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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]
