Updated: July 12, 2020 (May 21, 2007)
Analyst ReportBizTalk Services Demo B2B Technologies
Enterprise developers can now test a set of Microsoft-hosted services that provide message routing, identity management, and (eventually) workflow services for applications that span multiple organizations. BizTalk Services are useful today only as a testing ground for components in the .NET Framework 3.0, and the WS-* protocols on which they are based. However, BizTalk Services could encourage use of Web services for business-to-business (B2B) commerce, extranets, and other kinds of cross-organization data sharing and collaboration. BizTalk Services are also an early example of a Microsoft platform service, a cornerstone of the company’s recently announced “software plus services” strategy.
Experimental Phase
Despite the name, BizTalk Services have little to do with BizTalk Server, although BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s B2B commerce product and will probably evolve to incorporate similar technologies.
Rather, these services can help developers explore how Microsoft’s latest Web services platform, the .NET Framework 3.0, can be used in cross-organization composite applications-that is, applications built by connecting independent functions exposed as Web services. The .NET Framework 3.0 shipped with Windows Vista and includes the Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) messaging API, the CardSpace authentication system, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), among other components.
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