BizTalk Server MVP 2012

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that I’ve been re-awarded the MVP title.

MVP_Horizontal_FullColor

For me this is the third time to receive this award. The second year in the program has been an tremendous experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring and very skilled people. I have written and published a book, reviewed to other books, written dozen or so TechNet Wiki articles, answer many questions on the forum, build a couple of samples for the MSDN Gallery and had quite a few speaking engagements.

I would like to thank:

  • My MVP leads William Jansen and Jacqueline de Jong.
  • BizTalk Product Team, Ed Price, Suzanna Moran, Haris Majeed, Allesandro Teglia, Paolo Salvatori, Clemens Vasters and all other Microsoft employees involved.
  • People at my former employer Ordina Netherlands: Bert van de Belt and Marco Rutters in particular for all their support.
  • Current Employer motion10: Daan Scheer, Gijs in ‘t Veld, Wilfred Noppers, Iris Blom, Joël Schenk, Bob de Jong, Sander Nefs, Tomasso Groenendijk, and all my other colleagues.
  • Fellow BizTalk MVP's: Randal van Splunteren, Saravana Kumar, Richard Seroter, Kent Weare, Mikael Håkansson, Johan Hedberg, Stephen W. Thomas, Alan Smith, Oliver Hauth, Nino Crudele, Jeffrey Juday, Jon Fancey,  Scott Seely, Ruth Resende, Dan Rosanova, Abdul Rafay, Ben Cline, Bill Chesnut, Leonid Ganeline, Rohit Sharma, Micheal Stephenson and Sandro Pereira, who I got learn better and supported and helped me out in this program.
  • BizTalk community: Tord G. Nordahl, Mikael Sand, Lex Hegt, Naushad Alam, Howard S. Edidin, Randy Aldrich, Rene Brauwers, DPS Bali, Rajesh Kolla, Jean-Paul Smit, Sriram Chidambaram Narayanan, Dean Robertson, Colin Meade,João Pedro Martines, Martin Abbott, Marie Högkvist and many others that make BizTalk community strong!
  • Finally my wife Lian and children Stan, Ellis and Cato for their support.

I’m looking forward to another great year in the program.

Comments

Sandro Pereira said…
Congratulations Steef-Jan, you have been doing a spectacular job and making a big impact in the BizTalk community!
12:52 PM
Richard said…
Congrats! If you had NOT been renewed, I probably would have quit the program and swore off all Microsoft products!
3:06 PM
Rohit C.M. Sharma said…
Congratulations Steef-Jan! You making more and more people aware about BizTalk through your blog posts and book and you do deserve this!
9:08 PM
Tord Glad Nordahl said…
You are a dedicated resource for Microsoft and a great friend, you are doing a lot and the award is well deserved. Thank you for being so welcoming and open in the BizTalk community!
12:07 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DTAP Strategy: Pricing and Licensing

Image
To implement BizTalk solutions it is a good practice to have an DTAP environment in place. DTAP stands for Development, Test, Acceptance and Production. Development and test environments are equal (mirrored) and same account for acceptance and production. Deploying DTAP environments is easy, because there are many factors influencing outcome of DTAP. One factor is pricing and licensing costs. BizTalk is available in different editions and since BizTalk depends on operating system and database there are some configuration options to. Here is an overview of possible configurations for DTAP environments, hence there is a nice BizTalk Feature Dependency Matrix. Besides features, there are non-functional requirements to reckon with like fail-over, availability and scalability. On Microsoft Pricing and Licensing FAQ section of BizTalk I found this on non functional side. In a large BizTalk Server 2006 R2 deployment, two key considerations ensure redundancy in all areas of the architect
Read more

Table Operation on Oracle 11g XE with OracleDbBinding

Image
Last year I did a post on table operations on SQL Server Table with WCF-SQL Adapter from BizTalk on SQL. Now I like to do similar thing on table in Oracle 11g Express database using the Oracle Binding from BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010. Oracle 11g Express Edition is available through OTN. For downloading software you will need to have an account! It is important that when accessing Oracle you have appropriate client installed. This can sometimes be a hassle if you do not know, which client you need. When you trying to connect to Oracle you will get error messages like: Connecting to the LOB system has failed. Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess, Version=2.111.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89b483f429c47342' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.. This can be pretty annoying, but there is documentation that can help you going the right direction. In installation documentation I read that supported versions are: Oracle d
Read more

Integration, the community blasting into 2017!

Image
In the past, now and tomorrow I will keep saying that integration is relevant, even in this day and age of digitalization. Integration professionals will play an essential role in providing connectivity between systems, devices and services. Integration drives the digitalization forward by connecting everything with anything. Integration skills are still in demand. A LinkedIn study revealed a top 10 with integration and middleware in top 5 with Cloud, Data Science, UX and Web. And the expectation for 2017 is that this will be similar. Our toolbox is expanding from on premise tooling to cloud services; we have WCF, BizTalk Server, MSMQ to Logic Apps, API Management and Service Bus. Formats ranging from flat file, EDI, XML to JSON, several protocols open and proprietary, tooling from mappers to BizTalk360. It can be challenging yet much more exciting. My conclusion is more options, more fun, at least in my view. In February I, will be travellin
Read more