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If you are interested in the topic of Data Mining and Business Intelligence the sessions below will be of great value to you. · Rafal Lukawiecki; Strategic Consultant, Project Botticelli Ltd, is consistently one of the top rated speakers at Microsoft...

Ever wondered about how to position SOA in business terms? Hereunder the intro of an Harvard Business Review article about this: "If your company embraced the reengineering revolution and is now hitting a wall, look beyond business processes...

O’Reilly: The Resource-Oriented Architecture Why come up with a new term, Resource-Oriented Architecture? Why not just say REST? Well, I do say REST, on the cover of this book, and I hold that everything in the Resource-Oriented Architecture is also...

http://dev.twitter.com/2008/05/twittering-about-architecture.html Here at Twitter HQ, we're not blind to the flurry of discussion over the past weeks about our architecture. For many of our technically-minded users, Twitter downtime is an opportunity...

Forrester: Process-Views-Services – a Better Design Paradigm for Applications It is time for a major shift in the top-level design model for applications. Model-view-controller (MVC) has been the dominant framework for tying together the user interface...

Delft University of Technology: WebDSL - a Case Study in Domain-Specific Language Engineering The goal of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is to increase the productivity of software engineers by abstracting from low-level boilerplate code. Introduction...

Software architecture competence is the ability of an individual or organization to acquire, use, and sustain the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out software architecture-centric practices. Previous work in architecture has concentrated on its...

Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity...

The Visual Architecting Process™ (VAP) covers the techniques, including architecture modeling and architecture trade-off analysis, used in creating a technically sound architecture. It covers architectural requirements and prioritization to create the...

TIBCO Selects Silverlight for Rich Internet Application Development TUCON®, San Francisco, April 30, 2008 – TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that the company is working closely with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to make it easier for customers...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Enterprise Library 4.0. This release of Enterprise Library includes the following: – Integration with the Unity Application...

How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part...

Fifteen years ago — and in many cases, significantly less than that — IT organizations struggled to create effective local EA initiatives. Today, EA groups still do not live in a perfect world with fine-tuned organizational structures, impeccable processes...

On April 24th, Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers (EAS), 2Q08, which is authored by analysts Yefim Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, and Raffaella Favata. Gartner defines an application server as “system software...

MSDN subscribers now have access to Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta. The following editions, in English and Japanese, are available: Edition Language Download Location Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with Service Pack 1 Beta (X86) English, Japanese...

Newsflash: HP acquired EDS SAN FRANCISCO — The Hewlett-Packard Company, the personal computer and printer maker, said Tuesday that it would acquire the Electronic Data Systems Corporation, the operator of corporate computer systems, for $13.9 billion...

Want to avoid individuals from within the organization to sabotaging your infrastructure? Learn about identifying patterns up-front! A study conducted by the U.S. Secret Service and the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute CERT Program...

Forrester: Social Computing Changes The Enterprise Collaboration Landscape Organizations are using wikis for use cases across a broad but interrelated set of capabilities. The overall defining characteristics involve providing a single place for knowledge...

Mid last month, we organized the MS Belux Architect Forum, devoted to SOA and BPM (see further below in this blog for the invite with agenda and speakers). 135 architects from customers and partners attended this event, which proves that the MS Architect...

The latest version of LitwareHR (“Litware HR - May 2008 Release”) is now publicly available for download here . This is essentially the version demonstrated during last MIX (session here ). This new enhanced release includes the following new features...

A Computerworld article states that according to Evans survey Microsoft scored highest for its tools, SDKs and Web services programs "May 5, 2008 (Computerworld) Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft 's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher...

Innovation in the software industry is on the upswing, with Software as a Service (SaaS) being a key driver. The SaaS model is becoming mainstream and this has led to the rise of a new generation of SaaS platforms (also referred to in the industry as...

Version 2.0 of the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit was released to the web today, on schedule and with all the great new features promised for the release. Version 1.0 of the toolkit was released at the Office Developer’s Conference in February 2008...

McKinsey Report: The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry continues to grow rapidly. Over the past three years, revenues of the top 20 SaaS companies grew at close to 50 percent and 2007 saw several new IPOs in the space. The industry has also matured...