Chapter 8. EDI Solutions

BizTalk has been moving into the EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) space for a number of years. In early versions of BizTalk, EDI was accomplished with third-party adapters and a lot of development and configuration performed outside of the platform. With the release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, EDI became a prominent part of the platform. With the advent of BizTalk Server 2010, all aspects of the EDI life cycle, including schemas, mapping, workflow processing, and trading partner management are fully developed and available.

The most compelling new functionality in the 2010 version of the product is how trading partners are managed. While managing partners was possible in previous editions, the new user interface and ...

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