Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture

Great compile of MOSS 2007 Resources and Tools for building OBAs that continues from his previous post . SharePoint Tips Utility Pack - package of SharePoint 2007 utilities for administrators and developers. Floating ToolPane for SharePoint 2007 SharePoint...

Great compile from JOPX on SharePoint 2007 : http://jopx.blogspot.com/2007/04/sharepoint-article-series-business-data.html

Doug Mahugh blogs about Office 2004 for mac support for Office 2007 file formats. Office for the Mac hasn't shipped with Open XML support yet ( but it's coming soon ). So if you're a Mac user in an organization that has moved to Office 2007 and the Open...

The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down...

There is a solution for you... http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/default.htm

As part of its continued commitment to deliver interoperability by design, Microsoft Corp. today announced a new collaborative effort with the Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and others to create an open source...

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In conjunction with Microsoft and Unisys Hyakugo Bank has successfully launched BankVision. The three year project went into production on May 7th, 2007. Hyakugo Bank is the leading regional banking institution in Mie prefecture, and it has an A- rating...

Wall Street & Technology has a good article on SOA for Business Transformation in banking. The article speaks to SOA implementations at Wachovia and Bank of America, and is supplemented by commentary from Microsoft, Tower Group and Butler Group. http...

Just by the name of this conference alone, how could I miss such an event. I need to work on my scheduling. :) http://blogs.msdn.com/clare_dillon/archive/2007/04/24/barcamp-dublin-an-excellent-event.aspx

This industry webcast series runs every other Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 pm EST. Make these your must-see source of the latest technology trends and solutions in health and life sciences! Our regulars include product managers from Redmond, as well as industry...

Check out the recently released Insurance Architecture Center that was released for the ACORD conference. Available on the site will be business solution documents with a focus on the common workflow areas of new business origination for commercial auto...

Today we are announcing the availability of the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) feature and more widely notifying customers of the File Block functionality for Microsoft Office 2003 and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Both features...

I was talking to one of the Office Live guys a few weeks ago about some possible scenarios on how to leverage Office Live and what else but lending came to mind. :) Since we are talking about lending I thought I would keep this as a long running scenario...

Steve Ballmer looks at an OBA prototype from Dassault Systemes. The lifecycle management software is built on Office 2007 and features a composite application that uses SharePoint Server 2007 and Communications Server 2007. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid...

So I have made it back to Redmond after a long journey and I wanted to write a recap of the event. In this post will will share some of the questions asked by the audience that may be of interest to you. For those that are not familiar with the OBA EMEA...

Thank you to the architects and developers at the Microsoft Office Business Applications event today. The interactions during the sessions was great. I enjoyed hearing some of the challenges you have on Office Business Applications platform. Your hospitality...

This would of been a must have if this technology debut when I was around. My hometown college University of Cincinnati (UC) in dabbling around with some really cool mobile technology. UC has adopted Windows Mobile technologies to try to integrate into...

I've meet a great deal of people this week that has told me that they are frustrated with Office 2007 because they can't find their commands and shortcuts. Most of the shortcuts are the same with a few exceptions. If you used the menu structure for functions...

Microsoft and MasterCard are working together to educate small business owners on their payments options. I suspect that Microsoft will show how to build and deploy marketplaces on the Office Live platform. Combining an online Point of Sale solution ...

See you in October!

Recently I've been asked about if the Lending Message Bus (LMB) supports other standards other than MISMO. The answer is... of course it does. The LMB can support one or more standards. This is due to the modular design of the adapter and accelerator...

We all expect the cellphone to get smaller while packing in an ever broadening array of functions. The real question is what it’ll look like—inside and out in several years. To find the answer, Microsoft has investigated dozens of on-the-brink technologies...

It's a slow blogging week that I have been here in England. I arrived in London a week early to meet with some partners. I hopped on another plane after I came back from NYC for the developers conference. Directly after this I will be kicking off the...