Office Business Applications (OBA) Team Blog

The OBA blog has been quiet for a little while. We're taking an opportunity to expand the OBA team, and with that change new people are being brought into the OBA program to expand our efforts here. I'll be working with various folks to keep the blog...

If you’re looking for guidance on how to integrate SAP and/or PeopleSoft into your Office applications, then the OBA Sample Application Kits are a great place to start. These kits provide good documentation and source code to help you get up and running...

Scot Hillier (Microsoft MVP) and Bhushan Nene just published an article titled “ Building Excel 2007 and Excel Services Dashboards by Consuming Two-Dimensional Data from Web Services ”. The article shows how to develop a solution to consume web services...

ODC2008 presentations, keynotes and news are now published externally! You can access these by going to www.obacentral.com and clicking on the ODC2008 tab, or directly via the link below: https://www.obacentral.com/ODC/Default.aspx - Khawar

Interested in learning about how others are building and using solutions built on MS technology but don’t want to read a long case study? Check out Microsoft.com Success Stories site -- a rich, interactive (Silverlight-powered) environment where you can...

Open XML SDK roadmap was announced last week. For those who aren't familiar with this SDK, it is an API for .NET developers and designed to make it easier to build Open XML solutions. Full details at Doug Mahugh's blog below: http://blogs.msdn.com...

Winners of the OBA Solution of the Year Award Contest 1st place: SmartAsset ODC 2nd place: Intrasphere PharmaCM 3rd place: IntelliSafe Vault Desktop for Microsoft Office 2007 Congratulations!! Congratulations to Round 2 Finalists...

Soma Somasegar (VP, dev div) posted an interesting post on Office development recently. Here's the link: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/01/30/integrating-business-systems-with-office-and-sharepoint.aspx - Khawar

On behalf of the OBA team, congratulations to the 20 Round 1 finalists for the OBA Solution of the Year Award! An alphabetical list of round 1 finalists is produced below. Round 2 finalists will be announced on Feb 10 at the start of ODC 2008 in San...

Several folks from the extended OBA team and MVPs have been diligently working on an OBA book and I'm pleased to let you know it has now been published! Written by Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Adam Buenz, Steve Fox, John Holliday, Bhushan Nene, and Karthik...

First, we're now only 18 work days away from ODC 2008!! There's some excellent OBA related content and world class speakers in each and every track so if you haven't checked out the details yet, I encourage you to do so now. You can find details of...

We recently went live with some new content on OBA Central to make learning about OBAs easier. You can check out the new Silverlight based OBA elearning modules on www.obacentral.com via the following link: https://www.obacentral.com/eLearning/default...

We're proud to unveil the inaugural "OBA Solution of the Year" award contest sponsored by OBA Central and culminating at ODC 2008! Details of the OBA Solution of the year contest are posted at OBA Central: https://www.obacentral.com/Pages/SolutionContest...

Several Microsoft groups have teamed up to bring a series of Sleepless events to you! The finals will take place in San Jose and winners will be announced at ODC 2008! If you are wondering why Sleepless and what the event is like, check out this...

We now have 45 OBA related case studies avaiable on www.microsoft.com . If you are starting an OBA project or just looking to see how others are leveraging OBAs and the kind of benefits they are seeing, a great place to start is by looking through the...

If you are into OBA/SharePoint development, Ted Pattison needs no intros. I had the pleasure of meeting him at last week's TechEd Developer Conference in Barcelona and he was kind enough to share his insights on what he's hearing and seeing as it related...

One of the OBA related news at TechEd Developer Barcelona was about the availablity of S+S BluePrints. These are open source frameworks designed to make it easier to build S+S applications. These frameworks include source code, guidance, structured step...

Attending TechEd Developer in Barcelona (Nov 5-9 2007)? Be sure to check out some excellent Office/OBA development related sessions that are being offered. Here's a small sampling! - OFF308 - Extend the Office User Interface with VSTO 3.0 - OFF303...

ODC 2008 registration is now open. Register today via www.odc2008.com ! Be sure to check out the blogs displayed in the silverlight control on the right side of the main page. We are still in the process of sorting out the detailed plans for the conference...

Energizer is using the 2007 Microsoft Office system to create Office Business Applications (OBAs). These applications take advantage of the power of the Office Business Platform—the client and server software, services, and tools that make up the 2007...

Channel 9 discusses OBA with Epicor. ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications at Epicor (Part 1) ARCast.TV - Office Business Applications @ Epicor (Part 2) ARCast.TV - Office Business Apps @ Epicor (Part 3) - Khawar

The Microsoft Office team is pleased to announce the dates and location for the 2008 Office Developer Conference ! When: February 10-13, 2008 Where: San Jose Convention Center , San Jose, CA Who: 2000 developers and architects who build solutions...

Just a quick reminder that there's still time to enter the O 2 OBA Challenge but the window is closing fast!! Only two weeks left to create your entry: Step One: Download the Powerpoint Template Step Two: Describe your business problem Step...

In case you missed the news, the latest MOSS SDK release contains a BDC tool! Full details at the sharepoint team blog here .

Several new OBA case studies have been published recently. Good insights into how others a leveraging and reaping the benefits of OBAs. Approva estimates it cut development time by up to 33% using the Microsoft Office and associated ecosytem ...