Office Business Applications Matt Deacon Chief Architectural Advisor Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd

Create Lead Qualified? Retire Lead Create Oppt’y Create Quote Closed? Complete Sale Create Invoice CRM ERP OBA in context

Unstructured Get specs from customer Validate specs with Tech Sales Estimate custom design Cost out the solution Decide discount strategy Assemble proposed response Approve proposed response Create Lead Qualified? Retire Lead Create Oppt’y Create Quote Closed? Complete Sale Create Invoice CRM ERP OBA in context

Create Lead Qualified? Retire Lead Create Oppt’y Create Quote Closed? Complete Sale Create Invoice CRM ERP Unstructured Get specs from customer Validate specs with Tech Sales Estimate custom design Cost out the solution Decide discount strategy Assemble proposed response Approve proposed response OBA in context

Create Lead Qualified? Retire Lead Create Oppt’y Create Quote Closed? Complete Sale Create Invoice CRM ERP Unstructured Get specs from customer Validate specs with Tech Sales Estimate custom design Cost out the solution Decide discount strategy Assemble proposed response Approve proposed response OBA in context

What are in OBA RAPs?  Demonstrate broad spectrum of OBA capabilities  Industry scenario based  Reference Solution Architecture  Reference Implementation  Supporting Content Artifacts  Presentations (Powerpoints, Webcasts)  E2E Scenario Demo  VPC with reference scenario implementation  Virtual Labs

OBA RAP Implementations  Financial Service Loan Origination  Manufacturing Plant Floor Operations  Public Sector E-Forms processing  Health Plans  Price Management  Supply Chain Management

OBA RAP Implementations  OBA RAP for Financial Service Loan Origination OBA RAP for Financial Service Loan Origination  Broker and underwriter portal to register, lock and underwrite loans.  Uses MOSS, InfoPath, BDC, XmlFormView Web part, WF, Biztalk, SQL Reporting Services Web parts, Web Services, Excel  OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Operations OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Operations  Analysis and decision making for strategic, tactical and operational levels within a manufacturing environment.  Uses MOSS, SQL Server 2005, SS Analytics Server, and PerformancePoint Server 2007, Silverlight 1.1 alpha, Web parts, Web Services Excel Report Books, InfoPath Forms

OBA RAP Implementations  OBA RAP for Financial Service Loan Origination OBA RAP for Financial Service Loan Origination  Broker and underwriter portal to register, lock and underwrite loans.  Uses MOSS, InfoPath, BDC, XmlFormView Web part, WF, Biztalk, SQL Reporting Services Web parts, Web Services, Excel  OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Operations OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Operations  Analysis and decision making for strategic, tactical and operational levels within a manufacturing environment.  Uses MOSS, SQL Server 2005, SS Analytics Server, and PerformancePoint Server 2007, Silverlight 1.1 alpha, Web parts, Web Services Excel Report Books, InfoPath Forms

OBA RAP Implementations  OBA RAP for Public Sector E-Forms processing OBA RAP for Public Sector E-Forms processing  Provides a generic solution to Address common patterns in data collection  Uses MOSS, InfoPath, InfoPath Forms Services, Outlook, WF and Web Services.  OBA RAP for Health Plans OBA RAP for Health Plans  Provides a solution to deal with consumer engagement in the health industry  Uses MOSS, Windows Live, Web parts, BCD entities WF, InfoPath and Web Services

OBA RAP Implementations  OBA RAP for Price Management OBA RAP for Price Management  Allows sales reps to create price quotes in Excel supporting both online and offline modes.  Uses MOSS, Office Clients, BizTalk, Web Services and integrates with SAP  OBA RAP for Supply Chain Management OBA RAP for Supply Chain Management  Covers various collaboration scenarios across organizational boundaries  Uses MOSS, Office Clients, WF, SQL Server, InfoPath, Business Scorecard Manager

 Strategic  360 Business Overview  Planning & Forecasting  Strategic Directions  Tactical  Monitoring Operational Trends  Explorative Analytics  Tactical Mitigations & Optimizations  Operational  Real Time Insight and Collaboration  Real Time Production Control OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics V1 Scenarios

Logical Architecture WorkflowsLOB Integration BI Content Management BI Content Targeting Collaboration & Communication BI Services BI Portal Desktop Gadgets/Add-ins BI Portal LOB Systems Operational Data Stores Identity Stores Data Application Services Productivity Presentation TOOLS METADATA Operational Users Strategic BDMs BI Portal BI Client Tools Tactical Management External Services Dimensional Data Stores

OBA Solution Architecture WorkflowsLOB Integration BI Content Management BI Content Targeting Collaboration & Communication BI Services BI Portal Desktop Gadgets/Add-ins BI Portal LOB Systems Operational Data Stores Identity Stores Data Application Services Productivity Presentation TOOLS METADATA Operational Users Strategic BDMs BI Portal BI Client Tools Tactical Management External Services Dimensional Data Stores Windows Workflow MOSS Business Data Catalog MOSS Report Center MOSS Audiences & Profiles Contacts, Task Lists, Alerts Etc. Excel Services Performance Point, SSRS TOOLS Visual Studio, SQL BIDS, SQL Mgmt Studio, Excel 2007 SharePoint Designer, PPS Scorecard Builder METADATA UDM, Content Types, BDC Application Definitions, PPS Scorecard Definitions, XAML MOSS BI Portal BI Web Parts MOSS BI Portal Web Parts, Excel SQL Report Builder Vista Gadgets MOSS BI Portal/Web Parts LOB Systems Operational Data Stores External Services SSAS Cubes Identity Stores

An Example... Eg. OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics

Available OBA RAPS  OBA RAP for Financial Service Loan Origination   OBA RAP for Manufacturing Plant Floor Operations   OBA RAP for Public Sector E-Forms processing   OBA RAP for Health Plans   OBA RAP for Price Management   OBA RAP for Supply Chain Management 

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MOSS Business Data Catalog  High-level Architecture

 Low-level Architecture MOSS Business Data Catalog Manages physical connections CRUD metadata objects Describes the LOB APIs

 Runtime Object Model MOSS Business Data Catalog Consistent API Access to Metadata and execute business logic

 Flow of control when executing a method MOSS Business Data Catalog