Step 2: Modeling the Business Process

From the first step, we were able to interview the stakeholder(s) and/or the decision maker(s) to understand the business, technical, and operational goals and objectives of the organization. This information now needs to be modeled using the tools included with BizTalk Server to begin translating the process into code that can be run on the BizTalk Server.

This step involves identifying what needs to be processed, predicting what responses need to be returned, determining what events are sequential and what events trigger other events, and modeling the end-to-end information flow. This information is then entered in to a BizTalk Server tool called the BizTalk Orchestration Designer.

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