Let's Talk about .. Microsoft Innovation Days-Software + Services

I went to Microsoft Innovations Day on November 13, 2007 at InterContinental Hotel, Bangkok. The main topic was about Software + Services.

This is a little summazation from this seminar. In the seminar, they talked mostly about Software + Services and Office Business Applications (OBA)

Services Transformation consists of

• Service Delivery (SaaS)
• Service Composition (SOA)
• Service Experience (Web2.0)
• Other Services

If we are asked which one should we choose, the answer is all of them.
And that's the new trend of application.. SOFTWARE+SERVICES. What we get when software meets services are Consistent across multiple clients + On-premise & hosted + Extending tools & Platform to cloud + Expanded monetization opps

Building Applications consists of 2 main parts:-

1. Composition
   a. Multiple layers of the stack
   b. Mash-ups
   c. Office Business Applications
2. Building for service
   a. Scale
   b. Customization
   c. Billing
   d. Federation
   

Application Classes can be classified into three types:-

1. Office Business Application
2. Windows Applications
3. Rich Interactive Applications

What I understand about the OBAs is they are applications, that are calling some services, added on to Office programs such as Word, Excel, SharePoint, Access, etc.