Principles of Information Security - Study on Managing BizTalk Server

This study focuses on managing BizTalk Server and covers the relevance of the selected project, five main knowledge areas, and planning for executing them. The project aims to automate the complete business procedure and limit the amount of code. The knowledge areas include project integration management, project scope management, project time management, project cost management, and project management quality. The study concludes that deploying and managing integration of complex integration tools are complicated and needs particular expertise.

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Principles of Information Security
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Executive summary
BizTalk application is a part of an implementation of BizTalk Server. This helps in troubleshooting,
controlling and implementing different solutions of BizTalk Servers. In this study, five crucial
process and areas of knowledge are demonstrated. These are helpful to manage BizTalk Server.
Lastly, this selection is justified and contributed to control this project.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:......................................................................................................................................3
2. Description and relevance of selected project:..................................................................................3
3. Selecting and justifying five main knowledge areas to be implemented:.........................................4
4. Description of process for the current project:..................................................................................5
5. Planning for executing the knowledge areas:....................................................................................6
6. Justification of contribution in managing IT projects:......................................................................7
7. Conclusion:........................................................................................................................................8
8. References:........................................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction:
The IT project management is the process to plan, organize and delineate the roles of the
particular information technology goals. The BizTalk application is one of the features of BizTalk
Server, making that more comfortable and quicker to troubleshoot, manage and deploy various
solutions of BizTalk Servers.
Here, I being an IT project manager have selected and planned five fundamental processes
and knowledge areas relevant to managing of BizTalk server. Then I have justified this selection and
contribution to managing the project.
2. Description and relevance of selected project:
The software development of BizTalk is chosen to understand the business process and
analyze the current software applications for deploying and develop the enterprise application. This
is helpful to automate the complete business procedure. The project would be beneficial to limit the
amount of code that should include custom libraries, custom adapters and custom pipeline
components (Beckner & Jones, 2017). Further, the Business Activity Monitoring framework is
helpful to create tracking and controlling the BizTalk based solutions. This would be used by
information workers to monitor the condition of the present business process.
BizTalk is a popular industry initiative of the current era. This is headed through Microsoft
for promoting XML or Extensible Markup Language. This can be regarded as the standard language
for data exchange regarding application integration and e-commerce around the Internet (Familiar,
2015). On the other hand, Azure BizTalk is an extensive, robust and straightforward cloud-based

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integration service providing B2B or Business-to-Business and EAI or Enterprise Application
Integration for delivering hybrid and cloud integration solutions.
Overall, BizTalk Server has been permitting merchants to control their supply chains from
different factory to online store. This has been also delivering infrastructure to connect application
irrespective of their platforms and develop, expose and then consume different brand-new services.
The standard-based and proprietary systems have been interconnected to BizTalk Severs to work
with .NET Framework. This has been also providing connections to platforms, applications and
individuals using them.
3. Selecting and justifying five main knowledge areas to be implemented:
Selection of the specific
area of knowledge
Justification
Project Integration
Management
This is to be developed as the roadmap to reach a successful goal.
Project Scope Management Validating scope during the project helps in assuring that
deliverables are approved at a regular basis by stakeholders and
sponsors.
Project time management With sequencing the tasks, the resources needed are assigned an
estimated here.
Project cost management This determines the project budget as all the costs are considered.
Project quality
management
This includes a quality assurance to ensure that various quality
standards are met (Joslin & Müller, 2015).

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4. Description of process for the current project:
The primary usefulness of PMOK guidelines in the current BizTalk guidelines is the
universal library that can be drawn from and used to create ease of communication around projects.
The instructions described below stems project management methods leveraging ideas depicted in
this list (Joslin & Müller, 2015). The following process for the present scheme of BizTalk
Application development has followed PMBOK guidelines:
Project Initiation This is the initial phase of the project, and the goal is to be
defined here at a more extensive level.
Project Planning This is the key to successful project management and focusing on
developing roadmaps to be followed by everyone.
Project Execution Here, the deliverables are completed and developed.
Project
Performance/Monitoring
This includes measuring of project performance and progression
and assuring that all the things get aligned to project management
plan (Beckner & Jones, 2017).
Project Closure Here the contractors hired for software development at BizTalk
Application is intended to work mainly on the project terminated at
this time.

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5. Planning for executing the knowledge areas:
Project Integration
Management
This includes trade-offs among different competing alternatives
and objectives for meeting or exceeding stakeholder expectations
and needs.
Project Scope Management This can be started by defining objectives, scopes, purposes and
deliverables to be generated.
Project time management This knowledge area of time management has been referring to the
tools, skills and techniques utilized in managing time. This must be
done by accomplishing particular goals, projects and tasks (Kerzner,
2018).
Project cost management This includes determination of policies, documentation and
procedures used to plan, execute and control project costs. Here the
most important output of this procedure is a cost management plan.
Further, cost estimation is a highly crucial element of cost
management.
Project quality
management
The quality management is the method to assure that every project
tasks are needed to develop, plan and deploy all the efficient and
active parts of a project. This is for its objectives and performances
and is a consistent method to start and end the project (Hedberg, La
Cour & Weare, 2014).

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6. Justification of contribution in managing IT projects:
The above mentioned project management knowledge sectors coincide with process groups.
This includes project initiation, project planning, project execution, controlling and monitoring and
project closing.
The knowledge areas, discussed above occur during any one of these process groups. As the
process groups are horizontal, the knowledge areas are vertical.
As the project managers of BizTalk Application development become aware of the above
knowledge areas, they execute projects more effectively and much more productively. Different
skills gained through understanding those knowledge areas are helpful for the project managers in
avoiding a crisis. This also includes scope deviation (Familiar, 2015). These help the project
managers to undertake proactive decisions. Hence, as the project manager knows the ideas of those
knowledge areas thoroughly, they turn out to be proficient in managing the given projects and
different people included in them.
The BizTalk server would help in transforming and converting data from distinct formats and
applications to common and independent form. Moreover, BizTalk never gets stopped at the
company’s frontier. The project outcomes would be also helpful to inter-connect applications of the
agencies such that one can connect trading partners or B2B and create efficiency in the complete
value chain (Hedberg, La Cour & Weare, 2014). Here a successful implementation of that BizTalk
Server System is helpful to integrate systems, develop the capability of various stakeholders and
employees for the benefits of the business. Here for achieving the most successful outcomes BizTalk
developer or architect can be hired for designing, deploying and configuring an integrated system
and execute troubleshooting. The suitable BizTalk expert for the job needs skills and experiences
(Serote et al. 2015).

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7. Conclusion:
BizTalk Server is one of the most popular and useful tools to handle present-day integrations.
In the past, scopes of deployment for BizTalk applications has been time-consuming, manual and
limited. However, currently, there has been various tested and existing tools available helping to
automate the complete process. The above study assures that BizTalk applications could be
implemented in any scenarios in tested and working order with full traceability of what has been
modified and when. It should be reminded that connecting system communication points have been
core to the operational efficiency of the business. Thus it is seen that deployment and management
of integration of complex integration tools are complicated and needs particular expertise. Further,
BizTalk expertise has been helping to keep complex integration points inter-connected. This is done
by achieving flexible monitoring and different proactive, supportive solutions.

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8. References:
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systems.com/about
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Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
BEdidin, H., & Bhardwaj, V. (2014). BizTalk and HL7. In HL7 for BizTalk (pp. 1-8). Apress,
Berkeley, CA.
Familiar, B. (2015). Azure, A Microservice Platform. In Microservices, IoT, and Azure (pp. 33-65).
Apress, Berkeley, CA.
Hedberg, J., La Cour, M., & Weare, K. (2014). (MCTS) Microsoft BizTalk Server (70-595)
Certification and Assessment Guide. Packt Publishing Ltd.
Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2015). Relationships between a project management methodology and
project success in different project governance contexts. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(6), 1377-1392.
Kerzner, H. (2018). Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John Wiley &
Sons.
Seroter, R., Brimble, M., Cooper, J., Dijkgraaf, C., & Morar, M. (2015). SOA Patterns with BizTalk
Server 2013 and Microsoft Azure. Packt Publishing Ltd.