MSDN Virtual Lab: Office Business Application Reference Application Pack for Manufacturing Plant Floor Analytics

At the end of this lab, you will understand how an Analytics OBA (Office Business Application) can be implemented to materialize the Analytics Value Chain of enabling operational monitoring, tactical analysis & decision making, and strategic insight. You can find this lab here

3 new OBA (Office business Applications) RAP (Reference Architecture Pack) Released

One of the many great technologies to come out of Microsoft recently is OBA (Office business Applications). In the last week Microsoft release 3 Reference Architecture Pack (RAP). You should see them.

OBA RAP for Plant Floor Manufacturing Analytics:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb643797.aspx

OBA RAP for E-Forms Processing in the Public Sector:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb643796.aspx

OBA RAP for Health Plans
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb530326.aspx

O2 OBA Challenge

"Create an Office Business Application (OBA) using the complementary technologies of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system and Oracle® Applications. The company that builds the best solution wins $25,000 to implement the OBA, and a unique opportunity to protect the air we share."
you can read more details here

Announcing the OBA Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS)

The Architecture Strategy Team has just released an Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS) that leverages SharePoint, BizTalk Orchestrations, BizTalk Business Rules Engine, WF Workflows, and Office Clients to automate a Loan Origination process spanning multiple human and system participants.

Office Business Applications Developer Portal

Check out Office Business Applications Developer Portal. i had a gr8 experience with IBF and now a days i'm trying to implement a project using IBF.