Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Integration Concepts

We need to explore several new concepts in order to build a portal that can meet the integration needs of an organization. Our goal is to open the portal to support automated transactions. To do so, we need to set up automated business processes that conform to business process structures. The integration should support secure, one-time data entry and automate the response to the user.

You could build a custom system that handles transactions in this way from the ground up, which would be the old-fashioned way. A point-to-point connection might be the most direct and efficient approach to allow two systems to talk to one another. But even in the simplest instance, the code would grow more complex over time and ever more difficult ...