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Collaboration continues to take a back seat at Adobe

Last week, I was invited to attend Adobe’s EMEA analyst event, which was focused on clarifying Adobe’s strategy for addressing the enterprise market in the region. Given my position as a collaboration software analyst, I was particularly interested to find out about Adobe’s plans for raising the profile of its slick web conferencing solution, Connect [...]

Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by

New MWD advisory service launches with global survey of IT architects on Cloud Computing

I’m delighted to announce that following months of hard work, this past Monday we launched a new advisory service. We’ve built on our existing experience of delivering BPM and Collaboration advisory services to our clients in order to offer a new service specifically focused on the Software Delivery competency area. The service is being led [...]

Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by

links for 2009-11-10

Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education » Microsoft’s “New Efficiency” Campaign for Windows 7 Interesting feedback from a senior IT guy on the Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 / Exchange 2010 launch (tags: microsoft economy infrastructure launch reality) EC formally objects to Oracle buying Sun | Deep Tech – CNET News EC scores own goal [...]

Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by

IBM takes on Google with LotusLive iNotes

Last month, IBM announced the long-awaited announcement of the availability of LotusLive iNotes, its cloud-based email alternative to Lotus Notes and Domino. The technology comes from IBM’s acquisition of the messaging assets of Hong Kong-based vendor, Outblaze, which was completed back in April, and provides a simple, web-based client for email, calendaring and contact management. While [...]

Posted on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 by

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Interview on IASA, the value of architecture, and Cloud Computing

While I was at IASA’s ITARC NYC the other week, Matt Deacon (day job: developer/architect evangelist for Microsoft in the UK; evening job: UK Chapter President of IASA) interviewed me about my thoughts on the value of architecture, the role of IASA and also about the talk I gave at the event. The talk I [...]

Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 by