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Is BizTalk Server Going Away At Some Point? Yes. Dead? Nope.
Another conference, another batch of “BizTalk future” discussions. This time, it’s the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft’s Tony Meleg actually did an excellent job frankly...
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Big Week of Releases: My Book and StreamInsight v1.2
This week, Packt Publishing released the book BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I contributed three chapters to this book covering integration with...
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Adding Dynamics CRM 2011 Records from a Windows Workflow Service
I’ve written a couple blog posts (and even a book chapter!) on how to integrate BizTalk Server with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, and I figured that I should take some of my own advice and diversify my...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Ryan CrawCour
The summer is nearly over, but the “Four Questions” machine continues forward. In this 34th interview with a “connected technologies” thought leader, we’re talking with Ryan CrawCour who is a...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Paul Somers
Happy New Year and welcome to my 37th interview with a thought leader in the “connected systems” space. This month, we’re chatting with Paul Somers who is a consultant, Microsoft MVP, blogger, and...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Nick Heppleston
Happy Monday and welcome to the 38th interview in this never-ending series of conversations with thought leaders in the connected systems space. This month, we’re chatting with Nick Heppleston who is a...
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ETL in the Cloud with Informatica: Part 4 – Sending Salesforce.com Data to...
The Informatica Cloud is an integration-as-a-service platform for designing and executing Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tasks. This is the fourth and final post in a blog series that looked a few...
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Three Software Updates to be Aware Of
In the past few days, there have been three sizable product announcements that should be of interest to the cloud/integration community. Specifically, there are noticeable improvements to Microsoft’s...
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Richard Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop? This is Happening.
At the most recent MS MVP Summit, Dean Robertson, founder of IT consultancy Mexia, approached me about visiting Australia for a speaking tour. Since I like both speaking and koalas, this seemed like a...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Dean Robertson
I took a brief hiatus from my series of interviews with “connected systems” thought leaders, but we’re back with my 39th edition. This month, we’re chatting with Dean Robertson who is a longtime...
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Is PaaS PLUS IaaS the Killer Cloud Combination?
George Reese of enstratus just wrote a great blog post about VMware’s cloud strategy, but I zeroed in on one of his major sub-points. He mentions that the entrance into the IaaS space by Google and...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Paolo Salvatori
Welcome to the 41st interview in this longer-than-expected running series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. This month, I’m pleased to snag Paolo Salvatori who is...
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My Latest Pluralsight Course, Force.com for Developers, is Available
I’ve spent the last few months working on a new course for the folks at Pluralsight, and I’m pleased to say that it’s now up and available for viewing. I’ve been working with the Force.com platform for...
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Three Months at a Cloud Startup: A Quick Assessment
It’s been nearly three months since I switched gears and left enterprise IT for the rough and tumble world of software startups and cloud computing. What are some of the biggest things that I’ve...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Hammad Rajjoub
Greetings and welcome to the 43rd interview in my series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technologies” domain. This month, I’m happy to have Hammad Rajjoub with us. Hammad is an...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Jürgen Willis
Greetings and welcome to the 44th interview in my series of talks with leaders in the “connected technology” space. This month, I reached out to Jürgen Willis who is Group Program Manager for the...
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Exploring REST Capabilities of BizTalk Server 2013 (Part 1: Exposing REST...
The BizTalk Server 2013 beta is out there now and I thought I’d take a look at one of the key additions to the platform. In this current age of lightweight integration and IFTTT simplicity, one has to...
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Exploring REST Capabilities of BizTalk Server 2013 (Part 2: Consuming REST...
In my previous post, I looked at how the BizTalk Server 2013 beta supports the receipt of messages through REST endpoints. In this post, I’ll show off a couple of scenarios for sending BizTalk messages...
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2012 Year in Review
2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in...
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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Tom Canter
Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my 45th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technologies” space. This month, we’re talking to Tom Canter who is the Director of Development for...
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