As per my previous blog , Nigel presented 'Software As A Service' to the Sydney Architet Council gathering recently. Here is my 'raw' notes from the roundtable discussions: from the enterprise architecture perspective, the central IT can function as a...

I attended the end of year AIIA briefing last week. While I don't normally attend such a ICT industry business gathering, I couldn't resist this time, as the speaker lineup was just too good to miss: Roger Allen, Executive Director, Allen & Buckeridge...

Nigel is leading the presentation and conversation focusing on the topic of Software As A Service at the council gathering tomorrow. Looking forward to an exciting open discussion around this hot topic... Here is the presentation description: "TOPIC:...

Looks like some of my colleagues have also been blogging about SAF. Here is a great one from Simon Guest - Nathan Shedroff on Achieving Value through Great Design .

Yes, for my indulgence in some of my absolute most fav yummy pacific northwest seafood, I'm paying for it in bucketloads now... got a dose of bad seafood poisoning! Luckily, thanks to my extended Microsoft family - Arvindra and Beat - they looked after...

Yet another architect at SAF commented on this today... "Where are the women architects? geez this is a very 'blokey' event!" Totally right, I've not yet spoken to a single female since I arrived at SAF. Do you have a theory? I've no idea... I must admit...

A customer architect asked me why do I blog? I was a little caught by surprise, but a few things came to mind: 1. connection with the people I interact with, whether it's work collagues, customers, past colleagues, friends, and acquaintances that I meet...

Day 2 of SAF just wrapped up. I'm now back in my hotel room, thinking back on the exciting day I've had: Norm Judah kicked off with his presentation on "The Architectural Last Mile", he focused on the key challenges around getting good user adoption and...

Over the Strategic Architect Forum dinner tonight, this topic came up again, so I'm going to just point to my previous post on this topic , and leave it at that.