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Second Visit to Stockholm : BizTalk User Group Sweden

Next month I will attend the BizTalk User Group Sweden event: Top 10 Things to Know When Integrating with Line of Business Systems . Kent Weare and Richard Seroter will be coming to talk about Integrating with Line of Business Systems. They have written a book together with Thiago Almeida, Sergei Moukhnitski and Carl Darski called: Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Integrating with Line of Business Systems . In session packed with demoes they will walk through numerous key principles to follow when doing system integration like integrating BizTalk Server 2010 with SharePoint, Windows Azure, SAP and software-as-a-service providers (e.g. SalesForce). I am looking forward to these sessions and to see speakers, Johan Hedberg , Mikael Sand , Mikael Håkansson , Alan Smith and Saravana Kumar . I recommend the book if you integrating with previous named products and technologies and session if you can attend.

Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 5

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It has been a while ago I did a series of posts on monitoring tools for BizTalk solutions. Back then I discussed the following tools: BizMon now named Integration Platform Monitor (IPM); Minotaur currently it’s second release; Frends Helium . And now there is a new tool made by Saravana Kumar , who I met last MVP summit in person, called BizTalk360 . During bus ride from summit back to hotel he demoed me this monitoring tool and I was impressed by functionality and look and feel. Finally there is way for administrators to have a tool similar to administration console, but now web based. The other tools also have a web interface and I still cannot understand why Microsoft hasn’t thought of bringing administration console also in web version (like SCOM 2007 R2!). BizTalk360 is feature rich and I suggest to look at it. I am impressed by work Saravana has put into it and provided the tool with such a nice UI. User experience in my view is an important factor for a tool to be adopt