A Look Into Microsoft ResearchFor over 15 years, Microsoft Research has been pivotal in helping fulfill Microsoft’s evolving vision for the future of computing: a new era of personal, business, and intellectual communication supported by computers that are always available, vastly easier to use, and far more powerful than those of today. MSR has developed into a unique entity among corporate research labs, balancing an open academic model with an effective process for transferring its research to product-development teams.
Nick Landry on Robotics StudioNick Landry from Infusion calls in to discuss his experiences with (and knowledge of) the somewhat new Microsoft Robotics Studio.
industryCast: Building RFID Solutions with BizTalkThis session will outline use of RFID in tracking and tracing. The session will provide an overview of what MS is doing in RFID space and typical scenarios where Microsoft solutions can help enable track and traceability scenarios. It will provide details on BizTalk RFID solution and how BizTalk RFID will make it simple, easy and economical for customers to adopt RFID and take advantage of the compelling technology.
ARCast: Enterprise Mobility StrategyImagine you are the chief architect of an enterprise with workers and manufacturing facilities around the globe. Workers are asking for more flexibility, more capability for working when and where they want. You need a mobility strategy that provides these capabilities to the enterprise. What will you do? On this episode we are joined by Sanjay Chada who is going to share with us the strategy that he and his team came up with for Lyondell Chemical.
Microsoft's Business Process Management SystemOliver Sharp talks about Microsoft’s business process management (BPM) system. He gives an overview of different kinds of business processes, and the evolution of BPM. He then talks about plans for BizTalk server, the forthcoming adapter framework, and new support for RFID devices.
Next Generation Industry SolutionsAtanu Banerjee talks about next generation industry solutions that will take advantage of new capabilities in the 2007 Office System, the .Net framework 3.0, and SQL Server 2005. He then discusses how the architecture and approach for building industry solutions is evolving as the platform evolves. He discusses this in the context of real world scenarios like trading partner collaboration, and integrating the plant floor to the enterprise.
The 2007 Office System PlatformHow has the Office Suite evolved over the last ten years? Mauricio Ordoñez demonstrates the capabilities of 2007 Office, a collaborative and extensible platform with many impressive features including content management and business intelligence.
ARCast: Manufacturing Industry ArchitectureKeeping up on the latest trends in architecture is hard. With new products and technologies constantly flowing from Microsoft you need someone who can cut through the fluff and get to the bottom line. Ron Jacobs is such a person, and he runs a podcast show on architecture, on MSDN Channel 9. Listen here, as Ron interviews Atanu Banerjee on solution architectures for the manufacturing industry.
MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Application Platform Technologies in ManufacturingView this webcast to understand how the manufacturing industry can benefit from adopting the Microsoft application platform. Vittorio Bertocci talks about usage scenarios that include process simulation, monitoring and control. The discussion points include the use of Workflow Foundation to model production processes, and also the integration of diverse systems using Windows Communications Foundation – from PLC controllers all the way up to enterprise business systems.
MSDN Architecture Webcast: Application Decomposition for SOA Based SystemsPaddy Srinivasan deals with the concept of decomposing applications to enable architecting better service oriented applications. Business services and boundaries should be clearly identified and broken down into autonomous entities. Paddy uses a Supply Chain System as the example for illustrating the concept.
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