Time

Title

Speaker

9:00-10:00

Breakfast and Registration

10:00-10:15

Welcome and Introduction

Morris Novello - BizTalk UK Product Marketing Manager

10:15-11:00

Opening Keynote:

The Microsoft Application Platform: Connecting business applications, partners and devices

Sriram Balasubramanian - Director of BizTalk Engineering

11:00-11:45

Payments Processing on the Microsoft Platform

In this session we’ll cover how a mission critical payment processing platform was architected and delivered by Microsoft Services.  The Payments Platform had many challenging functional and non-functional requirements including the ability to process both batch and real-time payment schemes on the Microsoft platform using Microsoft BizTalk Server, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 Integration Services.    In the session we’ll drill into some of the technical challenges overcome by the project, discuss the performance results and detail how Microsoft Services delivered the solution within a very compressed timeframe.

Darren Jefford –Solution Architect, Microsoft Consulting Services

11:45-12:00

BREAK

12:00-12:45

Transforming Local Government with Microsoft BizTalk

Hear how the Transformational Government Accelerator is helping local authorities face the challenges of transforming their IT delivery capability by building a service orientated based enterprise architecture delivered on a BizTalk Server platform. This session will discuss how by tackling head-on the barriers that local government face, cross department business processes can be automated, providing immediate efficiency gains, measurable cost savings whilst significantly contributing to the NI 14 (avoidable contact) initiative.

Skandia

Online banking and insurance provider Skandia was beginning a major program of application development to modernize the bank following service-oriented architecture principals using Microsoft BizTalk, IIS, and WCF as the core foundation.  Hear how BizTalk Server and key partner, SOA Software deployed an integrated service registry/repository and lifecycle management as part of the solution.  Skandia quickly saw the value in the operational governance capabilities of SOA Software’s solutions for BizTalk, IIS and WCF.

Andy James - TGA Chief Architect

Ian Goldsmith – SOA Software, VP Product Management

12:45-13:30

LUNCH

13:30-14:15

ERP Business Integration

BizTalk is an enabling technology that customers can use to increase the reach of existing ERP and other line-of-business applications. This session looks at how BizTalk 2009 Enterprise Service Bus can be used to connect to major ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle e-business suite, Siebel etc to create compelling composite applications that blend on-premise and services from cloud platforms such as Windows Azure.

Jeff Johnson, Harsha Karunaratne – Microsoft Integration Specialists

14:15-15:00

Enterprise Services for the Energy Industry

Centrica Energy sources energy for Centrica Plc (British Gas in the UK) by Exploration and Production, Power Generation as well as through its Trading and Optimisation activities. Centrica Energy needed a fundamental shift in the way that information is captured and used across the organisation and Avanade was brought in as a key partner and integration specialist to help enable this. This session will cover:

a.    Business case scenario – key integration objectives

b.    How BizTalk was successfully used to automate interfaces to provide a seamless flow of information between disparate systems within Energy Trading

c.     The operational challenges of handling 100+ interfaces between Centrica Energy systems and external sources

d.    Migration of Centrica Energy’s BizTalk Server 2006 platform to BizTalk Server 2009 and SQL Server 2008 and SOA roadmap

Ian Bretherton - Avanade Solution Architect and Integration Practice Lead

Balaji Anbil -

Centrica

15:00-15:15

BREAK

15:15-16:00

Closing Keynote-roadmap Oslo, Dublin, azure, etc.

Sriram Balasubramanian - Director of BizTalk Engineering

16:00-16:30

Q&A, prize draw (X-Box), drinks