Tailspin Surveys is a multitenant, SaaS solution, targeting many different customers. Some of these customers might be “enterprise” with “Big-IT” and are likely to demand advanced integration capabilities for identity (e.g. identity federation). Others...
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We are “done” with the first part of the guide. You can download the guide release candidate from here . I want to thank the long list of reviewers and contributors for this first deliverable. Thanks much!! Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part...
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Available for download here , you’ll find the first step in taking a-Expense to Windows Azure. Highlights of this release are: Use of SQL Azure as the backend store for application entities (e.g. expense reports) Uses Azure storage for user profile information...
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...
Yesterday, we uploaded a new release of the Guide and the samples. You can download the content from here . (Note: if you downloaded them yesterday, you might want to check again. We mistakenly uploaded the samples with no docs. It is fixed now). You...
Now that we presented the scenario & the requirements , let’s take a look at the solution. What is conceptual solution we propose? Fabrikam Shipping in the pre-Claims era: This diagram shows Fabrikam Shipping today if used by Adatum (no claims, no...
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First things first : thanks everybody who wrote me about the first scenario article . I got quite some e-mail on it with great suggestions to improve, but in general it seems it resonates well with. Disclaimer: this post and the next ones are early drafts...
As I mentioned in my previous post , we are going to use a “case study” approach in this book in which we will be presenting a series of concrete scenarios, each one will introduce some very specific requirements. Then we will be showing and discussing...
In the previous article , we explored the challenges of building services for an enterprise, illustrating those through a dialogue between VeryBigCorp CIO and a team from SuperCloudySoftware . VBC requirements can be summarized as: Identity integration...
For the last couple of months, we’ve been working on scenarios that involve consuming cloud services and applications from "Big Enterprise" . The focus being the technical obstacles for adopting cloud services. Big Enterprise is the moniker...
When we implemented claim based authorization in LitwareHR, we had to write a lot of code and play with non-trivial configurations (LitwarehR includes 2 STS and all the supporting infrastructure for securing the web services and the callers to them)....