Orckestra to Present at the Next New York City Visual Studio Team System User Group Meeting

Montreal, Quebec (May 22nd 2009) – Orckestra is proud to announce that Vincent Trépanier, Executive Vice-President at Orckestra, will attend the next New York City Visual Studio Team System User Group meeting on May 26th 2009 in Microsoft’s offices in New-York City at 1290 Avenue of Americas, 6th floor. During the meeting, held jointly with the SharePoint Developers User Group, Mr. Trepanier will present how to apply development best practices around Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Visual Studio Team System with Team Foundation Server.

More and more organizations turn to SharePoint as a platform for their business applications. As with any other development platform, it is important to optimize the development and deployment of these SharePoint applications while managing their life-cycle. Concerto, an Orckestra solution, enables development teams to take full-advantage of VSTS's flexibility and ease of use when developing SharePoint applications, ensuring rigour and maturity throughout their life-cycle.

During the presentation, you will learn how:

• A group of developers can collaborate on the development of a Share Point application.
• To implement a simplified and reproducible process to deploy SharePoint applications to different environments.
• To apply best practices to the development and production of SharePoint applications, such as continuous integration, synchronization and traceability of code.
• To leverage VSTS in order to facilitate an Agile or Iterative approach to SharePoint development.

Vincent Trépanier is the Executive Vice President at Orckestra Conseil Inc. Since founding Orckestra with associate Louis Fournier, Vincent has worked on key SharePoint implementations and has spent time on designing a more efficient development and deployment approach to facilitate the application lifecycle management of SharePoint implementations. Since 2000, Vincent has worked on several large scale projects in retail, utilities, media and financial services as part of consultant firms. During these mandates, a focus has always been given on improving development and deployment processes to deliver quality end products. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from McGill University.

About Orckestra
Orckestra is a Montreal-based information technology consulting firm committed to delivering solutions of the highest quality through a collaborative philosophy with their clients. Orckestra provides comprehensive solution building, consulting services, customized solution development and integration with other systems along with dedicated support services to ensure its clients gain the greatest value from their mission critical business applications.

About the New York City Visual Studio Team System User Group
NYC VSTS User Group is an official non–profit MSDN user group dedicated to the professional Visual Studio community. This is a dynamic organization for learning and sharing ideas on Visual Studio Team System, where presenters are industry experts and passionate evangelists, delivering presentations to highlight the latest in the .NET platform.