Last week I’ve been working with Puru Amradkar, Eugenio Pace and people from Microsoft’s Connected Services Framework (CSF) team, kicking off a new project that is both related with LitwareHR and CSF.
I had a great time on the design sessions with people from the CSF team like Puru Amradkar, Bala Balabaskaran, Balamurugan Kuthanoor and Arun Chandrasekhar. Their collaboration on the project was really valuable.
Image 1: From left to right: me, Puru Amradkar and Eugenio Pace.
LitwareHR is a software as a Service (SaaS) reference implementation application published last February by Microsoft’s Architecture Strategy Team. As a single-instance and multi-tenant application, it covers SaaS typical aspects as the tenant provisioning, multi-tenant security, presentation configuration, datamodel configuration and business processes configuration.
So what about CSF? It helps telecommunications operators to integrate content services with their internal networks and business systems. In a SaaS hoster context, it could help with integrating their billing and order handling systems with SaaS applications developed by SaaS ISV’s.
Image 2: CSF Communication Architecture.
Some CSF Links
- MCSF website:
- http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/connectedservicesframework.mspx
- Overview demo:
- http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/flashfiles/csf/shell-csf.html
- Overview doc:
- http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/5/775cb839-a749-49a7-b735-edaf05ca1501/Final_CSF%20Brochure_2.10.pdf
- Webinar on Connected Services Sandbox:
- https://www123.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=FC9MQ6-5
- Connected Services Sandbox: http://www.networkmashups.com/
