BizTalk for B2B Integration
I have worked on several integrations now, some using direct point to point integration using SOAP and restful services while others using BizTalk's service bus capabilities. Although BizTalk provides a plethora of integration options it is a myth that the solution it provides is unnecessarily complex. In my opinion the extensibility and long term out of box capabilities it provides outrun the need to use any other solution or even a custom made one. BizTalk has been Microsoft's enterprise service bus solution for quite a while now, starting with BizTalk 2000, way back in the year 2000 to BizTalk 2013 R2 that is currently being shipped in the year 2014. The BizTalk Adapter's work in conjunction with the core publish/subscribe engine to accept messages from a wide variety of formats, transports and transport protocols. The recent Microsoft Azure solution for BizTalk, called MABS (Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services) is the cloud PAAS solution for integration needs. While B