Randy Shoup and Dan Pritchett discuss their architecture for eBay - a must-read.

Jeff Tash has a write-up that is a must-read http://www.flashmapsystems.com/resources/articles/articles17.htm

Interesting article in Datamation - Randy Heffner seems to be agreeing with many of the things I said at the Microsoft SOA Conference last October. For instance he says "... you should not be selling SOA. You should be selling the solutions that you...

Motion is a methodology for project prioritization and selection. Why Motion? "Yesterday's tools (business architecture process mapping) were not designed to respond to today's needs (dynamic change) or tomorrow's promise (rapid innovation). More...

We have done a fait bit of work on the SaaS multi-tenancy problem in my team - Gianpaolo and Fred have spent more time thinking about this problem than almost anyone else that I know - we have published more architectural guidance than anyone else in...

This is a very good description of the enterprise perspective, as we see it - from our Architecture Center on MSDN.

The applications and services the people use at the workplace or often different from those that they use today at home. There is friction between these two experiences – a s employees they often use applications and data in the workplace that they...

Harry wrote this up as a draft when he was in my team - it is a very interesting read - if you are at all interested in the Rich Internet Application space.

There is an opinion - fairly wide-spread from what I can see and hear - that the SaaS delivery model implies that consumption is via a vanilla browser. This conflation of SaaS with the browser is incorrect. SaaS is a delivery model. You could...

Enterprise IT has been for the most part working with a centrally managed, ‘vertically-integrated’ model. This model has tended towards building and managing custom infrastructure, services and applications to support the business. It is often based...

We’ve taken the old website, revamped it and integrated it with the MSDN Architecture Center. The result is easier searching, cleaner navigation, and greater cross linking with other architecture articles and downloads – while still maintaining the unique...

John Evdemon has been spending a tonne of time in this area - you should check out the ARC center

By Roger Wolter and Kirk Haselden, this is a must read.

IMHO a basic issue with maturity models is that they assume you know the end state. M aturity models also tend to take on a life of their own – where the end-game becomes one of moving from stage x to stage y – instead of creating business benefit. ...

Roger Wolter in my team has a good post on the 'data challenge'. Underappreciated, mis-understood, short-thrifted, un-cool - but if you dont care about data then you will not be successful with building loosely coupled, service oriented applications...

The growing viability of so-called consumer-grade applications, catalyzed by the growing maturity of the end-user/consumer community, poses the possibility of what you call the ‘unmanaged PC’ model - i n the extreme case one could visualize IT enabling...

So, what is SaaS anyway? I find this question coming up on a regular basis these days - as always, Wikipedia has an excellent write-up - " Software as a service ( SaaS ) is a model of software delivery where the software company provides maintenance...

I love this . I have been playing a lot with WPF/E lately - this is going to be big.

This is an excellent write-up re how the 2007 Microsoft Office System enables enterprises to adopt Web 2.0 concepts and models to create value for the business. Michael Platt and I were talking about this last week - Windows Sharepoint Services and...

Fred Chong in my team has been spending time with our colleagues in China - helping drive our architecture work, with partners and customers, and helping shape the industry dialogue - if you are interested in SaaS in China this is a post worth reading...

Composition is the dominant application model today- across light-weight mashups through to enterprise-class composites, and all the way in between. With this in mind the current edition of the Architecture Journal is focussed on this topic - I would...

The results from the recent reader survey for our Architecture Journal just came in - that we were very happy with the feedback would be an understatement :-) Here is a sampling of the feedbacl that we received - 1) Over 96% 'love it, it has very...

We published our first book on the Office Business Applications model in December. You can also download the book here . Congratulations to Atanu Banerjee, Moin Moinuddin, Mike Walker and Javed Sikander who leads the Industry Strategy architecture...

I had mean to blog this a while back - Joe McKendrick talked about my comments during the SOA/BPM Conference. Yes, the fundamental problem with the big-bang mega approaches to SOA is that they almost always end up being out-of-sync with the needs of...

I get asked for our opinion on SOA a couple of times a week - the presspass that we did at our SOA/BPM Conference in October 2006 is a good reference, and one that I point folks to. PressPass: Why should a business person or an IT professional care...