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BizTalk Server 2006 Prerequisites. IIS 6.0HTTP/HTTPS/SOAP AdaptersWindows SharePoint Services AdapterBusiness Activity Services (BAS)Human Workflow Services (HWS)Office Excel 2003Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) ? BAM workbook used to define business processes to be monitoredOffice InfoPath
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1. BizTalk Server 2006Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
2. BizTalk Server 2006 Prerequisites IIS 6.0
HTTP/HTTPS/SOAP Adapters
Windows SharePoint Services Adapter
Business Activity Services (BAS)
Human Workflow Services (HWS)
Office Excel 2003
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) – BAM workbook used to define business processes to be monitored
Office InfoPath 2003
BAS – used as BAS client
Visual Studio 2005
All BizTalk Development
3. BizTalk Server 2006 Prerequisites (continued) SQL Server 2005 / 2000
Main data repository – required piece of the overall architecture
BAM Requirements:
Analysis Services
Notification Services
Integration Services
Reporting Services (optional)
Microsoft Visio 2003
Required by Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts
SharePoint Services
Microsoft’s Portal solution
Built in support for accessing / publishing documents stored in SharePoint Document Libraries
4. BizTalk and BAM BAM Portal
New for 2006 – out-of-the-box information portal
Real-time insight into key performance indicators of the business process being monitored
BAM Alerts
Leverages SQL Server Notification Services (SQL 2005 only)
Email, SMS notifications
Enables business users to make real-time decisions
BAM Web Service
Exposes
the query of aggregate and instance data
creation of alerts
retrieval of BAM configurations
5. BizTalk BAM Workflow Business Analyst
Specifies what data to collect for all business users using the BAM Activity Wizard
Defines the view for each category of business user using the BAM View Wizard
Saved as Excel Workbook – BAM Definition Workbook
Exports the Workbook to XML (optional)
6. BizTalk BAM Workflow System Administrator/Developer
Uses BAM management utility to deploy BAM infrastructure from the Workbook or XML exported by Business Analyst
Maps XML exported to an orchestration using the Tracking Profile Editor
Deploys the Profile to BizTalk Management Databases
7. BizTalk BAM Workflow Business Users
Can view the data results in:
Excel
BAM Portal
8. BizTalk BAM Strengths Seamless integration into a Microsoft Windows Network
Identity Management through Active Directory
Display and access data in Microsoft SharePoint Services
Easily configurable/maintainable N-Tier environment
Toolset leverages Microsoft’s Office product suite
Familiarity with the products eliminates training costs
No additional license requirement
BAM Web Service (API)
All data and features exposed
Any client application can consume and integrate
9. BizTalk BAM Drawbacks Convoluted process, error prone
Requires different skill-sets for each step of the process
System administrator/developer must redeploy the Excel Workbook every time changes are made
Any changes to orchestration also result in redeployment
Data does not refresh automatically:
User must manually refresh Excel workbook
User must manually refresh web page
BAS Website – must reside on same server as BizTalk