Andreas Grabner

The term Business Transactions and Business Transaction Management is widely used in the industry but it's not always well understood what we really mean by it. The BTM Industry Portal provides some good articles on this topic and is definitely recommended to check out. The general goal is to answer business-relevant questions that business owners have for application owners: "How much revenue is generated by a certain products?", "What are my conversion and bounce rates and what impacts them?" or "Do we meet our SLAs to our premium account users?" Challenge 1: Contextual Information Is More than just the URL In order to answer these questions we need information captured from the underlying technical transactions that get executed by your applications when users interact with your services/web site. Knowing the accessed URL, its average response time and then mappin... (more)

eCommerce Business Impact of Third-Party Address Validation Service

  Are you running an eCommerce site that relies on Third-Party Services such as Address-Validation, Credit Card Authorization or Mapping Services? Do you know how fast, reliable and accurate these service calls (free or charged) are for your web site? Do you know whether it has an impact on your end users in case one of these services is not available or returns wrong data? End User and Business Impact of Third-Party Service Calls In last week's webinar Daniel Schrammel, IT System Manager at Leder und Schuh (responsible for sites such as www.shoemanic.com or www.jelloshoecompany.... (more)

Identify Performance Bottlenecks in Your BizTalk Environment - Part 1

Microsoft BizTalk enables companies to integrate and automate their business process (BPM). In a BizTalk environment messages are picked up by adapters and put through a robust message infrastructure where an orchestration engine allows you to implement your business processes. Along the way – a message takes – there are several points where performance of the overall message processing can be negatively impacted and therefore impacts your business. I plan a series of blog entries on how to Identify Bottlenecks in BizTalk. I will give you background information on the BizTalk En... (more)

Behind the Scenes of ASP.NET MVC 2

With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is shipping the next version of the popular ASP.NET MVC Framework with its IDE. A year ago I blogged about my findings when getting my hands on the first version of ASP.NET MVC. The MVC Framework provides really nice features that make it very easy to build web applications on top of ASP.NET. The updated support in Visual Studio also makes it very appealing to choose MVC instead of traditional ASP.NET. The most important thing about using any framework is to understand its internals. Without that knowledge you easily run into the problem of using... (more)

Show Report: VMworld 2009 – Day One

The Moscone Center in San Francisco opened the gates for VMworld 2009. Over the next couple of days the attendees, partners and the press will hear the news about upcoming trends and challenges in virtualization and how VMware (and their user base) is going to face them. The first announcement was about VMware Go [...] Related posts: Live from JavaOne 2009 – Day 2 Its day 2 at JavaOne 2009. I had the chance... Live from JavaOne 2009 – Day 1 JavaOne 2009 officially started with the open Keynote delivered by... Live from JavaOne – The Cloud Growing Up? I already listened to a coup... (more)