Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Business Process Integration And Workflow Conference Day 1...

Today it's been very hard day... my jet lag still making me wake up two hours before the alarm sounds :-).

The general sensation about the sessions is that we are evolving to a more simplistic way to connect systems and people. David Chappell session has been very interesting, he has explained the main concepts about Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) and how either will be the base to develop future business process which will be interconnected. In this session has been clear that BizTalk 2006 has its own place in the business process development and that it cannot be confused with WWF because of WWF will be the base to develop workflows but BizTalk 2006 is the tool to make Business Process Integration (BPI) when EAI is required. In this way, the future versions of BizTalk will use WWF and WCF as core technologies to implement the BPI!

Today I have seen the new version of the administration console of BizTalk 2006 too. It has been improved to be "deeply useful", unifying all administration tools in one as well as improved message look-up and manage is provided.

To finalize, Eric Swift has been speaking about the new application model: Connected Systems. Keep this concept in mind because of it will became as popular as EAI was, and as BPI is now... the core of Connected Systems concept is that relay on SOA, is Process-Centric, Model-Driven, bla, bla, bla... any way, for me it sounds as another "marketing concept"... who knows, maybe it will resolve the application development problems witch we address today.

See you all, tomorrow more!