Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture

Join me for a webcast that I will be hosting. I will discuss the future of business applications. Here are the details: Event Overview Join this webcast to learn about the 2007 Microsoft Office system as a business architecture platform. We discuss how...

The OBA RAP for Loan Origination Systems further solidifies Microsoft's thought leadership in both the SOA space but in Financial Services. By exposing OBAs and the MOSS services as atomonimous composite applications. OBA surface all the hard work that...

If you are a subscriber to Windows in Financial Services Magazine you will find an article introducing me and my role here at Microsoft. Take a look, I'm on Page 8. If you are not a subscriber you can get a free subscription at: http://www.windowsfs...

Yes, we break them up into levels of OBAs. Here are the varying levels of OBA-ness.

When I first heard the term OBA the first thing that I thought of was the place far far away in the StarWars galaxy or something... You should of known about this from all the talk over the years about the partnership between MS and the evil Empire. ...

I am happy to announce that the Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS)! See the MSDN OR-LOS Page at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/Architecture/ORLOS On the OR-LOS page on MSDN you will find a set of...

Diebold Election Systems Inc. , one of the country's largest manufacturers of voting machines, is scheduled to argue in court today that the Office of the Secretary of State wrongly picked another company to supply thousands of voting machines for the...

I got this question e-mailed to me as a response my posts reviewing WM6 and using it as a GPS device. So do we offer the OS independently? Unfortunately we do not. Here is why, in the US primarily mobile carriers subsidize the costs of the phones to get...

I had the pleasure of meeting Marc Adler from CitiGroup in the Capital Markets division. He has some interesting thoughts on Microsoft's direction. I think Marc is right on for the most part. I get the feeling that we are on the cusp of an incredible...

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Sorry I am late on this news, it been a busy week! The Teradata and Microsoft partnership was announced at the National Retail Conference a couple weeks ago. I am very excited about this partnership with NCR Teradata. The partnership will provide financial...

So I hoped on Google this morning and I have been getting weird 404 errors on my searches. What are you guys doing over there??? What ever you are doing, stop it!

Microsoft is ready to take on the Wall Street service-oriented architecture scene with its latest developer and infrastructure technologies, said a consultant in building IT systems for financial services companies. Michael DeSanti, a partner with Eikos...

In my review of the Windows Mobile 6 technology I mentioned that I was running into stability issues. Well it looks like I didn't have the latest and greatest build from RTM. I found this out from the WM 6 team here. This is what they had to say: " ....

Judge for yourself... :) Wal-Mart Stores, underscoring its continuing push into financial services, has quietly renegotiated the terms of leases with a number of banks operating in its stores, giving Wal-Mart itself the explicit right to offer mortgages...

As you have probably seen from my recent blog entries there is a lot happening in the mobile space in financial services. But with this activity I have some concerns. There are is a tremendous amount of point solutions out there. There are little or no...

A colleague of mine Rob Hawthorne, brought to my attention that the online channel and mobile banking are the largest channels that New Zealand banks have for reaching their customers. Almost ALL of our major banks provide these service, including: ASB...

The fraudulent issues in the banking industry undeniably important. It is increasingly important that banks provide a standard way to work with diverse digital identities over the Internet. It is critical for the consumers at large that it is as convenient...

I ran across an interesting article titled " Keeping your home computer protected from hackers is up to you, not the bank " on the Toronto Star that is pushing for consumer accountability on certain types of fraudulent activities. "It is evident that...