August 2008 - Posts - Business Process and Integration

August 2008 - Posts

I was thinking about developing a single application that encapsulates some power utility features and management functionality rolled into one for administering and developing within the BizTalk space.

Some of the features I was thinking about include:

  •  Wizard style project creation utility:
    • conforms to best practice BizTalk developer implementation standards
    • includes SDC targeted Build tasks (including Rules Engine MSBUILD tasks
    • Strong Name keys generated and referenced at solution or project level
    • and maybe even BizUnit unit test projects included.
    • the ability to save wizard settings as template for future reference, or creation of Pattern based implementations
  • Local / Remote Event Viewer
  • Registry tweaks (i.e. Rules Engine) apply if local / export if remote instance of BizTalk
  • XPath statement generator
  • SSO Configuration Data Editor
I should be creating a project on www.codeplex.com soon, but would love to hear some ideas of functionality you would like to see in such a utility.

"The Microsoft Competency has once again walked off with the Business Processing and Integration award at Microsoft's annual Partner Summit, held last week at the International Convention Centre in Durban. Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd, stands ahead of their competitors in this area and scooped this award for a 3rd year in a row.

We were also nominated in 3 other categories. Business Process and Integration is a solution that can give great benefits to organisations that  wish to streamline their business processes,by enabling them to connect systems and use information, deliver it in the right format, to a destination either inside or outside of the organization, across functional domains at the on time without the need for human intervention.

We congratulate all the members of the Microsoft Competency, especially our Microsoft Most Value Professional's (MVP) and wish them well, and growth for this financial year."