Foreword

In 2010, we celebrated two significant milestones—it marked both the 10-year anniversary of BizTalk and the release of BizTalk Server 2010. Over the past decade, there have been seven releases of Microsoft’s enterprise integration platform, and it’s become the most broadly deployed integration middleware technology on the planet (with nearly 12,000 customers worldwide). A key reason for this impressive growth was due to the explosion of the industry use of web services over the past decade; BizTalk Server helped fill a critical need as our customers began to transition from the world of client-server systems to service-oriented architectures. BizTalk Server was commonly used by our customers to service-enable existing LOB systems and exten....