Product Description

Pro BizTalk 2006 is a high-end resource that is based on real feedback from BizTalk developers. Authors George Dunphy and Ahmed Metwally are well known within the BizTalk community, and here they cover topics not discussed in other books, like performance tuning, scalability, and administration. This book also features examples of specific, real-world implementations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #524865 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

About the Author
George Dunphy is a senior consultant with Microsoft Consulting
Services specializing in enterprise application development and management.
He has ten years' experience as a consultant and architect with several
different companies and has worked with a variety of organizations ranging
from Fortune 500 companies to Internet startups.

George is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Certified Solutions
Developer. He focuses on technologies such as the Microsoft .NET Framework,
Biztalk Server, Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net, Active Server Pages,
COM, SQL Server, XML, SOAP and WSDL, T-SQL, and web development. He is
proficient on multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

In addition to his technical skills, George focuses on managing development
teams for large enterprise application development projects. He also has
project management experience both as a technical project manager and as an
overall project manager and is presently completing the Project Management
Professional designation through PMI.

Ahmed Metwally is a senior enterprise strategy consultant with Microsoft
and has worked in the IT industry for 12+ years in the areas of systems
development, consulting, and engagement management for large federal
government departments and Fortune 500 firms. Ahmed is a subject matter
expert in the areas of application/system architecture, systems
development, and enterprise business automation. He has worked with and
managed large strategic accounts including the Canadian Federal Government,
Sony Electronics, GE, United Technologies, Hamilton Sundstrand, and OTIS
Elevators.

Ahmed has extensive experience architecting and developing enterprise
business automation solutions based on Business Process Management engines,
Enterprise Application Integration engines (specifically Microsoft
BizTalk), web services, and enterprise portals. Ahmed is also the co-owner
of multiple patents in the field of application layer technologies. He
currently sits on the boards and the technical advisory boards of several
technology companies in Canada and the U.S.

Ahmed holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the
American University in Cairo as well as a master's certificate in project
management from the University of Quebec.

Customer Reviews

First Impressions, not a useful book...
I have had this book for a couple of weeks now and feel that I am now able to say, it isn't very good. It may be fine for others but so far it has not provided answers to anything I need to know about. It makes endless references to the Biztalk Documentation, which is fine except that, I have the documentation already, so I may as well just read that.

On the whole I feel that using the Biztalk 2004 Unleashed book and the Biztalk documentation is better than wasting money on this one. I may come to find it useful but I am not convinced.

Not great
There is some useful information in this book, but the considered opinion around here is that it's muddled, not at all clearly written and a bit mediocre. The text tends to wander about without much of a coherent flow and it's sometimes hard to sometimes fathom what point the authors are trying to make. There is also a tendency to critice the knowledge of the reader, or the average BizTalk developer, which is very irritating after a while, especially as the authors often do not seem to be able to explain clearly the points they are trying to make.