[The article first appeared at www.usmanshaheen.wordpress.com] All Preview API Apps including BizTalk Rules V1 API App was deprecated from Azure since Jan 18th, 2017. The migration path is to redeploy the V1 API App as App Service but this is not possible for built in BizTalk Rues API App. Here are few alternatives of BizTalk […]
I was recently recommended a book titled Consumption Economics by J.B Wood and Todd Hewlin by a friend and I found it interesting reading. The book talks about companies (consulting firms in particular) will be impacted by the adoption of the cloud. The book was published in 2011 so a lot of what it “predicted” […]
With the advent of the cloud and many shifting paradigms, many of the services typically associated with consulting firm will start to become commoditized and productized at an ever increasing pace. Customer will begin to expect their IT partners to stop telling them everything is a unique, custom problem very particular to their specific scenario. […]
1.How do you plan on making cargo services more profitable? Through customer intimacy, operational efficiency or product/service innovation? Deciding upon a competitive strategy early on in your integration strategy helps to develop an integration solution tailored to meet these objectives. If you are betting on improving operational efficiency, you’ll likely focus on automating processes and […]
1. Performance and Scalability Latency and throughput are the two most important factors that determine performance aspect on an integration platform. This translates into messages/sec and response time in seconds as typical KPIs of an integration platform (See image 1 for BizTalk performance indicators). You’ll need to capture the requirements you are setting up for […]
Customers planning new integration initiatives around the Microsoft stack of technologies will find themselves faced by a range of product offerings that seem a little confusing (to say the least) and downright bonkers (to be honest). To be honest, I think its not entirely Microsoft’s fault. This area is developing fast, both in terms of […]
When entrepreneurs invest time and money into developing a new product, they have one ultimate goal in mind i.e. the developing of a product that not appeals to a customer but also ensures that the interest of that customer is converted into purchase behavior. Keeping this goal and the cost of developing a new product […]
2 Types of Partners: Modern vs. dated The modern partners are ones doing more than 50% of their business in cloud and the old hats are those generating far less than 50% of their revenues from the cloud work, revealed Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group CVP Phil Sorgen. He has numbers to back this. Using IDC’s […]
Energy CIOs agendas are now dominated by technology and its impact on business because of the cutting-edge advancements that it has successfully avoided for nearly 5 decades. As McKinsey puts it, CIOs and CEOs need to stake out the high ground instead of engaging in a tactical debate over IT management and focus instead on […]