Well it looks like I'll be pond hopping here soon. Starting on May 8th through the 18th we will be having a series of educational events for architects in Europe.
I will be passing through the UK, Spain, Ireland and Finland. If you are a Microsoft customer or Partner and you would like to meet up with me when I am in EMEA please let me know and we may be able to work something out.
Below is the high-level Agenda for the sessions. If you want in on these sessions contact you Microsoft account managers in these areas. Space is limited at the facilities. If we are not passing though your country or city send a request to me and we will see what we can do either during this trip or at another time.
Agenda
Keynote: The Office Platform Value Proposition
Understand how your processes can become People-Ready and bridge your line of business applications to superior Office user experiences. See how Office can be a key component in your SOA and more importantly leverage the fundamental shift to combining software with services.
Architectural Elements of the Office Technical Platform
Learn about the architectural elements of the Office Technical Platform. Discover how these elements can be applied for Contextual Document Management, On-Demand Business Intelligence, Ad-Hoc People Collaboration and Visible Business Processes. Reinforce your understanding through architectural case studies.
Lap Around the Architectural Elements of the Office
The Technical Presentation Tier
Start by building applications using Office 2007 Client Architecture (Task Panes, Ribbons, etc.) and then put together composite portal applications which take advantage of hosted applications and services (Excel and InfoPath Forms).
The Productivity Tier
Organize information with document libraries, forms libraries and lists. Manage information and performance with KPIs, Metrics, Reports, and Dashboards (Performance Point).
The Application Tier
Architect a reusable service oriented Application Tier. Implement your business process through human workflows and Process Orchestrations. Unify your business through a Business Data Catalog. Then share Spreadsheets in the Server.
Additional Services
Search for business data using Enterprise Search. Ensure integrity by architecting for Security. Take SharePoint sites beyond the Intranet (extranet, internet sites). Provide for flexible workgroup collaboration with Groove.
Detailed End-to-End Vertical Solution Scenarios
Learn about the reference application packs for Loan Origination and Supply Chain Management Scenarios.
