CIOs: Put Business Technology Leadership Maturity In Your 2010 Strategic Plan Technology is business and we can't run our companies without it. Business Technology (BT) is the largest single technology-management transition you will face over the next...

Continental Airlines Revolutionizes Their Call Center With Silverlight 3.  This shows Silverlight’s maturity and that is has evolved from media engine to a full fledged application platform.  Continental didn’t take the Silverlight seriously...

Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT architects earlier in the process, according to a report released last week. Only 52 percent of organizations classified as leaders have enterprise architecture teams leading their...

During the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 yesterday, we announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14...

ARCast.TV - Implementing a Hybrid Architecture Based on SOA and ROA in the Enterprise In this interview, Kevin Israel , Visual Studio Team System MVP , shares with Zhiming Xue his thoughts on implementation of a hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA...

  The IT architecture of a typical company is an aging maze of applications, hardware, and networks that undermines rather than promotes corporate strategic goals. Senior IT managers should study another complicated set of systems—the infrastructure...

Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight: Developing Architects, Q2 2009 Abstract Whether you're an architect yourself or you have architects reporting to you, you've probably wondered: What does it take to be an architect? We analyzed more than 60 inquiry questions...

Ever since Bing’s launch, there’s been a lot of talk about which search engine is doing a better job. Can Bing compare to Google? Does it do a better job? Or does it do well with some queries and not others? If you’ve had trouble making up your mind about...

On 7 July we will release the new .NET Services CTP. As part of this update, the workflow service will be (temporarily) removed . Key Points - The .NET Services and the .NET Services portal will be unavailable on 7 July between 9am and 3pm PST for maintenance...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to  the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Common Scenarios – How to Plan for Acceptance...