How to create your own Mini SAP Part 1: Preparing the environment

The last couple of month’s I've been playing around with SAP on my local development machine and I've received a couple of requests/questions of people that also would like to have their own SAP instance to try out some scenarios.Based on these requests I have written a series of blog posts that covers the entire installation and setup of a local development SAP instance.

Microsoft's Prediction Power : Azure Machine Learning - A Quick Overview

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of its cloud-based Azure Machine Learning service for Predictive Analytics. This post is a quick read about Azure Machine Learning's features, what it means to Data Scientists & Developers and some important Microsoft market news surrounding the topic.

Sentinet 4.0 has been released

Good news everyone! The Nevatech team have just released a major new version of their SOA and API Management solution, Sentinet 4.0. This release comes up with many improvements, performance enhancements and fixes. You can find all the details in the release notes, but here I want to have a look at what we consider to be the coolest new features in this release.

How to use the Azure Scheduler in a BizTalk Scenario

In this blog post I will show you how to create a scheduling job in Windows Azure Scheduler. I will also talk about some scenarios where you can use the Azure Scheduler in Hybrid setup with BizTalk.

Azure Stream Analytics, scenarios and introduction

Azure Stream Analytics is a very interesting service on the Azure platform that allows developers and data analysts to get interesting information or events out of a stream of incoming events. The service is part of the typical IoT value chain and is positioned in the transformation part. This post describes how to get started.

Oracle PL/SQL scripts with BizTalk Deployment Framework

Often the deployment of BizTalk solutions consists of more than deploying just BizTalk Applications. For example, when Oracle databases are involved it might be necessary to create and fill new tables and deploy new stored procedures and/or packages. In our daily practice most of the times the Oracle DBAs perform these deployments. But by incorporating these tasks into your BTDF-project, less coordination with other teams is necessary, and the quality of the deployment is improved.