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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:58 PM

Biztalk Services adds Workflow – Orchestrate in the Cloud

Just spotted we have added workflow to Biztalk Services .  Sweet. Technorati Tags: Biztalk , Workflow
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:35 PM

ISV meet hoster, hoster meet ISV

You are an ISV looking at on-demand delivery of your application - good for you! But... once you have sorted out scalability, configurability, tackled multi-tenancy and packed it full with cool features, be prepared to keep developing as your Hoster may
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:21 PM

Multi-tenancy in the data tier - not for everyone

We have a great example application called LitwareHR that (amongst other things) demonstrates how to design a highly multi-tenant database - where the data of tenants exists in the same tables and SQL views are used to project out only the data for an
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Monday, August 13, 2007 12:47 PM

LitwareHR SaaS Sample gets a smart client

LitwareHR is our sample application demonstrating how to use Microsoft technologies to build a SaaS solution. Originally the plan was to have two clients - a web client and a smart client, both communicating with the server hosted services. However the
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:49 PM

SaaS and Workflow for real

Two areas I have spent a fair bit of time on in the last 6 months are SaaS and Workflow Foundation . Workflow Foundation is a great technology that seems to fit well into the SaaS world of "configuring business processes" - which is one reason why Workflow
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:47 AM

Microsoft Software + Services Partner Opportunity Paper

I spotted an interesting paper on opportunities for partners on our partner site. It gives a decent summary of our S+S strategy (which combines the best of on-demand with the best of on-premise) before then talking about the impact and opportunity for
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:25 AM

Software + Services Slides now available from Architect Forum, May 15th

Mid may we did a day on Software + Services where I presented Successful SaaS: What Will it Take? Just noticed the slides are now available. MS Strategy for Software + Services Technology Innovation and the Changing Software Landscape Software as a Service
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:25 PM

ISV interested in hosting solution - then you need to understand SPLA

SPLA is relevant if you host your solution for your clients or if you are looking to move to SaaS. It has popped up a few times in recent discussions and I was about to give a brief explanation here when I spotted a US colleague had already done a great
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:11 PM

Want more on Microsoft CRM as an application platform?

My post on CRM as an application platform sparked a fair bit of interest amongst UK ISV's. If you want to know more I suggest you add the blogs of two of our evangelists to your fave RSS reader. Both specialise in helping ISVs with Microsoft CRM. Ben
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:35 AM

Multi-tenancy and row level security in SQL Server 2005

When looking at architecting for on-demand, the subject of single tenancy vs multi tenancy always comes up. When looking at multi tenancy, the subject of row level security often follows. Why? Well - multi tenancy at its extreme means all the tenants
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:08 PM

Links for SaaS session May 17th

As promised here are some useful links from our session today with UK ISVs interested in SaaS. Litware http://www.codeplex.com/litwarehr Office Live http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905514.aspx Microsoft CRM http://blogs.msdn.com/mm/ Biztalk
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:13 PM

Links for SaaS session at Architect Forum, 15th May

As promised here are some useful links for my session yesterday and the Q&A at the end: SaaS Architecture http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas Sample Application LitwareHR http://www.codeplex.com/litwarehr Three day workshop on Litware SaaSArchitectureWorkshop.zip
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:08 PM

Microsoft CRM = Microsoft Business Application Platform

I think we have a well kept secret - Microsoft Dynamics CRM is not actually a CRM system (well - technically it is but stay with me). Microsoft Dynamics CRM could also be called the even more catchy "Microsofts rich platform for building a lot of brand
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Friday, May 11, 2007 2:16 PM

Our next steps in Software as a Service - Biztalk Services and Project Astoria

We have made two significant announcements in the last few weeks as part of our "cunning plan" to deliver on our Software + Services vision. I need to digest these more fully but they are worthy of sharing even before I fully understand them :-) Combined,
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Monday, April 23, 2007 1:57 PM

BT Applications Marketplace open for pre-registration of SaaS ISVs

BT has over 500,000 SME broadband customers - and SME is increasingly interested in adopting solutions delivered as software-as-a-service. Hence BT and Microsoft have been working together to address this demand. Out of this work has come the BT Applications
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