Verticalware : Industry Architecture

Back in action

javeds — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:19:00 GMT

Hi there,

After a long hiatus, I am back to blogging again. I recently took on a new role driving the technology strategy behind our ecommerce solutions. I will be working with techies in the Retail industry again..hooorraay...as you all know industries is my passion, I worked with some great people in Retail and am looking to reconnect.

A bit about my fish bowl, ecommerce is evolving. Retailers are not only looking for online stores but experimenting with social computing / crowd sourcing. Only today, I saw two new items, Lane Bryant's blogging, pics, videos site and Lands End flashy (or silvery) page for kids to design toy backpacks. Companies like Nike, P&G has been trendsetters here. Amazon defined the bar for this with product reviews, merchant ratings, cross sell/up sell etc. Then there are analytics, the obsession to know what customers are doing online. As the traffic on their websites grow, retailers are eyeing advertising as a channel as well. All this stuff fits into what many people are calling digital marketing.

Microsoft has great products and partners in this area. Commerce Servers is the lynchpin of our strategy. What MS offers with a combination of CS, SharePoint, FAST (contextual search), Atlas (advertising analytics) is a comprehensive platform for digital marketing and ecommerce...More on this later...

Where are all the Architects gone

javeds — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:02:00 GMT

I have been looking to hire a good architect to lead the OBA architecture work in my team, if you know anyone who might be interested in this role which is based in Redmond, please have them ping me, here is the JD:

Are you interested in driving the thought leadership for Office Business Applications for the architect and developer community? Do you have the passion and energy to bring the 2007 Office platform vision to the industry? If so, come join the Architecture Strategy Team in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division.

With the 2007 Office System, Microsoft has made significant investments in Servers, Clients and Tools that allow for creation of role-based, collaborative business applications that extend the capabilities of enterprise systems and bring the power and familiarity of Microsoft Office to LOB systems users. We call these apps Office Business Applications or OBAs. While the product teams are developing the frameworks sample solutions, in AST we are driving the OBA thought leadership for the architect community, especially in vertical industries. We do this by creating Reference Application Packs to create Architecture Guidance for key industry scenarios. We engage with customers to validate our guidance and work with ISVs and SIs to create OBA momentum.

In this role, you will:

·     Lead a small group of vendors to create reference applications for a variety of industry scenarios that you identify, prioritize and develop, working with a small team of Industry Architects
·     Work on crystallizing the OBA concept, developing OBA architecture and development patterns, creating guidance on the deployment and management of OBAs
·     Evangelize the OBA reference applications to architects & developers and internally to Microsoft field including Architect Evangelists, Developer Evangelists and other relevant field roles
·     Share the responsibility of feeding online (Office System msdn architecture center , Skyscrapr ) and offline (Architecture Journal , Journal Book Series) with OBA content
·     Engage with product teams to influence and impact OBA product direction and capabilities with industry learning and best practices
·     Understand the competition and develop a comprehensive compete strategy for Microsoft

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a deep understanding and experience of developing, architecting and deploying both client and server-based solutions. The ideal candidate should have deep expertise on various Office technologies (Open XML File Formats, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Clients), .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio Tools for Office. The individual should also have excellent communication and leadership skills. Ability to execute on ideas and analytical skills are most critical. The ideal candidate will have a technical undergraduate degree with a minimum of 7-9 years of relevant experience and demonstrated success working with the field and enterprises

OBA on C9

javeds — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:39:00 GMT

Brief OBA discussion on C9

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=245040#245040