a cursory read of this book, management?level resources will be able to quickly determine the complexity of a BizTalk EDI implementation and the level of resources that will need to be made available. The developer will get an in?depth understanding of EDI and a detailed step?by?step approach to building and deploying projects.

This book?s unique approach sees an EDI project from end to end, through inception, into development, and finally through deployment. With this practical guide, you can set up and deliver a BizTalk 2006?driven EDI solution without getting caught up in the complexity of non?EDI items in BizTalk.

What you?ll learn

With this book, you?ll gain

Insights into the brand?new Biztalk 2006 R2?based EDI functionality, including the far greater flexibility in handling interchange Advice covering specific implementations, not simply generic advice In?depth understanding of EDI and a detailed step?by?step approach to building and deploying projects Who is this book for?

Any company or individual interested in a BizTalk 2006 EDI implementation will be interested in this book, as there are virtually no resources available. Any company or individual interested in a new EDI implementation (or redeveloping an existing EDI infrastructure) will benefit from this book as they work to determine what options are on the market, and how complex those options are to build and support. Finally, many BizTalk developers without direct EDI experience will be interested, as it covers a little?understood topic in BizTalk Server development.

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Related Titles from Apress BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach Pro BizTalk Server 2006 Foundations of BizTalk Server 2006

User review
Author clearly lacks in-depth BizTalk knowledge
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. :(

User review
Good book overall.
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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User review
Great book for understanding 2006 R2 (EDI Processing)
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.

User review
Great EDI/BizTalk 2006 R2 Reference
While EDI is straight forward in concept to understand it can be difficult to implement. This book is targeted towards the developer and architect tasked with crafting a B2B EDI solution and does a great job at detailing what needs to happen to make this task possible on the BizTalk 2006 R2 platform.

This book does not focus on the business specifics around EDI, but rather immediately jumps into detailed and concrete examples that can easily be extended into the real world. There are many EDI features with BizTalk 2006 R2 that can only be understood after working with the product across many projects. This book will reduce the time required experimenting with the tool just to understand the new features. I recommend this book to anyone working with EDI and BizTalk 2006 R2.