communicating - Channel 9

William Oellermann on the Managed Services Engine

kirke — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:32:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with William Oellermann about the Managed Services Engine (MSE). MSE is a solution built by Microsoft's SOA Solutions Team that facilitates enterprise SOA through service virtualization. MSE provides the ability to support versioning, abstraction, management, routing, and runtime policy enforcement for services.

Everything you see in the video is available through the free CodePlex version, available at http://codeplex.com/servicesengine.

In this video, William demonstrates how to use MSE to create a new endpoint and WSDL without concern for the implementation behind it, how to quickly virtualize operations into that endpoint, change the message transport from SOAP to POX, and finally how to add behaviors for policy enforcement and management. He also demonstrates how to integrate services with BizTalk's Business Activity Monitoring, enabling mining and surfacing of data through SQL Server Reporting Services.

Looking at Blackpoint with Shaun and Sebastian from K2

kirke — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:43:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with Shaun Leisegang and Sebastian Garrioch from K2 to learn more about K2 Blackpoint. Blackpoint is a tool built upon Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation that allows users to build workflows and process-driven applications quickly with no code. In this interview, you will see how K2 Blackpoint makes it simple to create a workflow using an InfoPath form, route tasks to a user or group, send an email message, and send an SMS message, all with no code, and done in a very short period of time.

To learn more about Blackpoint, visit http://blackpoint.k2.com.

Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna

kirke — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:46:00 GMT

Kirk Evans interviews Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna from Microsoft Consulting Services about a new offering called Service Oriented Modeling (SOM). This demo blew me away as it clearly demonstrates the power of DSLTools and the possibilities of truly integrating requirements with the development process. In this video, Hatay will demonstrate how a business analyst can fill out an InfoPath form, how an architecture group transforms those requirements into a technology-agnostic process model, and how that process model can be transformed to concrete implementations. Hatay demonstrates how SOM is used to transform to WCF services, Windows Workflow activities, or even the Web Service Software Factory.

I am in awe at both how obvious this solution is and how elegantly Hatay implemented it.

The Future of Telecommunications and Media with Cognizant

kirke — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:13:00 GMT

Kirk Evans talks with Stephen Fleece and Ramesh Shanmugam from Cognizant. We discuss the work that Cognizant did with TMForum and the Content Encounter Catalyst project, showing how to deliver contextual ads through a video on-demand ordering experience. Through the use of standards and interoperability, Cognizant was able to provide a Windows Media Center and Windows Mobile experience that allows you to order videos on one experience and, through the capabilities of DRM, watch the video on another device.

Bringing Web Services and IMS Together with Abdi Modaressi of AT&T

kirke — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:44:00 GMT

In this epsiode of Communicating, Kirk Evans takes a break from interviewing and films while Eric Troup talks with Abdi Modaressi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. Eric and Abdi discuss the role of IMS and some of the research that Microsoft has worked with AT&T around converged services and delivering content to multiple devices and screens.