The Microsoft SOA solutions team recently released the Managed Services Engine - View Release which should help nicely to fill some voids in the total SOA solution story in terms of services, repository, provisioning and governance. This announcement...

Not sure if anyone outside of Microsoft actually knows about this tafiti beta site that uses Siverlight technology - pretty impressive actually - my favorite feature has to be filtering the results further and the tree view that rotates - cool. Apparently...

Read this interesting review on Live Search and Google Maps. Check it out. TechBlog: Handheld shootout! Google Maps vs. Windows Live Search

For those of you who know me, I frequently make analogies of the Solutions Architect to that of a Architect of a building - this video is hilaraius and so true on the consequences of poor planning. Creating the vision for your solution and the blueprint...

Bill Gs latest update ( video ) on the new software powered communication had some comments on this Microsoft Office RoundTable device which I had never really heard of - I did a Live Search and found this blog by Tom Keating that gives us a pretty good...

I recently read this press release that I would share. Good stuff !! Check out the health related search here http://www.healthvault.com/ and check out the search service your self. This BusinessWeek article was pretty good reading as well.

Recently was part of an Proof of Concept for a large enterprise customer where we needed to create a solution to increase the SDLC agility - one of my architect colleagues helped with this Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) an area of System Dynamics . The idea...

I recently spent some time with a customer that was looking at future state architecture for some thier current state frameworks. It made sense for thier situation for me to recommend a services factory approach to take an intial cut to their road to...