Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

Last day of condensed Microsoft SOA & BPM Conference 2009. This morning I followed a session around BAM and from then on I went to: Architectural session : SOA Governance with MS technologies: System Center, WCF and BTS ; Overview of BPM: Realizing the BPM Vision with SOA, Sharepoint and BizTalk ; EDI Session: Using SOA Principles to drive Modern EDI Solutions ; Closing Keynote by Robert Wahbe. Architectural session was not really about SOA Governance, but discussion around Broker Pattern, Dynamic Routing and EAI. As you can see in the slide .NET (WCF), BizTalk Server play a important role in pattern of Dynamic Routing. Next session by Burley Kawazaki was high level overview of BPM, how slow adoption to it is today and how approach could be to enhance adoption and apply by using Visio, SharePoint Designer, BizTalk Server 2009 and MOSS (Dashboard, Performance Point Server). Basically it was a sales pitch to show Microsoft has a complete stack of technology ...

Conference has started. It was kicked off by Eddie Amos. Even though there is a financial crisis going on and conference has been made condensed to 2 days :( there are: 400 attendees 25 countries 25 breakout sessions The it started of with Steve Martin debunking the myths around SOA. Is dead or alive? A lot of hype around it being alive or dead (see Anne Thomas Manes ). Here are some myths: Does SOA stops at Firewall? No it begins at the firewall. SOA Aligns the Business and IT... No, it is about the how to implement SOA. Alignment between IT and Business is done through people not technology (how). SOA Goverance fixes everthing... No it needs to expands all of IT not just SOA (true). Corny one SOA will teach children learn to read (haha). So judging from Steve Martin's talk SOA is alive; we are just at the beginning!!! Microsoft will be bring technology to get us there: WCF, WF, IIS/Dublin, Windows Azure Services Platform. Microso...

Microsoft's SOA Assessment-and-Roadmap datasheet out as I just found out. Read this article to have an better understanding. I am currently in Seattle for upcoming SOA & BPM Conference. I hope it will be an interesting Conference (expect it will, last two I attended 2006 and 2007 were good). Tonight will be early registration in House Of Billiard in Bellevue with some drinks, food and playing pool. Technorati: SOA Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference

I will be attending SOA & BPM Conference next year end of January. Today I received an email from Paul Sanford that one can expect the following during the conference: Network With Your Peers Arrive early on January 27 th for the welcome reception co-sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics.  There will also be a reception the evening of January 28 th hosted by Global Premier Sponsor HP.  Agenda and Session Lists will soon be available! By Friday, December 5 th the full session list and other information will be posted on the event website, please click here to view.  Real World Customers Roundtable Discussion In a first for the SOA & Business Process Conference, you will have the opportunity to talk to customers at the end of day 1 in an unmonitored, peer-to-peer discussion so that you can learn directly from those who have been in the trenches. Microsoft Product Groups Roundtable Discussion Microsoft product group re...

Last BTUG meeting this year will be held at Microsoft Dutch Headquarters in Schiphol. This time the agenda is as follows: BizTalk Implementation at Interpolis (Large insurance firm in Holland); PDC Experience; Business integration with BizTalk; Microsoft about new developments on BizTalk. Last session will probably go to into new features of BizTalk 2009. This will also be one the subjects for coming SOA & BPM Conference held at Redmond Conference Center 27 – 30 January. Technorati: Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference BizTalk BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009

Yesterday I attended BTUG Meeting at ATOS Origin Utrecht. At end of this meeting some announcements were made about next BizTalk Server Release and that next SOA & BPM Conference will be held not this year, but January 2009. Exact dates were mentioned as well 26-29 of January. Fact that it will not be held end of this year is probably due to PDC 08, where some BizTalk related things will be announced like OSLO. Venue will be same at Microsoft campus in Redmond. Technorati: Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference

Before I start my post about the annual dutch Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference in Groenekan near Utrecht I attended today I would like to announce that I have I have recently joined Getronics PinkRoccade for a role as technical consultant in technologies like BizTalk Server, Integration and Messaging. After working two years for Inter Access I thought it was time for a new step in my career. Participating in a company wide expert group and doing projects for customers seems to me a new challenge to gain experience at customers and spread/share insights, knowledge and vision to colleagues. Could I or did I do this at Inter Access? Yes, but on a small scale and my role in technical management became marginal. Now I do act on a larger scale and work with large companies and share knowledge/expertise with a large population of IT professionals. That said back to the conference. The agenda was as follows: two keynotes one by Jeff Sampler and one by Dan Alling followed by two tracks a busin...

Today I have registered for Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference being held October 29 – November 2 this year in Redmond. I am looking forward to it. There are a number of tracks again like tools (BizTalk), Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Business value (read here ). It is intendend for customers and partners who can learn about Microsoft’s current and long-term strategy for SOA & Business Process. If you want to attend you can register here . Hope to see some of you there. Technorati: SOA & BPM Conference

Third day at Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference I will attend the following sessions: SOA Lifecycle - Enabling Agility through Grass Roots SOA Kevin Farley & Alexander West High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability with BizTalk Server 2006 Jay Lee EBI Solutions Effective Techniques for Handling Large Messages in Service Oriented Solutions Thomas Abraham Digineer Configuring, Building and Deploying BizTalk Applications in a Distributed Environment Paul Gomez ThinkBox Solutions First SOA LifeCycle : These are SOA and developer tracks, since I have some experience on high availability, fault tolerant scalable BizTalk environment, because I made architecture/implemented for an flex worker company in Holland I very curious on this session. ... SOA lifecycle - Enabling Agility through Grass Roots Business Rules Services Having business rules as service (designed as exception) Provision smart client Configuration Run from console Security, SSL WS-Security Kerberos RAD...

Today I will be following all sessions on SOA track. It will kick off with a customer’s panel: SOA Success Stories, which will be interesting how companies are successful with implementing a SOA in their organization. Next will be a session of avoiding 3 common pitfalls in Service Contract design. In the afternoon there will be two sessions; one is about building an ESB on the Microsoft Platform and the other is implementing change data capture as an event source for SOA. Here are some notes from the customer panel: First cutomer to speak was Ryan Garner from JetBlue ( http://www.jetblue.com/ ) Business Drivers * Drive away from screen scrapping and work together with booking agents * Show availability flights, hotel rooms, ect... - Microsoft Service Model - Web Service interface modeling - Web Service Management Tool - Governance; versioning Low hanging fruit (gets things up and running fast) Next speaker was Justin Myrick from Clearchannel ( http://www.clearchannel.com/ ) Business dr...

Today will be the first day at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference. It will start off with a key-note of David Chappell called: SOA, BPM and Microsoft: A Pragmatic View. This will be very interesting to see what his view on those topics is from a Microsoft perspective. Later there will be a keynote: Real World SOA from John deVadoss. In the afternoon I will be attending a session from John Evdemon who will be discussing: The Architecture of SOA. After that session I will go the next called Choosing the Right Technology for Exposing & Composing Services. I will end the day with another session of David Chappell, who will discuss: Selling BizTalk-Based Engagements. So what did David Chappell tell the audience about SOA. He looks in this talk at SOA in a pragmatic point of view. Making SOA real is about three things: A) Standardize B) Infrastructure C) Business Process Management For standardization one has to agree on protocol like SOAP, WS-* and foundation like WCF for...

I will be attending the Microsoft SOA & Business Conference on october 2nd through october 6th at Remond. This event is for Microsoft customers and partners to learn about new and updated information on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Microsoft’s own Connected Systems infrastructure. Over 4 days, attendees will learn about the strategies and technologies that Microsoft is delivering over the next year, such as BizTalk Server, .NET Framework 3.0, and Office 2007. Three technical tracks will provide depth and detail into best practices for building BPM solutions, guidance for advancing your SOA, and using the latest development tools and technologies for connecting people, processes and information. A fourth track will focus on the business value of SOA and BPM for both customers looking to optimize their application infrastructure/business processes and for partners looking to expand their SOA & BPM practices. Whether you need to get u...