The Microsoft Architect Insight Conference is almost here! The fifth annual Microsoft Architect Insight Conference builds once again on the success of previous years with another line-up of compelling guest speakers ready to share their opinions. The...

We wanted to give everyone who wants it the opportunity to present at the 2008 Architect Insight Conference (AIC). In order to stand a chance of accommodating the demand, we had to create a session that was a little different from the normal presentation...

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...

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.

If you didn't manage to catch Ron Jacob's ARCast live interview with Richard Hall, CTO of Avanade UK, while you were at the Insight Conference, then it's now available to download from here . Richard is talking about "The Gridframe Era", and it's well...

The presentation decks from the recent Insight Conference are now available to download from here.

A great session at Insight was the one produced by the boys at London Underground. If for nothing else you've got to see their demo! Here's a great article from Tim Anderson , one of the reporters at Insight this year!

The software industry is experiencing a phase of dramatic growth and change through advances in communications, technologies and the globalisation of markets. Given this fast pace of change it is easy to think that predicting near impossible. However...

The software industry is experiencing a phase of dramatic growth and change through advances in communications, technologies and the globalisation of markets. What are the challenges and strategies to ensure that the UK remains ‘the place to be’ for investment...

The software industry is experiencing a phase of dramatic growth and change through advances in communications, technologies and the globalisation of markets. What and how do businesses need to develop and accelerate towards adopting a global business...

The current thinking is that Higher Education is generally providing a rich set of courses and according to the latest UCAS figures HE acceptances are up and at a record high. It seems that the challenges that are really there are in the STEM (Science...

There were several features at Insight that were there to promote networking and debate among the attendees. To be honest they were met with a mixture of reactions - mostly what the heck are you asking us to do etc. etc. The clinics were aimed at discussing...

From everyone involved in devliering Architect Insight we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone that attended Architect Insight this year and for driving the debate! Wow! There's much still to do including getting the slide decks up onto the main...

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...

Successful SaaS - what will it take? 5 th March 14:30 to 17:10 The SAAS Workshop on day one of the conference will be an ensemble effort – 3 of us and many more of you folks (it is after all a Workshop). Richard (who knows about customers), William...

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...

Over the two days of the Insight Conference, Xpertise Training will be running a series of demos around Visual Studio in the foyer of the Caenarfon Suite. Just turn up to one of the sessions detailed below: Monday 5 th March: 13.00 - 13.30 & 13...

We're heading into the home stretch for Architect Insight and I've just resurfaced from a week of content reviews with the 60+ Insight speakers - few! This is hard work - but worth it, and like last year has left me with an enormous buzz about how good...

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...

Identity is the next big thing in architecture land (if it's not already). Ivor Bright from Charteris is running one of the workshops that form a part of a whole dedicated track at Insight !

6 th March 09:00 – 10:15 & 10:15-11:30 The Process Control Panel To be replaced by Implementing a Software Factory Jack Greenfield Software Architect, VSTS, Microsoft Corp Dr Alan Cameron Wills Software Architect, MSF P&P...

5 th March 17:25 – 18:40 Roadmap for Visual Studio Team System Architect To be replaced by The Process Control Panel Dr Alan Cameron Wills Software Architect, Microsoft Corp Process enactment tools like Team Foundation support various...

The concept of grid computing has been stretched from the older notion of High Performance Computing (HPC) farms of dedicated machines crunching the most intensive modelling problems in life sciences, finance and manufacturing through to utility computing...

Jack Greenfield , Software Architect for VSTS at Microsoft and the well renowned co-author of “ Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Frameworks, Models & Tools ” will be providing closing plenary at Insight this year. He has...

Join Microsoft on 5-6 March 2007 at The Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Gwent for a two-day architectural retreat designed for senior enterprise, solutions and infrastructure architects, plus CTOs and senior IT decision makers. Just 2 weeks to go...