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On this day in the year 2000 Microsoft BizTalk Server was born! The future looks bright for BizTalk, with Microsoft stating its strong commitment to creating first-class integration solutions, working both on premises and in the cloud. Bridging the gap between these products has been…

The .NET platform was launched back in February 2002 into a cloudless world. Despite not being initially designed with cloud in mind it managed to thrive and continues to do so today. SearchCloudApplications spoke to Omar Khan, Microsoft’s general manager of developer platforms, in an…

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If you work in the finance industry you may be interested to know that Microsoft’s Cloud complies with guidance released by UK regulators. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for 56,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, released this finalised…

“It’s not often that a service pack release for Microsoft SQL Server deserves as much attention — let alone a keynote announcement — as the first service pack for SQL Server 2016 does.” This was the comment made by online magazine SQLMag in a recent…

Today Ballard Chalmers is officially 11 years old. On this day in 2005 Geoff Ballard and Andrew Chalmers put pen to paper, formally merging their respective IT consultancies into one. Since that day Ballard Chalmers has established itself as a Microsoft Gold Partner and as…