Customers frequently ask me about interoperability with their non-Microsoft products, and identity is not an exception. There’s roughly 2 set of scenarios that come up often: A relying party (an application) built on the Microsoft stack trusting a non...
One frequent question we get is around “process guidance”. Also known by the more modern and fancy acronym “ALM”: A pplication L ifecycle M anagement, which replaced the old SDLC term, which in turn (and only if you are old enough like me) meant something...
This new release focuses primarily on replacing the data tier with Azure Table Storage. To make things more interesting, we changed the data model in a-Expense so it now requires two different related entities: the expense report “header” (or master)...
A big motivation for considering hosting on Windows Azure is cost. Each month, Microsoft will send Adatum a bill for the Windows Azure resources used. This is a very fast feedback loop on how they are using the infrastructure. Did I say that money is...
First build of our samples is now available on CodePlex . This initial version is the “before the cloud” baseline application, so you won’t find anything related to Windows Azure here. This week we will take this simple baseline and start moving it to...
In this post, we’ll examine the application Adatum is considering migrating to the cloud as a proof point for their assumptions. Adatum’s a-Expense a-Expense is one application in Adatum’s finance support systems that helps them submit, track and process...