The BizTalk Server tutorials contain detailed information about how you can use Microsoft BizTalk Server to facilitate enterprise application integration (EAI) within your company and automate business-to-business processes among your business partners.
The BizTalk Server tutorials contain simple scenarios to give new users an experience of using a variety of BizTalk tools while creating compiled, testable solutions. For more advanced users, or users who are designing BizTalk solutions, see Scenarios for Business Solutions.
For a list of the BizTalk Server tools featured in the tutorials, see Step 5: Learn About the BizTalk Server Tools.
Use the following tutorials to learn how to use BizTalk Server:
- Tutorial 1: Enterprise Application Integration. Provides step-by-step instructions for implementing a BizTalk solution that receives inventory replacement request messages from a warehouse and evaluates the request messages. If the solution denies a request, it sends a denied message to the warehouse. If the solution approves a request, it forwards the message to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
- Tutorial 2: Purchase Order Process. Provides step-by-step instructions for implementing a BizTalk solution for the ERP system that generates purchase orders from the request messages and sends them to an external partner.
- Tutorial 3: Invoice and Payment Process. Provides step-by-step instructions for extending the solution you create in Tutorial 2 to incorporate a payment process that includes verifying that the partner received the purchase order, receiving the invoice from the partner, constructing a payment voucher for the partner using rules to determine the payment policy, sending the payment and receiving confirmation that the partner received the payment, and forwarding the payment acknowledgment internally.
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Tutorial 4: Business Activity Monitoring. Provides step-by-step instructions for defining and viewing data of interest.
The tutorials provide you with an end-to-end learning experience spanning the features of BizTalk Server. Each tutorial contains several lessons. The lessons in each tutorial are designed to allow you to take breaks between them. Each lesson will take you no more than two hours to complete.
Before you begin the BizTalk Server tutorials, you must complete the steps in Before You Begin the Tutorials. Additionally, an understanding of the fundamental concepts surrounding BizTalk Server and the tools and processes that are required to start building solutions with BizTalk Server will help you understand the tasks that you complete in the tutorials.
To learn more about BizTalk Server concepts and architecture, we recommend that you read the following sections of BizTalk Server Help:
For a complete list of topics about using the BizTalk Server tools featured in the tutorials, see Step 5: Learn About the BizTalk Server Tools.
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