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July 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:28 PM

Traceability from Biz Strategy to Application to Data to Hardware...

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
Posted by Gabriel Morgan | 14 Comments
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:34 PM

Business analysis for 'Consuming' SaaS Services

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 to
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:46 PM

Business analysis for 'Providing' SaaS Services

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
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Friday, July 13, 2007 11:35 AM

Top-down, Bottom-up...but what is the 'Middle'?

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.
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Friday, July 06, 2007 12:39 PM

SaaS is not just SOA, S+S and Web 2.0

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
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