Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

The BizTalk Community is a fantastic bunch of professionals. During last two years I had the opportunity to meet many of them in person and conduct interviews with them. I interviewed close to 30 BizTalk professionals around the world. End of 2011 I had an idea based on the four interview series from Richard Seroter to do a similar thing focusing solely on the BizTalk Community itself. I asked advice from Richard and started with the first interview in January 2012. The goal was to introduce and bring several active BizTalk Community members to the foreground. For each interview conducted I asked the following questions: Who are you and what do you do for a living? What’s your BizTalk expertise (developing, administration, architecture) and what do like/think about the BizTalk Server product? What do you like to do in your spare time? What sport(s) you like to practice and/or sport team/individual you favor/support (i.e. Ice hockey team, skating, skiing pro, soccer team ......

Tomorrow there will be another BizTalk event . Venue will be Microsoft Italy in Milan. I will be speaking there with other Microsoft Integration MVP’s, Microsoft and people from Microsys (main sponsor). This will be another opportunity to engage the BizTalk community. Interactions with the BizTalk community are vital to keep us MVP’s focused. We can be viewed as an intermediary between them and the Product Group. Besides that we love to share our knowledge, experience and views on integration. In of my previous engagements I met M.R. Ashwinprabu . This was in London, during the BizTalk Summit London 2013 . Today’s story will be about M.R. Ashwinprabu . He lives with his wife in the UK . They recently moved from beautiful Bath to Reading . In their spare time they talk to their parents back in India , watch movies, long walks and taste different kind of foods. “I like to know things happening around me, I spend time reading news. I am more interested in political news especially ...

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...