A colleague mentioned the Digital Forum solution during a meeting today. I think it's an innovative way for Microsoft to help its partners publicize their offerings and, after a cursory review of the content, watched several interesting video case studies...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=382189

http://www.zimbra.com/about/zimbra_pr_2008-02-05.html "Native e-mail, contacts, calendar, and task synchronization from Zimbra to Outlook 2007"   Services great.....accessing them using the familiar tools of the Office system, priceless...

My colleagues developed some excellent developer resources to coincide with this week's Office Developer Conference in sunny San Jose. The OBA Composition Reference Toolkit is a tool to aid with the rapid assembly of components into new OBAs. The toolkit...

Yesterday Microsoft launched a new site for Microsoft Success Stories. The solution leverages Silverlight to provide a more compelling way for people to understand some of the success our customers and partners are having leveraging Microsoft's technologies...

Additional validation for Software + Services and my argument that OBAs prove Software + Services with the integration of Microsoft Outlook and Excel with NetSuite's CRM services: http://www.netsuite.com/portal/products/crm_plus/pt_ms.shtml

Kevin Marshall at Clarity Consulting blogged today about how he's integrated Tafiti - a Silverlight-based experimental search front-end from Microsoft - with the enterprise search capabilities of Office SharePoint Server. Kevin provides the source code...

OBAs are a key manifestation in the enterprise of Microsoft's strategy of Software + Services. In the past month I've learned of 3 innovative examples that marry social networking services with - the definitive social interface in the enterprise - Outlook...

https://microsoft.crgevents.com/ODC2008

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=BW&date=20071128&id=7865582 "SharePoint Server 2007 has gained significant traction among companies looking to manage content and facilitate information sharing, as well as...

My colleague - Khawar - blogged the list of OBA-related sessions at this week's TechEd Barcelona : http://blogs.msdn.com/oba/archive/2007/11/04/oba-sessions-at-teched-developer-barcelona.aspx

I couldn't resist and here are a couple of my favorites from the OBA eivdence on Microsoft Case Studies . Like friends, pets and children, all of the stories are great, but these, for one reason and another, piqued my excitement: Customers Banco...

There are many OBA case studies available on Microsoft Case Studies and the teams continue to ensure that existing OBA evidence and new OBA evidence will be correctly tagged as "Office Business Applications" on this site. Unfortunately, the set is not...

"Microsoft SharePoint is a data and document collaboration tool in use by millions; it is starting to find its way into the CAD and PLM-using marketplace. Publisher Rachael Taggart says the new, hosted option will make SharePoint even more of a Trojan...

http://cfostrategiesinc.com/documents/CFO_Strategies_Microsoft_Press_Release_Oct102007.pdf "SOX Compliance Manager incorporates CFO Strategies’ field-tested ActivityPoint™ methodology to accelerate Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and automate the compliance...

Disclaimer: I’m a Microsoft employee. There’s a post on The Fat Guy blog in which its author – Scott Chaffing - moans about new functionality in Salesforce.com that disables ( DIS ables) Outlook synchronization. Nick Carr commented on Scott’s posting...

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000741 "As a result of adopting Winshuttle TxShuttle to interface with SAP R/3, Canada Post has saved more than CN$1 million, reduced sole reliance on third-party IT suppliers, enabled...

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000706 From the case study: Energizer is using the 2007 Microsoft Office system to create Office Business Applications (OBAs). These applications take advantage of the power of...

ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 1) ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 2) ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 3)

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci1271899,00.html "The final nail in Oracle's coffin may well have been Duet. While SAP and Oracle both had advantages in other areas, BNSF felt Oracle couldn't match Duet's functionality...

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK contains conceptual overviews, “How Do I…?” programming tasks, developer tools, code samples, references, and an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) starter kit to guide...

A great introduction to OBA: what they are, why they're powerful and an introduction to the key aspects of the architecture: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb614538.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb614541.aspx This chapter is...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jul07/07-26SPPT800MPR.mspx "Today, at Microsoft’s 2007 Financial Analyst Meeting, the company reported that its Microsoft ® Office SharePoint ® Server business generated revenue of more than $800 million in...

http://OBACentral.com I did a quick tally today of the solutions posted on OBA Central and was impressed to see that there are already over 100 OBAs posted. This is good progress in the 2 weeks that the site has been live.