Michael Platt's WebLog
Computer Engineering
Moving my Blog
I have moved my blog to xxx. In future all my blog posts will be there. Note, someone has taken over...
Date: 12/29/2006
Innovation and Llamas
No, I didnt get it either but here is an article by IBM on Llamas and innovation. The interesting...
Date: 08/21/2006
Windows Live Writer
We have just announced availability of the Beta of Windows Live Writer. This is a really great...
Date: 08/16/2006
Blinq
We have just announced a new tool called Blinq which produces a webform from a database schema. This...
Date: 08/16/2006
Gartners Latest Hype cycle
There are a ton of things that have come out which I feel are pretty important that I haven't...
Date: 08/16/2006
Software + Services: An Architectural Perspective
I have spent the last couple of weeks pulling together my rather disjointed thoughts about the...
Date: 08/14/2006
Innovation
I have been blogging for a while about business value and how the whole Web 2.0 thing in the...
Date: 08/14/2006
The Opportunity for Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
Dislocations cause business opportunities, new marketplaces and new models of commerce. This latest...
Date: 07/31/2006
The Service Platform
The Consumer web (Web 2.0) and the enterprise Web (SOA) both have value and applicability, the...
Date: 07/31/2006
Disruption in the IT market
So how has this disruption effected the IT market? In this context we have to think of the market as...
Date: 07/30/2006
Service Component Architecture
So yet again I think I must be stupid because I don’t understand the whole Service Component...
Date: 07/30/2006
The New Marketing
As I have commented on before the disruption that is taking place in the consumer space that is...
Date: 07/30/2006
The Next Disruption
We are entering a time of rapid change in the IT industry which will cause considerable disruption...
Date: 07/30/2006
Broswer / Client War part 1 million.
The "browser can do everything" vs "one (old) size wont fit all" argument rumbles on with Robert and...
Date: 07/28/2006
Experience And Service
The snag with my previous diagram was that there was a big oval called delivery that S+S didnt...
Date: 07/28/2006
A diagram for Software + Services
On the principle that a picture is worth a thousand words here is how Software + Services fits...
Date: 07/24/2006
Adding Products to S+S
So now I can add some of the Microsoft Product set to my table: Model Name Consumer Enterprise Sales...
Date: 07/21/2006
Software + Service: Web 2.0 and SOA
Ok, so I am pretty slow. Ray Ozzie et al have been banging on for a while about Software + Services...
Date: 07/21/2006
Another attempt to tabulate the Web 2.0 and SOA worlds
Consumer Enterprise Name User Level Mashups Composite applications Application Business Conceptual...
Date: 07/21/2006
Wither the Server in a SaaS world
Server based systems such as ERP, CRM, email, database and collaboration are well understood as...
Date: 07/21/2006
Some Websites showing properties of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Innovation Marketing Sales Support Training
Date: 07/17/2006
MutiChannel Service Delivery: SaaS, ASP, Hosting ect
So I'm confused. Nothing new there but I went to a Softricity presentation the other day (a very...
Date: 07/14/2006
More on WS vs REST
A while ago I blogged about Web Services and REST but Zapthink have just published a much more in...
Date: 07/13/2006
Analysts on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0
I'm not much of a fan of analysts in general however I think that they really seem to have "got it"...
Date: 07/07/2006
Are crowds wise?
There are a number of different conference formats going on such as camps, unconferences, geek...
Date: 07/06/2006
Zapthink on Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Mashups
Zapthink have an interesting set of articles about SOA and Web 2.0 culminating in one around Model...
Date: 07/06/2006
EA and EIT as a heuristic approach
Following on from my post about the problems with Enterprise Architecture Andrew McAfee agrees with...
Date: 06/19/2006
Strategic Architecture rather than Enterprise Architecture
Inside Microsoft we have a twice yearly set of technical training for the people in the field called...
Date: 06/13/2006
Product and Consumer Lifecycles in Enterprise 2.0
I have been thinking more on the topic of the customer lifecycle and its interrelationship with the...
Date: 06/12/2006
Satisfied Customers: Customer Lifecycle Management
Thinking more on the customer lifecycle management as opposed to product lifecycle management I...
Date: 06/09/2006
Slime mould and the Mechanical Turk
Following on from my thoughts about the flexible enterprise and slime moulds an interesting article...
Date: 06/08/2006
Mobile 2.0 in the Enterprise
Someone sent me this link about Mobile 2.0, the conjunction of community and mobile and whilst I...
Date: 06/07/2006
Web 2.0 in Businessweek
Robert Hof has an interesting top story in BusinessWeek about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise which talks...
Date: 06/07/2006
Enterprise 2.0: ecustomer
I gave (another) presentation about Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 this afternoon and struggled to get...
Date: 06/06/2006
The importance of Enterprise 2.0
Andrew McAfee has been talking to industrialists about Enterprise 2.0 and getting the same reaction...
Date: 06/06/2006
Partners: A slime mould?
I noticed that Andrew Mcafee has changed his definition of Enterprise 2.0 after my blog about the...
Date: 06/06/2006
Mining the Customer Relationship with Web 2.0
I see that Dion Hinchciffe has blogged about the use of Web 2.0 Techniques in customer relationships...
Date: 06/02/2006
Gartner Gets Web 2.0 In the Enterprise
Gartner really seems to get how Web 2.0 techniques will be used by the enterprise and, surprise...
Date: 05/25/2006
Internet Business Research
I found an interesting set of whitepapers at https://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research%5Fpapers%2Ehtm on...
Date: 05/24/2006
FAST and Stragegy Workshops
I have been thinking a lot more over the whole area of strategy and Strategic Workshops and came...
Date: 05/20/2006
Enterprise 2.0: Beyond the enterprise
So after a lot of thought I have come to the conclusion that Dion has really missed the point, along...
Date: 05/19/2006
Push Vs Pull
This is such a good paper that even though I have blogged about it before I have to bring it up...
Date: 05/19/2006
Customer Lifecycle, Consumer Lifecycle
Thinking more about the whole area of consumer lifecycle I have been doing some research and come...
Date: 05/19/2006
Strategic Planning
Investigating further into the whole strategic planning area I found a couple of good wikipedia...
Date: 05/19/2006