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The Chicago Chapter meeting of MWCSUG will be held 3/17 at the Downers Grove Microsoft Office. The Chicago chapter will meet quarterly as a SIG of the Chicago .NET User Group (www.cnug.org).
Our topic will be:
Implementing and ESB using Microsoft BizTalk Server
Presented by Ashish Talati from MPS Partners.
We are very excited to be part of our local .NET user group and will be looking to implement this same pattern in Milwaukee and Indianapolis.
For more information about the meeting, and CNUG in general, please visit www.cnug.org. You can RSVP for the meeting at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=146771 .
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The November 17 Indinapolis meeting is cancelled.
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Managing Frequently Changing Decision Logic:
Integrating Business Rule Technology into .NET and BizTalk Applications
Complex, frequently changing decision logic can make business processes difficult and expensive to author and maintain. Business Rule technology can streamline business processes and make them easier to maintain by separating business logic from flow logic. With the right authoring tools, Business Rule technology can also enable subject matter experts to maintain key decision logic without custom programming.
This session will:
- Explain what Business Rule Technology is, how it works, when to use it, and how to integrate it into applications
- Compare the various Business Rule Technologies provided by Microsoft and how they compare to third party products, including InRule
- Provide an introduction to InRule
- Discuss how InRule can extend BizTalk’s capabilities for managing decision logic
- Include discussion of InRule leverages and works with key Microsoft technologies including WCF and WF
- Include an architecture overview, product demonstrations and code samples, with real-time rule authoring and application integration
Speakers will include:
· Chris Kabat, Vice President - Connected Business Systems, MPS Partners
· Rik Chomko, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, InRule Technology
· Theresa O’Neil, Vice President Business Development, InRule Technology,
Presented by InRule Technology and MPS Partners
InRule Technology delivers InRule, the premier .NET software for authoring, managing, and executing Business Rules. InRule helps customers better manage and automate business decision logic without custom programming, enabling organizations to respond quickly to rapidly changing business requirements. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, InRule Technology is also a charter member of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance. www.inrule.com
MPS Partners is a leading provider of Business Process Management solutions that turn vision into value using Microsoft MPS Partners is a leading provider of Business Process Management solutions that turn vision into value using Microsoft technologies. Our customized project-based offerings deliver people ready solutions to mid-market and enterprise-sized businesses. www.mpspartners.com
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The Milwaukee chapter of the Midwest Connected Systems User Group will meet Tuesday, September 22nd. Nevin Golstein will present:
Using Busines Rules to Validate Transactions - a Case Study
Nevin Goldstein will present a case study of how one enterprise uses the Business Rules Engine to validate incoming transactions. The presentation focuses on use of the rules engine including fact retreivers, fact helpers, and the business rules themselves. Also covered is the context of the use, including how transactions are brought in through the pipeline, orchestration usage, and interface to SQL Server.
Nevin Goldstein is owner and sole consultant of Fountainhead Consulting Inc. He has designed and delivered BizTalk solutions for over 6 years.
The meeting will be held 6pm-8pm CST at the following location:
Doral Dental
2360 Dakota Dr
Grafton,WI53024
Please send an email to milwaukee.rsvp@mwbug.org by EOD 9/21 if you plan to attend this meeting in person. This is very important so we can provide security with your name to gain after hours entry into the building.
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It has been decided again this year to cancel the June, July, and August meetings as its somewhat hard to get people out of the sun and in meetings about connected systems. Have a great summer and think about topics we should discuss in September!
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The Indianapolis Chapter meeting of MWCSUG will be held 5/19 via LiveMeeting.
Pete Fuller from Author Solutions will present:
How to use BizTalk with Salesforce.com to Publish your First Novel
In this interesting topic, we will examine the intricacies of integrating BizTalk and Salesforce.com.
We will only be hosting this meeting as a Microsoft Office Live Meeting for user group members! Just log on to attend. Information will be emailed to registered users of www.mwcsug.org one hour before the meeting. Make sure you are registered and your email address is up to date at www.mwcsug.org!
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What impact does Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform have on BizTalk development? How will cloud services and BizTalk work together? What do you, as a BizTalk developer, need to know? Come listen to Wade Wegner, Senior Architect Evangelist at Microsoft Corporation, and Chris Kabat, VP of Connected Business Systems at MPS Partners, demonstrate how to integrate the .NET Services platform with BizTalk Server 2009. Meeting agenda: 6:00 - 6:15 : Introductions & level setting 6:15 - 6:45 : Overview of Azure Services Platform 6:45 - 7:00 : Business value proposition & BizTalk integration 7:00 - 8:00 : Demonstration About Wade Wegner: Wade Wegner is an architect in the Developer & Platform Evangelism division at Microsoft, tasked to collaborate with organizations in the advanced and emergent areas of enterprise architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, and cloud computing, as well as to support decision makers on defining technology adoption strategies. Drawing on his deep background in IT consulting, Wade enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies and solution architectures. About Chris Kabat:
Chris Kabat is the Vice President of Connected Business Systems for MPS Partners. In this position he is responsible for overseeing solutions based on Enterprise Integration, Trading Partner Integration, and Service Oriented Architecture. Through the use of Microsoft Technologies, such as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, the CBS service line provides fast and proven patterns for Service Oriented Architecture Solutions. Chris serves as a Microsoft Virtual Technology specialist for the Microsoft BizTalk Server product.
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The Indianapolis Chapter meeting of MWCSUG will be held 2/17 in the Microsoft Indianapolis Office.
Elizabeth Graham and Chris Kabat from MPS Partners will present “What's New in BizTalk 2009”. BizTalk 2009 is almost here, let's take a look at the new features. We'll then have an open "Ask the Experts" session to answer some of your BizTalk challenges.
We will also be hosting this meeting as a Microsoft Office Live Meeting! We strongly encourage in person attendance, but if you can’t make it, just log on to attend. Information will be emailed to registered users of www.mwcsug.org one hour before the meeting. Make sure you are registered and your email address is up to date at www.mwcsug.org!
Please send an email to indianapolis.rsvp@mwbug.org by noon on 2/17 if you plan to attend this meeting in person. This is very important so we can provide security with your name to gain after hours entry into the building.
Thanks and see you at the meeting!
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The 2009 Calendar has been finalized. The following is the list of dates & times for meetings in Downers Grove, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis:
2/17/2009 - Indianapolis
Topic: What's New in BizTalk 2009
Room: EBC
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm CST, 6:00pm - 8:00 pm EST
3/17/2009 - Milwaukee (Location TBD)
Topic: TBD
Room: TBD
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm CST, 7:00pm - 9:00 pm EST
4/21/2009 - Downers Grove
Topic: Windows Azure
Room: EBC
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm CST, 7:00pm - 9:00 pm EST
5/19/2009 - Indianapolis
Topic: TBD
Room: EBC
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm CST, 6:00pm - 8:00 pm EST
6/16/2009 - Cancelled
7/20/2009 - Cancelled
8/18/2009 - Cancelled
9/22/2009 - Milwaukee
Location:
Doral Dental
2360 Dakota Dr
Grafton,WI53024
Topic: Using Busines Rules to Validate Transactions - a Case Study
Room: TBD
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm CST, 7:00pm - 9:00 pm EST
10/20/2009 - Downers Grove
Topic: Windows Azure
Room: EBC
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm CST, 7:00pm - 9:00 pm EST
11/17/2009 - Indianapolis
Topic: TBD
Room: EBC
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm CST, 6:00pm - 8:00 pm EST
12/15/2009 - Milwaukee (Location TBD)
Topic: TBD
Room: TBD
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm CST, 7:00pm - 9:00 pm EST
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In lieu of this month's meeting, the Midwest Cloud Computing User Group has invited our members to their meeting:
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Join the community... |
Cloud Computing User Group
Join us for the second local meeting of the Cloud Computing User Group. At this meeting, we will be learning about how Cloud Storage works in the Azure cloud computing platform. We'll see how to store and retrieve BLOBs, queues, and data tables in code. We'll also see how to manage large amounts of data in a scalable way..
Who Should Attend?
Cloud computing has huge implications for both developers and business people. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor and be part of the community that helps pioneer this exciting new area.
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January 22 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm |
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Microsoft Chicago Office
200 East Randolph Drive, Chicago IL
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Please take a moment to register here so we can plan properly. Pizza will be served at 5:30 and the presentation / demo will begin shortly after.
Does cloud computing offer anything compelling for you, your business or your customers?
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Cloud computing with Windows Azure provides technologists with new options for where applications reside, how applications behave, and the business models that drive them. |
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Cloud computing eliminates the need to predict traffic levels, purchase hardware or hosting capacity in advance, and keep os's patched. Applications are given the capacity they need on demand. You only pay for computing and storage you use. |
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Some of the most difficult and costly things to achieve in I.T. such as high availability and ensuring scalability are no longer headaches the enterprise has to deal with. Scalability, reliability, and high availability come with the platform automatically. |
Developers no longer have to make a choice between the benefits of what can be delivered to users via the web versus traditional on-premises software. Microsoft offers the opportunity for developers to offer both with a software-plus-services approach. It is an industry shift that combines services on the Web with client and server software to deliver the best of both worlds.
Please contact Bryce Calhoun via email at bryce.calhoun@neudesic.com with any questions about this community user group event. | | |
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Since there has been no rsvps submitted for the user group tonight, the meeting will be completely virtual. Login information to follow this afternoon.
Thanks
Chris
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The Milwaukee Chapter meeting of MWCSUG will be held 12/11 in the Microsoft Waukesha Office.
Nevin Goldstein from Fountainhead Consulting will present “Creating a Home-grown Enterprise Service Bus”. Do you have a need for an Enterprise Service Bus but don't want to use the ESB Guidance Package? "Creating a home-grown Enterprise Service Bus" will discuss concepts and real-world implementation of writing your own.
We will also be hosting this meeting as a Microsoft Office Live Meeting! We strongly encourage in person attendance, but if you can’t make it, just log on to attend. Information will be emailed to registered users of www.mwcsug.org one hour before the meeting. Make sure you are registered and your email address is up to date at www.mwcsug.org!
Please send an email to milwaukee.rsvp@mwbug.org by noon on 12/10 if you plan to attend this meeting in person. This is very important so we can provide security with your name to gain after hours entry into the building.
Thanks and see you at the meeting!
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The Indianapolis Chapter meeting of MWCSUG will be held 11/20 in the Microsoft Indianapolis Office.
Elizabeth Graham from MPS Partners will present a first look at Microsoft’s new technology code named “Dublin”. Dublin extends .NET 4.0 Framework to provide a server for WCF/ WF services. It integrates with Windows Server, Internet Information Server (IIS) and SQL Server to make it easy to develop, deploy, reliably host and manage these services. It provides the following benefits:
· A standard host for WCF/WF applications
· Easy installment of the application server
· Tools for configuration and deployment of WCF/WF applications
· Tooling support for content based routing (CBR)
· Support for scale-out of durable services
· A scalable monitoring and diagnostics solution
We will also be hosting this meeting as a Microsoft Office Live Meeting! We strongly encourage in person attendance, but if you can’t make it, just log on to attend. Information will be emailed to registered users of www.mwcsug.org one hour before the meeting. Make sure you are registered and your email address is up to date at www.mwcsug.org!
Please send an email to indianapolis.rsvp@mwbug.org by noon on 11/19 if you plan to attend this meeting in person. This is very important so we can provide security with your name to gain after hours entry into the building. Thanks and see you at the meeting!
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The Downers Grove Meeting on 10/16 has been canceled. We may postpone to next month if there is interest.
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Due to technical reasons, tonight's meeting has been moved to 9/24. It will still be at the same time and location. Next Wednesday:
Here is a brief agenda of what Cal Kadourah from Avanade can present for the BizTalk users group:
· HL7 Overview
· Intro BizTalk HL7 Accelerator
· End-to-End Scenario of HL7 Scenario (Receiving Messages from HL7 Provider)
· Extending HL7: InfoPath and SharePoint
· Wrap-up
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