If you wish to fully grasp how Microsoft is differentiating its Software+Services (S+S) technique differs from Software program As a Support (SaaS),
Office 2010 Product Key, look no further Microsoft's recently announced BizTalk Services. BizTalk Services include: BizTalk Identity Companies provide authentication, access control and federated identity based on the WS-Trust specification and Windows CardSpace BizTalk Relay Companies facilitate the traversal and bridging of physical networks, enabling high-fidelity interconnection between cooperating systems for cross-organizational messaging behind firewallsBizTalk ServiceBus Solutions, or ESB solutions, are for creating loosely coupled applications BizTalk Workflow Providers provide a hosted instance of Windows Workflow Foundation On April 24, Microsoft moved BizTalk companies out of its live.labs.com incubation lab and into the labs.biztalk.net testing world. The first release of BizTalk Companies isn't considered a full-fledged beta; it's a Community Technology Preview (CTP) pre-beta release. In Microsoft's S+S taxonomy, there are three tiers of services. Microsoft Connected Systems Division Director of Product Management Steve Martin explains these three tiers succinctly in this blog posting: Building Block – The raw building block capabilities to enable developers to build interesting companies (or composite apps) Attached – Companies that feed into the premise software e.g. Exchange Hosted Services (security, anti-spam, archiving), Windows Live Update Finished – Providers built for delivery over the internet. e.g. Dynamics CRM Live, Salesforce.com Martin puts these hosted, "in-the-cloud" BizTalk Solutions into the "building block" category. They are meant to be a complement to Microsoft's on-premise BizTalk integration server. He explains: "We see BizTalk Companies like a complement to 'traditional' BizTalk Server uses on premise. As you want to coordinate SOA on a broader scale beyond the organization, we see the introduction of hosted solutions as one way to help assistance federation of business process, messaging, and identity across boundaries. Over time, we wish to ensure that BizTalk Server customers will be able to easily use the cloud solutions in conjunction with their premise technology." Expect to see Microsoft announce more "building block" services within the not-too-distant future. Maybe even the long-awaited Microsoft storage within the cloud providers will finally make their debut….