July 2007 - Posts

VS2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and Silverlight 1.0 RC1 released 27 July 2008
Overall Key Messages The need for organizations to provide richer, more connected solutions to their customers is crystal clear, but complexity, time-to-market and cost have historically been barriers to deployment. Microsoft is breaking down these barriers Read More...
Posted 26 July 07 04:54 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 now available on MSDN
The OBA/VSTO Starter Kit v. 1.0 provides information on how developers can build a Client and LOB system Integration OBA using Office 2007, VSTO & SAP. It’s a great introduction to how developers can use VSTO to integrate LOB systems into the context Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 08:14 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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BizTalk extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation first CTP
As we know WF and Biztalk are related and both have their strenghts and weaknesses: Windows Workflow Foundation provides a new programming model that developers can use for declaratively creating business logic in software. BizTalk Server provides an Read More...
Posted 24 July 07 08:07 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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OBA Central: community site for customers and partners
OBA Central was launched last week with great success: the site has had 170,000 hits in this first week. This is a community of partners developing interesting Office Business Applications across industries and horizontal scenarios. Customers can search Read More...
Posted 20 July 07 10:16 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Forrester Publishes Application Server Platforms Report, Q3 2007
Summary On July 11th, Forrester released its Application Server Platforms Wave. Forrester defines an application server platform as “infrastructure software for building Web and composite applications and, increasingly, applications based on service-oriented Read More...
Posted 18 July 07 07:20 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Software + Services: strategy, business model, case studies
Interesting whitepaper about S+S . It provides a summary of the S+S strategy and explains the impact and opportunity for our large partner base - both VARs who traditionally make money from on-premise installs + maintenance and ISVs who traditionally Read More...
Posted 18 July 07 08:56 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Biztalk enhanced support for SOA, ESB, BPM, WF
Microsoft announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September. In the B2B area it offers key new features like: RFID EDI support (i.e. much improved) Availability Statement 2 (AS2) support Prebuilt integration with SharePoint Server Broader Enterprise Read More...
Posted 17 July 07 05:48 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM: S+S and OBA applied
Microsoft CRM team announces Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in Denver this week. This offering is again a great illustration of the main architectural patterns advocated by MS: OBA : the knowledge worker has the CRM Read More...
Posted 17 July 07 01:13 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft's "Cloud OS" takes shape: enter "Software + Services"
Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying Internet services opened up to developers. Some extracts out of the covering CNET article: Quote : "In addition to making available its existing services, Read More...
Posted 13 July 07 09:10 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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OBA detailled design: expose BDC entities as web services and consume on Office client
The Business Data Catalog (BDC - a feature of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition MOSS2007) plays a crucial role in the OBA architecture pattern: it exposes the data of LOB applications as business entities. Those business entities Read More...
Posted 12 July 07 07:59 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Microsoft launches OBA partner program
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in Denver, CO, Microsoft announced the OBA OnRamp program for partners that will invest as much as $10 million in the form of technical resources, training and assistance, and marketing around partner OBAs. Read More...
Posted 12 July 07 07:31 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Architecture needs to be "actionable"
Interesting (and IMO very true, sadly enough ) quote from the full article (view from CBR): "Recent Computer Business Review stories about enterprise architecture vendors like Telelogic and Troux Technologies have seen how vendors are trying to emphasize Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 06:12 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will launch together on Feb 27
At the Worldwide Parter Conference 2007 MS announced yesterday that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will launch together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27 2008. Check it out at: WPC2007 announcement Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 08:45 by pdestoop | 1 Comments   
ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP now available
As you might know via ADO.NET 3.5 MS is shipping the Entity Data Model (EDM). This model is heavily influenced by the entity/relationship idiom, incorporates entity inheritance, and may be mapped to both relational and programming language concepts. You Read More...
Posted 10 July 07 03:55 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
ITIL moving towards Enterprise Architecture
As seen on Mike Walker's (Enterprise Architect at MS Corp) blog. Yet another framework is moving to an Enterprise Architecture style. It is not (yet?) 100% complete (and in this it is no different then other EA framework) but as could be expected it is Read More...
Posted 09 July 07 08:14 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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Aspiring Architects
You have career aspirations to become an architect and wonder how to get there? You are wondering what architects in IT organizations are responsible for? You are wondering how to foster some of your people to become architects? Microsoft has started Read More...
Posted 05 July 07 03:06 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
Momentum builds up around OBA
As a result of trade press meetings conducted throughout the week, momentum is building up around OBA. Coverage has focused on the real world business results companies are seeing as a result of OBAs with either Skanska or Epicor referenced or quoted Read More...
Posted 03 July 07 11:11 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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OBA RAP for E-Forms processing in the Public Sector
The OBA Reference Application Pack for E-forms processing in the public sector was released on MSDN today. Work on this RAP commenced in May 2007 and culminated last Friday with this release to the web. This RAP contains a reference solution architecture Read More...
Posted 03 July 07 10:40 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics
The OBA Reference Application Pack for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics was released on MSDN today. Work on this RAP commenced in mid-May 2007 and culminated last Friday with this release to the web. This RAP contains a reference solution architecture Read More...
Posted 03 July 07 10:34 by pdestoop | 0 Comments   
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