Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

Coming months I will be attending and speaking at the following events: I'll be attending a one-day event hosted by the UK Connected Systems Group : The Hybrid Organization .This event focuses on hybrid integration strategies using Windows Azure and the Microsoft platform. I will be speaking at a two-day event hosted by Bouvet : BizTalk Innovation Day 2013 . This event will be targeted for professionals interested in BizTalk on several different levels, developers, administrators and architects. I will also be speaking at a one-day event hosted by Microsoft Italy and various sponsors : BizTalk Innovation Day 2013 Italy . At both Innovation Day events I will do session on BizTalk Server 2013 and the Windows Azure Service Bus: Hybrid Solutions. Over the years the IT landscape has significantly changed, applications and services are spread through out the enterprises and the cloud. Therefor the demand for integration is increasing tremendously. The Microsoft stack will provide u...

Currently I confronted with a dilemma concerning synchronous or asynchronous processing of batches. A customer I work for currently process batch in the back-end system. This customer is demanding a solution in which processing can be controlled and back-end systems are efficiently used. At the moment this not the case, systems are sometimes running idle and batch processing is done during non-working hours (17:00 – 8:00). Everything in these batches are processed at once and sometimes the batch windows is not sufficient to have everything processed, so this processed the next day. Systems are used during working hours by staff and processing during these hours interferes greatly with their work (long duration for data to pop-up their screen or transactions are not preformed). Therefore they suggested a drop wise batch processing, where processing can be controlled and preformed during day as well on moments that systems are not too busy. I suggested a solution with BizTalk, that is he...

I have just returned from a two week holiday (Como Italy) and I was just reviewing my blog and noticed that I haven’t done much posting lately. Well that is about to change and this will be first one of a number of things I would like to share with you regarding some opinions and views around BizTalk Server now in context of approach/business/architecture. I will first mention that at Inter Access a lot of people and myself have put a lot of effort in an approach for middle sized companies to position BizTalk Server inside their IT landscape or offer a way of implementing integration solutions. The business cases here were whether BizTalk Server can fulfill a role in integration of divers systems like Line-Of-Business (SAP, Oracle eBusiness and J.D. Edwards) or can be placed in center of a service oriented architecture where Microsoft technology is leading. The approach involves a number of steps (activities) to be preformed to reach implementation of a solution or insights (Proof Of...