SOA and ESB Architecture with BizTalk

This Wrox Blox explores Service Orientated Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus, focusing on how it can be implemented using Microsoft BizTalk Server. It explains the need for SOA Architecture in an enterprise business and looks at the key Business and IT Drivers in business, how they can interact, and where there are conflicts that SOA can help resolve. Specifically, the author discusses Microsoft ESB Guidance and how, by using BizTalk 2006, ESB implementation can provide a solid platform for SOA development; management across the IT and Business Space with the Governance and tools provided in the ESB Toolkit; pointers to online resources, including guides on installing and deploying ESB; and how to avoid common SOA pitfalls.

The target audience for this Wrox Blox is IT Managers, Business Managers, Architects, Developers, and Business Analysts who want to find architectural guidance information on Service Oriented Architecture, BizTalk, and Enterprise Service Bus.

About the Author

Robert Hogg is the Senior Architect and Managing Director of Black Marble Limited, a collaborative software solutions company based in the United Kingdom.

A regular presenter at IT and Developer events throughout the United Kingdom, Robert has presented at a Microsoft Research Conference on the subject of Teaching Artificial Intelligence Programming using C# .NET, and in 2007, Robert presented at TechEd Europe Developers on “Implementing Enterprise Service Bus using Microsoft BizTalk Server.”

n 2007, Robert received MVP for Microsoft Visual Studio, Architect. He is a member of the British Computer Society and is a Chartered Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET.