Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Standard, FR Disk Kit, MVL DVD 5 MLF D75-01322 User Manual
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Additional BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Technologies
The fundamentals of a BizTalk application revolve around messaging and orchestration. The product
provides more than this, however, including business activity monitoring, support for working with
RFIDs, and more. This section takes a brief look at each of these technologies.
provides more than this, however, including business activity monitoring, support for working with
RFIDs, and more. This section takes a brief look at each of these technologies.
Business Activity Monitoring
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides support for automated business processes that span multiple
applications. But once those automated processes have been created, the information workers that use
them
applications. But once those automated processes have been created, the information workers that use
them
—business people, not developers—might need to monitor various business-related aspects of
the process. To allow this, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 provides BAM.
It’s not hard to think of different ways that an information worker might want to look at a business
process. A purchasing manager might need to see how many POs are approved and denied each day,
for instance, while a sales manager might want an hourly update on what products are being ordered.
Mee
process. A purchasing manager might need to see how many POs are approved and denied each day,
for instance, while a sales manager might want an hourly update on what products are being ordered.
Mee
ting these diverse needs requires a general framework for tracking what’s going on with a
particular business process. This is exactly what BAM provides.
As Figure 12 suggests, i
t’s useful to think of BAM technology in two distinct parts:
An infrastructure for collecting information about in-progress business processes. Because these
processes might rely on BizTalk orchestrations and other applications, this infrastructure must be
usable with more than just BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
processes might rely on BizTalk orchestrations and other applications, this infrastructure must be
usable with more than just BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
Tools that let information workers access that information. Different people will want to see BAM
data in different ways, and so the tools they use might be quite diverse. Some typical examples
include dashboards that provide real-time display of critical data, reporting services that present
historical trends, and common desktop tools such as spreadsheet applications.
data in different ways, and so the tools they use might be quite diverse. Some typical examples
include dashboards that provide real-time display of critical data, reporting services that present
historical trends, and common desktop tools such as spreadsheet applications.