Customer Quotes

"We needed a centralized backup solution that offered high value for money, and DPM has enabled us to protect ourselves better than any other offering in its price point. It’s dramatically reduced the amount of time and effort we have to put into data backup, and we couldn’t be happier with the results of the DPM deployment"
- Robbie Roberts, IT Manager
Windrush Frozen Foods

Data

The MSIDC Data teams are working on challenges around reliable and cost-effective data protection and recovery, building Microsoft’s premier high-performance low-footprint embedded database engine and addressing scalable distributed caching and database manageability. The teams are also building solutions to connect systems, both inside and across organizations and developing enabling technologies that connect Microsoft Office to LOB processes and information.

BizTalk

The BizTalk team at MSIDC is building solutions to connect systems both inside and across organizations. This includes exchanging data and orchestrating business processes which require multiple systems. The team develops BizTalk Server which helps organizations create automated business processes, connect applications, Adapters that connect line of business (LOB) systems to Microsoft business platforms like SQL Server, BizTalk Server and MOSS, and RFID technology that provides an innovative device management and event processing platform at the edge of the enterprise. In addition, BizTalk includes support for Document Interchange (EDI) and accelerators to speed up deployment.

Data Lifecycle Management

Data Lifecycle Management is a Center of Excellence at MSIDC working in the areas of Data Protection & Storage Technologies. This team has end- to-end engineering ownership of the Data Protection Manager (DPM) product and business. DPM is Microsoft’s flagship product offering which addresses an IT organization’s data protection needs.

Duet™

The goal of the Office Business Applications (OBA) group is to make Microsoft Office the primary user experience for working with business information and participating in business processes. The group focuses on developing enabling technologies which connect Microsoft Office to Line of Business processes and information.

SQL Embedded, Developer and Manageability

The MSIDC team contributes towards SQL Server Compact, Microsoft project code name “Velocity” and SQL Server Developer Tools & Manageability. The team also actively engages in emerging technologies in the database area through its innovation centers.
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