For the third consecutive year, the BizTalk Innovation Day event will be conducted in several European cities. And like last year, the tour will start with our major event, which is back to London, even bigger and better!
- 12 Integration MVPs from across the world (the USA, Canada, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, and, of course, the UK) will be speaking at this event.
- The BizTalk Crew
- Nino Crudele [Italy]
- Saravana Kumar [UK] – the event host
- Steef-Jan Wiggers [Netherlands]
- Tord Glad Nordahl [Norway]
- And me [Portugal]
- Dan Rosanova [USA]
- Jon Fancey [UK]
- Michael Stephenson [UK]
- Richard Seroter [USA]
- Sam Vanhoutte [Belgium]
- Stephen W. Thomas [USA]
- Kent Weare [Canada]
- The BizTalk Crew
- Once again, the Microsoft Product Group will be speaking at this event and bringing some of the core content from the BizTalk Integration Summit held in Seattle last year, or even new material, to a European audience.
- Approximately 220 attendees are expected from across Europe (or, why not, from all over the world). Which means we can interact and exchange ideas not only with MVP and the product team but also with 200 BizTalk Experts!!!
The BizTalk Summit 2014, London event will be organized by BizTalk360 (Kovai) Limited, with cooperation from the Microsoft Product Group, Microsoft UK, and Microsoft Integration MVPs.
This will be a two-day event purely focused to the Microsoft Integration stack: BizTalk Server, Windows Azure BizTalk Services, Service Bus, and Mobile Services. So we invite you all to join us next 3rh March 2014 in London, England. The event will once again take place in Microsoft (Cardinal Place), 100 Victoria St, SW1E 5JL, London.
📝 One-Minute Brief
Sandro Pereira announces his participation in the BizTalk Summit 2014 in London. He discusses his session covering 14 distinct BizTalk Mapping patterns and best practices, designed to solve common transformation challenges like performance and maintainability. Additionally, he provides an early look at Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) Maps, exploring the future of cloud-based integration and migration strategies for existing BizTalk maps.
The event can accommodate only a limited number of attendees due to logistical constraints and is almost sold out! However, a few tickets are still available. If you are interested, please confirm your seat as soon as possible. This will easily be the biggest Microsoft Integration event in Europe this year, with a lot of new content.
About my session…
Last year I had the opportunity to introduction Windows Azure BizTalk Services (at the time Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI Labs), this year I will address a topic that I especially love and that I have presented in previous BizTalk Innovation Day events, however slightly different from the previous ones: BizTalk Mapping Patterns and an Introduction to WABS maps– this is mainly a session focused on developers. Here is the session’s abstract:
Maps or transformations are among the most common components of integration processes. They act as essential translators in the decoupling between the different systems to connect.
Over the last couple of months, I have been writing a free eBook on “BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices,” which will soon be released, and this will be a good opportunity for you to see what you can expect. In this session, I will try to address and explain some common mapper problems, and specify best practices and the best ways to address them by choosing the right approach. For me, there is no perfect solution to solve a particular mapping problem, and most of the time we can find several ways to solve it depending on the experience and knowledge that we have or the technologies and tools that we like to use, but all of them have advantages and disadvantages. Not always is the best solution the best approach to address the problem; you must understand the problem and the requirements, research the available options, and take action to achieve your goal,s sometimes based on:
- What’s the best approach to have performance? Is my message so big that I really need to worry about performance? Do I really need High performance?
- Can I easily maintain this map? Is it easy to read and understand? What is the estimated effort for debugging, finding, and fixing problems?
- What levels of expertise are required to create and maintain this mapping approach? How much time do I need to develop?
Finally, I will try to make an introduction to the Windows Azure BizTalk Service maps, at the first glance the map editor seems to be the same that we used in BizTalk, but although the concept is the same this is a very different editor. Hopefully, you will enhance your skills when using BizTalk Server and the WABS Mapper editor.
Let’s see a glimpse of what you can expect:
Last year was like this….
128 attendees, more than 70 different companies across 16 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA), more than 10 Microsoft Integration MVP’s present (speakers, Q&A members and attendees) and 3 members of Microsoft Product group, these are some of the numbers that reflect the huge success of this event! This was the first time in UK that was been conducted a full day event dedicated to Microsoft BizTalk Server.
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