A BizTalk Expert Colleague is blogging
I was working on a POC for a client that wanted to implement SOA for his company. Microsoft sold them a story of using BizTalk for the Enterprise Service Bus, and SharePoint (or OBA) for the frontend, portal, workflow, integrating with SAP, and other databases... It's a two weeks project, and we asked for competent people for the job, since time is little, and each team member has to be skilled (or at least know how to find solutions to solve the problems themselves). Was working with an empty shell, which made everyone (including the customer and Microsoft) panicked. WOW, you can be amazed the gap between the level of competency they declared and what they actually have... (So much so I decided to do part of his job to make sure I can get my part working... BizTalk orchestration have to be working for me to test out my InfoPath forms)
In come this hero, and after a week, with two nights of hardwork, we managed to complete the whole POC (which would otherwise failed terrible) around, gaining much confidence from client. At the end of the presentation, two thumbs up was given, and praises was flying around...
And this hero is now blogging here...