Recently, I’ve had a number of conversations with folks regarding concepts at the enterprise-level mostly focused on traceability from some architecture concept to Business Strategy. After all, if someone asserts an architecture concept and it isn’t traceable...

In a previous blog , I posted some considerations to assist analyzing a business for opportunities to provide a SaaS offering with a focus on the bits that directly impact system architectures to enable the SaaS business model. In this post I want...

Should a business offer a SaaS product? Hmmm, I think it might if all the right peices are there. Part of my role in the MSIT Enterprise Architecture team is to think about strategies for improving our IT systems to enable the business. One very proactive...

There was a recent conversation between several folks on the topic of what Top-down is versus what Bottom-up is. I think of these two terms as analysis approaches similar to the OSI Seven Layer Model which clearly describes what is up and what is down...

Microsoft has defined SaaS as "Software deployed as a hosted service and accessed over the Internet." ( see here for the article ). Although I don’t disagree with this definition (quite frankly, it’s hard not to), it seems a bit generic and could cause...