Microsoft Architect Insight Conference

Welcome to the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008 Blog

Join Microsoft on 28 - 29 April 2008 at Beaumont House Old Windsor for a two-day architectural retreat designed for senior enterprise, solutions and infrastructure architects, plus CTOs and senior IT decision makers. The purpose of this blog is to update Read More...

Read the press coverage on Insight Conference

Since the conference earlier this month, there's been a fair bit of coverage from journalists such as Tim Anderson and David Norfolk, part 1 and part 2 . Have a read and let's continue to drive the debate on the topics covered at Insight. Read More...

Call yourself an architect?

At last year’s inaugural Architect Insight Conference Martin Fowler and I found time to violently agree with each other that the whole analogy between IT and civil engineering was spurious, misleading and based on a failure to understood the very different Read More...

London 2012 – Newham – Architecture?

Interesting? Well it is given the scale of the London 2012 project and Newham’s own undertaking to deploy a Converged Network Infrastructure . The Architecture challenges we're facing around Network Infrastructure include: Fixed and Mobile services Wi-Fi, Read More...

Why do we need another business modelling tool?

Why do we need another business modelling tool? 5 th March 17:25 – 18:40 Capability Mapping - A Foundation for Service Orientated Architecture Last year’s Insight Conference was set buzzing by what was then codenamed Motion but which now is called Microsoft Read More...