June 2007 - Posts

Brand new MS Belux Partner Portal!
Last months we worked intensively to re-vamp the partner portal. An overview of the major improvements: · A clear structure which allows to find easily what you are looking for; · More content available in Dutch & French, so reduced linking to the Read More...
Posted 29 June 07 06:06 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
ESB Guidance Package
The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform and to allow Microsoft customers Read More...
Posted 27 June 07 04:52 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Visibility and Control in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Services alone do not constitute a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Capabilities must be acquired that provide visibility and control into service development and service execution. Without these capabilities, IT offerings will become fragile as the Read More...
Posted 27 June 07 02:29 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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OBA Refererence Application Pack for Health Plans Launched
Microsoft released Office Business Application (OBA) Reference Architecture Pack (RAP) for Health Plans, also known as Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA). This RAP demonstrates the use Office Business Application platform combined with Read More...
Posted 22 June 07 09:58 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Forrester Reseach on spreadsheets in enterprises (enter OBA)
Quote from the Executive Summary of the Forrester Research paper: "Spreadsheets - the most widely used business intelligence (BI) tool - are a permanent fixture in enterprises because no other analytical application outperforms them in flexibility, ease Read More...
Posted 22 June 07 08:51 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
MSDN Enterprise Architecture Site Launched
The MSDN Architecture site now has a new member in the family focusing entirely on Enterprise Architecture. Over the coming months you will start to see more articles, webcasts, blogs, and architecture guidance around this subject to help you with your Read More...
Posted 20 June 07 07:10 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance Project
The patterns & practices group has come out with a new community release of the Performance Testing Guidance project. The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and using Visual Read More...
Posted 19 June 07 08:28 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Enterprise Architecture: 20 year retrospective and links with SOA
IASA is the "International Association of Software Architects" and "Perpectives of the IASA" is their periodical newsletter. The April issue is entirely devoted to a retrospective on EA (20 years ago John Zachman published a first paper on EA) and also Read More...
Posted 18 June 07 09:06 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Project Server Connected!
We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector which is available at http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector . The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Project Server 2007 Connector is designed Read More...
Posted 12 June 07 05:49 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
May 2007 Release of Software Factory
Microsoft patterns & practices is pleased to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of architecture guidance: Smart Client Software Factory May 2007 Release Resources · MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclientfactory · Community Read More...
Posted 06 June 07 09:01 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
ZDNet on OBA
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=121 " Here’s my best case scenario: Google announces that Google Apps can be “programmed” to function as a sophisticated interface to Salesforce.com and its App Exchange partners, much like SAP’s Duet and Microsoft’s Read More...
Posted 05 June 07 05:02 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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*major* milestone in MS smartclient strategy
On behalf of the Acropolis Team, we are pleased to annouce that after months of hard work, the Acropolis CTP1 release is now available for download at http://windowsclient.net/Acropolis ! This is the first public release of Acropoliis and we are looking Read More...
Posted 05 June 07 08:37 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   

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