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 admin
Last week I spent three days in Manhattan, attending the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)’s IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) in NY. That’s a long time for me to be anywhere – so why did I do it? The first answer is the speaker lineup – there were keynotes from Len Bass of Carnegie-Mellon’s [...]
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 by admin
We all know that the general level of industry interest in Cloud Computing is high – but how much is Cloud Computing being actively considered and pursued by “enterprise IT” organisations, as opposed to software-as-a-service startups and professional ISVs moving to the SaaS model? To help support the launch of our new Software Delivery advisory [...]
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 by admin
With much of the early development in the Business Process Management (BPM) market being driven by technology vendors selling products for one-off departmental projects to line-of-business heads, and with IT stakeholders often being brought in only after the deal is done, lately we’ve been wondering – now that there’s no doubt that BPM is becoming [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 9, 2009 by admin