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Do You Know the Easy Way to Microsoft BI Certification?
Trond Brande
writes "...as long as you have the MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer on SQL Server 2005, you can forget taking these two new exams. Instead, go for the upgrade exam called 70-455 and magically get both 2008 certifications...With the 2005 certification and some experience with SQL Server 2008 you should..."
Will Windows Azure Succeed?
Stephen Forte
writes "...It may take years for the shift to be complete, but it will happen. It just makes sense to have your applications hosted in the cloud...NET Services (formerly BizTalk Services) in the cloud will get adopted by developers as it matures and as apps get moved to the cloud. SQL Services will get adopted in version 2 when you can do more relational features...Bottom line is that Azure will succeed, but it will take time..."
Azure Deployment Portal - Use IE
Steven Smith
writes "Ran into a small bug in the Azure deployment portal today using Firefox. The "swap" button to swap out a staging with a production environment was non-responsive."
How to Best Implement Business Rules Across Tiers
Jonas Folleso
writes "There are different techniques to achieve sharing of some logic between server and client. An old trick is to move all your business entities into a separate assembly and use this on both server and client. After Visual Studio...generated a web service proxy you remove any generated types and include a using statement to the namespace containing your business entities...When working with Silverlight this is a little bit harder..."
Is Failure of Rhetoric Causing SOA Confusion?
Andrew Brust
writes "...Microsoft does speak to the "connected business” in their messaging, and they absolutely speak to the necessity of helping developers build Web Services at scale... At first blush, this critique sounds spot on, because Microsoft has made this alleged error before. In fact, when the first version of BizTalk launched, it was hampered by Microsoft’s selling it as a developer tool... But is that what’s really going on here?"
BI Data Rat Hole: Databases and Table Prefixes
Greg Low
writes "The more I've been working with Analysis Services lately, the more it grates on me that the BI community still seem to be the last ones hanging onto table prefixes. They're not doing "tblSomeTable" but they are using "dim", "fact", etc. Hasn't the time for this long gone now? Most of the argument seems to be about finding tables in a list of tables..."
Integrating BizTalk with EDI
Carl Franklin
writes "....how BizTalk can be utilized without development and how Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has improved in BizTalk Server 2006 R2."
Two big MSFT moves sensible, shrewd, brave!
Andrew Brust
writes "....NET and WCF can now work with both messaging servers, and that’s a win for the whole Microsoft platform. So the two moves together are, I think, sensible, shrewd, and even brave. The tacit admission of Tibco’s dominance in certain spheres of SOA message bus implementations shows good market insight on Microsoft’s part. The investment in BizTalk’s EDI..."
SOA in 10 Steps
Bill Evjen
writes "...You will find a lot of articles out there that define the reasoning for moving to a service-oriented architecture, but you will find very little out there that talks about how you should go about taking your first steps into this new world....Doing this is good for your business...Now, onto the steps you can take to bring your company to an SOA...."
Updated BizTalk Labs SDK Resolves Issues
Scott Golightly
writes "....I found that my code was failing with the error "ID3037: The specified request failed." I tried some of the sample applications and one worked and one got the same error...."
Giving Birth to the WF MapperActivity
Christian Weyer
writes "....had a lot fun building this baby: being able to have an activity to graphically map source and destination objects and properties and not having to resort to a CodeActivity. A little bit like the Biztalk Server mapping editor in a light version."
Is the future of BizTalk about a technology and architecture shift?
Anko Duizer
writes "....educated guess about BizTalk Server in the "Oslo" time frame....part of the "Oslo" project is the delivery of repository. This repository stores workflows, service contracts and other components of composite applications....this repository is implemented upon SQL Server. A repository is an important element inside a SOA. We are missing this element today."
Debunking the Analysts on Microsoft SOA Strategy
Chris Auld
writes "....As Microsoft moves from a Desktop and Operating Systems company to being a broader vendor of both those tools and more vertically focused platforms it is inevitable that those teams, at the very least, will see the value in exposing their revenue generating applications for use by other vendors platforms. To ignore the need to have Sharepoint Server or Microsoft CRM participate in a broader Serviced ecosystem is to ignore a good portion of the market who don’t buy into the Windows Everywhere vision...."
Leveraging the Dynamics enviornment with VS expertise
Joe Homnick
writes "....Microsoft has done a great job of opening up the development of their CRM 4.0 product through the use of Visual Studio and I am expecting the same treatment for AX. Another great thing they are doing with these products and their whole line is integrating Business Intelligence (BI) as a core component. Instead of requiring the customer...."
Why BI Projects Succeed half the time
Joe Homnick
writes "....it appears that the successful BI implementations have one main thing in common. They have someone who is well versed in business process and analysis involved in the planning, training, mentoring and review of the projects progress....To make your BI project successful be sure"
This one little CTP Changes Everything, Honest
Stephen Forte
writes "....Microsoft released BizTalk Services CTP to the public....BizTalk services and ultimately all of the Software plus Services (including other vendors, not just Microsoft) will change the way we do business in 5-10 years."
Pretty Big Deal: BizTalk Services CTP
Ciprian Jichici
writes "Connected System Division @ Microsoft just released the first CTP of Biztalk Services....There are several very interesting blog entries that explain the ISB concept and help you get started with consuming Biztalk Services. Among them,"
Excel Spreadsheets in the BI Services World
Ciprian Jichici
writes "....In the archive you will also find the source code for the demos and also a document I am currently working on that describes all the steps you need to perform in order to redeliver the demo"
Business value of Team System
Richard Hundhausen
writes "Occasionally I'm asked about the business value of VSTS and TFS. I think it's pretty obvious, but I guess others need more convincing than just my word. I've pulled together some links below that will help with this:"
SP2 was released today... and, did you know about the Feature Pack?
Kimberly L Tripp
writes "....Some exciting new features and some great new directions in which the tools are headed. I like the way they're thinking and I especially like the options that are now in place to discover, use and customize the "reports" feature within Management Studio (just to name one!). What I learned (that was the highest on my "I didn't know that" list) is that quite a few gems are released as part of the Feature Pack for SQL Server. The Feature Pack...."
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