What a great day at the Global Energy Forum last week, and what a fantastic turnout.  I was down there in support of my customer Nalco, and their talk on using software to improve customer operations ( press release here ). It’s always good to see what other verticals are doing, and there is a lot...

As promised, I am following up with more information about OSIsoft ’s Dynamic Office Business Application (DOBA) Accelerators offered on OSIsoft’s vCampus site.  I traded emails with David Doll, from OSIsoft, to share his answers directly on the blog. Thanks, David, for answering these questions...

A popular topic during my customer visits is about improving manufacturing operations.  Many of you in the chemical industry have investments in both Microsoft and OSIsoft .  The conversation immediately goes to how we are working together to help customers make game changing improvements. ...

We sponsored a CIO Magazine virtual conference called “The Intelligent Enterprise” back in November.  The live event was broadcast on November 12th, but you can access all the content through May 15, 2009 (you need to register to view it). The conference was built around a number of topics including...

SAT Corporation has released a nice 15-minute on-demand webinar which provides their point-of-view of how the Oil & Gas and chemical industry can use technology to provide role-based productivity to your mobile maintenance workforce. They provide a nice overview of the business case for change, and...

We just released a case study with OSISoft highlighting the growing trend of usage for OSISoft's PI system and corresponding real-time performance management infrastructure for environmental improvements including energy and emissions. Most of us know them for their market presence in helping process...

If you are currently evaluating RFID platforms for your business, or are starting to do RFID projects using BizTalk Server 2006 R2, we are hosting an event from February 18th through February 21st in Bellevue, Washington. The first two days are a congregation of our customers, partners, and Microsoft...

It's been a lot of fun to watch our BizTalk Server product grow over the years. I was fortunate to lead the implementation of one of the first BizTalk Server customer implementations back in my consulting days, and have followed the product closely since. While we have released a bunch of new and upgraded...