Welcome to this inaugural post of the newly created Neudesic Integration Team Blog. Over the coming months and years, this repository will serve as the brain dump for the team of highly skilled and experienced BizTalk integration architects that work for Neudesic. As the leading provider of BizTalk architecture, solutions and guidance in the Pacific Southwest we feel it is our duty to share with the community the lessons learned, best practices and goings on in the Enterprise Integration space. We will be focusing primarily on Microsoft’s Connected Systems offerings, namely BizTalk Server, Host Integration Server and Windows Workflow Foundation, but may, from time to time, stray into those dark recesses of information technology where we as integration solution providers often find ourselves.

I’ll begin this blog with an introduction of the rapidly growing team as we are today. All members of our team have been certified on BizTalk Server and are currently engaged with various customers in the financial services, healthcare, automotive and bio-medical industries. Curt Peterson and Brian Loesgen (co-author of BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed) are members of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional program for BizTalk Server in addition to serving as Virtual Technical Specialists for Microsoft’s Connected Systems division. Our other Virtual TSes include Todd Sussman and Philip Dyball from our Phoenix office and myself, Pete Klein from Southern California. John Waters, Oleksiy Tereshchenko, John Lee and James Chen also reside in Southern California and are Certified BizTalk Server Experts each with diverse skills and experiences that complete the vast body of knowledge required to successfully deliver integration solutions in many of today’s disconnected enterprises.

As a team, we have delivered more than 40 successful BizTalk projects including large scale implementations, HIPAA solutions, Mainframe integration, EDI communication, proof of concepts, architecture reviews, oversight and architectural design sessions. As we continue to build our skills and expertise in this vast field of integration we will share our findings with the ever-growing community at large. Please feel free to comment on our posts and share your valuable thoughts and insights with the world.