Two UK events that may be of interest to ISVs. Architect Insight Conference 2008 - April The Architect Insight Conference 2008 registration site is now open. This is the third year of the conference and this year we move venue from Wales to England. I spoke at and attended the first two (and blogged...

In March we held a conference for UK Architects which covered a diverse range of topics, many handled in Workshop formats. The slides are now available including several decks we used to cover off SaaS for Customer/ISV. I think we win the award for "most download links". Enjoy. Download (9.27MB / 23mins...

Yesterday we delivered the workshop on SaaS to Architects from customers and ISVs in the UK. There was a lot of great discussion during the workshop which made life so much easier for us. A big thankyou to all who attended. We will be writing up our notes from the session and sharing them - probably...

Last day - March 4th On Sunday Richard and I headed over to the hotel to pull together our final set of slides for the session and to work through exactly how we would run the workshop. Concerned that we might struggle to get a good debate going we ultimately generated 2 hours of content as slides...

27th and 28th of Feb DAY 4 and 5 22nd I was thinking SAAS. 23rd I was thinking "I wonder if that huge wave is going to get us!" - yep, I took the family for few days holiday in Lyme Regis and was met with a rather choppy sea on the first day with some great waves rolling over the sea wall at high tide...

The AIC got its own blog on Wednesday - good for it! Hope to get an entry up there linking to my own prep for AIC... maybe not - might worry the attendees :-) If you are attending then keep an eye on http://blogs.msdn.com/ArchitectInsight/

20th Feb DAY 2 of 7 On the 15th I wrote a blog entry about the SAAS workshop we are running after I realised I had at best 7 days . Doesn't time fly! Unfortunately lots of other stuff is getting between me and SAAS - and therefore I haven't made anything like the progress I would have liked. There is...

15th February DAY 1 of 7 Richard (knows about customers), William (knows about hosters) and myself (knows about ISVs - and knew I didn't want to be alone with this!) are running a SAAS Workshop at the Architect Insight Conference on March 5th (spaces still exist - try not to be put off by this post!...

In March we run our second AIC - two days of conference specifically for senior architects, CTOs and senior IT decision makers. A great place to engage in architectural discussion and debate, and network with your peers. The conference will take place at The Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Gwent which...