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Stephen W. ThomasIntegration MVP

Top 14 Integration Challenges I’ve seen in

the Past 14 Years

BizTalk Summit 2015 – LondonExCeL London | April 13th & 14th

About Me• 11 Year Integration MVP

• Pluralsight Author

• Run BizTalkGurus.com and BizTalkGuru.com

• 21+ Clients in over 14 years

• Twitter: StephenWThomas

• Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Recap from Last Year• I left my wife, 3 year old, and 2 week old at home

• Talked on Azure IaaS

• PowerShell to create BizTalk Domains

Overview• Review the top challenges and difficulties I have ran into over the past 14 years.

• Goal is to think about and avoid these challenges to deliver better solutions.

Finding Skilled Resources

14

Having Too Much Production Access

13

Following A Naming Standard

12

Developing A Build and Deployment Process

11

Understanding the Data

10

Using the ESB Toolkit Incorrectly

9

Planning Capacity Properly

8

Creating Automated Unit Tests

7

Thinking BizTalk Is Like .Net

6 BizTalk is just C# code. FX Cop should work.

Having Environments Out Of Sync

5

Involving Production Support Too Late

4

Allowing Operations To Drive Business Requirements

3

Over Architecting

2

Integrators Become Too Smart!

1

Questions?Email: [email protected] or [email protected]


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