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Looking back at 2014

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Close to  the end of the year 2014. It has again been quite a year from me, travelling to different places of our world. Some familiar and some new places. 2014 brought me to the following cities, area’s and countries: United-Kingdom London . Ireland Dublin. Italy Tuscany , Emilia Romagna and Lombardia (Pisa, Lucca, Viareggio, Florence, Piacenza, Poggi Bonsi, San Gimignano, Volterra, Sienna, Valconasso di Pontenure, Podenzano, and Val Trebia). United-States Washington State (Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Deception Pass, Whidbey Island, Fidalgo Island, Camano Island, and Bainbridge Island). Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur. Australia Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland (Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney). Spain Basque Country, Spanish Pyrenees (Girona, L’estartit, Vielha). Norway Olso, Bergen. Sweden Stockholm. Belgium , Mechelen. For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2013. To summarize all my activity bullet

INTEGRATE 2014 – Journey to next generation of integration

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The beginning of december I visited the Microsoft Campus (Building 92) for the 3rd global BizTalk Summit, which was branded as Integrate2014 . The event was organized this time by BizTalk360   along side with Microsoft itself and core partners like Quicklearn , Nevatech , Codit , and LogicalTech SysTalk . It was a three day event filled with numerous sessions by Microsoft themselves, a few MVP’s and partners. The first important message to me, partners and end-users I believe was that BizTalk Server is going to play an essential role for integration systems and applications on-premise. Besides that its also provide support with connectivity to cloud (Azure with adapters that support SB-connectivity, and relay). That means BizTalk Server can also provide enterprises the ability to build cloud to ground or ground to cloud based solutions (see also Richard Seroter’s course on Pluralsight called Cloud Integration Patterns ).  The product group explicitly shared that there will be fu