René Brauwers started his IT career as a web developer/designer and was primarily engaged in the work of building websites using classic ASP. Soon, his focus got drawn toward developing client/server applications using the 3GL language Centura/Gupta Team Developer.

Around the end of 2002, he got involved in the integration space, starting off with webMethods and did this for the next 3 years, with an occasional side step that he took to develop .NET. This occasional side step got him in touch with BizTalk Server in 2005 and, since then, he has been involved with most of the integration offerings Microsoft offers both in the cloud (Microsoft Azure) as on-premise.

Until March 2015, he was employed as a Microsoft integration specialist for Motion10 (http://www.motion10.nl) in the Netherlands, and since April 2015, he has been employed as a solution architect at Breeze (http://www.breeze.net) in Sydney, Australia.

Breeze specializes in application development, cloud integration, and business intelligence solutions based on Microsoft technologies that drive real business efficiencies through cutting-edge technologies and the imaginative use of people and systems. Breeze has achieved global recognition, including the Worldwide Application Partner of the Year recognition for 2012 and 2014 from Microsoft. Some proprietary software solutions for Breeze include Cloud Lab Manager, Cloud Feeds Manager, and Cloud Data Manager.

René can be contacted via e-mail (<[email protected]>), Twitter (@ReneBrauwers), LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/renebrauwers), through his blog Me, .NET, and BizTalk (http://blog.brauwers.nl), or via http://www.integrationofthings.com.

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and currently works at DevScope (www.devscope.net) as a BizTalk consultant. In the last few years, he has been implementing integration scenarios and cloud provisioning at a major telecommunications service provider in Portugal.

His main focus is on integration technologies where he has been using .NET, BizTalk, SOAP/XML/XSLT, and Microsoft Azure since 2002. He is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger (http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com/), member, and moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server forums. He is the author of TechNet Wiki and a member of the council. He is a Code Gallery and CodePlex contributor, a member of the BizTalk Brazil (http://www.biztalkbrasil.com.br/) community, the NetPonto community (http://netponto.org/), and the BiztalkAdminsBlogging community (http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/). He is also the editor of the magazine Programar (http://www.revista-programar.info/) and is a public speaker. He has also technically reviewed BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and authored BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices.

He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in January 2011 for his contributions to the worldwide BizTalk Server community and is a certified MCTS: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010

Abdul Rafay (http://abdulrafaysbiztalk.wordpress.com) has been working on integration with BizTalk and other Microsoft technologies for more than 9 years. He works as an integrator in a bank at Qatar, where he is involved in architecture, design, development, and the testing of integration solutions built on Microsoft platforms, which mainly include BizTalk, WCF, and Windows Server AppFabric.

He has vast experience of integration projects in the banking domain and has been involved in projects to integrate banking applications with core banking systems and B2B partners. He previously worked with the largest implementations of BizTalk in the region, such as United Bank Ltd. in Pakistan and SADAD in KSA.

He has won the award of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) three times at BizTalk and likes to share his knowledge and technical expertise on his blog, MSDN, and other forums.

Other than integration projects and BizTalk, he has previously worked as a web developer with technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, and other open source web applications.