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My Blog in Chinese
The architecture community in China is a growing one. With nearly 50,000 architects in China and so...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2007
Be Cautious about APM Discovery Agents
I was reading a recent article from InformationWeek about APM and it had concerned me a little bit....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2007
Naked Conversations
Nope, this post isn't about new styles of communication with your co-workers! This post is kinda of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2007
EA and Application Portfolio Management
For many enterprise architects there is increasing pressure from CxO’s to cut costs, reduce...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/04/2007
Presenting at Three Architecture Forums in Canada
If you are planning on attending the Federal Government Architect Forum, British Columbia Architect...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/27/2007
Do your Vendors have Enterprise Architecture Efforts?
The short answer is... Yes. But why do they? Aren't they just supplying shrink wrapped applications....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2007
Gartner predicts that by 2012 40% of today's enterprise architecture programs will be stopped
I originally saw this on the following EA blog. He mentions that Gartner in it's upcoming summit...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/24/2007
Enterprise Architecture is the next Hot Job
According to CIO magazine the Enterprise Architect is the next "hot job". The article in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2007
Enterprise Architecture Analogy
I was talking to a colleague two nights ago and he asked me how I describe Enterprise Architecture....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2007
Capital Markets Architecture Center Launched!
We launched the Capital Markets Architecture Center last week with loads of great articles. Stevan...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2007
The Enterprise Mind? An in depth look at EA Tooling
This is a great starter article for folks wanting to evaluate EA tooling. I have blogged and spoke...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/04/2007
Is EA becoming a Trusted Business Partner?
I read a recent survey from InfoSys where they surveyed a number of EA organizations. I was...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/02/2007
Obtaining Enterprise Architecture Metrics - Part 2
In my last post I talked about "keeping EA metrics on the trail" and what you need to think about...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/02/2007
Obtaining Enterprise Architecture Metrics - Part 1
For most EA organizations there is a huge struggle to justify their existence. There is quite a bit...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2007
What is the Role of EA in a Dominated SaaS World?
A colleague of mine Gianpaolo asked me about what is the role of EA in a heavily SaaS oriented...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/29/2007
Enterprise Architecture Coming of Age?
I was just talking about this today on a thread internally here at MS where we were talking about EA...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/29/2007
Controlling Complexity in Enterprise Architectures
Yesterday I had a conference call with Roger Sessions at ObjectWatch, Inc. to fill us in on the new...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/28/2007
Presenting at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Management Conference
I will be presenting at this years Microsoft SOA and Business Process Management conference. The...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/28/2007
Updated: Bank Teller Composite Architecture
This release adds support for ribbons, form-skinning, various CommandAdapters and UIElements are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2007
Architecture Modeling - IEEE 1471 has been adopted by ISO
ISO has published ISO/IEC 42010:2007, Systems and software engineering — Recommended practice for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2007
OpenXML Integration into Applications
Erika has a post on OpenXML integration.Check it out. Tags: OBA OpenXML
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2007
Justifying the need for Composite Applications
I recently saw a post from Brandon Satrom as he was asking for feedback on his interpretation of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2007
A New Interactive Way to Search
Microsoft announced the availability of Tafiti, a Silverlight-based search tool on top of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2007
Announcing the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
I am happy to say we have finally released the Business Data Catalog Editor. Currently, writing an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2007
New Financial Services OBA
My visit to Australia had many surprises. One was a new OBA that was developed by one of our...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/20/2007
Microsoft is a member of LIXI
Microsoft is now a member of the Australian Lending standards body called LIXI....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/20/2007
Open XML Developer Workshop Presentations
When I talk about OBA I focus a bit on open standards. From a interoperability, publishing and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
New OBA Development Poster
Erika Ehrli updates us on the new poster for Office development. If you want yours it's just a DL...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
BizRights software builds a SOX OBA
Independent software vendor Approva provides a monitoring and auditing solution. Its BizRights...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
BizTalk Comparative Performance Study
I have been asked about BizTalk performance and scalability for the last few weeks while I have been...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/12/2007
Governance For Your OBA's
In last weeks session I was asked about governance and OBAs (at least from a server side...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/12/2007
Can you build a Configuration Management OBA?
As you can see from my previous post I was asked if you could build an OBA to address CM concerns....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/10/2007
TechEd Australia Wrap-up
First thanks to everyone whom came to my sessions at TechEd. Other thanks goes out to folks in the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/10/2007
Sydney Wrap-up
Well I had a great time in Sydney. The people and the food were great! I got the opportunity to eat...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2007
Sydney Bourne Ultimatum Premiere
So if you remember from my previous post I mentioned that I met Matt Damon... Well I didn't want to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Sydney - Day Two
Today we started bright and early, 7am Australian time. I had the opportunity to meet some the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/06/2007
I'm in the Outback!
Well I've made it to Australia. I was a little worried when my flight was delayed for four hours....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/05/2007
TechReady Nuggets
Posting has been a bit slow this week as I am at an internal Microsoft event all week called...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/27/2007
I'm 77% Addicted to Blogging
77%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Someone call a medic...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/23/2007
Greg the Architect
I ran across a series of really funny architect videos that are similar to the ones my team...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/23/2007
A Day in the Life of an Enterprise Architect
I am writing an MSDN article called "A Day in the Life of an Enterprise Architect" that hopefully...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/23/2007
VSTO Beta Hands-on Labs are Live on MSDN
Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve published four new VSTO Beta hands-on labs to MSDN:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/18/2007
TechEd Australia and New Zealand
TechEd Australia and New Zealand are coming up quickly! I have speaking slots at both events....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/18/2007
1st Microsoft Search Appliance
Recently at the UK Search Awards event the main announcement was the launch of the first ever...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2007
Get a Free MOSS 2007 Virtual Machine
Microsoft has just released the Office SharePoint Server 2007 VM for free. The Microsoft VPC is an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2007
New ERP OBA helps companies access and manage customer information directly from Office Clients
Office Business Applications (OBA) are really starting to take off. I am happy to see that the OBA...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2007
Australian Government Architecture Reference Models (v1.0)
The Australian Government Architecture (AGA) is intended to assist in the delivery of more...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/13/2007
Government is to use Microsoft Information Rights Management to secure information sharing
Cisco, EMC and Microsoft are providing the core commercial off-the-shelf technology that makes up...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2007