BizTalk Services Overview

Using the different offerings from Microsoft Azure, users can create applications that run on the cloud. These applications operate in their own ‘space’ on the cloud but at the same time need to interact with other on-premises or cloud applications. As a result, there is a need to bridge the message and transport protocol mismatch between these disparate applications. Bridging these mismatches is the realm of integration.
Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services provides integration capabilities for the Azure Platform to:

• Extend on-premises applications to the cloud
• Provide rich messaging endpoints on the cloud to process and transform messages
• Enable business-to-business messaging using EDI, AS2, and EDIFACT
• Help organizations integrate with disparate applications, both on cloud and on-premises

In other words, BizTalk Services provides common integration capabilities (e.g. bridges, transforms, B2B messaging) on Microsoft Azure. Specifically:

Type	Purpose	Azure BizTalk Services Offering
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)	Enterprise Application Integration can be further divided into two broad components: Bridging message-related mismatch in different sources and formats. This kind of integration bridges mismatches between message transport protocols, message structures, and message formats between two disparate systems. This may also include message validation, message transformation, and subsequent routing to other systems. Integrating different Line-of-Business (LOB) applications. This integrates business processes and applications that span different LOB applications, such as SAP and SQL Server.	BizTalk Services enables you to configure rich messaging endpoints on Microsoft Azure to validate and transform messages in the cloud. For more information, see Add Source, Destination, and Bridge Messaging Endpoints. BizTalk Services enables you to extend operations on LOB applications as Service Bus endpoints on the cloud, thus extending the reach of the LOB applications to the cloud. You can then use these endpoints to integrate with other applications, either running on premises or on the cloud. For more information, see Using the BizTalk Adapter Service (BAS).
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)	Integrating commerce transactions between businesses over industry or vertical-specific standards, such as X12, and so on.	BizTalk Services provides a BizTalk Services Portal on the cloud that enables you to manage your EDI message transactions with trading partners. For more information, see EDI, AS2, and EDIFACT Messaging (Business to Business).

This section provides details on how each of these integration requirements is addressed by BizTalk Services. BizTalk Services feature areas include:

Basics and Getting Started BizTalk Services tasks in Azure Management Portal Install Azure BizTalk Services SDK Provisioning Azure BizTalk Services Get started with a Visual Studio project Administration and Development Task List in BizTalk Services BizTalk Services: Developer, Basic, Standard, and Premium Editions Chart	Connectivity to On-Premises LOB Applications Development and Runtime Architecture: BizTalk Adapter Service Runtime Components: BizTalk Adapter Service LOB Security in BizTalk Adapter Service Connect to Oracle Database or eBusiness Suite in a BizTalk Services Project Connect to mySAP Business Suite in a BizTalk Services Project Connect to SQL Server in a BizTalk Services Project Connect to Siebel eBusiness Applications in a BizTalk Services Project PowerShell Cmdlets for the BizTalk Adapter Service
Tutorials Tutorial: Configuring B2B Messaging Using BizTalk Services Portal and Bridges Tutorial: Using BizTalk Bridges to Insert Flat File Messages into an On-premises SQL Server Tutorial: Using BizTalk Service Bridges to Send and Receive Messages from Service Bus Relay Service Tutorial: Using Azure BizTalk Services to Integrate with an On-Premises SAP Server Tutorial: Using BizTalk Service Bridges to Lookup Data from Azure SQL Database Using BizTalk Services from a Windows 8 Application Tutorial: Process EDIFACT Invoices Using Azure BizTalk Services	Transforms String Map Operations - Usage and Examples Loop Map Operations - Usage and Examples List Map Operations - Usage and Examples Cumulative Map Operations - Usage and Examples Date / Time Map Operations - Usage and Examples Miscellaneous Map Operations - Usage and Examples Expressions in BizTalk Services - Usage and Examples
BizTalk Services Portal Registering and Updating a BizTalk Service Deployment on the BizTalk Services Portal Associating Multiple Login IDs with a BizTalk Services Deployment Manage your Resources in BizTalk Services portal Tracking Messages in BizTalk Services portal	Developer Reference Trading Partner Management Object Model (TPM OM): API Reference Example: Creating an X12 Agreement in BizTalk Services Using the TPM OM API Example: Creating an AS2 Agreement in BizTalk Services Using the TPM OM API REST API for Managing BizTalk Services on Azure PowerShell CmdLets to manage the BizTalk Service PowerShell Cmdlets for the BizTalk Adapter Service BizTalk Services: Backup and Restore
Business To Business Messaging Building Blocks in B2B Messaging Configuring Agreements from a BizTalk perspective Manage Partners and Profiles in Azure BizTalk Services Create Agreements in Azure BizTalk Services Create an EDI bridge using BizTalk Services Portal Create an AS2 bridge using BizTalk Services Portal  Trading Partner Management Object Model (TPM OM): API Reference	Samples, Forums, and Blogs Tutorials and Samples Azure BizTalk Services Forums Azure Team Blog
Message Processing Bridges What are Bridges? Add a Message Source to the Bridge Add a Message Destination to the bridge Create and Configure a Bridge Routing Messages from Bridges to Destinations in the BizTalk Service Project How to Include Custom Code in Bridges	Technical Articles Migrating BizTalk Server EDI Solutions to BizTalk Services: Technical Guide Troubleshoot Azure BizTalk Services