by Integration Expert | Jul 6, 2015 | BizTalk Server 2013 R2, Research, Technical
Cumulative Update Package 1 for BizTalk Server 2013 R2 The Microsoft Integration Team has announced the first cumulative update for BizTalk 2013 R2. This cumulative update includes the following hotfixes: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Business...
by Integration Expert | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog, General
Post 2/5 How can you tell if your prospective Integration consultant knows what he’s doing? Or: “but the sales rep TOLD me that he would be great!” Look for, and evaluate, the following: Communication Skills If there is difficulty communicating with the...
by Jorge Pastorini | Jun 16, 2015 | Research, Technical, Uncategorized
For some projects here at Art2link we’ve found that installing a tool to emulate the SMTP Mail Server is much better than use the institutional SMTP Server. It avoids the security dependencies (SMTP Server administration team) and keeps isolated the development tests...
by Integration Expert | Jun 4, 2015 | General, Research
How can you tell if your prospective Integration consultant knows what he’s doing? Post 1/5 Or: “but the sales rep TOLD me that he would be great!” Most of us, who have been in technology roles for any significant period of time have some similar experiences...
by Integration Expert | Mar 28, 2015 | BizTalk Server 2010
CU package 7 BizTalk Server 2010 This cumulative update package for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 contains hotfixes for the BizTalk Server 2010 issues that were resolved after the release of BizTalk Server 2010. We recommend that you test hotfixes before you deploy...
by Integration Expert | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Research, Technical
BizTalk has always provided native methods to integrate SQL Server databases. Since the first version we are able to query the database using the BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server databases. This native adapter is based on XMLSQL and uses updategrams to select, insert...
by Integration Expert | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Research, Technical
BizTalk as ESB definition If we go to the strict definition of what BizTalk is, we find that it is put under the category of an Application Integration Server. In the list of capabilities it has we can find Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Process...
by Integration Expert | Dec 17, 2014 | Blog, Research
Overall capabilities of cloud-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) offerings continue to expand. While this is occurring, the overall cost basis of provisioning those capabilities continues to drop. This is creating situations where the financial...
by Integration Expert | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, General, Technical
We just returned from Redmond, and the INTEGRATE 2014 summit, and there are several important alterations to the overall direction of BizTalk and Integration in general in the Microsoft ecosystem. We will take several blog and whitepaper posts over the next weeks and...
by Integration Expert | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Technical
If you have ever had a map which begins to look unmanageable with tons of value mappings or extra functoids to simply manage empty nodes you don’t want in your output then you should consider using an XSLT mapping to clean the document up for you. This involves...
