Loek Bakker is a senior consultant at Capgemini, the Netherlands. He specializes in architecture, SOA, and Microsoft.NET. Within Capgemini he is a lead architect for BizTalk-based integration solutions.
BizTalk Server is often positioned as a means to create a hub-and-spoke
architecture. However, the popularity of the hub-and-spoke architecture, the
traditional model for enterprise application integration (EAI), is declining.
More and more architects and CIOs are targeting SOA (service-oriented
architecture), and its infrastructural incarnation: the enterprise service
bus (ESB). Does BizTalk fit into this ESB picture?
Integration Architecture
Trends and hype like SOA, EDA (event-driven architecture), and BPM (business
process management) put integration on top of the list for most CIOs and IT
managers. While all these trends hold assumptions about the ideal
architecture for distributed computing, the differences in architectural
approaches are not as clear to decision m... (more)
Recent trends in IT such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web
sevices, in conjunction with the still-increasing popularity of the .NET
framework, put Microsoft's BizTalk Server in the center of attention for
CIOs, CTOs, architects, and enterprise developers. Apparently everyone who is
involved with the Microsoft platform now wants to implement BizTalk.
Frequently we see that Bi... (more)
Loek Bakker is a senior consultant at Capgemini, the Netherlands. He specializes in architecture, SOA, and Microsoft.NET. Within Capgemini he is a lead architect for BizTalk-based integration solutions.
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